Tools and Toys are the Traps
sulochanosho
mode, man is an utter failure either in his 'efforts' or in his
'effortlessness' approach to live life in an 'here and now' paradigm.
Of all the sayings uttered by our striking seers and masters, I find
"awareness" a more useful device or concept. 'Awareness' is neither
that 'intellectual knowing or knowledge' nor that 'mere sensual
sensation or experience'.
Inspite of UG's total negation of it, I still say 'meditation' is to a
great extent, a good 'answer'. UG rightly negates it, I think.
Because, however good or useful it is, man is bound to turn everything
into poison and prison. The problem is that whenever some 'tool' or
'toy' is given to us, we cling to it as a taken for granted 'total
tool' to produce the result in a mechanical mode, as if our life is a
'manufaturing commercial factory'.
There we miss the very tool and end up in further added misery. We
turn everything into a 'robotic' mode, and our life is never that and
the result: more misery and struggle. 'Do not meditate': we take this
device also in a robotic mechanical way and we end up in more misery
here too. UG knows it well, it seems (my guess only!), that is why he
tells the inevitable truth, live in misery, die in misery, there's no
other way. UG doesn't want to please falsely for the sake of pleasing,
it is very obvious.
'Doing' meditation in a robotic and circus way to grab something holy
and great is the very negation of our life. Rather meditate in an
acceptance of and surrender to LIFE, that there is noting to get or to
do. Then, it may at least make a tiny sense to LIFE.