Awake from your waking state!

BUDDHA says: you dream when you are awake. You don’t have to fall asleep to dream. You will daydream even when you are awake. In the night you see stars. In the day they are still there but you cannot see, because of the sun. If you get into a deep well without water, you can see stars even in the day. When you are not active you dream. Because of continuous activity you do not notice your dreams, but you dream on.

People ask me: please tell me how I can worship and love an 18-handed Kali? I say, first start loving your two-handed wife. First understand your life and then you can go into religion. All your love for God is just a fantasy. That’s the truth. You dream even when you are awake. That’s why masters say that we are all asleep.

The great Russian master Gurdjeef had a disciple who asked him how to be enlightened. Gurdjeef taught him a technique and said you must do this for three months continuously without leaving this house. The disciple meditated for three months. At the end of three months his master Gurdjeef took him for a walk into the town. The disciple says I feel everybody here is asleep even though they are doing something. What has happened? The master says nothing has happened to these people, something has happened to you, you are now awakened.

You need to meditate to be awake. When you meditate you have no thoughts, your mind has stopped, but you are aware.

Meditation should be done playfully, not seriously, with a long face. We grown-up people find it difficult to laugh. Kids find it difficult to be serious; they can laugh all the time. You tell them to stop laughing, make them like you, you idiots. You want to be comfortable in your ignorance, in your rigidity, in your false beliefs.

Have you ever seen an ugly kid? You never can. Have you seen a single grown-up man who is beautiful or graceful? Seriousness makes you ugly. Seriousness is not sincerity. Be sincere but relax.

When I say relax, people ask what to do. Doing is natural, but relaxing is unnatural. Don’t ask for another technique to relax. Whatever you understand by relaxation you do. Relax from the idea that you should relax.