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Culture & Politics » talk.politics.china » Beyond Efforting
Beyond Efforting [message #226779] Fr, 21 Juli 2006 19:57
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The first thing to attain to posture is relaxation of effort,
which is one of the most difficult things in the world...the most simple,
yet most difficult. Simple to attain, if you understand; very difficult to
attain if you don't understand. It is not a question of practice; it is a
question of understanding.

In the West, Emile Coue has discovered a particular law he calls
"the law of the reverse effect." It is one of the most fundamental things in
the human mind. There are things, if you want to do them, please, don't try
to do them; otherwise, the reverse will be the effect.


For example, you are not falling asleep: don't try. If you try,
sleep will be farther and farther away. If you try too much it will be
impossible to sleep, because every effort goes against sleep. Sleep comes
only when there is no effort. When you are not bothered about sleep, you are
just lying down on your pillow, just enjoying the coolness of the pillow, or
the warmth of the blanket, the dark, velvety surrounding encompassing you,
you are just enjoying it...nothing, you are not even thinking about sleep.
Some dreams pass through the mind: you look at them in a very, very sleepy
way, not interested too much even in them, because if interest arises sleep
disappears. You just somehow remain aloof, just enjoying, resting, not
seeking any end - sleep comes.


If you start trying so that sleep should come, once the "should"
enters it is almost impossible. Then you can remain awake the whole night;
and if you fall asleep that may be only because you get tired of the effort,
and when effort is no longer there - because you have done everything and
you give up - sleep comes in.


Emile Coue discovered, just in this century, the law of reverse
effect. Patanjali must have known it, almost five thousand years before. He
says prayatna shaithilya, relaxation of the effort. You should have assumed
just the reverse: that very much effort should be made to attain the
posture. Patanjali says, "If you make too much effort it will not be
possible. No-effort allows it to happen."


Effort should be relaxed completely, because effort is part of
the will and will is against surrender. If you try to do something, you are
not allowing existence to do it. When you give up, when you say, "Okay, let
thy will be done. If you are sending sleep, perfectly good. If you are not
sending sleep, that too is perfectly good. I have no complaints to make; I
am not grumbling about it. You know better. If it is needed to send sleep
for me, send it. If it is not needed, perfectly good; don't send it. Please,
don't listen to me! Your will should be done." This is how one relaxes
effort.


Effortlessness is a great phenomenon. Once you know it, many
millions of things become possible to you. Through effort the market;
through effortlessness, the divine. Through effort you can never reach
nirvana - you can reach New Delhi, but not nirvana.


Through effort you can attain things of the world; they are
never attained without effort, remember. So if you want to attain more
riches, don't listen to me, because then you will be very, very angry with
me, that this man disturbed your whole life: "He was saying, 'Stop making
efforts, and many things will become possible,' and I have been sitting and
waiting, and the money is not coming, and nobody is coming with an
invitation to 'Come, and please, become the president of the country.' "
Nobody is going to come. These foolish things are attained by effort.


If you want to become a president you have to make a mad effort
for it. Unless you go completely mad you will never become a president of a
country. You have to be more mad than other competitors, remember, because
you are not alone there. Great competition exists; many others are trying
also. In fact everybody else is trying to reach the same place. Much effort
is needed. And don't try in a gentlemanly way; otherwise you will be
defeated. No gentlemanliness is needed there. Be rude, violent, aggressive.
Don't bother about what you are doing to others. Stick to your program. Even
if others are killed for your power politics, let them be killed. Make
everybody a ladder, a step. Go on walking on people's heads; only then do
you become a president or a prime minister. There is no other way.


The ways of the world are the ways of violence and will. If you
relax will, you will be thrown out; somebody will jump on you. You will be
made a means. If you want to succeed in the ways of the world, never listen
to people like Patanjali; then it is better to read Machiavelli, Chanakya -
cunning, the most cunning people of the world. They give you advice on how
to exploit everybody and not allow anybody to exploit you; how to be
ruthless, without any compassion, just violent. Then, only, can you reach
power, prestige, money, things of the world. But if you want to attain to
things of the divine, just the opposite is needed: no-effort. Effortlessness
is needed, relaxation is needed.



It has happened many times.... I have many friends in the world
of politics, in the world of money, market. They come to me and they say,
"Teach us, somehow, to relax. We cannot relax." A minister used to come to
me, and he always came with the same problem: "I cannot relax. Help me."


