DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONCENTRATION AND MEDITATION

To all my non-Muslim readers all over the world. Please pay attention, be a master to yourself:
Understand the topic profoundly and please imbibe:

Don't explore the world - explore your nature, because by exploring the world you may have many possessions, but you will not be a master. However, by exploring yourself, you may not have many possessions, but you will be a master. It is better to be a master of yourself than to be a master of the whole world.

First, understand what is that "meditation" going to achieve? What is it supposed to do? You will remain the same person, accumulating money, competitive in the market place. The meditation may help in making them a little more relaxed, so that they or you can do this nonsense even better.

You can repeat a mantra, you can do a certain meditation, it can help you a little bit here and there - but it can only help you to remain whatever you are. Remember!... But it is not a transformation!

"Meditations are for those who are really daring. Who are ready to
change their very pattern of life - who are ready to stake
everything... Because in fact you don't have anything to stake:
Only your unhappiness, your misery. But people cling even to that".

Please remember! That our mind is accustomed to accumulating, tensions, anxieties, worries. It will do its work. Tomorrow morning, you will find that you are the same person. There is no single person who is freed from all tension through meditation. If you are a true, authentic meditator:

"You must have experience of relaxing into the universal? Life forces, merging,
meeting and experiencing the eternal, the endless, the deathless".

Please follow:

"Meditation is not an effort that your chemistry which is ready to say no,
should say, yes!"

Meditation simply ignores mind, pain has never entered. Bliss is simply the very atmosphere beyond the mind.

Once a person has touched something beyond he has a new power. He can yes, although his body chemistry is saying no. The body is a servant. Just wake up your master, and the body is a servant, the mind is a servant. And once the master is there... and the master is never negative, and that is beyond its nature. It is intrinsic to your being to be creative.

You are coming from the universal creativity, you are born out of it. You are part of it, you are still connected with it. You cannot live a single second without the connection. Yes, can be said, and the mind with all its chemistry will remain silent. Please remember! Before the master, it has no power. All the power is derive from the master. But the master was asleep, now the master is awake and is not ready to give anything to destructiveness, to death.

"No represent death",
"Yes, is the heartbeat of life".

So I am not saying that your mind has to say yes. No, I am saying you have to go beyond the no - saying mind. And once you have gone beyond, it is not a question of saying yes - you are yes. Your being is nothing but a totality of acceptance, with gratitude.

The original is within you, and the original has no words. It is
absolute silence, but totally positive.

"You are on the sunlit peak - the mind is in the dark valley".

"MEDITATION" - in short, is putting your mind aside.

So, the people who say that meditation is a discipline of the mind are absolutely wrong. It is not a discipline of the mind; because if you discipline the mind - remember!

It is going to become stronger. It is better to put it aside when it is weaker, undisciplined. Once it is disciplined, it is going to give you a tough fight.

So, it is more difficult for somebody who has been practicing concentration, because "CONCENTRATION" is a mind phenomenon. Yes, it gives you a better mind, more penetrating. But to put aside this mind will be very difficult. First, you have given it strength, you have given it a certain crystallization.

"Concentration" is not "meditation", because "concentration is a discipline of the mind". "Meditation" is putting the mind aside".

Don't gives the wrong idea to the words "meditation" as if you are meditating - "Upon Something" - As if it is an activity - not much different from concentration.

"You are concentrating on something, you are contemplating on something, you are meditating on something - but you are always concerned with something".

So, what "meditation" is? - Is dropping all objects, dropping anything on which you can concentrate: Dropping everything, nothing is left - Only the one who was contemplating.

The pure awareness is "meditation", awareness is "dhyana". Meditation means a state of being where there is no thought, no object, no dream, no desire, nothing - "just emptiness". In that emptiness what happen? You come to know yourself. You discover the truth. You discover your "subjectivity"... It is perfect silence.

Dear friends!

There are methods to put aside the mind, just as there are methods to discipline the mind. But in the West and more so in America ... because if the West is bad. America is worse. I have been looking at America books. All the books that are best sellers in America are somehow concerned with how to increase your willpower how to influence people and win friends, how to grow rich, mind over power... But they are all talking about the discipline of the mind.

Certainly, if you discipline the mind, you are a better competitor, you can fulfill your ambition more easily. You can manipulate people more easily, you can exploit people more easily, you can use others as a means to your end.

Friedrich Nietzsche has written a book, Will-to-Power. That is the very essence of the Western effort: Will-to-Power. Will-to-Power needs first you should have willpower. And willpower is another name for your mind disciplined, crystallized.

To me, these methods won't do, you have to learn methods to put the mind aside. It is already too powerful; don't make it more powerful, because you are feeding your own enemy. It is already crystallized. Your school, your college your university, they are all doing that.

To put the mind aside is very simple. Disciplining the mind are very difficult. To train the mind for concentration is very difficult, because it goes on revolting, it goes on falling back into its old habits:

"You pull it again and it escapes. You bring it again to the subject you were concentrating on and suddenly you find you are thinking of something else, you have forgotten what you are concentrating upon... It is not an easy job".

But to put it aside is very simple thing - not difficult at all. All you have to do is to watch. Whatsoever is going on in your mind - don't interfere, don't try to stop it. Do not do anything, because whatsoever you do will become a discipline. So my advise is:

Do not do anything at all - just watch.

