The whole effort in the so-called educational institutions is to stuff people with more and more knowledge, because knowledge will help them to do more and do more efficiently, and if they can do things more efficiently, they will have more things. This is what you call education? This is not real education. Real education will teach a person the most fundamental truth: “I am alone. I come alone, I will go alone. And between coming and going, I can deceive myself that I am not alone, but that is only a deception. Intrinsically I remain alone. Aloneness is my intrinsic nature, so I have to fall in tune with it, I have to dive deep into it; I have to know exactly what it is – what is this aloneness?” And it is tremendously beautiful, it is incredibly beautiful, unbelievably beautiful. When you enter into your aloneness, you start becoming aware of godliness, you start becoming aware of your treasures hidden within you. You start becoming aware of the “kingdom of God” that is within you. Kabir says: You don’t grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house… But nobody teaches you. The whole teaching is: “Go out! Search for money, for power, for prestige” – and they are not found within. Peace is found within, silence is found within, stillness is found within, godliness is found within. But those are not the goals that you have been taught to fulfill; those are not your targets. It is said of a great Sufi mystic, Bayazid: One day, some people came to Sheik Bayazid’s door and knocked. He opened his upstairs window and looked out saying, “What do you want?” “Oh,” they said, “we are looking for Bayazid.” He said, “Well, I have been looking for Bayazid for ten years now, and I have not found him yet!” and closed the window. This is what meditation is all about: trying to find oneself. And the other most important thing is love. Love means trying to find oneself reflected in the other. Love is a mirror. Meditation is a search without a mirror; love is nothing but seeing yourself in the eyes of the other you love, reflected in his being, and a way of enjoying the togetherness. We are alone, but we are not alone in the sense that we exist alone. We are alone, but there are other people around us – who are also alone. We exist with many people who are alone. Bridges have to be made. Love is the meeting of two alonenesses. One aloneness is immensely beautiful – what to say about when two alonenesses meet and merge? A great flowering happens, life becomes more mysterious, more joyous.
Posted on: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:33:18 +0000
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