No Becomes Yes!

No Becomes YES!

Much negation is not negation … when … we are realized.

If someone tells us we are a big nobody, they are correct. We are happily a big nobody.

Authentically nobody, we are not falsely somebody of “importance.”

Not being very good at anything, I am nevertheless authentic. My heart is in the not-being-so-good of non-it.

Something matters to me. “It” is purity.

Without purity, we cannot “bring the withered trees to bloom!”

If someone is king or queen of something-or-other or even everything but they are not pure, should they invite me to lunch, I will be busy. Countless Buddha-flowers need attending.

To be negated as a self – to realized non-self nature is good.

Once we become universe beholding universe – once we become suchness – self becomes radically decentralized as identity. Non-identity becomes true “identity.” No becomes YES!

I cannot control anything. It is a good thing, too! No becomes YES!

I am a loser, a nobody. It is a good thing, too! No becomes YES!

I cannot heal the world. It is a good thing, too! No becomes YES!

Sitting here, I am Buddha.

In Christianity, they say God is Divinely Indifferent. In Buddhism they talk about detachment.

I am detached from control, divinely indifferent. I am detached from being a nobody, divinely indifferent. I am detached from not being able to save anyone, divinely indifferent.

Sitting here, I know Buddha and Jesus. They know me, too.

Are you seeing what I am pointing to?

Everything we have been taught is important is very unimportant.

Everything we have been taught is unimportant is very important.

We are changing no to yes.

It is a yes-to-no illusion. It is a no-to-yes REALITY.

Don’t you see? … We wait and wait but there is nothing to wait for. We are what we have been waiting for all along as non-I, as non-it - as no to YES.

In the Western world, everyone wants to be happy. So, unhappy successful Western people write books for the unhappy unsuccessful Western people to read. They never work.

Poor people in poor countries are the happiest people in the world but no one is looking.

Stop listening to the successful. Start listening to nobody. That would be you - Buddha! You are all over the world.

Who was it that told us we must follow? What a crime! Buddha never said that. He said to find out for ourselves.

Finding out for our selves did not mean finding Buddha’s reality to Buddha. This point needs to be made. Nearly everyone has missed it.   

When I say you are Buddha, I don’t mean the old one; I mean the new one.

The old one is dead. Be the new one.

Finding out for our selves as new Buddhas is the natural way. Listening to some authority, being told what such and such is – that is unnatural because it impedes nature.

If we are temples, even a ruined one like I am ... if we are spacious temples, we offer scared space for others to dance in when they enter into our presences. We offer Buddha to Buddha. Do you see?

When you come to me, I try to offer you you. Maybe I fail but that is OK.

The unenlightened, always they are offering their selves to others – offering their ideas and gods – when all people need is room to breathe, room to weep, room to celebrate, and room to be heard within our spaciousness.

We need to practice spaciousness. We need to practice turning no to yes.

When we were kids, seeing a big empty room – we ran into it delighted. See?

No became yes.

It is not so much what you know or what you have to convey as it is the freedom of your spaciousness as freedom you offer. No becomes yes.

In nothingness, sometimes there is great freedom .. great liberation … great healing ... great somethingness.

Thank you for opening your doors to me. Thank you for letting me GET to dance my crazy dance within you as Silent Temple.