Watching is not a doing. Just as you watch the sunset or the clouds in the sky or the people passing on the street:

"Watch the traffic of thoughts and dreams, nightmare - relevant - irrelevant, consistent, inconsistent, anything that is going on, and it is always rush hour. You simply watch; You stand by the side unconcerned".

This simple methodology of watching the mind, that you have nothing to do with it... Most of its thoughts are not yours but from your parents, your teachers, your friends, the books, the movies, the television, the newspapers.
"Just count how many thoughts are your own", and you will be surprised that not a single thought is your own. All are from other sources. All are borrowed - either dumped by others on you, or foolishly dumped by yourself upon yourself... But nothing is yours.

The mind is there, functioning like a computer, literally it is a bio-computer. You will not get identified with a computer. If the computer gets hot, you won't get hot. If the computer gets angry and starts giving signals in four letter words, you will not be worried. You will see what is wrong. Where something is wrong... But you remain detached.

Just a small knack... I cannot even call it a method because that make it heavy; I call it a knack. Just by doing it, one day suddenly you are able to do it. Many times you will fail, it's nothing to be worried about... No loss, it is natural. But just doing it, one day it happens.

Once it happened, once you have even for a single moment become the watcher, you know how to become the watcher - the watcher on the hills, far away. And the whole mind is there deep down in the dark valley, and you are not to do anything about it.

The most strange thing about the mind is, if you become a watcher it starts disappearing. Just like the light disperses darkness, watchfulness disperses the mind, its thoughts, its whole paraphernalia.

So, please understand.., meditation is simply watchfulness, awareness. And that reveals - it is nothing to do with inventing. It invents nothing; It simply discovers that which is there.

And what is there? You enter and you find infinite emptiness, so tremendously beautiful, so silent, so full of light, so fragrant, that you have entered into the "Kingdom of God".

And once you have been in this space, you come out and you are a totally new person, a new man. Now you have your original face. All masks have disappeared. You will live in the same world, but not in the same way. You will be among the same people but not with the same attitude, and the same approach.

"You will live like a lotus in water, in the water,
but absolutely untouched by water".

The person who is meditating has the greatest possibility of reaching the highest peaks of intelligence because in meditator he is doing the greatest possible work that a man is capable of - and that is realizing oneself, knowing "who I am", entering into the deepest interiority of one's subjectivity is the greatest work for intelligence.

Then you cannot even count Albert Einstein, Gautama Buddha's and Muhammad. Intelligence - "It is beyond calculation, beyond measurements".

And if you are a meditator, as your meditation goes on becoming more luminous, your intelligence will be growing to the last breath of your life. Not only that, ever after the last breath your intelligence will continue to grow. Please remember! Intelligence is the quality of your awareness - more aware, more intelligent.

And if you are totally aware, you as intelligent as this whole existence is.
Will be continued about - "A statue of meditation".


From Empty Hands,
A.Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321

30 JANUARY 2010

Next Topic: 1. "Memahami Ciri-Ciri Orang Sufi Guru Ketuhanan dan Orang Mistik"

2. "Know The Secret Of The Five Elements"

MANUSIA PATUT LEBIH GEMBIRA DARIPADA POKOK-POKOK, BURUNG-BURUNG, BINTANG-BINTANG, BULAN MATAHARI, DAN LAIN-LAINNYA, TETAPI KENAPA BERLAKU SEBALIKNYA?

Kalau seseorang itu benar-benar "gembira", adalah amat sukar dipercayai. Tetapi jika kita berbicara tentang tekanan, ketegangan, kegundahan, kesedihan, kesengsaraan, mungkin ramai orang yang akan percaya - kerana ia suatu yang natural, memang sudah jadi kelaziman.

Tetapi jika berbicara tentang 'kegembiraan', tiada siapa yang akan percaya kepada kita - ia bagaikan tidak natural.

Saya sudah membuat kajian hampir tiga puluh tahun terhadap akal fikiran manusia termasuk kawan-kawan terdekat, beribu-ribu orang ramainya - saya telah meneliti gangguan akal mereka. Lalu saya merumuskan bahawa kegembiraan yang sedang dirasai dan dilalui oleh mereka semua adalah "khayalan" atau 'fiction'.

Manusia tidak boleh gembira, paling tidak pun, cuma ada sedikit rasa seronok dan selesa - itu sahaja. Paling tidak pun, cuma dapat mereda atau mengurangkan rasa kedukaan sedikit - itu sahaja. Tetapi kegembiraan? Adalah tidak mungkin.

Kata-kata saya di atas, agak "pessimistik" ..... Tetapi jika kita teliti, tinjau dan perasan; Sebenarnya memang "memang benar", ia bagaikan sudah menjadi fakta. Hanya manusia sahaja di muka bumi ini yang tidak pernah 'gembira', 'berperang', 'bertelingkah', 'bermusuh', 'bersengketa', 'berdengki', 'cemburu', 'iri hati', 'fitnah', 'tomahan', 'mengadu domba', 'gila jawatan dan pangkat', dan macam-macam lagi. Jangan cuba hendak menafikan - tiada siapa mampu "menegakkan benang yang basah". Sesuatu jauh di dalam diri seseorang, ada sesuatu yang tidak kena.

