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ZEN: THE PATH OF PARADOX
VOL. 2
Chapter 6: The Door to the Wild
Question 6
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Question 6
I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT ANYTHING LIKE SAMADHI OR SATORI EXISTS. UNLESS I MYSELF HAVE EXPERIENCED IT, HOW CAN I BELIEVE YOU ARE THE BUDDHA OR ANYBODY ELSE?
True. Nobody is saying that you should believe. How can you believe? The very expectation is stupid.
Who is telling you to believe? Belief is not being taught here. Belief is the way of ignorance, and by belief a person remains ignorant. A belief is a false substitute -- if you start believing, then you are never going to know. Mind you: if you start believing, you have stopped growing. There is no need to believe.
But there is no need to doubt either -- that has to be understood. That's what trust is -- it is neither belief nor doubt. This will look strange, because ordinarily you think that trust is belief. It is not -- trust is neither belief nor doubt.
You need not believe me, you need not doubt me. You can just be here experimentally, hypothetically -- 'Maybe this man is wrong, maybe this man is right.' You need not decide. How can you decide? You have to experiment with your consciousness -- the decision will come from there.
If I am talking about something that you have not known, there is no way to believe it. And all belief will be a repression, a repression of your doubt. I am not saying believe me. There is just one thing that you can do, if you can do it; don't doubt it, remain open. Because the moment you doubt, you have fallen into the anti-belief.
Don't say, 'What Buddha says is right, or wrong' -- don't say anything, there is no need. How can you say 'right' and how can you say 'wrong'? -- because you have not tasted it yet. So remain open, don't get any idea of right or wrong. That openness is trust. And if you are open you will by and by start feeling something is growing in you.
If you are around a man who has SAMADHI, and you are open, SAMADHI will become infectious. If you are open, SAMADHI will start flooding you. If you are open and your doors are open, the light cannot stay out, it will come in.
So I don't say believe in me, because a man who believes is closed. And I say don't doubt either, because the man who doubts is closed. Then who is the man of trust? The man of trust is the man who is open, vulnerable. To be vulnerable is to be in trust.
Doubt or belief, both are a duality of one energy. Drop both. Be here. And don't be afraid and don't be defensive. Doubt is defensive. Doubt says, 'I am afraid. This man may lead me somewhere where I don't want to go.' Nobody can take you anywhere where you don't want to go. And I am not trying to take you anywhere, I am simply trying to bring you HERE. It is not a question of THERE -- there is no there. It is only a question of being here, present.
That presence -- that presence comes without any belief, that presence comes without any doubt. You listen to me as you listen to the birds in the morning, you listen to me as you listen to music. Somebody is playing sitar -- you don't trust, in the way of belief; you don't doubt, in the way of untrust. You are simply open, the way I would like you to be trusting. You are simply trusting. This man is playing, something may happen, you are open. You are available -- that's what trust is. You listen. And you don't argue inside yourself as to whether this man is playing beautiful music or not. The obvious reveals itself -- there is no need to argue, either way.
If truth is here it will reveal itself. Truth is so convincing, it is self-evident; it need not ask for any belief. Only untruth asks for belief. Truth only says don't be entangled by belief or doubt; remain open and available and things will start happening.
And how can you believe me? I am speaking a different language, you are hearing a different language. I say something, you hear something else -- how can you believe me? I am talking of another world, you live in another world. I bring another plenitude to you, where you have never been -- how can you believe? But how can you disbelieve, either?
Two centipedes go to the movies. Brigitte Bardot is the star. The show is over.
'A beautiful film,' says one of the centipedes.
'And this Bardot has legs -- real class,' responds the other exuberantly. To which the first nods and says: 'Yes, but so few.'
Now, a centipede is a centipede. Unless Bardot has a hundred legs, what does it matter to a centipede? Maybe they are even class -- but so few....
The bishop goes to the country. He has a friendly chat with a shepherd. 'How big is your flock?' he asks. 'Five hundred and fifty, ' answers the shepherd, who doesn't know the bishop.
'So, in a certain way, we are colleagues -- I also have a large flock,' begins the bishop, hinting at his spiritual post.
'Oh?' says the shepherd. 'And how many sheep do you have?'
The bishop reflects, 'Well, it must be a hundred and twenty to a hundred and fifty thousand.'
At which the shepherd clasps his head in his hands. 'Heavens, you must be busy when it comes to mating them!'
Now, a shepherd is a shepherd -- his language is his language. When the bishop says, 'I am also a shepherd,' he is using a word for something utterly unknown to this poor shepherd. He cannot understand the symbol, he cannot understand this metaphor.
When I am talking to you, it is all metaphoric. Metaphors have to be used, otherwise you will not understand at all. How can you believe me? -- those metaphors are just metaphors for you. Unless they become your own experience, how can you believe me?
And I am not here to help you believe me, I am here to help you know. Belief is not my way. Don't settle for belief -- unless you know, belief is meaningless. And when you know, belief is not needed. When you know, you know; then there is no way to believe. And when you don't know, you don't know; there is again no way to believe.
So what is to be done? Trust. Trust has nothing to do with belief, and trust has nothing to do with doubt. It is a love affair. If you have fallen in love with me, if you feel that 'Wherever this man is, it is worth exploring' -- that's all. 'It is worth exploring, wherever this man is. In whatsoever space this man exists, it is worth exploring.' THAT'S ALL -- that urge to explore is enough.
Let me be your adventure. Not an anchor, but an adventure. I don't want to become a prison for you, I want to become your freedom.
Next: Chapter 6: The Door to the Wild, Question 7
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