The seed is broken – and much is to follow.

You need only wait and be a witness.

285. Love.

Just drop yourself into the divine and be purified!

Surrender and be reborn.

Do not resist.

Let go!

286. Love.

See: this is a white paper –

it contains words.

You can look at it as white paper or as words.

Or, listen to the silence which contains a sonata;

you can be aware of the silence or of the sonata.

Or, think of the space which contains a building;

you can be aware of the space or of the building.

Or, imagine an empty house;

you can conceive of it as the walls or as an emptiness.

If you see the words, the building, the sonata and the walls

you are in the mind,

but if you see the white paper or the silence or the space

or the emptiness

then you are in meditation.

287. Love.

From sound to soundlessness is the path.

Intone a sound like A-U-M,

slowly, and as sound enters

soundlessness so do you.

Or: remain in the gap between any two sounds

and you yourself will become soundlessness.

Or: bathe in the continuous sound of a waterfall,

or any other.

Or: by putting your fingers in your ears

hear the source of all sounds –

and there will be a sudden explosion

of the silent music of the cosmos.

Using any way fall into the abyss of soundlessness

and you will achieve the divine.

288. Love.

I am thrilled with great expectations about you.

Much is to happen within you and without also.

You are on the verge of the explosion,

so be alone.

Not lonely but alone,

and live with that aloneness.

Rather, be that aloneness;

that is the only meditation for you now.

Loneliness is negative:

to be lonely is to be aware of the absence of others.

But to be alone is the most positive state of mind:

it is to be aware of the presence of oneself.

Be aware of the presence that is you.

Just be aware and wait,

wait for the happening.

Near, very near is the moment.

And remember that I am always with you.

I have always been with you

even when you did not know me.

And always feel my blessings.

289. Love.

Takuan says: You cannot bathe in solid ice,

nor can you live in a frozen consciousness –

and what is the mind except that?

Go in and find out.

Do not ask anybody,

do not go to the scriptures,

go in and find out.

Do not think about it

because that is absurd –

how can you think against the mind?

Any conclusion out of thinking

can only strengthen the mind.

Do not think because thinking

is stopping, halting and freezing.

Thinking is the disease.

Go in and find out – immediately.

A moment’s thinking

and you are again in the old rut.

A moment’s thinking

and you are as far from the real as is possible.

290. Love.

We kneel down to ourselves

because we kneel down to the gods we make

out of our experience, or out of our desires and dreams,

or out of our so-called logic and foolish arguments.

This is neither humility nor prayer,

rather, on the contrary, this is

the most egoistic attitude possible.

The truly religious mind is one which just kneels down –

not to anyone, not to any image in particular.

This kneeling down is nothing but

a flowering of one’s total nothingness.

Then this kneeling down becomes an inner way of life,

and unless prayer is such, prayer is not.

One cannot pray, one can only be prayerful.

291. Love.

You cannot run away from the self

because you are the self –