Ángel
Muchas veces he querido que me lleves contigo
Poniendo en tus manos mi última esperanza
Muchas veces he querido salir de éste horror y tener algo de alivio
Pero yo solo me he de ir, lo en verdad valioso sólo por ti se alcanza
La Pared
Sabes que sin ti ya no seré A dónde vayas voy, soy tu fiel compañero Siéntate, cierra los ojos yo saldré de la pared Contigo al planeta he vuelto
- you are the witness of it, you are the observer. It is there! Certainly it is there, but it is like a cloud that surrounds you - you are not the cloud. And once you realise that, you have transcended. Then a totally different kind of okayness arises in you which is spiritual, which cannot be taken away from you.
ResponderEliminarBut people don't go deep in their unhappiness. This is what I call real sadhana: to go into your unhappiness. Don't avoid, don't escape. People don't look into their moods; people try to deceive themselves. People want somehow to carry on smiling always and always. But do you know? - even in heaven, angels don't sing all the time. There are moments when they cry and weep. And you can believe me - I am an eye-witness. But nothing is wrong with tears. Tears can be beautiful, if you welcome them.
Go deep in your unhappiness; it is going to reveal many things to you.
I have heard:
A farmer was driving his horse laboriously along a dusty road. He came to a man sitting beside the road, pulled his team to a halt and called out: "How much longer does this hill last?"
"You ain't on no hill," the stranger called back. "Your hind wheels are off."
But people don't look deep down in their being. They think they are on a hill - the hind wheels are no more there. You can go on a flat road, on a superhighway and you will feel you are on a hill, always going up, and it is difficult and more difficult. And, of course, without wheels you will always be in turmoil; rough will be the road.
Don't ask me whether you are okay or not. The very question decides that you are not. But people are such questioners; they go on asking everything. Maybe you are okay, but you cannot remain without a question; that too is a possibility.
Mulla Nasrudin went to the hills on the suggestion of his psychotherapist, and from there he wired back after a week: "I am feeling happy - why?"
Now you cannot even feel happy without asking; now analysis is needed - why?
The mother went to see the analyst and asked, "Tell me - I gotta daughter in college - she doesn't use drugs - she's not pregnant - she doesn't drink - she got the highest marks in her class and she writes to us every day - tell me - where did we go right?"
Where did we go right? Now that becomes the problem. Questioning has become such a deep-rooted habit that sometimes when it is not needed at all, then too, you go on making questions. You cannot allow your being to remain without questions. Allow it! Because that is the moment when the answer will come to you - when there is no question.
Don't go on questioning and questioning and questioning. It is meaningless. I answer you only so that you learn how not to question. I don't answer you so that you can become more knowledgeable. I answer you only as a help, so that one day you can remain without questions. That very day a great revelation will open its doors to your being.
When there is no question, the answer arises from your innermost depths. If you are too much concerned with the question, the answer will never arise - you won't allow it space to arise.