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\"\"<\/p>\r\nConfined to a place you will be in misery, because you are always bigger than where you are\r\nconfined. This is the misery \u2013 as if you are forcing yourself into a small bowl; the ocean is being\r\nforced into a small pot. The misery is bound to be there. This is the misery, and whenever this misery\r\nhas been felt, the search for enlightenment arises, the search for the Brahma. Brahma means the\r\ninfinite one. The search for moksha means the search for freedom. In a limited body you cannot be\r\nfree; somewhere you will be a slave. Nowhere or everywhere you can be free.\r\nLook at the human mind: whatsoever the direction, it is always for freedom, searching for freedom.\r\nIt may be political, it may be economic, it may be psychological, it may be religious \u2013 whatsoever\r\nthe direction, but the human mind is always groping for freedom. Freedom seems to be the deepest\r\nneed. Wherever human mind finds any barrier, any slavery, any limitation, it fights against t. The\r\nwhole human history is a fight for freedom.\r\n \r\n\r\nDimensions may be different. A Marx, a Lenin, they are fighting for economic freedom. A Gandhi, a\r\nLincoln, they are fighting for political freedom. And there are thousands and thousands of slaveries,\r\nand the fight goes on. But one thing is certain \u2013 that somewhere, deep down, man is searching\r\ncontinuously for more and more freedom.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nShiva says, and all the religions say, that you can become politically free, but the struggle will not\r\ncease. Only one type of slavery will be no more, but there are other types of slaveries there, and\r\nwhen you are politically free then you will become aware of other slaveries. Economic slavery can\r\ncease, but then you will become aware of other slaveries \u2013 sexual, psychological. This struggle\r\ncannot cease unless you begin to feel and know that you are everywhere. The moment you feel you\r\nare everywhere, freedom is attained.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThis freedom is not political, this freedom is not economical, not sociological. This freedom is\r\nexistential. This freedom is total. That\u2019s why we have called it moksha, total freedom. And then only\r\ncan you be joyous. Joy or bliss is possible only when you are totally free.\r\nReally, to be totally free means joy. The joy is not a consequence, it is the very happening. When\r\nyou are totally free you are joyous, you are blissful. This bliss is not happening as an effect. Freedom\r\nis bliss, slavery is misery. The moment you feel limited you are miserable; wherever you feel limited\r\nyou feel miserable. When you feel unlimited, misery disappears. So misery exists in barriers, and\r\nbliss exists in a no-barrier land, in a no-barrier existence.\r\nWhenever you feel this freedom, joy happens to you. Even now, whenever you feel a certain\r\nfreedom, even if it is not total, joy comes to you. You fall in love with somebody: a certain joy, a\r\ncertain bliss happens to you. Why does it happen? Really, whenever you are in love with somebody,\r\nyou have tossed aside your own attachment to the body. In a deep sense, now the other\u2019s body has\r\nalso become your body. You are not confined to your own body now; somebody else\u2019s body has\r\nalso become your body, it has also become your home, it has also become your abode. You feel\r\na freedom Now you can move into the other and the other can move into you. In a limited way a\r\nbarrier has fallen You are more than before.\r\n \r\n\r\nWhen you love someone you are more than you ever were; your being has increased, expanded.\r\nYour consciousness is not limited like it was before; it has reached a new realm. You feel a certain\r\nfreedom in love. It is not total, and sooner or later you will feel again confined. You feel extended,\r\nbut still finite. So those who really love, are sooner or later bound to fall into prayer.\r\nPrayer means a greater love. Prayer means a love with the whole existence. You now know the\r\nsecret. You know a key, a secret key \u2013 that you loved a person, and the moment you loved, the\r\ndoors opened and the barriers dissolved, and at least for one person more your being was expanded,\r\nincreased. Now you know the secret key. If you can fall in love with the whole existence, you will not\r\nbe the body.\r\nIn deep love you become bodiless. When you are in love with someone you don\u2019t feel yourself as\r\na body. When you are not loved, when you are not in love, you feel yourself more as a body, you\r\nbecome more aware of the body. The body becomes a burden; you have to carry it. When you are\r\nloved, the body has lost weight. When you are loved and you are in love, you don\u2019t feel gravitation\r\nhas any effect on you. You can dance, you can fly really. In a deeper way the body is no more \u2013 but\r\nthis is in a limited way. The same can happen when you are in love with the total existence.