| [ Buddhism ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): wwww (DD15러셀) 날 짜 (Date): 2000년 1월 13일 목요일 오후 12시 02분 42초 제 목(Title): you ain't got a chance U.G.: They come here and tell me about their spiritual experiences. What do they expect? They want me to pat on their back and tell them, "You are doing alright. Do more and more of the same and you will reach your destination." I can't do that. I emphasize that the experience which you are considering as something extraordinary is totally unrelated to the final thing you are after. This is very difficult to understand. I always give the example of these tremors. Tremors do not mean that one day there will be an earthquake. These tremors have nothing to do with the earth quake. This earthquake hits somewhere else; not at the place you think it would occur. When this thunderbolt hits you, you will find out that all those tremors you have been experiencing during what you call 'sadhana' are totally -- in fact, in no way -- are connected to that. This is very difficult to understand. That is why all those doing sadhana ask me that question: "How do you know that what you did -- all the sadhana -- is not responsible for where you are today.?" I can say that now: this is not in any way related to what I did or did not do. Not a whiff of it. Then you see, the whole business of 'sadhana' collapses. Because the sadhana is always related to the goal you have fixed to yourself. As I was telling yesterday, as a matter of fact, what is going on here [in this dialogue] is sadhana -- because I am blocking every escape door. Somebody said,"why don't you leave at least one ventilator open?" Even that has to be blocked. You must be choked to death as it were. Only a real teacher can tell and point out that. Nobody else. Nobody else should talk about that. Not that I claim that I am the real teacher or any such thing. Don't get me wrong. They [the real teachers] are not those who interpret the texts. Only such a man can talk and such a man will never encourage any kind of sadhana, because he knows that sadhana is not going to help. Life is energy. It is all the time trying to convert itself into energy. In the final analysis there is neither matter nor energy. They [matter and energy] are interchangeable. But when thought takes its birth, then it is matter. In its very nature it [thought] splits itself into two. If through some luck or strange chance it remains without splitting itself into two, something has got to happen to that. And there it explodes. It is an atomic explosion. The human organism has trillions of atoms. It's an electro- magnetic field. When one atom explodes, it blasts everything that is there. It triggers a chain reaction. You can't make this kind of a thing happen at all. Yet the possibility of its happening in everybody is 100%. Not that I am placing a carrot before you. That is its nature. That is why it happens in one in a billion. "Why does it happen to one individual? Why not me?" If you question in that fashion, you ain't got a chance. from Last Dialogue by U.G.Krishnamurti |