Zen masters state: ‘Become normal, end up being typical. Do not aim to come to be extraordinary.’ The even more typical you end up being, the extra normal you become, the more qualified you become of recognizing the Logos.
Don’ t attempt to be remarkable, phenomenal, since the a lot more you attempt the more you will come to be like an island, shut, collapsed after yourself. You are shedding your moorings in the Existence. You are cutting your origins, you are obtaining uprooted.
That has taken place in the West: a feeling of uprootedness. No one recognizes where the roots are. As well as when you feel uprooted, after that you come to be an egoist, then you exist as a self-sufficient entity– which is not possible!
Existence is interrelated, we removal right into each other. When I am talking to you, exactly what am I doing? I am removaling continuously in you. When you are paying attention to me, you are permitting, you are offering a door to me.
You take a breath and also existence enters you, you open the eyes as well as the sun enters you– every minute, 1 Day, you are a crossroad. Millions of factors meet, millions of lines fulfill in you. You are not separate!
Just think: can you exist individually? Can you exist entirely protected? You will die within seconds. You are a porous being, existence comes as well as relocates via you. You are similar to a room: air comes, the sun reoccurs constantly, that is why the area continues to be tidy and also fresh. If you are shut, you will certainly be dead.
The much more open you are, the more existence will flow through you. And the even more existence circulations, the extra you will have the ability to understand exactly what Logos is.
Don’ t fight with presence, due to the fact that you have no idea what you are doing, with which you are battling. How can you combat with presence? It is as if a wave is fighting with the ocean, a fallen leave is battling the tree– it is absurd! And also do not attempt to move upstream, that will merely exhaust you. You will certainly be weary as well as you will certainly really feel frustrated due to the fact that you can not succeed.
Against presence there is no success. That’s why you and also everyone are such failures. Ask your successful people and also they are all failings, deep down, they have missed. Your Napoleons, your Hitlers, your Rothschilds, ask– they are failures, they have actually failed. What have they attained?
They dealt with, they attempted to relocate upstream, they desired to come to be remarkable in some method or other– they simply destroyed themselves. To try to come to be extraordinary is self-destructive, it is a steady suicide, a slow poisoning of the whole system. Surrender to presence, circulation with it, wheresoever it goes– willy-nilly, wheresoever it goes.
Why have a personal objective of your very own? Why stagnate with the destiny of the entire? Why are you a lot worried to achieve something by yourself? As well as how can you attain it? You could not achieve … it’s merely not possible.
Only the entire has a destiny, not you. Just the whole is going somewhere, not you. If you could surrender to the entire, everything is accomplished– because you come to be the entire, and the whole’s fate becomes your fate, as well as the objective of the whole is your goal.
And the goal is not someplace else– the whole is pleased now, the entire is joyous right currently. Just you are fretted. Just you are worried since you are not flowing with the river. You are attempting to reduce small corners for yourself.
Look to the mediocrity of things, as well as find the usual: the more usual, the truer, the more remarkable, the a lot more false. Be normal– after that you are nearer the ground, then you are nearer the truth.
If you can be definitely regular, just what else is needed? Since every moment comes to be such a praise. Exactly what is the problem when you are absolutely regular? You consume and also eating is a sacrament.
You sleep as well as sleep is a rite. You stroll in the sun, as well as exactly what a lot more do you require? You take a breath– what else is had to be satisfied? You love– what extra are you asking? Whatever is currently given, you are just aiming to be extraordinary. Follow the rule, the common, and don’t attempt to be the exemption, or else you will be in misery.
Hell is for all amazing individuals. They could be in politics, in art, literature– wherever they are, heck is for all geniuses, for all extraordinary individuals, all egoists. Ego is the hell, it gives you enduring– because unnecessarily you begin contravening everything.
You are never ever at convenience, worry becomes your style of life, with the ego you will always be at anxiousness. Vanity is a pain, it is a nail in the shoe, it constantly pinches, however you desire to be extraordinary.
I was sitting with Mulla Nasruddin as well as his partner came through and also went out of the door. He said, ‘Look! There goes an excellent lady.’ I stated, ‘Exactly what do you indicate by ‘terrific’?’
He said, ‘She is attempting to have a size 4 footwear on dimension six feet … there goes a remarkable lady!’ And also she is suffering, however she is trying to be exceptional.
Says Chuang Tzu: ‘When the shoe fits, the body is neglected, the feet are failed to remember.’ As well as when every little thing is failed to remember, how can you hold on to the vanity? Vanity needs that shoes ought to continue squeezing so that you could remember that you are.
That’s why an egoist could not like, could not meditate, could not hope, due to the fact that if he actually prays, then everything fits … after that the vanity vanishes. Vanity means a self-consciousness. When something is wrong, only then is self-consciousness there. When whatever is right, there is no self-consciousness.
Look to the common, watch for the typical– do not aim to be outstanding. We desire to be exceptional. People involve me. If I inform them, ‘You simply rest silently, don’t be way too much troubled regarding reflection and petition, and by and by it will grow,’ they say, ‘Yet just resting? …’
They requirement something exceptional. If I tell them, ‘Stand on your head,’ then it is fine. That’s why there are a lot of educators flourishing all over the globe who teach individuals to stand on their heads– something challenging, uneasy, appeals. Ludicrous positions people attempt for Yoga.
Simply outrageous! The more ridiculous, the far better, the extra challenging … if you can not do them, then vanity obtains a challenge. Do them! Make postures, silly, and also you believe you are doing something great.
Life is just wonderful … there is no requirement to surpass it. If nature wanted you to rest on the head or base on the head, you would have been developed by doing this. Pay attention to nature as well as adhere to nature and also do not create any type of dispute with nature, simply follow it as well as soon you will achieve a deep silence, which comes when one becomes ordinary.
