You reach Tao through laughter. You reach Tao dancing, singing, in joy, in jubilation, celebration. Learn laughter.
And while you are laughing, watch what is happening inside you. Otherwise you will miss the whole beauty of it. While you are laughing see how suddenly the ego is not there. See how the mind has stopped for a single moment. For a split moment the mind is not there -- there is no thought. When you laugh deeply there is no thought.
Laughter is meditative... and medicinal. For the physical body it is medicinal; for the spiritual it is "meditational."
Taoism is inviting you to come to the unknowable. Taoism is inviting you into a tremendous emptiness.
Once you enter the door, you will find something totally different. That's what people have called Tao.
And sometimes you will be able to feel the fragrance of Tao and sometimes it will be lost because there are moods when you will be close to Tao and there are moods when you will be far, far away. When you are close you will have the fragrance; when you are far away you will miss it. So try to feel those moods when you feel close to Tao, and remain in those moods more and more, relax in those moods more and more.
It is a question of spiritual space. If while laughing you feel close to Tao and the fragrance suddenly fills your nostrils and your being, then learn to laugh more. If you feel the fragrance is felt only when you are with no stirring of thoughts, then learn to drop thoughts more and more. Whatsoever your feeling, become more and more available to that certain mood, and this fragrance will become your fragrance. Because it is Tao.
So one day you are just thirst, just hunger, pure hunger. In that moment you explode and disappear and Tao is found.
You will be close to the source.
The source is not something outside you. When you fall in love with Tao, in fact what has happened is you have fallen in love with yourself for the first time.
And while you are laughing, watch what is happening inside you. Otherwise you will miss the whole beauty of it. While you are laughing see how suddenly the ego is not there. See how the mind has stopped for a single moment. For a split moment the mind is not there -- there is no thought. When you laugh deeply there is no thought.
Laughter is meditative... and medicinal. For the physical body it is medicinal; for the spiritual it is "meditational."
Taoism is inviting you to come to the unknowable. Taoism is inviting you into a tremendous emptiness.
Once you enter the door, you will find something totally different. That's what people have called Tao.
And sometimes you will be able to feel the fragrance of Tao and sometimes it will be lost because there are moods when you will be close to Tao and there are moods when you will be far, far away. When you are close you will have the fragrance; when you are far away you will miss it. So try to feel those moods when you feel close to Tao, and remain in those moods more and more, relax in those moods more and more.
It is a question of spiritual space. If while laughing you feel close to Tao and the fragrance suddenly fills your nostrils and your being, then learn to laugh more. If you feel the fragrance is felt only when you are with no stirring of thoughts, then learn to drop thoughts more and more. Whatsoever your feeling, become more and more available to that certain mood, and this fragrance will become your fragrance. Because it is Tao.
So one day you are just thirst, just hunger, pure hunger. In that moment you explode and disappear and Tao is found.
You will be close to the source.
The source is not something outside you. When you fall in love with Tao, in fact what has happened is you have fallen in love with yourself for the first time.
hans-wolfgang - am Montag, 31. Juli 2006, 00:00
