Buddha Mind – In Gita Verse 8.26 According to Vedic opinion, there are two ways of passing from this world – one in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back; but when one passes in darkness, he returns.
Krishna talking about Buddha-Mind. Person who has attained Buddha-Mind will not be disturbed or distracted. He will not return to his ego.
On my last few blogs I wrote about Death. Death is only a reflection of how we have lived our life. Also wrote that nobody can liberate you; only truth can liberate you. And the truth has to be seen by you. If you wake-up from your sleep and become Buddha-Mind then you will never return. Otherwise till the time you become Buddha-Mind you will return.
You have to understand one thing. Ordinarily, whenever you think of liberation, you think – my liberation. There is nothing like that. There is no liberation which can be called “my liberation.” All liberation is from the idea of the ego. You will not be liberated, you will be liberated from yourself. It is not your liberation, it is liberation from you. It is emancipation from all that you have become identified with.
The Upanishads say: neti, neti: neither this nor that. When you go on negating and saying, “I am not this, I am not that,” a moment comes: nothing is left, nothing to reflect in the mirror, only the mirror. Then you know who you are. But now you cannot say, “This is what I am,” because that will bring the thought back. You cannot say anything about it, you have to be utterly silent about it.
We are deep asleep. The name of that sleep is the ego. And in our sleep anything can happen, all kinds of accidents – and they are happening. You are talking in your sleep and you are getting into trouble because you talk in your sleep. You go on saying things which you are not supposed to say. You decide not to say them again because they bring trouble, but again you go on repeating the same pattern. You go on doing things which you have decided not to do. But you are asleep and others around you are also asleep. People are talking in their sleep, answering each other in their sleep. Great dialogues are going on, great fights, quarrels. And the whole thing is that if you wake up, all this nonsense will disappear.
The Buddha-Mind is one who has become awakened.
Let’s read the following anecdote for our clarity: A beautiful, young unmarried movie starlet was throwing a large party in her swanky home for all the men she knew. As the party went on into the wee hours, the hefty-chested young babe drank more and more liquor, but she resisted the advances of her bachelor guests.
Finally, at about 5:30 A.M., she said good night to the last guest and slumped down on the living room couch, dead drunk.
The next morning she found herself in her own bed, clad in her sheerest nightgown. Surprised, she went down to breakfast.
“Wang Lee,” she asked her Chinese manservant, “how did I get to my room last night?”
“I put you there, Missy,” he answered.
“Gee!” she said, “I must have really been on my back.”
“First time on back, Missy,” he replied, “second time on side, third time on stairs, fourth time…”
Everybody is asleep. People are doing things to you in your sleep; you are doing things to people in their sleep. You are all interfering in each other’s sleep. When you look from the vantage point of a buddha, the world simply seems to be a madhouse.
But this is how it is with everybody. You go on doing great things in your sleep, thinking that the whole world is noticing it, that the whole universe is taking great note of it, that you will be remembered for centuries, that you will have a place in history, that your name is going to be written in golden letters.
In sleep one lives in the ego. As you wake up, suddenly you find the ego disappearing. Just as the sun rises and the mist of the early morning disappears, the ego disappears when you wake up.
A Buddha-Mind is a mind which has become awakened.
It works easily and freely, being never disturbed by others; therefore, it is called the true path.
The moment you are awakened, the moment you are egoless, all the rocks on the path are removed. The greatest is the ego, and then there are many small rocks: rocks of greed and lust and anger and jealousy and possessiveness. All these rocks are hindering your natural flow, your spontaneity. Once these rocks are gone, your river of consciousness starts flowing easily, freely, and then you are never disturbed by others.
It is impossible to disturb a buddha. You can kill him, but you cannot disturb him. You can destroy him, but you cannot disturb him; that is impossible.
…it is called the true path. That’s why Bodhidharma says: …it is called the true path – because it leads you to the absolute, undisturbed state, to the absolute calmness, quietude, stillness.
Krishna says – It was not born and, therefore, it is not going to perish, so it is called nirvana.
The Buddha-Mind is never born and is never going to die. It has always been there, you are just not aware of it. You have to turn in and look at it. You are looking outside, you are continuously looking outside, and all the time it is waiting behind you. Just a little turn – a hundred-and-eighty-degree turn, of course – just a small turn and suddenly you face the buddha.
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