MAN OF MEDITATION IS 'NO-BODY', DESIRES NO DISTINCTION AND ABIDES IN NOTHINGNESS

There are two paths in life: one is to be 'somebody' and the other is to be 'nobody'. One leads to the world---the endless desires; with the other starts the inner journey i.e. journey towards desirelessness. Man of meditation i.e. who has some taste of no mind is on the path of being religious. His magnetic centre is shifted from 'becoming' to the 'being'. Only that man can guide others for meditation. Others who pose themselves to be religious leaders and guides are on the path of ego , they will harm themselves as well as the others. Beware of such guides!

"Those who just stand at the back, unassuming, not trying in any way to be felt by others, by me, not trying in any way to be recognized…because all those problems are nothing but devises to be recognized….

That is one of the ways of the ego: ego always wants to declare to the world, "Look, I am here". It wants its presence felt.

Those who keep silent, those who keep hidden, those who are here and whose presence is not felt will be benefited the most by me."

( At The Feet Of The Master P 153-154)

THE MAN OFTAO REMAINS UNKNOWN.
PERFECT VIRTUE PRODUCES NOTHING.
NO SELF IS TRUE SELF. AND THE GREATEST MAN IS NOBODY.
Listen.... The man of Tao remains unknown. Not that nobody will know him, but it is up to you to discover him. He is not making any effort to be known. Effort to be known comes from the ego, because ego cannot exist when you are unknown, it exists only when you are known. It exists, feeds, when people look at you, when they pay attention to you, when you are somebody important, significant.

But how can you be significant if nobody knows you? When the whole world knows you, then you are significant. That is why people are after fame so much, and if fame cannot be achieved then they will settle for being notorious -- but not for being unknown! If people cannot praise you then you will settle for being condemned, but you cannot bear that they should be indifferent to you.

(The Empty Boat )

Humbleness is not practiced and cultivated by Zen. It is a simple outcome, a by-product of deep meditations. As you go deeper, you start forgetting that the whole world is struggling to become something, somebody special – more riches, more power. Everybody is trying to make history and you are disappearing almost like smoke in the sky. But those who can disappear just like smoke in the sky leaving no trace behind, no footprints behind, they are the only ones who come to know the splendor of existence, the beauty of this universe, and the truth and the divinity; which are just the beginning of great mysteries.