Bodhidharma – excerpt from interview on 20.12.2020

Taken from “The Gnosis of the Great Masters” part 2 – interview with Eleazar Harash from 20.12.2020 by Portal12

BODHIDHARMA

-Bodhidharma is a very peculiar world, very Pure. Mercilessly Pure – the Absolute Purity, not the dualistic one. Even the smallest criticism when you study him and you are already far away, you have missed it – the end. We are speaking of even the most microscopic criticism, because this is a being, a type of Buddha. Osho very accurately says: If Buddha had seen him, he would have wondered – because he is a buddhist, Bodhidharma – Buddha would have wondered what kind of being originated from him.

(Interviewer)-Can you point out where is this fine difference of how much these Masters and beings have retained their individual spirit, given that we are obviously witnesses of how God flows in them? The fine difference, i.e. how much is God within them and how much do they retain some form of individuality?

-Once you enter into God, you disappear there in order to become a Divine individuality – you become your own self as you have been before creation. And this is so natural for every person and every person will achieve it in time. This is the Essential Nature, the Primordial nature, in fact – there is nothing to become because you are – it is a matter of a Deep realisation, a Deep penetration into yourself. And again – if you are allowed to enter within, because there are many meditations which reach up to some point, but Buddha has surpassed meditation and he says: A person who has achieved the Nothingness and has known Nirvana – they may not meditate. – To them meditation is amusement, but they can do it as a compromise – if they decide… But they are above meditation.

(Interviewer)- Alright, but with such a state of the Soul, of the Spirit…

– Pure Spirit.

(Interviewer)- …this means that what is human and the ego are completely eliminated, right?

– There is no Higher self there either. With the saints there is also a finer ego, here there is no inferiour nature, no Higher nature, all the degrees of ego have been removed.

(Interviewer)- The question is: what do they self-create as, they must self-create as Deities?

– Pure Spirit – Pure, Aware Spirit… It is a Mystery – you want an explanation – there is none.

(Interviewer)- No, but as Deities as well, because God already flows within?

– Deities on the lower levels, on the higher levels – Gods and Elders.

Bodhidharma himself: Self-created.  Of him they say: Self-created, a rock, an Absolute Indestructibility. He is Truth in a body – Bodhidharma – we are speaking of him and others like him. He radiates a Mighty and Pure Speechlessness, there is no knowledge here.

Buddha is his Master but he has his own Sound, he has achieved it. He is such a fierce loyalty towards the Truth that Buddha marvels at him.

Bodhidharma does not speak, he resounds. He burns as if he were a dragon – really, a living Dragon – such is his style. He appeared somewhat wild – nothing like it, he is Primordial within. He crushes all rituals – see what he says – as a whole, rituals… There are exceptions – in every Secret Teaching there is one ritual and one only – a concentrate, everything else is… and it is done in special… So, he crushes all rituals, he says: The Truth within you is the Saviour, rituals are useless. (If you have entered within Truth, what kind of ritual will you perform to the Truth and the Nothingness, what will you show to them? Conditionally to God – yes…)

A rarely insightful Spirit with a lot of raw discipline – self-discipline, imposed out of Love.

All charities are useless shadows. They do not mean that you are within the Truth – notice – they are not a Temple.

Good deeds in the world are illusory ghosts. What is Essential is: are you within Truth or not? Your good deeds, leave them – are you within Truth or not? – an idea of his.

Bodhidharma is a very Deep Spirit, a very Deep Truth. Scientists have not comprehended him, nor Buddhists and such – pundits, Brahmans -because the Truth is not scientific. How would you comprehend such a Mystic – you are in science, He is within the Divine will and the Nothingness. And the Truth is Boundless, it is not scientific – for science, its time comes and it dies. The Truth is Boundless and Mystical. He lives on the earth not with scriptures, but with God and with the Truth – the most important thing, the Essence.

Such a being you cannot approve of, just forget about it, you cannot criticise him, you cannot praise him – there are only two ways – you either follow him, or you do not – everything else is… If you do not follow him, this is your funeral.

If you are seeking knowledge, you cannot comprehend Bodhidharma – again a wrong approach. You must sincerely look for the Truth, then the connection with him and with such a person, happens.

Bodhidharma is something of the Abyss, something of the Boundlessness; he has descended and has become part of the Truth, because he carries It. He understood every teaching because he had understood himself. Then every teaching gives itself to you, it reveals itself to you, it gives you its Core. And whoever has not understood themselves, they do not understand even their own teaching. Look, what simple style.

His Wisdom:

The Secret of Truth is beyond holy books. – There is no time to waste. The Kingdom is within, God is within, how will you substitute God with holy books, with a bible and a quran. And Al Hallaj says this as well: I prefer to be Divinely-Inspired myself, and not the bible. – This is my addition: in fact, I am Divinely-Inspired since before my birth.

The Way is to discover things Unknown – says Bodhidharma. There are no… the known things have died; here you find new inspirations – like Basilides.

What is right and what is wrong? – they ask him. – Discerning with the Spirit is right, and with the mind – is wrong.

Your actions are your scriptures – your way of life. – Look at Christ: both in the Scripture and beyond the scriptures. It is God within him that acts. – The holy books – says Bodhidharma – are merely words; and your life, especially this Concealed life – this is the Scripture.

