Possessing Nothing
When Jesus says you must be like a child to get into the kingdom of heaven. What does it mean – it means Possessing Nothing, Wanting Nothing.
How to experience this:
Only a meditator becomes adult. Otherwise, your chronological age may be seventy, eighty or ninety, it does not matter – you are only an old child, ninety years old but still immature because still interested in toys, still carrying your teddy bears, still interested in possessing more and more toys. Children can be forgiven, but you cannot be forgiven. Only a meditator comes of age; for the first time he becomes mature, grown-up. All childishness disappears from him.
And the beauty is, when all childishness disappears from you, you again become childlike but on a different plane. No childishness but absolutely childlike – the same purity, the same innocence, the same wonder, the same awe. Again existence becomes a mystery. But it is not that you are childish – you are childlike. It is a totally different phenomenon. Childishness is immaturity; to have a childlike purity is maturity. They are polar opposites.
Possessing Nothing, Wanting Nothing, the master is at home. He is no longer running after shadows, he is not running at all.
When you are meditator or childlike you will be living your life in this world but you will not be carried away by your emotions. For example when Buddha is hurt by thorn and when we are hurt by thorn what is the difference – Buddha is not carried away by pain and we are. It doesn’t mean we don’t have to take any treatments, you will be taking physical treatment. No emotion, judgement etc are attached with the pain.
