Find time and a place to remain unoccupied

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by my friend, CRIS NARCISO ASUNCION, an endless book of words and thoughts.Why does the world creates so many difficulties for the buddhawheneverhe appears, in whatsoever form? He may be Krishna, Christ, Atisha,Tilopa, a; he may appear in any form. By buddhahood I meanawareness, awakening. Wherever awakening happens, the whole worldbecomes antagonistic. Why? - because the whole world is asleep.There is an Arabic saying: Don't wake up a slave, because he may bedreaming that he is free. Don't wake up a slave; he may be dreamingthathe is free, that he is no more a slave.But the buddha will say: Wake up the slave! Even though he is dreamingbeautiful dreams of freedom, wake him up and make him aware that heis aslave, because only through that awareness can he really become

free.The world is fast asleep and people are enjoying their dreams. Theyaredecorating their dreams, they are making their dreams more and morecolorful, they are making them psychedelic. Then comes a man whostartsshouting from the housetops, "Wake up!" The sleepers feel offended;theydon't want to wake up, because they know that once the dream is gonethey will be left with their misery and suffering and nothing else.Theyare not yet aware that behind their misery there is a source of joythatcan be found. Whenever something like awakening has happened to themthey have always found themselves utterly miserable. So they want toremain drowned in something, whatsoever it is; they want to remainoccupied.The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remainunoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at least onehourevery day to sit silently doing nothing, utterly unoccupied,

justwatching whatsoever passes by inside. In the beginning you will beverysad, looking at things inside you; you will feel only darkness andnothing else, and ugly things and all kinds of black holes appearing.You will feel agony, no ecstasy at all. But if you persist, persevere,the day comes when all these agonies disappear, and behind the agoniesis the ecstasy.

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