Dream

Small Change

Now it is only a question of emphasis. If you go on focusing yourself on the world, you remain in the world. If you start changing your focus, if you shift your focus and you start focusing on consciousness, you are God. Just a small change, as if one changes a gear in the car: just like that.

Each night one embraces a buddha while sleeping, each morning one gets up again with him.

He is always there because consciousness is always there, not for a single moment is it lost.

When rising or sitting, both watch and follow one another.

The host and the guest are both there. The guests go on changing, but somebody or other is always there in the inn. It is never empty, unless you become disidentified with the guest. Then an emptiness arises, then sometimes it happens that your inn is empty. Only the host is there, sitting at ease, not being bothered by any guests. Traffic stops, people don’t come. Those moments are of beatitude; those moments are of great blessing.

Whether speaking or not, both are in the same place.

When you are speaking, there is also something silent in you. When you are lusting, there is something beyond lust. When you are desiring, there is somebody who is not desiring at all. Watch it, and you will find it. Yes, you are very close, and yet you are very different. You meet, and yet you don’t meet. You meet like water and oil; the separation remains. The host comes very close to the guest. Sometimes they hold hands and hug each other, but still the host is the host and the guest is the guest. The guest is the one who will come and go. The guest will go on changing, and the host is the one who remains, who abides.

They never, even for a single moment, part, but are like the body and its shadow. If you wish to know the buddha’s whereabouts, in the sound of your own voice, there is he.

Don’t go on looking for the Buddha somewhere outside. He resides in you; he resides in you as the host.

How to come to this state of the host? I would like to talk to you about a very ancient technique. This technique will be of tremendous help. To come to this unknowable host, to come to this ultimate mystery of your being, this is the way – one of the very simple ways Buddha has proposed.

Deprive yourself of all possible relationships, and see what you are. Suppose you are not a son to your parents, nor the husband to your wife, nor the father to your children, nor a relative to your kindred, nor a friend to your acquaintances, nor a citizen to your country, and so on and so forth – then you get you-in-yourself.

Disconnect all. Then you are in yourself. Then for the first time the host is alone and there is no guest. It is very good sometimes to be alone without any guest because then you can look into your hostness more closely, more carefully.