MESSAGE FROM TAOSHOBUDDHA
You are from the very beginning a Buddha. To the very core of your being you are a Buddha. It is your nature. It is like water and ice: apart from water, no ice, outside living beings, no Buddhas. Not knowing it is near, they seek it afar. What a pity! It is like one in the water who cries out for thirst; it is like the child of a rich house who has strayed away among the poor. The cause of our circling through the six worlds is that we are on the dark paths of ignorance. Dark path upon dark path treading, when shall we escape from birth-and-death? The Zen meditation of the Mahayana is beyond all our praise. Giving and morality and the other perfections, taking of the name, repentance, discipline, and the many other right actions, all come back to the practice of meditation. By the merit of a single sitting he destroys innumerable accumulated sins. How should there be wrong paths for him?
My beloved ones: I love you. Love is my message. Love is my being. Love is the communion. Love is oneness. Let it be your message too. Love is my color and my climate. To me, love is the only religion. All else is just rubbish. All else is nothing but dreams. A mental game! Love is the only substantial thing in life! All else is illusion. Let love grow in you and then god will be growing on its own accord. If you miss love you will miss god and all.
There is no way to god without love. There is nothing more sublime than love. God can be forgotten but not love. If love is remembered, god will happen as a consequence. It happens as a consequence. It is the fragrance of love and nothing else. In fact there is no god but only godliness. There is no person like god anywhere. Drop all childish attitudes. Never go on searching for a father. Divineness is, god is not. When I say divineness is, I mean whatsoever is, is full of god. The entire creation is full of godliness. Only you need eyes to see this. The green of the trees! And the red and the golden all are divine. A crow crying and a bird on the wing, a child giggling, and a dog barking all is divine. Nothing else exists. The moment you ask ‘where is god?’ you have raised a wrong question. Because god cannot be indicated anywhere! He is not in a particular direction. He is not a particular thing. He is not a particular being. God is universality. God is hidden in the entire creation. Ask where god is not? Only then you have asked the right question. But for that right question you will have to prepare the soil of your awareness. If you are not in love, then what to say about god! Even you are not. I was thinking what should I give to you today? Because this is the final day of this yagna! This day Absolute consciousness incarnated as Krishna. This is the day when absolute consciousness saw for the first time the green of the trees and the blue of the skies. This was the day for the first time when Krishna opened his eyes and saw god all around. Of course the word 'god' did not exist at that moment. However all that he saw was god. That is what I mean by love - A union. Because in a union those who join together remain separate. In a unity they dissolve. They melt into one another. They become one. And that moment I call the moment of truth, when love has given you unity. First, love gives you unity in your innermost core. Then you are no more a body, no more a mind, no more a soul. You are simply one. Unnamed, undefined, unclassified! No more determinate, definable, no more comprehensible. A mystery, a joy, a surprise, jubilation, and a great celebration! First, love gives you an inner unity. This is fana as Sufis call this happening. And when the inner unity has happened the second happens on its own! You are not to do anything for it. Then you start falling in unity with the whole beyond you. Then the drop disappears in the ocean and the ocean disappears into the drop. That moment, that moment of orgasm between you and the whole, is where you become a Buddha. That moment is the moment Buddhahood is imparted to you. This is ENLIGHTENMENT.
Love is the way of preparing the soil of your heart. If you are full of love, the world is full of God. They go parallel. They are part of one symphony. God is the echo from the universe. When you are in love, the echo is there. When you are not in love, how can there be an echo? God is an echo that lingers in your heart like the dissolving note of a melody that you have once heard in the wilderness. It is only you who are reflected again and again in millions of ways. It is you who are thrown back to yourself again and again. If you are in love, God is.
I was thinking what should I give to you today as my gift for the birthday of a Buddha? Then I remembered a saying of Buddha: SABBA DANAM DHAMMA DANANA JNATI ‘the gift of truth excels all other gifts.’ And my truth is love. Truth is solitary. Truth is love. AND THAT IS ALL YOU NEED TO DISCOVER DEEP WITHIN.
The word 'truth' looks to me a little too dry and desert-like. I am not in much tune with the word 'truth'. It looks too logical. It looks too prosaic. It gives you the feeling of philosophy, not of religion. It gives you the idea as if you have concluded. You have come to a conclusion. And there has been a syllogism behind it, argumentation and logic and reasoning. No, 'truth' is not my word. LOVE is my word. Love is of the heart. Truth is partial. Only your head is involved. In love you are involved as a totality. Your body, your mind, your soul, all is involved. Love makes you a unity. But and not a union. Remember love is UNITY. My word is love. So I say: My beloved ones, I love you. And I would like you to fill the whole world with love. Let that be our religion. Love is simply love. In love you can be a Christ. In love you can be a Buddha. But there is no Buddhist love and there is no Christian love. In love you disappear, your mind disappears. In love you come to an utter relaxation. This is my message as my gift to you for the celebration of Buddha’s Enlightenment NOW AND EVER AND ANON!
LOVE AND LOVE!
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