Don't be fooled by experiences

All experiences are just tricks of the mind, all experiences are just escapes.

Meditation is not an experience, it is a realization. Meditation is not an experience; rather, it is a stopping of all experience. §

Experience is something outside you. The experiencer is your being. And this is the distinction between true spirituality and false: if you are after experiences, the spirituality is false; if you are after the experiencer, then it is true. And then you are not concerned about kundalini, not concerned about chakras, not concerned about all these things. They will happen, but you are not concerned, you are not interested, and you will not move on these by-paths. You will go on moving towards the inner center where nothing remains except you in your total aloneness. Only the consciousness remains, without content.

Content is the experience; whatsoever you experience is the content. I experience misery; then the misery is the content of my consciousness. Then I experience pleasure; the pleasure is the content. I experience boredom; then boredom is the content. You can experience silence; then silence is the content. You can experience bliss; then bliss is the content. So you go on changing the content—you can go on changing ad infinitum—but this is not the real thing.

The real is the one to whom these experiences happen—to whom boredom happens, to whom bliss happens.

The spiritual search is not what happens, but to whom it happens. Then there is no possibility for the ego to arise.

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