Chapter 3
If you overesteem great men,
people become powerless.
If you overvalue possessions,
people begin to steal.
The Master leads
by emptying people's minds
and filling their cores,
by weakening their ambition
and strengthening their resolve.
He helps people lose everything
they know, everything they desire,
and creates confusion
in those who think that they know.
Practice not-doing,
and everything will fall into place.
Commentary
emptying people’s minds: He empties them of concepts, judgments, and desires. Thus they return to a state of childlike simplicity.
filling their cores. He fills them with a sense of their original identity. Thus they can return to a state of joy.
weakening their ambition: When they have no false self to nourish or defend, they find that greed, and arrogance vanish by themselves.
toughening their resolve. Their innermost intention. They develop enough self-reliance to give up the idea of self.
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References:
The following book was referenced during the talk: Kabir, Ecstatic Poems, Versions by Robert Blyl, Beacon Press, Boston, 2004
Between the conscious and the unconscious, the mind has put up a swing;
all earth creatures, even the supernovas, sway between these two trees,
and it never winds down.
Angels, animals, humans, insects by the million, also the wheeling sun and moon;
ages go by, and it goes on.
Everything is swinging: heaven, earth, water, fire,
and the secret one slowly growing a body.
Kabir saw that for fifteen seconds, and it made him a servant for life.
The quotation by Ramana Maharshi:
"There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality. We think that there is something hiding our reality and that this must be destroyed before reality is gained. How ridiculous! A day will dawn when you will laugh at all of your past efforts. That which will be on the day you laugh is also here and now."
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