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Preface Comprised
of a series of talks by Tilak, which have been transcribed and minimally
edited for the enjoyment and enrichment of the reader, this volume of
selected essays is for people who want to express what they feel without
fear of being harassed by their own minds.
It is also not about deep concepts of psychopathology,
psychodynamics or a method to produce deep insights into your psyche, nor
about neurosis, psychotherapy, or personal development.
However, you will be shown, in a simple and common-sense way, how
your mind jerks you around and more importantly, how to transform this
cycle into an ongoing experience of great joy and pleasure.
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Breaking
Reality The
speed of light is higher than the speed of sound.
The speed of thought is higher
than the speed of light.
Break
the speed of thought, and you will break time. Life
is an invitation. Life is an adventure. It is a challenge to liberate from
our limitations and capacities as human beings to something that is not
obvious to us. You don’t understand life.
You can’t understand life. What you know is what appears to you
as real: the world, the things you can see – whatever appears to you.
That is what can be called your reality. In this life, all the pleasures
and the joys that we can think of are coming out of either improving or
adding to something that already exists as a source of pleasure, or
getting rid of something that we feel is unwanted by us. But breaking this
reality is to experience a pleasure or a joy that we have not touched
before, or to experience an emotion or energy that we have not tasted in
our life. If you are truly in touch with the life force, all of those things that you normally think about – they begin to happen without your effort. All the things that are there, naturally, come together without your effort.
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Inner
Visions Your
visions are hopes, fantasies and wishful thinking. Inner visions is a
kaleidoscope of the ever-changing beauty of life. Inner
Visions is a simple exploration into consciousness and reality. It is a
way of understanding the challenges which are thrown into your life, as
well as a way of discovering the beauty, excitement and exhilaration that
life can offer. As a human being, your primary condition of being is
consciousness, that which creates thinking and thoughts. Without
consciousness you would never be able to experience totally the richness,
joy, and beauty that come to you in your lifetime. Life
offers you every possibility to explore and to play, to receive the
greatest nourishment and the greatest joy imaginable.
Why then do you so often find that you have all types of blocks,
hurdles and problems which interfere with having fun and playing with
life? If you take a good look at where you are and what is happening with
your life at any given moment, you can probably identify three major
forces which hinder your harmonious connection with life. The three major
forces are attacks, distractions, and distortions.
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From
Fire to Light We
are born with the ability for spontaneous combustion of the fire within
that will emit the light of brilliance and illuminate the world around us
in rainbow colors. You
are naturally beautiful when you are not being interfered with. The beauty
of something exists by the nature of non-interference, like a flower in
the jungle. There is great beauty that comes along with freedom, of what I
call the space that is not polluted by anything. There are no weeds; there
is nothing clinging to it. When
things are not being pressured by anything else, they exist in the natural
state. The reality we normally see is not that of a free space. You feel
all things are colliding or are attached or are in confusion, but beyond
that is a very open space where things remain in what I call
“silence.” Silence is not the absence of sound. Silence is truly the
space that exists between two points for the mere joy, for the mere
wonder, for the mere sweetness of no purposefulness. A
flower is a flower. A flower does not blossom in order to make you sweet,
soft, gentle, or to make you a poet or a botanist. A flower is just a mere
flower; a rainbow is just a rainbow. But
it is your creation, your perception, your interaction, that puts you into
a state of sweetness and wonder. And
that is actually breaking out of your personal space.
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Mind
Traps That
is what happens when you work with me. You experience a certain kind of a
take off—a certain way in which you are carried away without effort… A
trap finally is an illusion. There
are no traps that are ever set by anybody unless by yourself.
The trap is actually set by you.
It is a trap that is thrown by your inability to appreciate your
little imperfections and your little uncertainties.
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Nature
of Reality This
moment has nothing to do with any other moment in your life. There
are two things with which you are always in touch. These two things come
as light and motion. Motions is actually the sounds, the sounds of motion.
I don’t mean sound as noises and voices.
All of the noises and voices are just dialogues.
There is a dance in everything; there is motion in everything.
Getting into this rhythm — this motion — will create a certain
emptiness and silence for a brief moment.
Your dialogues change while you are standing and listening to the
music. You are touched.
There is a certain beauty in surrender.
You give yourself into the sound of music. Or rather, the sound of
the music is taking you in. It
takes you in. The sound of
music is not just the piano, instrument or melody that is there.
The sound of music, finally, is your ability to see and feel the
wonder that makes you and your life a much more delightful space.
Every moment of your life is like the waves of a great ocean. How the waves look is actually how you feel. What you have are just various forms of tears. When I say tears, I mean that the current of your life is the melting power. It is like the tears are actually going through you. These are not just tears. Do not misunderstand these tears as tears of just sadness. There are tears of sadness. There are tears of joy. There are tears of compassion. There are tears of realization. When I say tears, you are melting, melting into one ocean called your being, which is condensed and put together to create this form — your form.
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The
Motion of Love Life
is an ocean of love with never-ending waves of light that illuminate the
wonder and the sweetness of life. In
true love, the force is so intense that it dissolves the person and the
object. Right now you actually do not dissolve.
When you love somebody, you hit something and something comes back
to you. You enjoy what is coming back. When you love somebody, whether it
is a human being or a mountain, a sunrise, a butterfly or a song,
something comes out of you. It is a ray of light, a ray of heat.
It comes and hits the person. But what makes you feel good is not
the hit. What makes you feel good is what comes back to you and hits you
back. It is like a swing, like
swinging. In true surrender, nothing comes back to you. One of the greatest joys in life is a moment of appreciation. But it becomes joyful only if your can really truly feel it is there. One of the greatest pleasures is a sacred realization of the very humble existence of life itself. The realization is not about losses and gains. You are living in a living consciousness, in a living space, in a living existence. You are present. Life itself is radiant and joyful, and there is nothing else.
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Nine
Wheels of Liberation Liberation
comes not from releasing stress nor from moving out
of darkness into
light, but rather, from opening your being into a space of freshness and
brilliance. I
am going to speak now about the five great forms of liberation and four
infinite contacts that make up the Ninefold Path of Liberation.
The first form of liberation will be liberation from catharsis. The
second form of liberation will be liberation from insight. The third form
of liberation will be liberation from order. The fourth form of liberation
will be liberation from technique. The fifth form of liberation will be
liberation from discipline. Those
five liberations will take you out of your body and your mind and bring
you into the presences of Infinite Light.
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