Tantra - 9 Techniques - 2
Watch the turning point between two breaths. (2/112)
(Shiva) says: realize the turns and you will realize the self.
Why
the turn? If you know driving you know about gears. Each time you change the
gear, you have to pass through the neutral gear, which is not a gear at all. In
that neutral territory you are neither a body nor a soul, neither physical nor
mental, because the physical is a gear of your being and the mental is another
gear of your being. You go on moving from gear to gear, but you must have a
neutral gear where you are neither body nor mind. In that neutral gear you
simply are: you are simply an existence – pure, simple, unembodied, with no
mind. O 41
If
I say to you, “Observe this flower; observe this flower which I give to you,”
you cannot observe it. For a single moment you will see it, and then you will
begin to think of something else. It may be about the flower, but it will not be
the flower. You may think about the flower, about how beautiful it is –
then you have moved. Now the flower is no more in your observation, your field
has changed.
Observation
means remaining with no word, with no verbalization, with no bubbling inside –
just remaining with. If you can remain with a flower for three minutes,
completely, with no movement of the mind, the thing will happen – the
beneficence. You will realize. O43
In
Japan they have a particular type of mediation which they call Zazen. The word
zazen is Japan means just sitting, doing nothing. No movement is allowed.
One is just sitting like a statue – dead, not moving at all. But there is no
need to sit like a statue for years together. If you can observe the turn of
your breath without any movement of the mind, you will enter. You will enter
into yourself or into the beyond within. O43
If
you stop your breath just now, your mind will stop suddenly; the mind cannot
function. O43
Why?
Because they are disjoined. Only a moving breath is joined with the mind, with
the body; a non-moving breath is disjoined. Then you are in the neutral gear.
The same happens when breath takes a turn. You are not joined with it. In that
moment you can easily become aware of who you are. O 43
Shiva
says, realize. He says just be aware of the turning, and you become a realized
soul. O 44