91. Within every blade of grass there is eternity. There is that which is has no beginning or end, infinite, sacred.
92. There is a difference between merely looking at a thing and seeing it. Looking is casual, superficial, with no sense of the tremendous beauty that is present in things, a lone ant scurrying along a path, a blade of bright green grass pushing up through the cement, the leaves on a tree dancing, waving, playing in the wind. Mere looking fails to connect to these things, which means there is no intimacy in relationship. All life is relationship, and where there is no intimacy in relationship there can never be love. Seeing means connection, relationship and great intimacy between the observer and the observed. The intimacy that comes with seeing is so great that there is no separation between the two. They are the same. The mind that discovers this fact brings an end to the division within. It brings an end to the whole of psychological division and therefore conflict, which means another dimension to life is revealed that is whole, complete. The mind is not different from wholeness. It is not foreign to the sense of completeness. The mind is complete. It is whole. They are the same.
93. Live in the present and death has no meaning.
94. If you struggle and live with ambition, aggressiveness, competition, worry, frustration, the pursuit of goals, pleasure, and all that, then love is denied. Only when you discover what it is to live without struggle can there be love. Struggle means conflict. Love is not conflict. To bring an end to struggle does not take time, which means it can end instantly. The end of struggle is the beginning of love. They are the same.
95. Sit comfortably and completely relaxed. Breathe quietly. Let the body go limp. Move nothing. With tremendous alertness and sensitivity, observe whatever exists around you. See the shapes, colors and movements of things. With the eyes open, keep the eyes still and do not focus on any one thing. Instead allow the eyes to see everything at the same time. Do not concentrate on any specific object, but freeze the eyes, let them be motionless, and see everything at the same time. See the objects around you and the space between the objects. Now watch what takes place inside you. Close the eyes and watch what is happening inside the brain. Watch as thoughts and ideas appear. Carefully watch the movement of ideas as they come from and return to memory. Do not embrace any idea or follow any line of thought. Instead simply watch them appear and disappear. It is important not to judge any idea that enters the brain. Do not withhold, repress, invite, compare, or in any way be anxious about any idea that comes to mind. Simply observe and be sensitive to whatever ideas arise and pass through the brain. Now be aware that only ideas pass through the brain. Only thought comes to mind. Every idea, thought and psychological image that comes to mind may have different values. The idea of your job may create a sense of anxiety or importance. The idea of a spouse make invoke feelings of affection, desire, or fear. The idea of a person unaffiliated with your particular religious or political background may bring about emotions of judgment, animosity, or hate. Now step back so-to-speak and simply observe the images without any feeling or emotion. See that the only possible thing that appears in the mind are images. There is nothing else. Now realize that the totality of images that enter the brain make up who you are. They form your identity, ego, and sense of self. See that the totality of these images and the image-maker are one and the same. See that there is no difference between you and the images you give worth. You are that. Therefore the image maker is the image. The thinker is thought. Now understand what is the nature of thought and images. Images are stored as memory which means they are basically partial and limited. Realize that as long as ideas occupy the brain it can never come upon that which is not partial, unlimited, and therefore infinite. This insight reveals that no idea, image or thought can ever be used to come upon the infinite other. This insight brings freedom from the whole of every idea, and image in the brain. The brain that sees the fallacy of using ideas and psychological images to approach that which is infinite no longer gives them any value. If all ideas and mental images are not given any importance, then the attachment to all of that ends. The end of attachment means freedom. It is freedom that opens the door to that which is infinite. Only in freedom can the infinite, and therefore sacred, be invited. Only when the mind is free can the sacred other reveal itself.
96. It is possible to end all social division and war in the world if you discard and put in the trash the whole of every political, religious, and personal belief, and if each day thereafter twice the number of people did the same. In short order the result would be no more division between Republican and Democrat the North Korean and South Korean would no longer be divided, which means they would be the same and those who identify to the Christian and Islam religions would cease to exist. There would be only human beings, undivided, and therefore conflict free. Belief is the cause of social division and conflict, which means the end of belief is the key that ends it. The discard of belief means that one no longer identifies to a political group, a religious organization, a country, race, or culture of any kind. It means the end of participating in political parties, religious traditions, racial protests, and all that. Let it begin with you, not because you will do it with the hope others will do it, but because it is the right thing to do.
97. The more things you discard the richer you are. The greatest wealth comes when you discard every idea and thought you value and hold dear. The nature of thought is that it is limited. That means when thought no longer has value, the limitation within comes to an end. The end of limitation reveals that which is unlimited. It reveals the greatest wealth one can ever come upon.