Apa yang saya cuba katakan adalah "hak dan wibawa" saya sendiri. Senenarnya semua manusia mampu "bergembira" lebih dari segala-galanya, lebih dari burung-burung, lebih gembira dari sepohon pokok, lebih gembira dari binatang-binatang; - Semuanya itu kerana kita manusia memiliki sesuatu yang tidak terdapat pada pokok-pokok, bintang-bintang dan juga burung-burung.

Apakah yang dimiliki oleh kita manusia, adalah "kesedaran". Perlu diingat; bila kita punya kesedaran, kita punya DUA pilihan dan kemungkinan:

Sama ada kita benar-benar akan "gembira" atau sebaliknya, "kedukaan".

Maka semuanya itu adalah pilihan kita:

Pokok-pokok memang ia "gembira", kerana ia tidak boleh bertukar kepada "tidak gembira" - "kegembiraannya" itu bukanlah pula suatu "kebebasan" - memang ia perlu gembira. Ia tidak tahu bagaimana hendak berdukacita, kerana ia tiada pilihan.

Burung-burung bersiulan dan berkicauan di pohon-pohon rendang, memang ia gembira, tetapi bukanlah kerana ia memilih untuk bergembira - kegembiraannya adalah kerana tiada pilihan baginya. Kegembiraannya adalah bukan suatu "KESEDARAN" - ia benar-benar "natural".

Tetapi manusia memang mampu benar-benar untuk bergembira dan ia juga akan benar-benar mengalami kedukaan dan kesengsaraan, dan ia bebas untuk membuat pilihan. Dan kebebasan untuk ia memilih adalah juga sangat merbahaya, kerana kita manusia perlu "bertanggungjawab" - Dan sesuatu telah pun berlaku sejak lama terhadap kebebasan tersebut secara melampau. Banyak perkara sumbang yang telah dilakukan oleh manusia atas nama kebebasan - itu ertinya dalam apa jua bidang kemasyarakatan mereka, semua saya umpamakan:

"Man is somehow standing on his head."

Fahamkan betul-betul, itulah apa yang sedang berlaku kepada mereka yang sedang tuduh-menuduh di negara kita sekarang. Kelihatan saja bijak, arif atau sebagainya.

Kelihatan banyak sahaja masjid dan tempat-tempat ibadat. Cuma tempat tersebut dijadikan tempat "petition" kepada Tuhan, dijadikan tempat mengadu kedukaan dan BUKANnya tempat "pengikat UKHWAH".

Kita masuk ke tempat ibadah bagaikan "pesakit yang mencari ubat" - bila sudah baik, di luar masjid kita lakukan lagi "kemungkaran" - "sakit lagi". Jangan masuk masjid atau apa jua tempat ibadah, bagaikan "orang tidak sihat". Ingat!.. Cuba jadikan dunia ini tempat ibadah, kalau kita boleh menukarkannya sebagai sebuah syurga, lagi bagus. Kerana;

"Dunia itu contoh akhirat"

Banyak agama di muka bumi ini yang menciptanya adalah hanya "SATU Tuhan". Kenapa kita tidak gembira? Orang yang benar-benar "gembira" adalah "orang-orang yang faham kebijaksanaan Tuhan". Banyaknya tempat ibadah, BUKAN bererti "banyak Tuhan".

Apa saja yang kita lakukan dan kita rasa gembira, dan boleh membuat orang lain gembira, itupun "ibadah". "Setiap perbuatan bagaikan penyembahan". "Setiap pernafasan kita adalah kecemerlangan dan rahmat".

Ingat! Kita ditempatkan ke dunia ini bukannya kita disuruh menjadi pakar ilmu kira-kira, suka berkira-kira dalam banyak hal, langsung tidak boleh bertolak-ansur. Ramai antara kita telah "terpesong" dan "lupa diri" seperti mengejar kedudukan dan pangkat, kuasa dan wang ringgit. Lain dari perkara tersebut adalah tidak menguntungkan. Kedudukan, pangkat, wang ringgit, nama dan jawatan, disangkanya boleh mengembirakan dirinya. Tetapi contoh dan tauladan tidak pernah hendak mengajar manusia - kerana mereka yang kaya-raya, berstatus tinggi sejak dari dulu, semuanya lenyap ditelan zaman.

Manusia sebenar secara hakikinya, sanggup mengharung dan berani untuk bergerak seiring asal saja ianya boleh membuat dirinya gembira, walaupun hidupnya miskin dan serba kekurangan. Ia tidak akan merungut terhadap kemiskinannya, ia tidak pernah iri hati atau berdendam. Pada dirinya ada prinsip dan falsafah sebagai pegangan.

"Aku tidak kaya, itu tidak apa! Tetapi aku kaya kerana aku sentiasa gembira".

Tetapi ramai manusia hidupnya lintang-pukang dan tunggang-langgang.


From Empty Hands,
A.Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore

25 January, 2010

Next Topic: "Difference Between Concentration And Meditation"

THINKING IS ALWAYS DIVISIVE. IT DIVIDES

What do we see in the world today? It is like a diseased person with all the disease of the world. No matter what difficulty you face, there is a solution to that difficulty. Mankind has a great gift of love and the comfort one gets from (pure, good and pious) love consists in doing all within your means to comfort the other.

