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CHAPTER 26. MEDITATION: WATCHFULNESS, AWARENESS, ALERTNESS – THE REAL TRINITY
Call it meditation, call it awareness, call it watchfulness – it all comes to the same: that you become
more alert, first about your conscious mind, what goes on in your conscious mind.... And it is a
beautiful experience. It is really hilarious, a great panorama.
In my childhood in my town there were no movies, talkies. There was no cinema hall. Now there
is, but in my childhood there was not. The only thing that was available was that once in a while a
wandering man would come with a big box. I don’t know what it is called. There is a small window
in it. He opens the window, you just put your eyes to it and he goes on moving a handle and a film
inside moves. And he goes on telling the story of what is happening.
Everything else I have forgotten but one thing I cannot forget for a certain reason. The reason, I
know, was because it was in all those boxes that came through my village. I had seen every one,
because the fee was just one paise. Also the show was not long, just five minutes. In every box
there were different films, but one picture was always there: the naked washerwoman of Bombay.
Why did it used to be in every one? – a very fat naked woman, the naked washerwoman of Bombay.
That used to be always there... perhaps that was a great attraction, or people were fans of that
naked washerwoman; and she was really ugly. And why from Bombay?
If you start looking... just whenever you have time, just sit silently and look at what is passing in your
mind. There is no need to judge, because if you judge, the mind immediately changes its scenes
according to you. The mind is very sensitive, touchy. If it feels that you are judging, then it starts
showing things that are good. Then it won’t show you the naked washerwoman of Bombay, that
picture will be missed out. So don’t judge, then that picture is bound to come.
Don’t judge, don’t make any condemnation, don’t make any appreciation. Be indifferent. You just sit
silently looking at things, whatsoever is happening. And absurd things will be happening: a horse
becomes a man.... Now you need not ask why, there is no need to ask, you simply see it.
For anything that is happening, you have only to be a seer.
And that’s the strategy that helps the whole scenery to slowly disappear from the conscious mind.
And when the conscious mind disappears from the screen, the subconscious is very colorful, much
more meaningful, much more truthful.
But remember not to judge; otherwise the subconscious will slip down and you will be back into the
conscious.
So two things: no judgment, just simple alertness.
Soon you will find these pictures also disappearing. Then the unconscious appears, which has very
strange things to say to you, very mysterious. No need to be afraid; they are voices from the past,
of your past lives and of other people’s past lives. Now you are moving into a denser forest, of a
tremendous magnitude. Don’t become afraid. The voices are very strong, and it is not only voices....
The unconscious remembers not only the voices, not only the pictures, it remembers all the
experiences of all your senses. You will smell things that you have never smelled... but sometime in
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