Date:   12/4/2009 9:48:08 AM ( 15 y ago)
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mmm... interesting... I have not heard of this before.

Reminds me of a famous parable:

Once a man was travelling, accidentally he entered paradise. In the Indian concept of paradise there are wish-fulfilling trees there called kalpatarus. You just sit underneath them, desire anything, and immediately it is fulfilled—there is no gap between the desire and its fulfillment. There is no gap between a thought and a thing. You think, and immediately it becomes a thing; the thought realizes automatically. The kalpatarus trees are nothing but symbolic for the mind. Mind is creative, creative with its thoughts.

The man was tired, so he fell asleep under a kalpataru, a wish-fulfilling tree. When he woke up he was feeling very hungry, so he simply said, “I am feeling so hungry, I wish I could get some food from somewhere.” And immediately food appeared out of nowhere—just floating in the air, delicious food.

He was so hungry that he didn’t pay much attention to where it had come from. When you are hungry you are not philosophic. He immediately started eating, and the food was so delicious that he was caught up in the food. Once his hunger was gone he looked around. Now that he was feeling very satisfied, another thought arose in him: “If only I could get something to drink…”—And, immediately, precious wine appeared.

Drinking the wine relaxedly in the cool breeze of paradise under the shade of the tree he started wondering, “What is the matter? What is happening? Have I fallen into a dream, or are some ghosts around and playing tricks with me?”
And ghosts appeared. And they were ferocious, horrible, nauseating. And he started trembling, and a thought arose in him: “Now I am sure to be killed. These people are going to kill me.”
And he was killed.

The parable is an ancient parable, of immense significance. It portrays your whole life. Your mind is the wish-fulfilling tree, kalpataru—whatsoever you think, sooner or later it is fulfilled. Sometimes the gap is such that you have completely forgotten that you had desired it in the first place; sometimes the gap is of years, or sometimes of several lives. So you can’t connect the source.

But if you watch deeply you will find all your thoughts are creating you and your life. They create your hell, they create your heaven. They create the positive. Both are illusory—the pain and pleasure, the sweet dream and the terrible nightmare, both are illusory.

What is meant by calling thiese things illusory? The only meaning is that they are your creation. You are creating a magic world around yourself—that’s what is meant by the word maya. Everybody here is a magincian. And everybody is spinning and weaving a magic world around himself, and then is caught—the spider itself is caught in its own web.
There is nobody torturing you except yourself. There is nobody except yourself; your whole life is your work, your creation.

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