A truly dedicated person will not stray from the part of Truth. Man seeks happiness. Man seeks to be free from pain and worry and that is his comfort. He seeks liberation... Remember! Liberation is control of the senses and in that you will find your comfort.

When in your heart you find Truth, then you will find joy... This state of ignorance is like death itself. Today we are going after the world around us, and this is wrong. Good character is linked to your state of mind..., be as a tree that is nurtured and cared for and the fruit will be borne on the tree. See as in mirror that is covered with dust, you cannot see the clear mirror. Remove the dust of impure desires by good deed.

"But thinking is always divisive, it divide". The mind divides, it cannot see the whole, it always thinks in term of duality. Mind is dualistic. Or, man is dialectical: It thinks in term of thesis, antithesis. The moment you talk about love, hate is present. The moment you talk about compassion, anger is present. The moment you talk about greed, the opposite is present, charity is present. Talk about charity, and greed is present. They go together, they come in one package; They are not separate. But the mind continuously creates that.

You say "beautiful" and you said "ugly" too. How can you say "beautiful" if you don't know what 'ugliness' is? They go together... Please remember that!


From Empty Hands,
A.Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis Johore

016-6020321

14 January 2010

Next Topic: 1. "Manusia Patut Lebih Gembira Daripada Pokok-Pokok, Burung-Burung, Bintang-Bintang, Bulan Matahari Dan
Lain-Lainnya, Tetapi Kenapa Berlaku Sebaliknya?"

2. "Difference Between Concentration And Meditation"

MEMAHAMI AKAR UMBI PERKATAAN AGAMA DENGAN SEGALA FUNGSINYA

Agama bukanlah apa yang seperti difahami oleh semua orang.
Agama bukanlah bermaksud Islam, Kristian, ataupun Hindu.
"AGAMA" adalah "suatu nilai".

Semua agama yang wujud di muka bumi ini dan ia bukan suatu jumlah yang kecil. Ada lebih kurang "tiga ratus agama" di dalam dunia ini. Justru, sukukata atau perkataan "AGAMA" perlu dihalusi dan difahami perkataannya sangat dalam maksudnya:

Ia membawa maksud "penggabungan", bergabung menjadi satu supaya tidak ada lagi bahagian-bahagian yang terpisah, semua bersatu menjadi SATU.
seperti firmanNya:

"Berpegang teguhlah kamu kepada tali Allah
dan jangan kamu berpecah-belah". (Surah Ali-'Imran, 103)

Berpegang teguh bererti sudah tidak ada lagi yang terpisah-pisah.
Akar-umbi pada sukukata atau perkataan "Agama", membawa maksud:
"menyatu-padukan sesuatu yang terpisah
atau bercerai-berai".
Menjadi kukuh, kukuh bersatu.

Setiap bahagian yang terpisah, adalah kaku dan mati. Satukan atau cantumkan semula, akan muncul nilai atau kualiti, nilai penyatuan atau kesatuan, ingat!

"Membawa sesuatu yang bermutu dan bernilai dalam kehidupan seseorang itulah tujuan beragama - ia tiada kena-mengena soal syaitan dan iblis".

Saudaraku pembaca yang dikasihi!

Perasankah kita, memerhatikan di dunia ini, di sekeliling kita, bagaimana fungsi pengamal-pengamal agama sudah "mengubah seluruh nilai keagamaan" yang sepatutnya menjadi "sains integrasi", agar kita semua patut bersatu, kuat dan teguh. Semoga apa jua yang kita lakukan, akan berfungsi secara harmoni terhadap apa jua bermula pada diri kita masing-masing tanpa ada konflik, perpecahan, pergaduhan. Dalam ertikata lain, tiada siapa tinggi, tiada siapa rendah, kita semua adalah SATU, bersatu, semuanya secara harmoni.

Sangat sedih dan memalukan:

"Agama yang kita anut selama ini telah membuat kita manusia, lupa akan makna agama itu sendiri".

Malah kita menentang integrasi atau penyatuan, bagaikan tiada rasul dan nabi yang menyampaikan sesuatu, agar kita semua mesti bersatu. Tuhan bagaikan hak masing-masing, beragama bagaikan kebudak-budakan. Kita tidak sedar, kita diperhatikan oleh penganut agama lain, yang tidak kurang juga macam kita.

Apakah yang kita lakukan sehari semalam sembahyang lima waktu, kenapakah kita tidak dapat mencegah kemungkaran di dalam diri kita? Malah kemungkaran bermaharajalela di luar sana, dalam apa jua institusi keagamaan, siasah, kemasyarakatan, perniagaan dan kekeluargaan.

"Bukankah tujuan solat untuk mencegah kemungkaran, dan bukannya mementingkan diri sendiri".

Kita lihat manusia, otaknya berpenyakit, semuanya berpecah-belah, berpuak-puak - falsafah, ideologi dan juga agama; bukan lagi proses ke arah "pengobatan dan penyembuhan".

Semua punca tersebut adalah berakar-umbi daripada konflik dalaman.
Ingat sidang pembaca!

Kita sebenarnya, sesama sendiri, menyakiti diri sendiri, mencemar dan menghina agama sendiri melalui tingkah laku yang tidak sewajarnya.

