VBT – Meditation 41.3
Dreams Are Cathartic
When there is no thought there can be no face. You will be faceless, or with the real face – and both mean the same.
So be aware of your thought process. Do not fight with it, do not repress it. Simply have awareness: the thoughts are there just like clouds in the sky, and you are looking at them without any prejudice, either for or against. If you are against, you will be fighting – and that very fight will create a new thought process. If you are for them, you will forget yourself and you will float in the current of the thought process. You will not be there as a conscious witness. If you are for, you will be in the process. If you are against it, you will create another process in reaction.
So do not be for and do not be against. Allow the thoughts to move, let them go wherever they are going, be in a deep let-go, and simply witness. Whatsoever is passing, witness. Do not judge; do not say, “This is good, this is bad.” If the thought of a divine being comes, do not say, “Beautiful!” The moment you say this you are identified with it, and you are cooperating with the thought process.
You are helping it, you are giving energy to it, you are feeding it. And if you are feeding it, it can never drop.
Or if there is a thought, a sexual thought, do not say, “This is bad; this is sin.” Because when you say, “This is sin,” you have created another series of thoughts. Sex is a thought, sin is a thought, God is a thought. Be neither for nor against. Simply look with unprejudiced eyes, just watching indifferently.
This will take time. Because your mind is so occupied with notions, it is very difficult. The moment we see something we have judged it. We do not wait; there is not even a single moment’s gap. You see a flower, and you have already said, “It is beautiful.” In the very seeing the interpretation comes in.
You will have to be constantly aware to drop this mechanical habit of judging. You see a face and you have already judged – ugly, good, bad, or anything else. This judgement has become so deep-rooted that we cannot see anything simply. The mind enters immediately. It becomes an interpretation; it is not a simple vision. Do not interpret. Simply SEE.
Sit down in a relaxed posture or lie down. Close your eyes and allow your thoughts to move. If you say, “Bad!” if you condemn, then you start repressing them. Then you are not allowing them to move independently. That is why there is so much need for dreams, because whatsoever you are repressing during the day you will have to release in the night. That which is repressed goes on forcing its expression, it needs expression. So whatsoever you repress, you dream. Dreams are cathartic.
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