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You're going to become funny! |
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Self-discovery is not as some would have us think - this heavy, awesome, moral process where everyone sits around and frowns. As you progress towards enlightenment, and of course after enlightenment, you become funny. Serious of course, but being serious, one can still be humorous and light because you're living in a state of infinite awareness with infinite possibilities all the time.
Nirvana, in other words, I'm suggesting, is very funny. It's not sincere, particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually. Well, why not? Why should it be the way you want it to be - unhappy, miserable and cold, or trapped in etheric colors and robes? Why? It's beyond anything. But the realization, what I'm suggesting about humor here is, that if you were to sit down and be absorbed in nirvana - poof, gone! - and experience the limitless ecstasy of existence - this is just a silly way of talking because there's no way to describe it. As soon as you get into this, you get into persona and duality and all this nonsense and then find yourself back here again; that's pretty funny!
And having to worry about the heat guy coming out or the electricity goes off - after you've just been infinite, endless reality and you find yourself here. And true, I mean it's not exactly the same; everything moves and changes and there's nothing stable, particularly yourself, but there is some sense of duality since that's not contrary to nirvana, that's just another idea. - These are the secret teachings. Now you understand why they kept them secret. No one would take them seriously. (Laughter)
In other words, the secret teachings suggest that everything they tell you on the way up is not untrue, but it's not necessarily so. All the things that the spiritual teacher taught you to get to the top were good for you to hear at the time, but once you get up a ways it all changes. The rules -- there are no rules anymore. Anything is possible and usually occurs because you go beyond mind and form, and mind and form dictate rules and regulations and commandments and do's and don'ts.
Insights: Talks on the Nature of Existence: Tibetan Yoga and the Secret Doctrine |
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Recollecting peak experiences |
The doorway is invisible.You're walking through the world and suddenly you walk through an invisible doorway. You have this marvelous experience. You become god, perfection. Then suddenly you slip back through again. But the doorway is invisible and you can't find it, although you may look everywhere. But remember, the doorway is everywhere. So, recollection is something that we use to help us back to that moment, that doorway. And the way we do it is by imprinting it on our conscious awareness. It's kind of like learning brail. We're blind and so we have to learn, we have to touch and feel something new. And we have to do it repeatedly in order to learn. Once is not enough. So what occurs is we imprint ourselves. We have a spiritual experience, then we write it down. And in the writing of the experience, we imprint it. We go back over it again. We bring our field of awareness and we direct it, again, to that doorway, and our awareness again becomes familiar with it. And even in writing it, you will to some extent, go back through that doorway. In re-reading that experience, perhaps a month later or six months later, reviewing your journey, your spiritual sadhana, you'll feel that doorway again. - "Consciousness Expansion & Desire", Live in L.A. |
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How do you deal with a boss who tells you to produce more and more and to use pressure techniques to sell, when you're interested in God and liberation? Where is that beautiful pine forest grove for meditation as you're sitting on the 405 Freeway at 5:00 o'clock, and the traffic is definitely not moving? What do you do with the violence, when someone pulls a gun on you inthe street, when someone breaks into your home and rips everything off? How do you deal with the incongruities of existence, of a world of people who are cruel to each other, sometimes without even realizing that they're cruel? How do you deal with it? Very, very skillfully. Living and working in the world. It is necessary to be part of an organic fellowship. This is the advice of the I Ching, that ancient, venerable Chinese book of wisdom to which I subscribe so heavily. The I Ching counsels us -- the sages who wrote the I Ching a long, long time ago -- that the wisdom of the self-taught is heavy and ponderous. While you may make a certain amount of spiritual progress on your own, it's lacking in something. It's heavy, it's ponderous. Something occurs in learning with others that's marvelous. The edges of our egotism are slowly worn down. - "Living and Working in the World", The Lakshmi Series |
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