98. The intimate other unexpectedly appeared, filled with energy, and the most extraordinary warmth and gentleness. It brought about an immense sense of completeness and meaning. It enveloped the room, filled every corner, crack, and space. It was without beginning or end. It was eternity itself, untouchable, incorruptible. The whole activity of idea making and thought stood still. Memory subsided and with it the whole of the past ended. There was only the other. The other penetrated and filled the brain. There was no separation between it and the brain. It occupied the brain, cleansed it, and purified it through and through. It cleaned the air and wiped away every trace of past hurt and sorrow that had ever existed in the walls, on the floor or in the air. The wiping away of sorrow was peace. It was peace itself. Time stopped. The intimacy, whatever it was, existed in a different dimension all together. It encapsulated the past, present and future at the same time. It was a timeless thing.
99. Do this. Upon preparing for sleep, close the eyes, and be still. Listen and observe as ideas appear in the brain. See any ideas come and go. Do not judge, repress, or invite any idea. Simple watch. When ideas cease to appear remain watchful, alert, and sensitive to the vast solitude and emptiness within. Be the emptiness. Notice the emptiness means the end of comparison, judgment, and therefore every sense of inner division. See that there is only undividedness, and therefore a sense of oneness and wholeness.
100. Thought is a fathomable thing. It is confined to memory and therefore the past. Thought can never touch, grasp, or meet the present, which means it cannot be used to approach that which is unfathomable. Eternity is unfathomable. That eternal other can only reveal itself when the movement of thought ends. The end of thought is the key that opens the door to eternity. The end of thought is eternity. They are the same.
101. The whole of the past and future is in the present. All that ever was and will be exists now.
102. Aloneness is not loneliness. They are two different things. Aloneness means to have the capacity to live in solitude and to be completely at ease and secure in that solitude. Loneliness is a movement of the ego, which means it is the product of the psychological entrapment to ideas and thoughts. It does not matter if you are single, married, live alone, or with many people. As long as you remain unattached to the whole of every idea, thought, and mental image present in the brain, then there is freedom. Aloneness means freedom. They are the same.
103. To discover that you are thought, which means knowledge, and therefore restriction, confinement, and inner limitation, brings insight. It brings insight into the whole of humanity. The insight of what is the nature of knowledge puts knowledge in its place. It reveals the fallacy of seeking that which is unlimited by means of knowledge. It is a fallacy because it can never work. As a result this insight brings freedom from knowledge. It brings freedom from limitation, which means the brain comes upon what is intelligence. Intelligence is not knowledge. Intelligence is not limited. To come upon intelligence means that which is unlimited shows itself.
104. Happiness is not self created but comes with the end of the self.
105. Beware of books and people that claim to know that which is incorruptible, unlimited. What they know is knowledge. Knowledge is memory, which means it can be sullied, distorted, and corrupted. To come upon that which is unlimited, one must discard all books. On must follow nobody. Do that and you will see what it means to be free. You will be free to observe, listen, and learn. Everything there is to learn lies within. It does not lie in knowledge, memory, or ideas. It lies in the space between ideas. Find out what it means to be completely free of all knowledge, and that which is unsullied, incorruptible, and therefore unlimited, reveals itself.
106. The past and future have no meaning. They are illusions created by man. Only the present is real, and therefore free from illusion. Live in the present, and life will have the greatest meaning.
107. You can never be attached to another person unless you are joined to the hip. You can never be attached to a house unless you are nailed to it. Attachment always takes the form of an image. That means when you are attached, you can only be attached to the image of a person, to the idea of a house, or to the thought of whatever it may be. All ideas, thoughts and images exist in the brain. That means when you are attached to the image of another person, a house, a job, a political party, an organized religion, or whatever, it means you are attached to merely an image, and the image is you. Discard the whole of every idea about every person, every political party, every organized religion, and every idea you give meaning and worth, and only then will you find out what it means to be free. Freedom is not an idea. Ideas are limited. Mental images and thoughts are all finite. Freedom is not finite which means it has an infinite nature about it. Freedom is the key to coming upon that which is infinite. It is what unlocks the door to everything.
108. Experience as memory can be bent and twisted, which means it is corruptible, and therefore can never be used to approach that which is incorruptible. The greatest experience is the present because only the present is not bound by memory. The experience of what is the present is a living and breathing thing, which means it has nothing to do with memory. Memory is the past. It is dead, gone, finished. Memory is what denies the unsullied and incorruptible other from coming out. Therefore put the whole of memory in its place. Only let memory be used for the little things in life. That is all it is good for.