Seperti kata pepatah:

"Tangan kanan menyakiti tangan kirinya sendiri, dan tangan kiri menyakiti tangan kanan kita sendiri".

Kedua-dua tangan kanan dan kiri tercedera. Kita bagaikan tidak punya "roh".
Kita ingat bahawa makan, minum, kahwin, berkhatan - itulah agama.

Kenapakah kita bagaikan "orang tidak berakal, bagaikan orang buta dan menganggap Tuhan itu tidak ada, ataupun sudah mati".

Dari pemerhatian dan penyelidikan saya, agama yang dianuti oleh penganut, tidak menjadi amalan, jauh sekali penghayatan. Saya nampak, agama yang menjadi pegangan orang-orang Melayu tidak banyak membantu, malah berpecah-belah, dan mementingkan diri sendiri, termasuklah mereka yang menggelar diri mereka sebagai ulamak, mereka bagaikan "orang bisu". (Religions that have not been healing processes).

Agama sebenarnya adalah landasan yang mampu membentuk sahsiah dan jati diri seseorang. Hanya agamalah tempat mencerminkan nilai-nilai kemanusiaan, bukanlah sebaliknya. Tetapi kini agama telah dicemari dengan pelbagai adat dan budaya. Ramai orang menyangka, mereka menyempurnakan upacara agama, tetapi jauh di dalam diri masing-masing, mereka menanam benih-benih "keegoan". "Jadilah nombor satu, aku sajalah yang tahu".

Nasihat saya; Kalau semua orang mengatakan; Semua dia tahu - anda perhatikan saja, dan duduk diam-diam, lihat bagaimana ego seseorang itu mengembang.

"Agama sudah menjadi bahan senda gurau, dan sudah berada di pentas-pentas politik". Jahanam mereka.

Ingat!
"Agama bukan 'fiction' atau untuk tempat kita berilusi dan bersenda-gurau".

Mereka pada mata kasarnya saja petah berfirman, kelihatan 'alim, tetapi mereka sebenarnya adalah;

"Jahil murakap". (Jahil akan dirinya, dan jahil akan Tuhannya!)

Di dunia ini, saudaraku pembaca yang budiman;

Sebenarnya kita manusia ini langsung tidak ambil pusing soal persekitaran di dunia yang sedang kita huni ini, tempat kita membesar, dan kemudian lenyap.

Ingat saudaraku!

"Jangan ingat dunia ini inginkan kita". Tanpa kita manusia di dunia ini, dunia tetap berjalan lancar, tengok saja di antara kita yang sudah meninggalkan dunia ini - Matahari, bulan, udara, pokok-pokok, hujan, tumbuh-tumbuhan, terus saja berfungsi mengikut perintah. Pagi matahari terbit - petang ia terbenam, bunga-bunga terus saja menguntum, mengembang, menyebarkan haruman, musim-musim datang dan berlalu.

Jika siapa jua anda, ulamak, pemimpin, berpangkat, berjawatan setinggi mana sekalipun, petah macam mana sekali anda berbicara, tinggi ilmu falsafah atau keagamaan, tidak akan membuat dunia ini berubah, tiada bezanya, kerana anda semua sudah tiada di dunia ini lagi.

Kewujudan ini akan terus saja berjalan lancar . Kita manusia memang tidak akan pernah puas dan tahu berterima kasih - Kerana itulah krperluan kita semua. Demikian natijah di sebalik segala-galanya, rasa yang ada pada kita semua, buat tidak peduli.

Orang yang berperangai macam inilah yang perlukan agama.
Antara agama yang banyak di dunia ini ialah;
Islam, Judaism, Kristian, Buddhis, Jainis, dan macam-macam lagi.

Ada terdapat lebih kurang 300 (tiga ratus) agama di muka bumi ini. Semua mereka mengatakan Tuhan itulah "pemberi rezeki". Tuhan itulah yang melindungi mereka. Tuhan turunkan kitab, agar kita semua dapat berkenal-kenalan.

Seperti firmanNya:

"Hai manusia, sesungguhnya Kami menjadikan kamu dari laki-laki dan perempuan, dan Kami jadikan kamu berbangsa-bangsa dan bersuku-suku, supaya kamu berkenal-kenalan. Sesungguhnya orang yang termulia di antara kamu di sisi Allah, ialah orang yang lebih taqwa". (Al-Hujurat, ayat 13)

Tetapi kita melakukan sebaliknya, kita berperang, kita berbunuh, kita bersengketa sampai mati?

Pembaca.., kalau perhati dan renungi firman di atas dengan penuh kesedaran, dapat pergi melampaui akal yang cetek, kita akan dapat melihat sesuatu itu secara terus, tanpa prajudis, tanpa ideologi yang menutup mata kita atau membuat kita ini menjadi buta.

Jika kita boleh melihat dunia ini secara terus dan tembus, sekelip mata saja kita boleh tahu mana yang betul dan mana yang salah - Tidak perlukan "orang" untuk memberitahu kita.

Saudaraku pembaca!

Agama Islam yang sedang anda anuti dan bersungguh-sungguh berpegang kepadanya, tidak sewajarnya membuat kita semua menjadi "buta", mengikut-ikut secara membuta tuli. Agama tidak menghalang untuk kita semua "berfikir". Berfikir ertinya "mempertajamkan minda dan kebijaksanaan" kita.

