Number 94: “Let attention be at a place where you are seeing some past happening, and even your form, having lost its present characteristics, is transformed.” Perhaps when you meditate, you see some of the past events of your previous lives, or this life, or maybe you have seen your form as well. Sometimes you meditate, you have left your physical donkey on the cushion, and you fly above and you look, you see, “Ooh, what an ugly bag sitting there.” So, at that moment, you have lost all the present characteristics of a living corpse. And then, at that moment, you become transformed, of course. Need He (Lord Shiva) mention this? Once we can get out of this prison house, we are already transformed.
95. I’m just going fast, driving fast, even past the red light. “Look upon some object. Then slowly withdraw your sight from it. Then slowly withdraw even your thought from it. Then.” Then what? Then what? Then you know what. First you look at some object. Suppose this one, and then you withdraw your sight, your seeing ability, withdraw from it. It means you see without seeing. And then you withdraw your thought from it as well. Then you become empty, in samadhi. It’s just a means of concentration, concentration.
Number 96. Oh, this is easy. One word “Devotion.” And free, free yourself. When you devote yourself to some cause or some person, you feel very, very free because you’re so concentrated on that thing that you stop worrying, and forget anxiety, and forget about even tomorrow, or danger, or whatever other immediate concern. That’s why the Indian people emphasize Bhakti (Devotion) as a very efficient method of spiritual practice, devotion. That’s why they tell each of them “Devote.” Devote to GOD, devote to your Guru, devote to your wife, devote to your husband, devote to your family, and later devote to the teachings of GOD. Or devote to any cause of Seva, service to GOD, or to other human beings. That’s devotion. And devotion sets you free. Because you’re concerned about other things instead of your own limited, small self. And so, you also, meanwhile, will forget many things, your illness, and things like that.
There is a funny joke about an old lady. She celebrates her 90 years, her birthday, and all the children gather around her, the grandchildren and all that. And one of them asks the grandmother, “How come you don’t look old now? You look so young for your age.” So, the grandmother says, “To grow old, people need time. I don’t have [any].” She’s been very busy all her life. She didn’t have time to grow old. So try that. Most of the people who are devoted to their family, like a farmer’s wife, or very pure and simple folks in the mountains, and all that, very rarely do they get sick, because they’re so busy doing something else for their family, or for their own members. They hardly feel sick. They always feel good.
Number 97. Oh, we’re getting there. “Feel an object before you.” Feel only. “Feel the absence of all other objects but this one. Then, leaving aside the object-feeling and the absence-feeling, realize your own Nature.” Understand? OK, it’s just one of the methods of practice. First, perhaps you close your eyes, feel that there is an object in front of you. Just feel it, not touch. Just now He (Lord Shiva) told you to look. Now He tells you to feel. There are many ways of practicing through different senses. Seeing is using the sense of the eyes. Feeling is using the sense of emotion, of feeling. So now it’s another practice using your feeling. Perhaps you don’t see, you don’t touch, you don’t look, you just feel the object in front of you. And then feel the absence of other objects as well, around this one, except this one. And then leave both, all the non-existing objects and the existing object, and be free, be yourself. That’s what it is.
98: “The purity of other teachings is as impurity to us. In reality know nothing as pure or impure.” The purity and impurity are only existing in this dual physical world. In reality, He (Lord Shiva) says, “We should know, in a higher level of consciousness, nothing is pure, nothing is impure.”
99: “This Consciousness exists as each being and nothing else exists.” You got it.
100. We drive 140 miles. “Be the unsame same to friend as to stranger, in honor and in dishonor.” That you know too. Always be the same. The same, but not the same. The unsame same, to friend and stranger. You are the Self. You are the same to your friend, but not the same to a stranger. That’s of course. But you must always keep the balance within yourself. You’ll be more friendly to your friend, of course, and be a little bit less friendly, or less approachable to the stranger. Because if we’re too friendly and too close to the stranger, they might misunderstand and think we want to pickpocket or try to do something. So of course, we cannot be the same to friends as to strangers. But nevertheless, always be that same Self. Whether in the friendliness to a friend or in the little bit cautious approach to a stranger – be always the same Self, even though you’re doing the unsame thing, at different times. That’s what it is. You got it? Good, my God. And with the same attitude, you should keep yourself in honor, as in disgrace. Always be the same Self. The situation changes, the people change, we should not change. That is the number 100 message.
Now, 101: “When a mood against someone or for someone arises, do not place it upon the person in question, but remain centered.” Wow, that’s good. That we should try. I told you last time, I don’t remember when, but when we are angry at somebody, then we throw our energy at that person. When we love somebody, we also invest our Consciousness and Light into that person. So in either case, we lose some of it. So whether we love, or we hate a person, we still invest our own blood and flesh into that person. So, we should always try to keep centered. So, that’s why the Master here says, “against somebody or for somebody,” even pro or contra, ain’t no good for us. Both are no good. So, we better always remain centered, remain within ourselves. So, we withdraw our energy and keep it. And whatever the person derives from us is only peace and harmony, and blessing. There is no deliberate throwing of energy into that person, the way I throw candy and cakes to you.
So in other words, don’t be angry, because you spend all your energy, your earnings, income through meditation for that person, for nothing. But mind you, maybe GOD has made anger in order to spread energy around, especially from the Quan Yin practitioners. If you’re not angry, if you’re not loving anybody, I think the world will be kaput. You will not share anything. So, well, try to control as much as you can. That’s all, what it is. Alright? Somebody asked a Zen Master, “You told us that we should never be angry with anybody, because in that case we spend all our energies for that person as a free gift. But I see you angry all the time. How come?” The Master said, “I’m rich, I can afford to waste. You are poor, you don’t even have any to spare. You don’t even have enough for yourself and you spend it.” Alright. So, get it? (Yes.)
So, I can be angry because I’m a Master. Now you know, huh? (Yes.) Being a Master has a lot of priority and advantage, so hurry up. Hurry up and I'll give all this priority and advantage to you. I think I will have one monk as a successor, one nun as a successor, one lay female as a successor, and one lay man as a successor. So, guess who? Maybe you. Maybe any of you. You should try. You should try to perfect yourself, and respect yourself and others. Maybe that person next to you becomes the successor, and later he will make trouble for you when he sits here. So be careful how you deal with the neighbors.
Now, Number 102. We are very near. “Suppose you contemplate something beyond perception, beyond grasping, beyond not being.” What’s that? You. Your True Form. That is beyond touching, beyond knowing, beyond grasping, beyond perception. That’s our real Self. So, concentrate on that.
103: “Enter space, supportless, eternal, and find stillness, tranquility.” Whenever you feel your tent is too small with two persons squeezing in during retreats, or you sit within the line, there, try to enter space, because space is limitless. And then you don’t need any support. You feel supportless, you feel limitless. You enter the space of non-limit, non-frontier. And then you feel eternally free, and tranquil, peaceful, because nothing encases you. Or you will feel not agitated, not closed in, but you feel free and relaxed.
Photo Caption: “Seeing Water, Remember the WATER OF LIFE”
