VBT – Week’s Meditation 83
It Is Ecstatic
Meditation is a tuning. When you are tuned, that which is unmanifest becomes manifest.
But remember, don’t desire, because the desire will not allow you to be empty. And if you are not empty nothing is possible, because the space is not there, so your own unmanifest nature cannot be revealed. It needs space to be revealed. And don’t ask how to live with emptiness. That is not the real question. Just be empty. You are not yet empty.
If once you know what emptiness is, you will love it. It is ecstatic. It is the most beautiful experience possible to mind, to man, to consciousness. You will not ask how to live with emptiness. You are asking that as if emptiness is something like misery. It appears so to the ego. The ego is always afraid of emptiness, so you ask how to live with it as if it is some enemy.
Emptiness is your innermost centre. All the activity is on the periphery; the innermost centre is just a zero. All the manifest is on the periphery; the deepest core of your being is the unmanifest vacuum.
Buddha has given it a name – shunyata. It means nothingness or emptiness. That’s your nature, that’s your being, and out of that nothingness everything comes, and everything goes back to it.
That emptiness is the source. Don’t ask to fill it, because whenever you ask to fill it you will create more and more ego – ego is the effort to fill the emptiness. And even this desire that now something must descend upon you – a god, a divinity, a divine power, some unknown energy – this is again a thought. Whatsoever you can think about God is not going to be God; it is simply going to be a thought.
When you say the unknown, you have made it known. What do you know about the unknown?
Even to say that it is the unknown, you have known some quality about it – the quality of its being unknown. The mind cannot conceive the unknown. Even the unknown becomes known, and whatsoever the mind says is going to be just a verbalization, a thought process.
God is not the word ‘God’. The thought of God is not God. And when there is no thought, only then will you come to feel and realise what it is. Nothing else can be said about it. It can only be indicated.
And all indications are erroneous because they are all indirect.
This much can be said – that when you are not…. And you are not, only when there is no desire, because you exist with desire. Desire is the food through which you exist. Desire is the fuel. When there is no desire, no longing, no future, and when you are not, that emptiness is the fullness of existence. In that emptiness the whole existence is revealed to you. You become it.
So don’t ask how to live with emptiness. First be empty. There is no need to ask how to live with it. It is so blissful – the deepest bliss it is. When you ask how to live with emptiness, you are really asking how to live with oneself. But you have not known yourself. Enter more and more into it.
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