Consume change through change
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
The earlier two techniques are a preparation for this one.
In both the earlier techniques, you experientially understood that change is the rule of life, in the outer world as well as in the inner world. This technique helps you mother the same understanding, to carry this understanding continuously with you. Understand the changes that are continuously happening inside and outside, and consume the change through the change!
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Whatever you do, wherever you go, whatever you face in the internal and external world, carry this understanding: everything changes.
Both outside and inside, everything is constantly changing.
Understand the change that is happening and consume the change through the change. You are a constantly changing internal energy. Let you consume the constantly changing external world. Let the changing internal world swallow the changing external world. Let the chaos swallow the chaos.
Remember that everything changes. With that, enjoy everything which is changing. As a hen mothers her chicks, decide: I will mother this understanding of consuming change by change. Visualize constantly your internal changing mind, swallowing, grabbing the external changing world.
By the change, grab and swallow everything which is changing.
You will become centered in the peaceful, deep, restful awareness. You will find the ultimate unchanging consciousness.
Whatever you do, trusting your internal world or your external world is going to involve trusting chaos. For example, you may think, 'I need this beautiful, flowering plant in the corner of my house,' and you set about organizing for that plant to be in the corner of your house. By the time you get the plant in position and start enjoying it, your whole state of mind would have changed. You may decide the plant belongs in a completely different spot! This is a very common experience.
Or, say you decide to move house. By the time you locate and buy the new house, suddenly you realize that you don't want that house after all. Instead, you want to live in an apartment, or in the ashram!
DURATION: Not applicable
Everything is constantly changing. Realize the internal changing reality and let it grab or swallow the external changing world. Then nothing will touch you.
As of now, you are always trying to fix either the internal world or the external world, either this or that. It is like trying to travel in two boats! You put one foot in one boat, another foot in another boat. You are trying to balance between these two boats. Understand, no boats will work! Just jump in and start flowing, start swimming with the current. Start flowing, start swimming.
When you understand that both the internal and external are constantly changing, you will see that the unchanging consciousness is the ultimate reality.
When you mother this understanding, you will experience tremendous strength. You will find that sincerity and intensity will be added to your life, to your being. When that sincerity and intensity gets added to you, you are living enlightenment.
Living enlightenment means living authentically. Living enlightenment means mothering authentic experiences, mothering authentic knowledge and authentic action.
Understand this one sutra and carry it in your inner space and mother it. You will live enlightenment.