This is in continuation to the previous articles: Development of the Navel Center (Part I)
Buddha is not an individual, Buddha is a phenomenon. No
individual factors are meaningful; just your being is enough to be a Buddha. The
center is already there, functioning; you have to discover it. So the techniques
for the heart are techniques for developing something, and the techniques
concerning the navel center are concerned with uncovering. You have to uncover.
You are already a Buddha; you only have to know the fact.
So there are two types of persons- Buddhas who know that they are Buddhas, and
Buddhas who do not know that they are Buddhas. But all are Buddhas. As far as
existence is concerned, everyone is the same. Only in existence is there
communism; in everything else communism is absurd. No one is Equal; inequality
is basic in everything else. So it may look like a paradox if I say that only
religion leads to communism, but I mean this communism: this deep equality of
existence, of being. In this you are equal to Buddha, to Christ, to Krishna, but
in no other way are two individuals equal. Inequality is basic as far as outer
life is concerned; equality is basic as far as inner life is concerned.
So these one hundred and twelve methods are not really for developing the navel
center; they are for uncovering it. That is why instantly sometimes one becomes
a Buddha, because there is no question of creating something. If you can look at
yourself, if you can go deep down into yourself, all that you Ed is already
there. It is already the case, so the only question is how to be thrown to that
point where you are already a Buddha. Meditation doesnt help you to be a
Buddha; it only helps you to become aware of your Buddha hood.
Are all enlightened ones navel centered? For example, is Krishnamurti head- or
navel centered? Was Ramakrishna heart- or navel-centered?
Every enlightened one is navel centered, but the expression of each enlightened
one may flow through other centers. Understand the distinction clearly. Every
enlightened one is navel-centered; there is no other possibility. But the
expression is a different thing.
Ramakrishna expresses himself from the heart. He uses his heart as the vehicle
of his message. Whatsoever he has found at the navel he express through his
heart. He sings, he dances-that is his way of expressing his bliss. The bliss is
found at the navel, nowhere else. He is centered at the navel, but how to say to
others that he is centered at the navel? He uses his heart for the expression.
Krishnamurti uses his head for that expression; that is why their expressions
are contradictory. If you believe in Ramakrishna you cannot believe in
Krishnamurti. If you believe in Krishnamurti you cannot believe in Ramakrishna,
because belief is always centered in the expression, not in the experience.
Ramakrishna looks childish to a man who thinks with reason: What is this
nonsense-dancing, singing? What is he doing? Buddha never danced, and this
Ramakrishna is dancing, He looks childish.
To reason the heart
always looks childish, but to the heart reason looks useless, superficial.
Whatsoever Krishnamurti says is the same. The experience is the same as it was
for Ramakrishna or Chaitanya or Meera. But if the person is head-centered, his
explanation, expression is rational. If Ramakrishna sees Krishnamurti he ill
say, Come on, let us dance. Why waste your time? Through dance it can be
expressed more easily, and it goes deeper. Krishnamurti will say, Dance? One
gets hypnotized through dance. Do not dandance. Analyze! Reason! Reason it out,
analyze, and be aware.
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