simply disappear

SITTING under a tree, not thinking of past and future, just being there, where are you? Where is the I? You cannot feel it, it is not there. The ego has never existed in the present. Past is no more, future is yet to be; both are not. Past has disappeared, future has not yet appeared – only the present is. And in the present there is never found anything like the ego.

There is one of the most ancient meditations still used in some monasteries of Tibet. The meditation is based on the truth that I am saying to you. They teach that sometimes you can simply disappear; sitting in the garden, you just start feeling that you are disappearing. Just see how the world looks when you have gone from the world, when you are no longer here, when you have become absolutely transparent. Just try for a single second not to be.

In your own home be as if you are not. It is really a beautiful meditation. You can try it many times in 24 hours – just half a second will do. For half a second simply stop; you are not and the world continues. When you become more and more alert to the fact that without you the world continues perfectly well, then you will be able to learn another part of your being which has been neglected for long, for lives. And that is the receptive mode. You simply allow, become a door. Things go on happening without you.