If The Heart Is Unobstructed, The Result

"i Seek The Meaning Of Existence," Said The Stranger. "you Are Of Course Assuming," Said The Master, "that Existence Has A Meaning." "doesn't It?" "when You Experience Existence As It Is - Not As You Think It Is You Will Discover That Your Question Has No Meaning," Said The Master.

Is It Possible For The Rose To Say, "i Will Give My Fragrance To The Good People Who Smell Me, But I Will Withhold It From The Bad?" Or Is It Possible For The Lamp To Say, "i Will Give My Light To The Good People In This Room, But I Will Withhold It From The Evil People"? Or Can A Tree Say, "i'll Give My Shade To The Good People Who Rest Under Me, But I Will Withhold It From The Bad"? These Are Images Of What Love Is About.

And Increasingly - You Know This And So Do I We're Losing The Youth Everywhere. They Hate Us; They Are Not Interested In Having More Fears And Guilt Laid On Them. They're Not Interested In More Sermons And Exhortations. But They Are Interested In Learning About Love. How Can I Be Happy? How Can I Live? How Can I Taste The Marvelous Things That The Mystics Speak Of?

A Religious Belief Is Not A Statement About Reality, But A Hint, A Clue About Something That Is A Mystery, Beyond The Grasp Of Human Thought. In Short, A Religious Belief Is Only A Finger Pointing To The Moon. Some Religious People Never Get Beyond The Study Of The Finger. Others Are Engaged In Sucking It. Others Yet Use The Finger To Gouge Their Eyes Out. These Are The Bigots Whom Religion Has Made Blind. Rare Indeed Is The Religionist Who Is Sufficiently Detached From The Finger To See What It Is Indicating - These Are Those Who, Having Gone Beyond Belief, Are Taken For Blasphemers.

Let’s Suppose That Rain Washes Out A Picnic. Who Is Feeling Negative? The Rain? Or You? What’s Causing The Negative Feeling? The Rain Or Your Reaction? When You Bump Your Knee Against A Table, The Table’s Fine. It’s Busy Being What It Was Made To Be – A Table. The Pain Is In Your Knee, Not In The Table. The Mystics Keep Trying To Tell Us That Reality Is All Right. Reality Is Not Problematic. Problems Exist Only In The Human Mind. We Might Add: In The Stupid, Sleeping Human Mind.