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They were all too preoccupied with

the problem of precedence,

the possession of the ring, its value and appearance.

Only a few looked for the door to the treasury

of the old man.

The rings had a magical quality too.

Although they were keys

they were not used directly

in opening the door to the treasury.

It was sufficient to look on them

without contention or too much attachment

to one or other of their qualities.

When this had been done

the people who had looked

were able to tell where the treasury was

and could open it merely

by producing the outline of the ring.

The treasuries had another quality too:

they were inexhaustible.

Meanwhile the supporters of the three brothers,

repeated the tales of their ancestors about

the merits of the rings,

each in a slightly different way.

The first community thought they had

already found the treasure

because they had the key.

The second thought that it was allegorical

and so consoled themselves.

And the third transferred the possibility

of opening the door

to a distant and remotely imaginable future

and so for them there was

nothing to do at present.

There is every possibility

for you too to belong to one of these three communities,

because anyone who begins to search

is always prone to fall into the trap of any one of the three.

Really, these are the three basic tricks the mind can play

to save itself from meditation.

So beware of these old tricks.

345. Love.

Look at yourself without thinking, evaluating, or judging,

without any liking or disliking;

that is, without any movement of the mind

or without the noise of the mind.

Then you have eyes

which are altogether different from your eyes

because they are not burdened by the past.

They are innocent and silent,

and in this silence there is neither

the observer nor the observed –

but that which is,

undivided and one,

beginningless and endless.

You can call it God or nirvana or anything whatsoever –

the name does not matter

because the name is not the thing,

and when one has known the thing

one does not bother about the value.

346. Love.

Begin the following meditation from tomorrow –

and know that this is an order!

Now you are so totally mine

that I cannot do anything other than order you! Prerequisites:

Do it cheerfully.

Do it relaxedly.

Be playful.

Do it in the morning after taking a bath.

The meditation:

First: breathe deeply and rhythmically,

not fast but slowly,

for ten minutes.

Second: dance rhythmically and slowly;

be ecstatic, as if flowing in it,

for ten minutes.

Third: use the mahamantra: hoo-hoo-hoo.

Continue dancing and moving,

do not be serious, do not be tense,

for ten minutes.

Fourth: close the eyes and be silent;

do not move or dance now.

Stand, sit or lie down, as you feel to do,

but just be as if dead,

feel a sinking in,

surrender and be in the hands of the whole,

for ten minutes.

Post requirements:

One: live the whole day in ecstasy,

in intoxication of the divine,

flowing and flowering in it,

and whenever depressed say inwardly: hoo-hoo-hoo,

and laugh outwardly,

laugh without any reason, and accept the madness.

Two: before sleep chant the mahamantra: hoo-hoo-hoo

for ten minutes,

then laugh at yourself.

Three: in the morning as you feel awake

chant again the mahamantra: hoo-hoo-hoo

for ten minutes,

and then begin the day with a hearty laugh.

Four: remember always that I am with you.

347. Love.

Everything belongs to the man who wants nothing.

Having nothing, he possesses all things in life:

renouncing all he becomes the master of all.

But why?

Because into his emptiness enters the divine.

348. Love.

Live humbly and in wonder

and then meditation comes by itself.

Relax, and there is ecstasy.

But effort is needed

because unless this fails completely you will not

be effortless!

349. Love.

Be aware of the mind before it is stirred by a thought,

or, be aware of the gap between two thoughts,

and – you will meet yourself!

And this meeting is the meeting with the divine.

350. Love.

Buddha says: If the mind does not arise

all things are blameless.

What more is there to be said?

And even this much is enough to blame everything!

351. Love.

The eyes are blind. One must look within the heart.

So do not believe the eyes,

believe the heart

and remember to look through it,

and then you will come to know things unbelievable.

And unless one comes to know the unbelievable

one has not known at all.

352. Love.

Remember always the one who is inside the body.

Walking, sitting, eating or doing anything,

remember the one who is neither walking nor sitting

nor eating.

All doing is on the surface,

and beyond all doing is the being;

so be aware of the non-doer in the doing,

of the non-mover in the moving.

One day Mulla Nasruddin’s wife,

hearing a tremendous thump

ran to his room.

Nothing to worry about, said the Mulla.

It was only my cloak which fell to the ground.

What! And made a noise like that? asked his wife

Yes – I was inside it at the time, said the Mulla.

353. Love.

A monk asked Daishu Ekai, What is nirvana?