Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to
be a celebration. Hence, after you meditate you must celebrate. After you have
been silent you must enjoy it, you must have a thanksgiving. A deep gratitude
must be shown towards the whole just for the opportunity that you are, that you
can meditate, that you can be silent, that you can laugh.
Enlightenment is
always sudden because it is not an achievement; it is already the case. It is
only a remembering, it is only a reminding, it is only a recognition.
An enlightened person is one who has no barrier between him
and existence. And knowledge is a barrier. Knowledge divides you from
existence; it keeps you separate. Not knowing unites you. Love is a way of
innocence. Innocence is a bridge: knowledge is a wall. Who has ever heard of
knowledgeable people becoming enlightened? They are the farthest away from
enlightenment. Enlightenment grows only in the soil of innocence.
The word
'enlightenment' belongs to the path of meditation. The meditator says,
"Enough is enough. Long have I suffered; now let me be free." In
fact, he cannot ask. He tries, but he cannot pray -- because to the man on the
path of meditation, even prayer is a bondage. Mahavir never prayed, Buddha
never prayed. Prayer was meaningless for Buddha; he made all efforts to get out
of it.
Enlightenment means
to live life without any hankering for meaning. Then whatsoever is, is good,
and whatsoever is not, that too is good. Then each moment becomes so radiant,
so luminous, so fun of fragrance, but still there is no meaning.