I told him, "If you really want to relax you will have to leave
politics. This ministery cannot go with relaxation. If you relax, you lose.
So you decide. I can teach you relaxation, but don't be angry then, because
these two things cannot be possible together. So first be finished with your
politics; then come to me."


He said, "That is not possible. I have come to learn relaxation
so that I can work hard and become chief minister. Because of these tensions
in the mind and continuous worries, I cannot work hard. And others - they go
on working. They are great competitors, and I am losing the battle. I have
not come to leave politics."


Then I said, "Then, please, don't come to me. Forget about me.
Just be in politics, get really tired, bored, be finished with it; then come
to me." Relaxation is a totally different dimension, just the contrary.


You move in the world with will. Nietzsche has written a book,
The Will to Power. That is the right scripture to read: The Will to Power.
Patanjali is not "will to power"; it is surrender to the whole. The first
thing: prayatna shaithilya -- effortlessness. You should simply feel
comfortable. Don't make much effort about it; let the feeling do the work.
Don't bring the will in. How can you force comfort on yourself? It is
impossible. You can be comfortable if you allow comfort to happen. You
cannot force it.


How can you force love? If you don't love a person, you don't
love a person. What can you do? You can try, pretend, force yourself, but
just the reverse will be the result: if you try to love a person you will
hate him more. The only result will be, after your efforts, that you hate
the person, because you will take revenge. You will say, "What type of ugly
person is he, because I am trying so much to love and nothing happens?" You
will make him responsible. You will make him feel guilty, as if he is doing
something. He is not doing something.


Love cannot be willed, prayer cannot be willed, posture cannot
be willed. You have to feel. Feeling is a totally different thing than
willing.


Buddha becomes a Buddha not by will. He tried for six years
continuously through will. He was a man of the world, trained as a prince,
trained to become a king of a kingdom. He must have been taught all that
Chanakya had said.


Chanakya is the Indian Machiavelli, and even a little more
cunning than Machiavelli because Indians have a quality of mind that helps
them to go the very roots. If they become Buddha they really become Buddha.
If they become Chanakya you cannot compete with them. Wherever they go they
go to the very root. Even Machiavelli is a little immature in front of
Chanakya. Chanakya is absolute.


Buddha must have been taught; every prince has to be taught -
Machiavelli's greatest book's name is The Prince. He must have been taught
all the ways of the world; he was to tackle with people in the world. He has
to cling to his power. And then he left. But it is easy to leave the palace;
it is easy to leave the kingdom. It is difficult to leave the training of
the mind.


For six years he tried through the will to attain to the divine.
He did whatsoever is humanly possible...even inhumanly possible. He did
everything; he left nothing undone. Nothing happened. The more he tried, the
more far away he felt himself. In fact the more he made the will and the
efforts through it, the more he felt that he was deserted - "The divine is
nowhere." Nothing was happening.


Then one evening he gave up. That very night he became
enlightened. That very night prayatna shaithilya, relaxation of the effort,
happened. He became a Buddha not by willpower; he became a Buddha when he
surrendered, when he gave up.



I teach you meditations and I go on telling you, "Make every
effort that you can make," but always remember, this emphasis to make all
effort is just so that your will is torn apart, so that your will is
finished and the dream with the will is finished. You are so fed up with
will that one day, you simply give up. That very day you become enlightened.


But don't be in a hurry, because you can give up right now
without making the effort - that will not help. That won't help. That will
be a cunning thing, and you cannot win with existence by being cunning. You
have to be very innocent. The thing has to happen.



These are simply definitions. Patanjali is not saying, "Do it!"
He is simply defining the path. If you understand it, it will start
affecting you, your way, your being. Absorb it. Let it be saturated deep in
you. Let it flow with your blood. Let it become your very marrow. That's
all. Forget Patanjali.


These sutras are not to be crammed. They should not be made part
of your memory; they should become part of you. Your total being should have
the understanding, that's all. Then forget about them. They start
functioning.


"Posture is mastered by relaxation of effort and meditation on
the unlimited." Two points. Relax effort: don't force it, allow it to
happen. It is like sleep; allow it to happen. It is a deep let-go; allow it
to happen. Don't try to force it; otherwise you will kill it.



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