Humans are
asleep. They are so entangled in their minds that they don't hear. Nothing
penetrates them. No words can help them. They are busy seeking an imaginary job
ahead. Is it because they are not above the survival zone? Why don't they see
it? Why don't they hear it? Is it the cosmic web they are caught in? I don't
know. Can I help them? Absolutely not! Can they help themselves to see it? I
don't know. Mind cannot improve itself. Can they try for it? Perhaps. Will they
reach it? There is no “they.” Why are they so confident about their analysis?
Do they have their own analysis and understanding of life? Buddha had one! Osho
had one! Do they have anything of their own? Most of their knowledge is
borrowed from religious books or from streets or some dialogues from movies or
from self-help books or from their so-called Gurus! And then they defend the
borrowed knowledge! To me, all that is contamination in their Consciousness.
Why are they so confident about their minds? They are not confident, they are
just afraid, they don't want anyone to uncover their falsehoods! Can money
solve their problems? Are they living in hope? Is it like a blind person so
confident in running? How can a blind person run? How did they become like
this? I think they are all the time in a vulnerable zone. Are they really? Why
did the mind start in the first place? Why was the thinking tool given to us?
For survival? Have humans achieved that out-of-survival-zone comfort? If not,
then when are they going to achieve it? 10 years from now? 100 years? 1000
years? 10000 years? There seems to be no guarantee. Am I lucky to see it? I
don't know. Did I do anything other than what other unlucky people are doing? I
think it was an accident! Did the search end? Search ends with the Searcher!
There is only awareness. Why did this happen to me? I don't know. Can you
repeat it? It did not happen by any volition on my part. Was I worthy to
receive it? I think I was constantly looking outside, and missing the Seer. And
one day, I caught myself doing that. That's it? That's all you need? Catch
yourself? I think so. Who catches whom? You catch the Runner, you catch the
Seeker, you catch the Questioner. When there is nothing to catch, then the
Catcher remains.
I was coming
to the office today with one of my friends. I tried to explain to him what
happened. Did he hear it? The first reaction was: what bullshit was I talking
about? What hypothetical things were I saying? It did not make any sense to
him. How can it make sense? Making sense means logic. Mind is logical. In fact,
mind has invented logic by observing "cause and effect." Why did the
big bang happen? It happened, assuming for a moment. What logic are you gonna
use to explain it? I think logic began after the big bang. Neither am I asking
you to give me any logically acceptable answer, nor am I saying Science will
answer one day. All that is fine. You can keep chasing this nonsense. Keep
repeating your thoughts in front of 7 billion people, keep assuring them that
you have got the answer, and give them hope that one day you (and they) will
have an answer. But what is the use of that answer? You wanna recreate the
Universe with that knowledge? You don't like this one? Or you are blind to see
the existing one! Actually, you are not even interested in solving this puzzle,
if you consider it as a puzzle. You are actually interested in solving the
problem of your own body's rotting. Is medical science gonna do it? Don't get
me wrong, I have respect for science. It is not easy to devise calculus or
perform an organ transplant. All that is commendable! But the question is still
unanswered. Why do you want to preserve this body? Why so much importance
attached to it? You want to see your kids growing? That's all you can think of?
Who wants to live longer? Who is interested in longevity? You or the mind? Why
do you want to live longer? To chase pleasure? To experience skydiving? To have
more sex? How much more sex do you need to have before you can catch the mind?
What has it given you? Are you seeking it in order to avoid something else? Are
you suppressing something else? Is there something unsettled here and now? Is
something pending to do? Are you postponing something? Are you chasing sex? Do
you want to increase so-called "body count"? Whom do you want to
impress with that? Has it deepened you in any way? Are you bragging about it?
Like, I had sex with 1000 women! If you are not interested in sex, then why do
you think it? What will happen if you have sex with 20 more women or men? Are
you trying to answer these questions for yourself? Do you even want to answer?
Are you here? Do you know big marketing teams control you by selling sex,
pleasure, fancy clothes, processed food? Have you ever thought why they don't
sell you fresh food? Is it not doable? Are they incapable of producing fresh
food? Or is it linked to profits on their balance sheets? Are you addicted to
food? What have you gained through this pleasure? Body fats or cholesterol
problems? Are you seeking good food to avoid cancer or heart disease? Why can
you not control yourself? Who wants to take control of what? Do you see there
is no end to the conversation? All this ends up at one thing: that you are
important, and you want to preserve this body! But you don't seem to utilize
the body for any good purpose. You are watching TV all the time. You are not
even living fully! You are not even present here! Do you want to finish reading
this page really quick? Why don't you get serious about the search? Find it out
yourself! Don't keep moving here and there. For that, you just need to wake up!
Wake up from the mind! Figure out what binds you! What are those psychological
limits? Don't just read this page if any of these questions is one of your
problems. Then answer these questions for yourself on a piece of paper. Write
them down! Remove these obstacles once and for all! The day you wake up, you
start living! You don't need anyone's approval when you are there. You just
know: You are That!