The body has its own ways of
accumulating anger. When you feel angry you gnash your teeth, you clench your
fists. Why?
Your repressed anger, sexuality,
greed and all kinds of poisons accumulate in the body, in the muscles. By deep
massage those poisons can be released. Deep massage of the body can make you
aware that your body is carrying many things. Your body drives you into things
which you may not have gone into if the body was not driving you there.
Learn to be dead
Buddha says master the body. How?
The first thing is to learn relaxation. You lie down on the ground as if you
are dead. Let the body slowly, slowly die. Start from the feet. In fact,
communicate with your body; say to the feet, “Die, please die.” And then go on
upwards. Buddha does not say to go to sleep. He says, “Feel dead. Let the body
die for the moment, as if you are just a corpse.” You cannot do anything. An
ant starts crawling on you; you can’t do anything.
And it is really a great
experience, to feel like a corpse, and the ant crawling on your face or a
mosquito biting—but you can’t do anything, you are simply a watcher. It is a rare
experience to go through it. Slowly, slowly, you become a master by relaxing
your body. The more tense your body is, the more it is a master of you.
Distance the body and mind
If you can watch the body, the
mind and all the functioning, you will become so separate from them that you
can master them. You can master something only when you have a distance from
it. If you are identified with it you cannot master it. And Buddha says one who
is master of his own self is the master of the whole existence; he has entered
into a different plane of life. You are slaves, he is a master. You are
machines, he is a real man. You function unconsciously, he functions
consciously. And to function consciously is to go beyond all sorrow, beyond all
misery, beyond all anguish; it is to go into the beyond. Other religions call
that beyond god; Buddha calls it simply the beyond. Prepare for the beyond…
Become masters of your own beings.
Stop being a robot
Watch what you do, what you say,
what you think and you will be surprised; without taking any alcoholic
beverages, without taking any drugs, you are in a mess. Just look at what you
have been doing to yourself, to your life. What have you made of yourself? What
have you gained? What meaning have you attained? What significance have you
experienced? People don’t ask such embarrassing questions because then they
feel very depressed. But these questions have to be asked. Unless you ask these
questions you are not going to change.
Man goes on living like a robot,
functioning well, efficiently. In fact, the more like a robot you are, the
better you function, the better the society feels with you–because it is a
society of robots. To be awakened, alert, and conscious is dangerous. It is a
society of blind people; to have eyes is to invite danger. If you become alert
to at least one thing–that you are not alert–that’s a great beginning. To be
aware that “I am ignorant” creates the possibility of seeking, searching in
your own interiority for the truth–for your truth. Once your illusions are
dropped, your dreams shattered, a great awakening is waiting for you.
