Yesterday, I was talking with one of the owners of the health food store I have been going to for a number of years. The discussion somehow led to dreaming and then to the 1970s, in particular, Swami Rajneesh whose nickname was the "sex guru". During our discussion I brought up the fact that I had once known Rajneesh's go-to guy,"Swami T", who told me one of Rajneesh's greatest vexations was that he was bald which is why he is always seen wearing a wool cap. We both had a good laugh.
Then I decided to jump to the topic of how much we cling to the "flesh" and by doing so forsake acquaintance with the animative light of Mind (citta), this light being who we really are, which is deathless—and certainly immune to the worries of baldness!
I pointed out that this light is higher than even the God most of the inhabitants of earth believe in. As I see it, God has too many interpreters who have conflicting interpretations. One person's idea of God, to be sure, is different from the view of another—enough even, to invite a war between the two! On the other hand, that which animates all living things is the same for all. To realize it, first one has to give up clinging to the animate as if it were the means to truth.
I ended the conversation by saying that this was the Buddha's central discovery who understood that this supermundane light could be met with by anyone, in this lifetime, if they first reasoned that something more than calories animates them. We left the conversation there.
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