Agama tidak membuat seseorang itu menjadi lesu, tegang dan bagaikan orang mati.
"Mendalami agama ertinya mendalami yang hak".

Orang yang benar-benar beragama adalah orang-orang yang dalamannya sangat kaya - memang kaya, kekayaannya melimpah-limpah, ia sanggup berkongsi dan berkorban apa saja, tidak ubah seperti awan mendung yang akan menumpahkan air dan berkongsi dengan bumi yang sedang kehausan.

Saudaraku pembaca yang budiman!

Dewasa ini kita lihat ramai penceramah agama yang pelik-pelik walaupun mereka keluar dari gedung-gedung ilmu berkelulusan Azhar, Jordan dan sebagainya, mereka semua tidak ubah seperti:

"Hanya penterjemah atau pengalih bahasa
wahyu Tuhan dan hadis nabi
semata-mata dan mementingkan diri sendiri dan ada yang mempolitik
dalam arena siasah dan berhujah sesama sendiri".

Untuk pengetahuan sidang pembaca;

Kriteria untuk menyampai, berceramah, berpidato, bersyarah, khususnya dalam bidang keagamaan, sebenarnya;

"Selagi seseorang itu tidak ada ketenangan
di akal fikirannya (chatter box),
ketenangan dan kesenyapan di dalam hati, sinar cahaya yang menyinar
dan menyuluh ke hati sanubari, selagi itulah seseorang itu tidak boleh
melakukan khidmat kepada sesiapa. Kerana kita sendiri dalam keadaan sakit
dan tidak sihat, kita sendiri bagaikan orang muflis, sangat miskin,
di dalam diri kita sendiri sebenarnya kosong, penuh kegelapan.
Mana mungkin kita boleh membantu orang lain dengan ceramah kita; kecuali
kita terpaksa, berpura-pura. Mana mungkin kita mampu menolong orang lain?
Kita sendiri sedang lemas. Adalah sangat bahaya untuk menolong orang
lain, kemungkinan besar kita juga akan membuat orang lain tenggelam sama".

Justeru, siapa juga di luar sana, petah berceramah dalam apa jua bidang pun, khususnya keagamaan, pastikan anda latihlah diri itu, belajar dahulu berenang, barulah nanti kita boleh menghulurkan tangan kepada seseorang yang memerlukan pertolongan kita, yang sedang terkapai-kapai hendak tenggelam.

Justeru, agama menuntut kita menghargai diri dalaman kita terlebih dahulu. Kalau tidak, kita hanya seorang hipokrit, mencari nafkah melalui ceramah, sedangkan kita sendiri sedang dalam keadaan kelemasan.

Lihat apa yang terjadi di dada-dada akhbar dewasa ini, semuanya punca kecuaian, pengabaian ummat Islam itu sendiri, sehinggakan "kalimah ALLAH" yang begitu subjektif pun dapat dirampas oleh pihak gereja. Adakah perkataan "ALLAH" itu lebih rendah nilainya daripada Perlembagaan Negara, atau Perlembagaan Negara lebih tinggi daripada perkataan "Allah"? Dan adakah perkataan "Allah" mesti dibicarakan di mahkamah? Saya anggap semua orang Melayu Islam mesti bertanggungjawab atas apa yang terjadi dan jawablah esok di akhirat nanti.



SELAMAT MEMIKIR!


From Empty Hands,
A. Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore

016-6020321

03 JANUARI 2010

Next Topic: "Thinking Is Always Divisive. It Divides"

MAN, THE MENTAL MOSAIC

Why do man always feel as if one part of themselves is fighting against another?
Human history has been a tragedy is not very complex. You have not to go very far to find it out, it is in everybody.

The whole past of man has created a split in man, there is a constant civil war in every human being. If you don't feel at ease, the reason is not personal... Your disease is social.

The strategy that has been used is to divide you into two enemy camps - the materialist and the spiritualist. But remember!

"You are not divided in reality. In reality
you are a harmonious whole".

But in your mind or mental, the conditioning is that you are not one whole, one piece, you have to fight against your body. If you one to be a spiritual being, the body has to be conquered, defeated, destroyed, tortured in every possible way.

That has been the accepted ideology all over the world in different cultures, different religions, the formulations may be different, but the basic rule is the same... Divide man, create a conflict in him. So one part starts feeling higher, becomes holy, starts condemning the other part as a sinner.

And the trouble is that you are one, there is no way to divide you.
Every division is going to create misery in you. Every division will mean that half of your being is fighting with the other half. And if you are fighting within yourself, how can you be at ease?

The whole humanity up to now has lived in a schizophrenic way;

Everyone has been cut into pieces, fragments. Your religion, your philosophies, your ideologies have not been healing processes. They have been root causes of inner conflicts and war, remember!

"We have been wounding our self,
our right hand wounds the left hand.
And your left hand wounds the right hand;
both our hands become wounded".

"Man is only body - without soul"

Man's mind has always been trying to do 'two' impossible things. One is; "to reform the past" - which cannot be done. The past has happened. You cannot really go into the past. When you think of going into the past, at the most you go into the memory of it, it is not the real past, it is just a memory. The past is no more there, so you cannot reform it. This is one of the impossible goals of human mental;

Man has suffered very much because of it. You want to undo the past - how can you undo it? The past is absolute.

