The Iceberg of Consciousness

108 wrote: "Every human must understand the differences between their conscious mind and their subconscious ---understand "they" should be grateful for every heart beat and every breath they have ever taken-- only by grace does life exist....all life."

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Zen Master, Bokuju, was dying, and his disciples gathered. The chief disciple asked, "Master, you are leaving us. People will ask us what your message was, after you are gone. Though you have been teaching us always and always, you have taught so many things, and we are ignorant people; it will be difficult for us to condense your message. So please, before you leave, give your very essence just in a single sentence." 

Bokuju opened his eyes and said loudly, "This is it!" closed his eyes and died.

Now after him, for centuries, people have been asking what he meant by saying, "This is it!"

If our consciousness is pure and there is no cloud in it, we will see eternity as it is. There will be no past and there will be no future. There will only be this moment, eternally this moment.

This morning, contemplate what you know and what you don't know, and don't be easily satisfied.  Go as deep as possible into what you know and what you don't know.

If one can decide that this one knows and that one doesn't know, then one has taken a great step. And that step is the most significant step a human being can ever take because then the pilgrimage starts, the pilgrimage towards reality.

If one goes on believing that they know many things, but doesn't know them, then one is deceiving oneself & will remain hypnotized by that knowledge. One will waste their whole life in a kind of drunken state.

Ordinarily, people live just like they are deeply asleep, walking in their sleep, doing things in their sleep, somnambulists - sleep walkers. From deep sleep one has come to deep awareness. When deep sleep and deep awareness meet, the circle is complete.

Meditation is nothing but an effort to gather together the small consciousness that one has, to gather together, to crystallize it, to make all sorts of efforts to increase it more and more, and to decrease unconsciousness. By and by, consciousness becomes higher and higher: less and less dreamy; less and less thoughts come to you, and there are more and more gaps of silence.

Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine. One day, when one has become really capable & can say, "I can exist for a few minutes without any thought or dream interfering with me," for the first time one will know. The purpose is fulfilled.