What is dhayana? It is not a concentration because concentration is think on something It is not about discipline of the mind Dhayana is dropping all objects ,dropping anything on which you can concentrate Contemplate,meditate; dropping everything nothing is left - only the one who had concentrating ,only one who was contemplating (looking thoughtfully for a long time) That pure awareness is dhayana It is a state of being where there is no thought,no object,no dream, nothing - just emptiness. In that emptiness.... You come to know yourself you discover the truth You discover the subjectivity It is perfect silence To train the mind for concentration is very difficult,because iy goes on revolting,it goes on falling back into its old habits You pull it again, and it escapes You bring it again to the subject you were concentrating on and suddenly you find you are thinking of something else, You have forgotten what you are concerntrating upon. But to put it aside is a very simple thing - not difficult at all All that you have to do is to watch Whatsoever is going on in your mind,Don't interfere,don't try to stop it Do not do anything,because whatsoever you do will become a discipline So do not do anything at all Just watch Watching is not a doing Just as you watch the traffic with you stand in street , watch the traffic of thoughts and dreams relevant,irrelevant,consistent,inconsistent, anything that is going on You simply watch,you stand by the side unconcerned The pseudo-religions don't allow you to remain unconcerned,because, they say,greed(selfish desire) is bad So if a thought of greed comes you jump to prevent it; otherwise you will become greedy. Anger is bad; if an angry thought passes by, you immediately jump - you have to change it, you have to be kind and compassionate so here not what is wrong or what is right don't concentrate about these. All that I say is: whether it is right or wrong not bothered about, just watch it. Be watchful If greed is passing by,let it pass; if anger is passing by,let it pass Who are you interfere? Why are you so much identified with your mind? Why do start thinking, " I am greedy...I am angry? There is only a thought of anger passing by Let it pass; you just watch A man who has gone out of his town and come back and finds that his house is on fire So he becomes very sad His son comes.. Don't worried, I sold it yesterday Then the father is a watcher, with other watchers. Just a moment before he was not a watcher,because he was identified with the house It is the same house The same fire Everything is the same But now he is not concerned,He is enjoying Like this, once is happened on you as watcher and the whole mind is there deep down in the dark valley, and you are not to do anything about it ** 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 ** 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 It is godliness And once you have been in this space... You come out and you are a totally new person, a new man. Now you have your original face All masks have disappeared you will live in the same world, but not in the same way You will live like a lotus in the water,but absolutely untouched by water You discovered lotus within. Nirvana means literally, you are sitting with a candle on a dark night and you blow out the handle Suddenly the light disappears and all is darkness,With the light disappearing all the objects that were seen because of the presence of light disappear Now there is infinite darkness and silence Nivana simply means cessation of the candle light,so that you are in absolute silence, And darkness has no bad connotation in Buddhism It is peaceful, it has depth. Light is shallow; darkness is infinetly deep Light is always bounded,it has boundaries Darkness has no boundaries,it is unbounded. Light comes and Goes; darkness always is. When there is light you cannot see it When light is not there you can see it But it is always there; you cannot cause it Light has a cause,you burn the fire,you put on wood,when the wood is finished the light will be gone, it is caused, hence it is an effect. But darkness is not caused by anything,it is not an effect,it is uncaused eternity Nirvana is very simple phenomenon. It simply means blowing out the small candle of the ego. And suddenly... The reality has always been there,but. Just because of the candle of the ego you were not able to see it. Now the candle is no longer there, the reality is. It has always been there, You had never lost it in the first place. One cannot lose it even if one tries. It is your very nature, so how can you lose it? It is you - your very being. Yes, you can forget, at the most. There is no way to lose it. Wherever you go it will go with you. It is you,too. How can you escape from yourself? You can try, but you will always find you are there. So nirvana is just like darkness. The light is put off and your reality is all there, with all its beauty,benediction,blessing. But there is no word in English to translate nirvana Jainas use the word moksha. Moksha means absolute freedom, ultimate freedom, freedom from all fetters. And the biggest fetter is the ego. Other fetters (prison) are just parts of the ego: greed, lust,ambition,anger. But the root, the main root of the whole tree of your slavery,is the ego. So cut the main root and all other roots will die of their own accord. Don't bother to cut small roots, branches, leaves, because they will come again. Cut the main root and the whole tree will die. And when all your fetters fall, what remains? The unfettered conciousness, the freedom. It is simply an unfettered existence You don't find anywhere around you, anything holding you. You are no longer tethetered to anything. This untethered state they have called moksha. Kaivalya means aloneness That is patanjali's word for enlightenment. Enlightment means you become full of light. Yes,it is a lightening, uncaused - not from outside, but an explosion within. And suddenly no problem, no question, no quest. Suddenly you are at home, for the first time at ease, not going anywhere; for the first time in this moment herenow....