The past means; All potentiality of it is finished; It has become actual. Now there is no longer any potentiality to reform it, to undo it, to redo it. You cannot do anything with the past.

And the second impossible idea that has always dominated the human mental or mind; "Is to establish the future" - which cannot be done again. Future means that which is not yet; You cannot establish it. Future remains unestablished. Future remains open. Future is pure potentiality! Unless it happens, you cannot be certain about it. Past is pure actuality - it has happened. Now nothing can be done about it.

Between this two, man stands in the present always thinking of the impossibles. He wants to make everything certain about the future, about tomorrow... Which cannot be done. Don't waste your present moment for making the future certain. The future is uncertainty;
"That is the very quality of the future"

And don't waste your time looking back. The past has happened, it is a dead phenomenon, nothing can be done about it. What, at the most, you can do is you can reinterpret it. That's all. That's what psychoanalysis is doing; Reinterpreting it.
Reinterpretation can be done - but the past remain the same.

Psychoanalysis and astrology; Astrology tries somehow to make the future certain and psychoanalysis tries to redo the past. Neither is a science. Both things are impossible, but both have millions of followers - because man mental likes it that way.
He want to be certain about the future, so he goes to the astrologer, he consults the I Ching, he goes to a Tarot reader and there a thousand and one ways to fool oneself, to deceive oneself.

Human mind is very funny. "The mind is like a mirror" - "it only reflects", it can only give you a shadow experience; "Never the real", "never the original". It is like a lake, and you can see the full moon in the lake reflected, but the reflection is not the real moon. And if you start thinking that the reflection is the real moon, you will never find the real moon, please understand.

"When the deluded in a mirror look" ;
"They see a face, not a reflection".



From Empty Hands,
A.Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321

20 Disember 2009

Next Topic: 1. "Memahami Akar Umbi Perkataan
AGAMA Dan Fungsi Sebenar-benarnya"

2. "Thinking Is Always Divisive.
It Divides".

APA ERTI MENYAYANGI DIRI SENDIRI

Pertama-tama seseorang perlu mempunyai "KUASA PERBANDINGAN", apa yang dikatakan:

"Menyukai dan Menyayangi"

Ia mempunyai erti yang sangat berbeza.
Mengenai "menyayangi", sangat dalam istilah dan ertinya. Sembilan puluh sembilan peratus di antara kita tidak dapat melaksanakan apa yang dikatakan "menyayangi" secara total.

Bagi maksud "menyayangi diri sendiri", pertama-tamanya seseorang itu tidak boleh memulai "menyayangi diri sendiri"... Kerana kita tidak tahu siapakah diri kita? Justeru, apakah yang kita ingin menyayangi di tubuh badan itu? Tubuh badan 'bukan kita'. Tubuh badan yang terdiri daripada empat elemen dengan pelbagai komponen akan musnah dimakan waktu.

Jika kita menyangka tubuh badan itulah kita, itu ertinya kita hanya "menyayangi ego" kita. Kerana "tubuh badan" itu "bukan diri sebenar kita". Ia sesuatu yang bersifat "kepalsuan, bukan hakikat".

Boleh dikatakan semua orang "menyayangi diri tubuh badannya" - semua orang "menyayangi keegoannya". Sehinggakan:

Sehodoh-hodoh wanitapun, bila kita berkata dan memujinya; "Cantik sungguh kamu ini." Dia tidak akan menolak, malah tersenyum menerimanya.

Saudaraku pembaca!

Ya, saya ingin melihat semua orang menyayangi dirinya, kerana jika seseorang tidak menyayangi dirinya, maka dia tidak boleh menyayangi orang lain, kerana kita tidak tahu mekanismenya. Kalaupun kita menyayangi seseorang, itupun kerana kepentingan diri.

Kalau seorang lelaki menyayangi seorang perempuan, atau sebaliknya,
itu ertinya "sayang nafsu".

Kalau kita menyayangi dunia dengan segala isinya, itu ertinya
"keinginan, sayang kepada kebendaan".

Saudaraku pembaca yang budiman, ingat!

Sebelum kita menyayangi diri kita, kita perlu "MENGENAL DIRI". Kasih sayang adalah perkara kedua. Kasih itu akan datang dengan sendiri, ia akan mengembang dengan sendiri, berjuta-juta bunga akan menguntum dan mengembang dari dalam tubuh itu.

"Harumannya adalah kasih sayang".

Kelazimannya, kita semua memang menyayangi diri kita dahulu, kerana itulah yang difahami oleh semua orang.

Sebenarnya, kita semua tahu, melalui kejahilan kita sendiri, bahawa "menyayangi" yang kita fahami adalah tidak lebih yang bersifat "perhubungan". Kita semua patut tahu membezakannya.

Bila kita berkata; "I love you", bagaimana dengan lain-lainnya? Bagaimana dengan seluruh kewujudan? Semakin sempit "kasih sayang kita" pada sesuatu, maka semakin "terpenjaralah" kita. Atau dalam ertikata lain, "sayap kita telah terputus, ia tidak boleh terbang jauh melintasi matahari. Kita bagaikan berada di dalam sangkar emas yang sangat cantik, tetapi burung yang di dalam sangkar emas tersebut, bukanlah burung yang sama, seperti burung yang pernah kita lihat terbang bebas di awan biru".


