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Discourse 16
The Psychology of the Buddhas
The Psychology of the Buddhas
29 December 1987 am in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium
Question 1
BELOVED MASTER,
WHAT IS THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE BUDDHAS?
IT SOUNDS LIKE A SCIENCE ONLY FOR ENLIGHTENED BEINGS
WHO NEED TO PULL, PUSH, SEDUCE, HIT OR KISS THEIR
DISCIPLES AT THE RIGHT MOMENT, SO THAT THEY DON’T
WOBBLE, GET STUCK OR FALL INTO TRAPS.
CAN YOU PLEASE REVEAL SOME OF YOUR FINDINGS OF THE
PAST THIRTY YEARS?
Tilo, the question you have asked is fundamentally unanswerable.
But a few indications, a few hints can certainly be made available to
you – with absolute certainty that you will not be able to get the
point, but that is not my problem. I will try my best.
On your part, if you can be just a passive, silent mind, simply
listening as if you are listening to the sound of the birds, not
interpreting them, perhaps a certain door may open for you. It all
depends on you. The process is not very difficult. It is just an old
addiction – we cannot simply listen the way we listen to music; we
immediately start reacting, interpreting, trying to find the meaning of
it. We get lost into our own minds and the music passes by.
The first thing... I have used the term ”the psychology of the
buddhas” not to mean what it means.
The man of enlightenment has gone beyond mind. In fact, the mind
has faded just like dreams fade away. All the psychologies in the
West are concerned with figuring out the functioning of the mind...
Question 1
BELOVED MASTER,
WHAT IS THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE BUDDHAS?
IT SOUNDS LIKE A SCIENCE ONLY FOR ENLIGHTENED BEINGS
WHO NEED TO PULL, PUSH, SEDUCE, HIT OR KISS THEIR
DISCIPLES AT THE RIGHT MOMENT, SO THAT THEY DON’T
WOBBLE, GET STUCK OR FALL INTO TRAPS.
CAN YOU PLEASE REVEAL SOME OF YOUR FINDINGS OF THE
PAST THIRTY YEARS?
Tilo, the question you have asked is fundamentally unanswerable.
But a few indications, a few hints can certainly be made available to
you – with absolute certainty that you will not be able to get the
point, but that is not my problem. I will try my best.
On your part, if you can be just a passive, silent mind, simply
listening as if you are listening to the sound of the birds, not
interpreting them, perhaps a certain door may open for you. It all
depends on you. The process is not very difficult. It is just an old
addiction – we cannot simply listen the way we listen to music; we
immediately start reacting, interpreting, trying to find the meaning of
it. We get lost into our own minds and the music passes by.
The first thing... I have used the term ”the psychology of the
buddhas” not to mean what it means.
The man of enlightenment has gone beyond mind. In fact, the mind
has faded just like dreams fade away. All the psychologies in the
West are concerned with figuring out the functioning of the mind...
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