VBT – Meditation 78.1
Everything Is Reflected
You are not aware of yourself because there is a wall. When you look at a flower, first your thoughts change your look; they give their own colour. Then that look goes to the flower. It comes back, but then again your thoughts give it a different colour. And when it comes back it never finds you there.
You have moved somewhere else, you are not there.
Every look comes back; everything is reflected, responded, but you are not there to receive it. So be there to receive it. The whole day you can try it on many things, and by and by you will develop attentiveness. With that attentiveness do this: WHEREVER YOUR ATTENTION ALIGHTS, AT THIS VERY POINT, EXPERIENCE.
Then look anywhere, but simply look. The attention has alighted – and you will experience yourself.
But the first requirement is to have the capacity to be attentive. And you can practise it. There is no need for it to take some extra time.
Whatsoever you are doing – eating, taking a bath, standing under a shower – just be attentive. But what is the problem? The problem is that we do everything with the mind, and we are planning continuously for the future. You may be travelling in a train, but your mind may be arranging other journeys; programming, planning. Stop this.
One Zen monk, Bokuju, has said, ‘This is the only meditation I know. While I eat, I eat. While I walk, I walk. And while I feel sleepy, I sleep. Whatsoever happens, happens. I never interfere.’
That’s all there is – don’t interfere. And whatsoever happens, allow it to happen; you be simply there.
That will give you attentiveness. And when you have attention, this technique is just in your hand.
WHEREVER YOUR ATTENTION ALIGHTS, AT THIS VERY POINT, EXPERIENCE.
You will experience the experiencer; you will fall back to yourself. From everywhere you will be rebounded; from everywhere you will be reflected. The whole existence will become a mirror; you will be reflected everywhere. The whole existence will mirror you, and only then can you know yourself, never before.
Unless the whole existence becomes a mirror for you, unless every part of existence reveals you, unless every relationship opens you…. You are such an infinite phenomenon – ordinary mirrors won’t do. You are such a vast existence within, that unless the whole existence becomes a mirror you will not be able to get a glimpse. When the whole universe becomes a mirror, only then will you be mirrored. In you exists the divine.
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