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The bird is another fact, but the truth is the same. Sometimes the truth appears as a bird, sometimes as a
tree, sometimes as a rock, sometimes as a man. These are all forms.
Facts are forms, but in every fact, if you go deeper, is the truth. If you deny all forms you have denied
the formless within. If you say nothing is real, then how can the divine, how can God be real? If you say this
world is illusory, then how can the creator of an illusory world be real? And how can a real God create an
unreal world?
It is impossible, because out of reality comes reality; out of unreality comes unreality. A real God
cannot create an unreal world. And if the world is unreal, the creator is also unreal. If you deny the facticity,
then you deny the truth.
Says the sutra of Sosan:
TO DENY THE REALITY OF THINGS IS TO MISS THEIR REALITY...
And that reality is truth.
... TO ASSERT THE EMPTINESS OF THINGS IS TO MISS THEIR REALITY again.
If you say things are but they are empty, that too is a philosophical standpoint -- a little better than the
first. The first says the whole world is unreal, it is not, is is non-existential; it is only in your mind, it is
nowhere else; it is a mind-projection, it is a thought, it is like a dream.
The other philosophy, which is a little better, says things ate, but they are empty. They don't carry any
self within them, they are not substantial. They are dead, empty within. They are nothing but combinations;
no self is there. The tree is there, but only as a combination; the tree has got no self, no ATMAN. If you
take the combinations apart then there will be no one left. It is just like a mechanism: if you take all the
parts of the machine apart, nothing is left behind.
That too is not true, because a tree exists not as a compound but as a being. Even a rock has its own
being; when you become sensitive and alert you will see that even a rock has its moods. Sometimes it is
happy and then you can feel the happiness of the rock; sometimes it is unhappy and then you can feel the
unhappiness of the rock; and sometimes it is singing and you can hear the song.
But YOU need so much sensitivity, because right now you cannot hear the song of a Buddha -- how can
you hear the song of a rock? You are deaf and blind, you are insensitive and dull.
You are not conscious -- your consciousness is such a small fragment that it is exhausted in day-to-day
affairs, in day-to-day routine. You are conscious enough to reach to the office and come back home without
any accident on the way; that much conscious you are. But you cannot feel the rock, you cannot feel the
tree.
Now scientists are discovering that the trees have so much sensitivity that you cannot imagine. Trees
welcome people if they are friendly, and they become closed if they are inimical. If the gardener comes,
goes on pruning and cutting, the tree becomes closed. Even before the gardener has come... he enters the
compound and the whole garden is closed, because the enemy is coming.
One scientist who was working very deeply became alert that not only actions, even your thoughts trees
become aware of. He was doing one experiment on a plant: the plant was wired to subtle instruments to
make sure what was happening inside it. And he thought, "If at this moment I suddenly cut the plant in half,
what will happen?" And the needle on the instrument started wavering fast; the plant had received the
thought.
Then he tried many experiments. He had not cut the plant, he had not harmed it -- just the idea! And
whenever the idea was there, the needle would show that the plant was very much worried and angry. And
not only this: if you cut a plant, the neighboring plants will also show sadness, worry, anger, anxiety. Now
there are instruments which can show what is happening inside the plant, and sooner or later there will be
instruments which will show what is happening inside a rock.
Everything is alive, no thing is empty. Everything is filled with consciousness, different types of
consciousness -- that's why you cannot penetrate. It is difficult because of different languages of
consciousness. A tree has a different type of consciousness, a rock altogether different. It is difficult to
communicate with them because languages differ, but if you become more alert, aware, and you are not [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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The bird is another fact, but the truth is the same. Sometimes the truth appears as a bird, sometimes as a
tree, sometimes as a rock, sometimes as a man. These are all forms.
Facts are forms, but in every fact, if you go deeper, is the truth. If you deny all forms you have denied
the formless within. If you say nothing is real, then how can the divine, how can God be real? If you say this
world is illusory, then how can the creator of an illusory world be real? And how can a real God create an
unreal world?
It is impossible, because out of reality comes reality; out of unreality comes unreality. A real God
cannot create an unreal world. And if the world is unreal, the creator is also unreal. If you deny the facticity,
then you deny the truth.
Says the sutra of Sosan:
TO DENY THE REALITY OF THINGS IS TO MISS THEIR REALITY...
And that reality is truth.
... TO ASSERT THE EMPTINESS OF THINGS IS TO MISS THEIR REALITY again.
If you say things are but they are empty, that too is a philosophical standpoint -- a little better than the
first. The first says the whole world is unreal, it is not, is is non-existential; it is only in your mind, it is
nowhere else; it is a mind-projection, it is a thought, it is like a dream.
The other philosophy, which is a little better, says things ate, but they are empty. They don't carry any
self within them, they are not substantial. They are dead, empty within. They are nothing but combinations;
no self is there. The tree is there, but only as a combination; the tree has got no self, no ATMAN. If you
take the combinations apart then there will be no one left. It is just like a mechanism: if you take all the
parts of the machine apart, nothing is left behind.
That too is not true, because a tree exists not as a compound but as a being. Even a rock has its own
being; when you become sensitive and alert you will see that even a rock has its moods. Sometimes it is
happy and then you can feel the happiness of the rock; sometimes it is unhappy and then you can feel the
unhappiness of the rock; and sometimes it is singing and you can hear the song.
But YOU need so much sensitivity, because right now you cannot hear the song of a Buddha -- how can
you hear the song of a rock? You are deaf and blind, you are insensitive and dull.
You are not conscious -- your consciousness is such a small fragment that it is exhausted in day-to-day
affairs, in day-to-day routine. You are conscious enough to reach to the office and come back home without
any accident on the way; that much conscious you are. But you cannot feel the rock, you cannot feel the
tree.
Now scientists are discovering that the trees have so much sensitivity that you cannot imagine. Trees
welcome people if they are friendly, and they become closed if they are inimical. If the gardener comes,
goes on pruning and cutting, the tree becomes closed. Even before the gardener has come... he enters the
compound and the whole garden is closed, because the enemy is coming.
One scientist who was working very deeply became alert that not only actions, even your thoughts trees
become aware of. He was doing one experiment on a plant: the plant was wired to subtle instruments to
make sure what was happening inside it. And he thought, "If at this moment I suddenly cut the plant in half,
what will happen?" And the needle on the instrument started wavering fast; the plant had received the
thought.
Then he tried many experiments. He had not cut the plant, he had not harmed it -- just the idea! And
whenever the idea was there, the needle would show that the plant was very much worried and angry. And
not only this: if you cut a plant, the neighboring plants will also show sadness, worry, anger, anxiety. Now
there are instruments which can show what is happening inside the plant, and sooner or later there will be
instruments which will show what is happening inside a rock.
Everything is alive, no thing is empty. Everything is filled with consciousness, different types of
consciousness -- that's why you cannot penetrate. It is difficult because of different languages of
consciousness. A tree has a different type of consciousness, a rock altogether different. It is difficult to
communicate with them because languages differ, but if you become more alert, aware, and you are not [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]