109. Time as the past or future is thought. Love is not thought. Love has no relationship with time. Love is timeless.
110. The greatest learning takes place when the mind is completely quiet, alone with itself and free to observe what takes place both outwardly in the world and inwardly in the mind. Observation means to carefully watch whatever it is that exists without any sense of effort, comparison, judgment, or desire. Do it. Do it now and see what happens. See that during observation every sense of division ends. There is no inner or outer world. There is no division between the two. There is only observation.
111. Set a particular time aside during the day in order to do what you think is meditation, and that is not it. Meditation is not something you schedule or make time for. It is not separate from daily living. It is daily living. It is the same.
112. See yourself in the street worker, the steel beams, the cracks in the cement, the dead leaves on the ground, the dog on the leash, the sleeping cat, and the line of ants racing to and from. See yourself in all things, and watch the whole of separation between the observer and the observed come to an end. The end of this inward separation brings about an extraordinary sense of wholeness that wipes away all inner division and conflict. Wholeness does that. It wipes away separation. It ends it completely.
113. Be intimate with nature, which includes the rivers, the mountains, and starry night skies. Be intimate in the relationship with all of nature so that there is no feeling of separation. In order to do that requires complete silence. It means a stillness of the heart and mind. Make no fanciful idea or mental image of you being the starry sky or the sky being you. Only when mental image making is absent can that intimacy present itself. Only then can a sense of oneness and completeness in relationship take place. Do it. Play with it. Watch what happens.
114. To die to thought from moment to moment cleans the brain and makes it whole. It ends the fragmentation within and the end of fragmentation means wholeness. They are the same.
115. It is important to understand that whatever you do, and whatever action you dream up, that you think, believe, or pray will enable you to approach or come upon that eternal, immeasurable, and therefore sacred other, will never and can never work. It can never work because every hint of desire must completely cease to invite the other. It must stop. Desire in any form is self-centered activity, and where there is the self, the other is not. If you find that after sitting quietly, performing what you think is meditation, and you find yourself waiting, waiting, and waiting for something to happen, and nothing does, and as a result you feel angry, disappointed, frustrated, inadequate, or you conclude that you proved the idea of “a sacred other” wrong, then the desire within never left. The self-centered activity never stopped. Find out what it is to walk away from desire. Stop seeking to attain, possess, and become. Learn what it is to live without seeking anything, not because you want to get anything out of it, hope for something in return, or secretly expect to come upon happiness, enlightenment, or whatever. Learn to live without it because it is what you love to do.
116. Intelligence has no need to write, teach, or do anything. Intelligence needs nothing. Only the ego has needs, desires, motivations, and all the disappointment and frustration that goes with it. Intelligence is its own action. However, when the ego does nothing, which means the ego ceases to function, and thereby allows intelligence to work, then the greatest action is taking place. No action by the ego is the greatest action. It is the same.
117. Do not work because of only money, duty or fear. Do what you love. If your job has no meaning, then change it so that it has meaning. Find how meaning can be put into it. Do that and you will love it. However, if it cannot be changed, if it is a meaningless and loveless job, without the possibility for change, then leave it. Walk away from it.
118. People celebrate particular days and make them special because they feel the other days are not special and not worth celebrating. They anticipate and look forward to particular days because like a drug they depend on these days to help them escape from all the stress, boredom, anxiety, loneliness, insecurity, hurt, and misery that is their life. Find out what it means to bring an end to the whole of this inward conflict that is your everyday life, and suddenly there is no need to make particular days special. You will discover that when the totality of inward conflict is wiped away, there is only one day that has value. There is only one day worth celebrating, and that day is today. Today is the most special, precious, and sacred day. It is the only day that has any true value. Live today as if it were your last, and you will suddenly see and deeply treasure things as never before. You will see the intense colors and shapes of the leaves of trees, the vastness of a sky, the beauty of a bird flying, the extraordinary sense of oneness and sacredness that comes when one sits quietly, alert, highly sensitive, without a trace of expectation, desire, or want of any kind. The whole of life reveals itself as never before and thereby makes the singling out of particular days for celebration completely and totally meaningless.
119. The nature of human misery and sorrow is seeking. It is desire. The end of desire stops misery. It stops sorrow completely. Learn what it is to want, achieve, become, and desire nothing. Only then will sorrow stop. It will stop completely.
120. The problem of psychological conflict is simple to resolve. Be peaceful. To be peaceful means to inwardly love without conditions. Unconditional love is what brings peace. It is what ends all conflict instantly and completely. It is the only thing that can.