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIn love, joy comes to you. It is not pleasure. Remember, joy is not pleasure. Pleasure comes to\r\nyou through the senses; joy come to you through being non-sensuous. Pleasures comes to you\r\nthrough the body; joy comes to you when you are not the body. When for a moment the body has disappeared and you are simply consciousness, then joy comes to you. When you are the body, pleasure can happen to you. It is always through the body. Pain is possible, pleasure is possible through the body. Joy is possible only when you are not the body.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIt happens ordinarily also, accidentally also. You are listening to music and suddenly gravitation is\r\nlost. You are so absorbed in it, you have forgotten your body. You are filled with music and you have\r\nbecome one with music. There is not a listener to it: the listener and the listened have become one.\r\nOnly music exists; you are no more. You have expanded. Now you are flowing with musical notes,\r\nnow there is no limit to you. The notes are dissolving into silence, and you are also dissolving into\r\nsilence with them. The body is forgotten.\r\nWhenever the body is forgotten, it is tossed aside unknowingly, unconsciously, and joy happens to\r\nyou. Through Tantra and Yoga you can do it methodologically. Then it is not an accident; then you\r\nare the master of it. Then it is not happening to you; then you have the key in your hands and you\r\ncan open the door whenever you want. Or, you can open the door forever and throw away the key;\r\nno need to close the door again.\r\n \r\n\r\nJoy happens in ordinary life also, but you don\u2019t know how it happens. The happening is always\r\nwhen you are not the body \u2013 remember this. So whenever you again feel any moment of joy,\r\nbecome aware of whether you are the body in that moment or not. You will not be. Whenever joy\r\nis, the body is not. Not that the body disappears \u2013 the body remains, but you are not attached to it.\r\nYou are not attached to it, you are not tethered to it. You have jumped out.\r\nYou may have jumped out because of music, you may have jumped out because of a beautiful\r\nsunrise, you may have jumped out because a child was laughing, you may have jumped out because\r\nyou were in love. Whatsoever the cause, but you have jumped out for a moment \u2013 out of the body.\r\nThe body is there, but tossed aside; you are not attached to it. You have taken a flight.\r\nThrough this technique, you know that one who is everywhere cannot be miserable; he is joyous, he\r\nis joy. So the more you become confined, the more miserable. Expand, push your boundaries away,\r\nand whenever you can, leave the body aside. You look in the sky and clouds are floating: move\r\nwith the clouds, leave the body here on the earth. And the moon is there: move with the moon.\r\nWhenever you can forget the body, don\u2019t miss the opportunity \u2013 go on a journey. And then you will\r\nbecome accustomed to what it means to be out of the body.\r\n \r\n\r\nAnd this is only a question of attention. Attachment is a question of attention. If you pay attention to\r\nthe body, you are attached. If the attention has moved away, you are not attached.\r\nLook, for example: you are playing on the sports-grounds; you are playing hockey or volley-ball or\r\nsomething else. When you are deep in play, your attention is not on the body. Someone has hit your\r\nfeet and the blood is flowing \u2013 you are not aware. The pain is there, but you are not there. The blood\r\nis flowing but you are out of the body. Your consciousness, your attention, may be flying with the\r\nball, may be running with the ball. Your attention is somewhere else. The game finishes: suddenly\r\nyou come back to the body, and the blood is there and the pain. And you wonder how it happened\r\n\u2013 when it happened and how it happened and how you were not aware of it.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nTo be in the body, your attention is needed to be there. So remember it \u2013 wherever your attention\r\nis, you are there. If your attention is in the clouds, you are there. If your attention is in the flower, you are there. If your attention is in money, you are there. Your attention is your being. And if your\r\nattention is nowhere, you are everywhere.\r\nSo the whole process of meditation is to be in such a state of consciousness where your attention is\r\nnowhere, there is no object to it. When there is no object to it, there is no body to you. Your attention\r\ncreates the body. Your attention is your body. And when attention is nowhere, you are everywhere \u2013\r\njoy happens to you. It is not good to say that it happens to you \u2013 you are it. It cannot leave you now;\r\nit is your very being. Freedom is joy, that\u2019s why so much hankering after freedom.\r\n\r\nThe second technique:\r\nTHINKING NO THING\r\nWILL LIMITED-SELF UNLIMIT.","type":"rich"}