VBT – Meditation 54.2

VBT – Meditation 54.2

This Is Accumulative

Look all around, and try to find the blissful; be filled with it. In that moment, forget everything. Be filled with it, taste it, and allow it to happen to your whole being. Be one with it. The fragrance of it will follow you. It will go on resounding within you the whole day, and the resounding, the echoing feeling, will help you to be more positive.

This is accumulative. If you start in the morning, in the evening you will be more open to the stars, to the moon, to the night, to the darkness. Do it for twenty-four hours experimentally, just to have a feeling of what it is. Once you can feel that the positive leads you to a different world because you become different, you are not going to leave it. The whole emphasis will have changed from negative to positive. Then you look at the world in a different, new way.

I am reminded of one anecdote. One of Buddha’s disciples was taking leave from his master. The disciple’s name was Purnakashyapa. He asked Buddha, “Where am I to go? Where am I to go to preach your message?”

Buddha said, “You yourself can choose where.”

So he said, “I will go to a far corner of Bihar” – It was known as Sukha – “I will move to Sukha province.”

Buddha said, “It is better if you change your choice because the people of that province are very cruel, violent, mischievous, and no one has yet dared to go there to teach them non-violence, love, compassion. So please change your choice.”

But Purnakashyapa said, “Allow me to go there BECAUSE no one has gone there, and someone has to be there.”

Buddha said, “Then I will ask you three questions before I allow you to go. If the people of that province insult you, humiliate you, how will you feel?”

Purnakashyapa said, “I will feel they are very good if they simply insult me. Then they are not beating me. They are good people; they could have beaten me.”

Buddha said, “Then the second question: if they start beating you, how will you feel?”

Purnakashyapa said, “I feel they are very good people. They could have killed me, but they are simply beating me.”

Then Buddha said, “Now the third question: if they really kill you and murder you, then at the moment when you are dying how will you feel?”

Purnakashyapa said, “I will thank you and them. If they kill me, they will have freed me of a life where many errors were possible. They will have freed me so I will feel thankful.”

So Buddha said, “Now you can go anywhere. The whole world is heaven for you. Now there is no problem. The world is a heaven, so you can go anywhere.”

With this mind, nothing is wrong with the world. With your mind, nothing can be right. With a negative mind, everything is wrong – not that it is wrong; it is wrong because a negative mind can see only what is wrong.