On Emptiness – Nothingness :
1. There is no person like God. There is nobody, there is pure
emptiness. And only pure emptiness or nothingness is what I have been
calling enlightenment.
2. The first and the only worthwhile
inquiry is to know: “Who am I within this body-mind mechanism? What is
this consciousness, this miracle of consciousness?” This miracle of
awareness has to be discovered. You have to peel your being as one peels
an onion. Go on peeling…. You will find layers within layers. And
finally, when all the layers are discarded, eliminated, you will find in
your hands pure nothingness, emptiness, SHUNYATA. That is your
essential core, the center of the cyclone.
3. You have to
learn meditation to enjoy your emptiness. And that is one of the
greatest days in life — when a person starts enjoying emptiness,
aloneness, nothingness.
4. Just finding that “I am nobody”…
and that’s how existence is. What is a marigold flower? What is a rose?
They are both nobodies. And we belong with them. Once this settles in
you, the idea of nobodiness, silence starts descending on you. There is
no idea, no picture — no Jesus Christ, no Krishna, no Buddha: You are
utterly empty. And in this emptiness is the light. In this emptiness is
enlightenment.
5. In English there is no right word, so you
have to understand that we are using ‘meditation’ for dhyana. Dhyana
means a state of being where there is no thought, no object, no dream,
no desire, nothing — just emptiness. In that emptiness you come to know
your self. You discover the truth. You discover your subjectivity. It is
perfect silence.
6. The most strange thing about the mind
is, if you become a watcher it starts disappearing. Just like the light
disperses darkness, watchfulness disperses the mind, its thoughts, its
whole paraphernalia. So meditation is simply watchfulness, awareness.
And that reveals — it is nothing to do with inventing. It invents
nothing; it simply discovers that which is there. And what is there? You
enter and you find infinite emptiness, so tremendously beautiful, so
silent, so full of light, so fragrant, that you have entered into the
kingdom of God. In my words, you have entered into godliness.
7. No matter what, you are alone. And all the fiction that there may
be somebody who is just made for you, there may be somebody who will
fill this gap, this emptiness in you…. Nobody can do it; not because
nobody wants to do it, no, everybody would love to do it, but it is just
not possible in the very nature of things. And it is good, I repeat,
that it is not possible in the very nature of things, because if it was
possible then there would be no necessity for religion — no need of
religion.
8. The desire to belong arises because you feel
empty. In a crowd of any kind — political, religious — you forget your
emptiness; the crowd fills you.
9. With me, you have only
to lose; you cannot gain anything. You are in a game where you can only
be a loser. You will have to lose your ego, you will have to lose your
jealousy, you will have to lose your fear. You will have to lose all
kinds of crap that you are filled with. You will have to be empty — and
emptiness cannot claim the ego. There is no place in emptiness, in
nothingness, for the ego. You can be with me, not for anything that is
going to be profitable in the future; you can be here only for this
moment.
10. Just as one peels an onion, peel your
personality, layer by layer. Go on throwing those layers. New layers
will be there, but finally a moment comes when the onion disappears and
there is only emptiness in your hands. That moment is the moment of
enlightenment. You cannot desire it, because desire adds another layer
to your onion — and a far more dangerous layer than any other layer.
11. The master is already merged into existence. Merging into
the master you are really merging with existence itself. The master
functions only as a door, and a door is an emptiness; you pass through
it. The master is the door to the beyond.
12. The
energy of the cosmos is surrounding you. All that is needed is a certain
emptiness in you. So the emptiness is good; don’t fill it by beliefs,
don’t fill it again by another kind of god, another philosophy, some
existentialism. Don’t fill it. Leave it clean and fresh, and go deeper.
Soon you will find from both sides, from outside and inside, a
tremendous rush of energy, a tremendous rush of consciousness. Then you
disappear, you are almost flooded with the cosmos. You are so small and
the cosmos is so vast. You suddenly disappear into it, and that
disappearance is the ultimate experience of enlightenment. Then you know
you were neither an outsider, nor an insider; you are one with
existence. Other than oneness with existence, nothing is going to help
you. But that oneness is so easy, so obvious. Just a little relaxation,
just a little turning in — not much effort, not much disciplines, not
much torture for yourself.
13. Man should be like a
hollow bamboo, so that existence can pass through him. Man should be
like a porous sponge— not hard— so that the doors and the windows of his
being are open, and existence can pass from one end to another without
any hindrance; in fact, finding anyone inside. The winds blow — they
come in from one window and they go out from another window of his
being. This emptiness is the highest bliss possible. But you are like a
hard, unporous rock, or like a hard steel rod. Nothing passes through
you. You resist everything. You don’t allow. You go on fighting on all
sides and in all directions as if you are in a great war with existence.
There is no war going on, you are simply befooled by yourself. Nobody
is there to destroy you. The whole supports you; the whole is the very
earth on which you are standing, the very sky in which you breathe, you
live. In fact, you are not — only the whole is. When one understands
this, by and by one drops the inner hardness, there is no need for it.
There is no enmity, the whole is friendly towards you. The whole
cherishes you, loves you. Otherwise, why are you here? The whole brings
you forth, like a tree is brought forth by the earth. The whole would
like to participate in all your blessings, in all the celebrations that
are possible. When you flower, the whole will flower through you; when
you sing, the whole will sing through you; when you dance, the whole
will dance with you. You are not separate.
14. Once you
understand this, meditation becomes possible. Once you understand this,
you relax. You throw off all the armor that you have created around you
as a security. You are no longer afraid. Fear disappears and love
arises. In this state of love, emptiness happens. Or, if you can allow
emptiness to happen, love will flower in it. Love is a flower of
emptiness, total emptiness — emptiness is the situation. It can work
both ways.
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