Science of the Rishis: A Daily Rhythm

Part V: Expecting the Unexpected: Dropping Theories for Truth

And remember this also: even if you have found, the game continues, but the game then has a different quality. Never think at any moment that when you have found the innermost core, the game stops. No, the game continues. Now, knowingly, many times you move away from the hidden center, knowingly you give a chance to nature to hide again — but now it is knowingly. It is just like two children playing, and the one knows where the other is hiding. Except that place he seeks everywhere, runs around and around to give the game a quality. He knows where you are hiding, he can simply go and catch you, but he will go around and around.

Buddhas continue to play, but the game changes. Now they know, now there is no anxiety. Now there is no desire, now nothing to be achieved. Now it is a simple game. There is no goal to it… it continues.

So there are two possibilities: an ignorant game, that is what is happening to you…. And because you are ignorant you take the game very seriously. Seriousness becomes a disease. You become sad about it. People come to me: if they meditate and they are not attaining, they are very serious, they feel frustrated. I say: Don’t be frustrated, because that is the whole point to be understood — it is a game! There is no hurry to finish it. It is not a business. Let it go on as long as possible. Why be in such a hurry? Why be so tense? Infinity is there, eternal time is there, there is no hurry. You will always be there, and the game will always be there — it has always been there, and will always be there. Take it easily! Take it easy!

It is always by the corner, any moment it can be discovered. But why be in such a hurry? Relax — if you can relax, you reach to the center sooner. If you are in a hurry you remain on the surface, because a hurried, a tense state of mind, cannot move to the deeper realms of being. Only patience helps you to settle to the bottom, to the very bottom.

NATURE LOVES TO HIDE.

It is beautiful that nature loves to hide. Nature is NOT an exhibitionist. Nature is not an exhibitionist. The expression that is all the foliage is just a way to hide. In a flower God is hiding in a subtle way. If you simply see the flower you will miss.

One English poet, Tennyson, has said, and said absolutely rightly, “If I can understand a flower in its totality, I will understand God.” He is right! If you can understand a pebble on the shore in its totality you will understand God, because these are all hiding-places. A flower is a hiding-place. A pebble is also a hiding-place. He is hiding everywhere — millions of forms. Wherever you are, he is there in all the forms around you. Any form can become a door. Once you have the readiness to enter, once you are not expecting, once you are not desiring, once you are not asking for something, projecting something, suddenly the door is open.

THE LORD WHOSE ORACLE IS AT DELPHI NEITHER SPEAKS NOR CONCEALS — BUT GIVES SIGNS.

At Delphi there is an old Greek shrine, and people used to go to the oracle of Delphi to ask. But the oracle of Delphi never said anything, it simply gave signs. Heraclitus is using that as a parable. He says that God, the total, the whole, never speaks in terms of yes or no — he simply gives signs. He is poetic. He gives you symbols. Don’t try to interpret them. If you interpret, you will miss. Just watch, and let the sign go deeper in you and be imprinted on the heart. Don’t try to find the meaning immediately, because who will find the meaning? If you find the meaning, it will be your meaning. Just let the sign, the symbol, be imprinted on your heart and some day life will reveal the meaning. You simply live with it, you simply let it be there.

For example, you come to me and you ask, “How is my meditation going on?” You ask me, I smile; I have given you a sign. Now what will you do about it? You can interpret. That is the first tendency of the mind. You will think, “Okay, so he smiles; that means I am achieving; he says yes, so everything is okay. I am going on the right path.” Your ego feels fulfilled. If you are in a positive mood, this will be the interpretation. If you are in a negative mood, you will think, “He smiles — he doesn’t say yes, was polite, but I am going nowhere.”

You missed either way, because if there was a yes to be said, I would have said it. I would not have put you to such trouble to find the interpretation. If there was a yes to be said, I would have said it. If there was a no to be said, I would have said it. But I have simply smiled. I have neither said yes nor no. In fact, I have not said anything — I have given you a sign. Don’t interpret it. Let this smile move deeper into your heart. Let this smile be there. Remember it sometimes, put it back into the heart. Let it dissolve into you, don’t try to find the meaning — and this will help your meditation. Suddenly, one day, in a deep meditative state, you will start smiling the same way I smiled, because that moment will be the moment of understanding. Then you can laugh, because you will know what the meaning was .

Life is subtle. Yes and no cannot be used. Life is so subtle that if you say yes you falsify it, if you say no you falsify it. Language is very poor. It knows only two things: yes or no. And life is very rich: it knows infinite postures, positions, between yes and no — infinite gradations. It is a spectrum of many, many millions of colors. Yes and no are very poor — you say nothing. Yes and no means you have divided life into black and white; but life has millions of colors, it is a rainbow.

Black and white, in fact, are not colors. Except for black and white, all colors exist. You must understand this. Black is the absence of all colors; it is not a color. When no color is present, the emptiness is blackness. It is not a color in itself. That’s why in nature you don’t find black. It is not much. It is an absence. And white is not a color either, it is a mixture of all colors. If you mix all the colors it becomes white. It is not a color. White is one pole, black is the other. The presence of all colors is white, the absence of all colors is black. Between these two polarities real colors exist — green and red and yellow and all the shades of them, millions of shades.

When I smile, I am not saying black or white, yes or no — I am giving you a color in the spectrum, a real color. Don’t try to interpret, because if you interpret you will either say it is black or white, and it is neither. It is somewhere in between and it is so subtle that words cannot express it. If words could express it I would have given you a word. I would not put you in trouble unnecessarily.

You come to me and you say something and I don’t answer. Sometimes it happens that you come to see me and I don’t even ask; I simply forget about you. I ask others and simply drop you out of the count. You will interpret it. Why? Don’t interpret. Just let this gesture be deep in you. Some day, in a very, very meditative mood, the meaning will flower. I am sowing seeds in you, not giving you words and theories.

When I am gone, please remember me as a poet, not as a philosopher.

Poetry has to be understood in a different way — you have to love poetry, not interpret. You have to repeat the poetry many times so it mixes with your blood, with your bones, with your very marrow. You have to chant poetry many times so that you can feel all the nuances, subtle shades of it. You have to simply sit and let the poetry move within you so it becomes a live force. You digest it, and then you forget about it; it moves deeper and deeper and deeper and changes you.

Let me be remembered as a poet. Of course, I am not writing poetry in words. I am writing poetry in a more alive medium — in you. And that’s what the whole existence is doing. Says Heraclitus:

THE LORD WHOSE ORACLE IS AT DELPHI NEITHER SPEAKS NOR CONCEALS — BUT GIVES SIGNS.

A sign is not to be interpreted. A sign is to be lived through. Your mind will have the temptation to interpret. Don’t be tempted by the mind. Just say to the mind, “This is not your field, this is not for you. You play with other things. Let this go deeper in my being.” And that’s what I am doing while I am talking to you.

I am not talking to your minds — I am talking to you as beings, as luminous beings, as gods incarnate, as possibilities, as infinite potentialities. I am talking to your future, not to your past. Your past is rubbish, throw it! Don’t carry it! I am talking to your future — the unexpected, the unknown. By and by you will become capable of listening to this music, the music of the unknown, the music in which all the opposites disappear and a hidden harmony arises.

Yes, nature loves to hide, because nature is a mystery. It is not a question, it is not a puzzle to be solved. It is a mystery to be lived, enjoyed, celebrated.

Theory: The Hidden Harmony: Unlocking Life as a Living Mystery

Mindful Workplace (Sattva): Seek the Underground Roots (Depth Over Surface) – Look past surface-level workplace dynamics, office drama, or vanity metrics to find the true underlying cause of issues.

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