Ingat!.. "Menyayangi bukan bersifat pertalian atau perhubungan", kerana nafsu dan kebendaan, bukan sempit, malah maha luas.

"Menyayangi atau kasih sayang adalah suatu nilai yang sangat berharga pada diri seseorang". Adab serta tingkah laku yang memangpun sifat semulajadi kita semua, dengan segala cahaya. Seperti matahari yang menyinarkan cahayanya bukan kepada seseorang yang tertentu dan tanpa alamat yang perlu dituju.


From Empty Hands,
A. Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321

16 Disember 2009

Next Topic: "Man, The Mental Mosaic"

YOU ARE BORN ENLIGHTENED WHETHER YOU REALIZE IT OR NOT

Dear readers!

If you don't know the way towards enlightenment! So there is very possibility of losing the way of going astray.

Just by chance a few people have stumbled upon enlightenment. It was just by accident, because millions of people have been trying and finding nothing.

There are not aware that their search is making them too tense; their very effort is creating a state in which enlightenment cannot happen.

"Enlightenment can happen when you are so silent, so relaxed. That you are almost not. Just a pure silence and immediately the explosion, the explosion of your luminous soul."

Please remember!

The people who have been very arduous simply destroyed their intelligence, or the body, and I don't think they attained to enlightenment. The very few people who attained to enlightenment have attained in a relaxed state... because relaxation is the very soil in which the roses of enlightenment grow.

If you want to know the recipe of enlightenment, if you want it to day.., you can get enlightened today! But please be at ease, relaxed, with no effort, because...

"Enlightenment Is Your Innermost Being".

Just because you are so much engaged in effort, in seeking, in searching, doing this, doing that, you never reach to your own self. In relaxing and at ease you are not going anywhere, you are not doing anything and the grass starts growing by itself.

All that is needed is alertness, intelligence,consciousness. Which are no efforts; witnessing, watching, which are not tensions. They are very joyful experience. You don't get tired of them, get very calm and quiet.

I say unto you - all efforts of enlightenment are stupid. Because; 'enlightenment' is your nature! It is just you don't know. Otherwise you are enlightenment already. As far as I am concerned you are all enlightenment, because I can see your luminous flame within. When I see you, I don't see your figure, I see your being, which is just a beautiful flame, such as my good friend Michael Yap, Wong Tee Liang and others.

Enlightened person could look as deep into himself as he could into everyone. Everybody needs to realize its own nature, without that life is not a joy.., not a festivity.

Just be a little intelligent, and enlightenment will happen on its own accord; you don't have to think about it.
Just be a little intelligent. The world is not intelligent, it is functioning in a very unintelligent way and is creating all kinds of miseries for everyone rather than helping them to be happier.

Everybody is pulling on each others' leg, dragging them into deeper darkness, into deeper mud, into deeper trouble. It seems in this world everybody enjoys only one thing; creating misery for others. That's why such a cloud of darkness surrounds the earth. Otherwise there would have been a continuous festival of lights, remember!
Not ordinary lights, but lights of your very being.

My friends, bear in mind! Enlightenment is the easiest thing in the world. But there a people out there never wanted the whole world to become enlightened - they have to be kept blind to their own nature. They just give you the idea that it is a very difficult, impossible task, and your ego become immediately interested. The ego is never interested in that which you are. It is only interested in a far away goal - the farther the goal, the greater the interest, please remember!

"But enlightenment is not a goal and it is
not even an inch away from you, because the seeker is the sought".

Once you understand that your very nature is enlightenment you are intelligent, if you cannot understand, you are not intelligent, you are simply an egoist who is trying - just as some egoists are trying to be the richest man, a few other egoists are trying to be the most powerful, a few egoists are trying to become enlightened.

But enlightenment is not possible for the ego: Richest are possible, power is possible, prestige is possible and they are difficult things.., very difficult.

"You Are Born Enlightened Whether You Realize
It or Not!"

If you all become enlightened, you will be simply light, a joy to yourself and to others, a blessing to yourself and to the whole existence. Nobody can exploit you, nobody can in any way enslave you. If you want freedom, enlightenment is the only freedom. If you want individuality, enlightenment is the individuality. If you want life full of blessing, enlightenment is the only experience.

And it is very easy... Utterly easy; it's the one thing you don't have to do anything to get, because it is your very nature... It is your own being. It is not to be thought about.., it has to be seen.

It is already there: You don't have to go anywhere to find it. But unoccupied space is needed within you so that the light that is hidden can expand and fill your being. It is not only fills your being, it starts radiating from your being. Your whole life becomes a beauty, a beauty that is not of the body, but a beauty that radiates from within, the beauty of your consciousness... Please remember it comes when it finds you are really at ease, no tension, no effort and immediately it showers on you like thousands of flowers.

Enlightenment is the topic that you have to step out of the world of time and mind, its ambitions and competitiveness. And you must go through a deep cleansing process before you can hope to achieve, relaxed state of enlightenment.


From Empty Hands,
A. Rahman Bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321

1 DISEMBR 2009


Next Topic: 1. "Apakah Erti Menyayangi
Diri Sendiri?"

2. "Man, The Mental Mosaic"