Life can be like a plain cloth but we have put knots in the cloth using the same cloth. The knots together in the plain cloth is the mind. Where you are, is the knot, the goal is the knotless. What is the distance between the knot and the cloth? There is no distance, which means it is just there. Which means where is the goal? There is a goal, and it is just there. The focus is on the knot, not on the cloth. We make a lot of fuss about the knots, then we are making more knots. But if we stop making fuss and if you can be easy, then the knots will weaken, then you can just undo the knot. That undoing the knots is spirituality that is what is meditation.
Undoing happens in meditation, but depending on how quietly you sit. But in meditation also you try to do so many things, then no one can help you. Instead if you just be normal, natural relaxed. Just relax, without doing so many things, without looking for some shortcut, simply allow these knots to come off. Try to keep your mind free. Any questions coming just ignore do not give too much importance. Do not make issues out of your thoughts. Do not ask the question why this thought is coming. Any form of question is a knot. Your most natural self has no questions it has no answers also, it has no problems no solutions. There is nothing.
Excerpts from discourses on Bound to be Free (2010)
Excerpts from discourses on Bound to be Free (2010)