Immediately after the evil has been committed – says he – it is already indestructible, it will already divert you. – And this is why we gradually… God knows that the purification and liberation is gradual and this is why He is patient towards people, towards seekers.

People do not know the Pure Way, because for them the delusion is very convenient. – it gives you comfort etc.

Greet – he says – the storm, and it already accepts you. – Like Christ in the boat. He greets it, he speaks with the spirits of the storm, they are friends. His disciples, you know what a tragedy – they do not even have mere faith, let us not speak of Love…

Love the storm and the whirlpool – this is your Approach to life – the whirlpool already becomes a Wellspring. – His style is magnificent, I am just presenting a small part of it here.

People want to see only what they desire to see, and therefore they miss the Truth – do you understand, what is convenient… – It is not the flesh and bones that fear death, only the mind fears it. People fear death because they see themselves as existing. – They do not know themselves as non-created, as Nothingness. The person believes that they exist and fear is natural, it sticks. And they consider themselves existing.

Every Enlightened one is a Buddha, Buddha is but One of many.

Do not want to understand the answer – says Bodhidharma – learn to sense it. – The sense is really a big thing, and Buddha explains it, next time I will tell you.

If you are seeking a blessing, this is a wrong approach. It comes together with the curse. – This is one… if you want to be good, evil has already stuck, this is the dual games of the mind, the endless mind games, it is like wanting to become a saint – you will never know the Right Way, God – on a Deep level. This is why the Master says: Saints are the children of angels. I will repeat it again: If you are seeking the blessing, it comes together with the curse, but if you are seeking only Dao, only God, then you will meet only the Pure blessing – here is the difference.

If you study the past in the right way and observe the present carefully, then the future is clear.

Punishment and suffering – this is karma in action.

The True person values Truth in its entirety, not up to a point.

Whatever life gives you, this is fruit from a seed you have sown in the past.

It is not history that is important, but the Secret of your Spirit.

If darkness comes to visit you, it is not darkness that is important, but whether you are armed with Truth or not – just forget about the darkness… what you are thinking of (is important).

The trees – he says, see what beauty – are not trees, but monks. The tiger is not a tiger, but a warrior in action, an Ancient Warrior, death in movement. – By the way, one tiger has an occurrence with one Chinese Master, I forgot whether he was a Buddhist or Daoist, it does not matter… A tiger aimed towards him from afar, in order to crush him, with high speed. He stands absolutely, deeply immutable, this means the biggest dynamic, within the Peace. He only shifts and slices the tiger in two with one arm. The tiger did not calculate his strength, he is still a warrior, but he has met a warrior on another level. – I just remembered…

Whatever you have been bestowed with, it was sown from your past.

Whoever practices Truth, they do not enact deeds, they enact Purity  – see, what style… Where will you meet, with the poor saint… I have studied them, I can tell you such subtleties about John of  Rila, he is very pleasant, but very poor story, there is no way that he could be a Master. And he made one fine mistake in his life, because the woman who loved him could have sent him into God much higher than sainthood (could). One beautiful young woman – but he ignored her in the name of seeking, he made a fine mistake, in his next reincarnation he will understand that she is a Portal towards something much Deeper than his sainthood. He did not understand, poor him, it does not matter. – Whoever practices Truth, does not enact deeds, they enact Purity.

If you are not diligent in Truth, your prayers will not bring you self-awareness. They will only bring you beneficial karma and a fortunate incarnation, but not self-awareness.

Only one in a million attains Enlightenment without a Master. – Because they have sown in a different way, they were a Deep seeker and when they are born – it simply happens.

There is nothing more Supreme to attain than the Samadhi of Voidness. – This is the final aim of evolution, of development.

If, in the darkness, you see a Bright Light – the darkness will disappear. – this is what the Initiated ones see, the Sages – a Bright Light, not darkness, not half-light.

Only the Pure Heart has Silence, the other hearts are whispering.

Not saying a word, you can express the Deepest Truths.

Purity and awareness – this is the Supreme Way – the Purity of Awareness above all.

Buddha is the one who is liberated through Awareness. – Buddha knew his smallest gesture, how he feeds, how he is sitting – attentiveness in everything. With this attentiveness you could never create karma. You cannot create it – you are beyond karma. This is the Divine Preconception, to be within the Nothingness.

(Interviewer)- Supreme-awakedness…

-Yes… – Buddha is the state of awakedness, of striking Awareness. – Thus says Bodhidharma of his Master.

One moment of doubt – says Bodhidharma – and you may already be captive. – If you give in briefly to one bad thought, you have already been captured – how important is the instant!

(Interviewer)- This is why the Master (Beinsa Douno) says: Try one day, even just one day, not to allow from morning until evening even one bad thought.

-Yes.

When we are aware, there is no salvation and deliverance needed. There is no need of being saved.

Only the Truth has a Clear Eye, therefore – follow the Truth.

In the Deep Life there is no sainthood – you are asking yourself: is there sainthood – there is only Boundlessness, like Buddha.

The ones who have not seen the Truth within themselves meditate in vain. – (I knew meditating people, there were some here, I do not want to say in which teaching… He curses and swears, do you understand, as I do not want to use worse words… and he meditates – such meditations will come out of this in time… I saw him desperate, but this is another topic… I still secretly… we had friendship, but this is another thing, this is concealed.)

In the Deep Life there is no sainthood, there is Boundlessness.

Whoever has had the experience of Truth, they can no longer be corrupted. If they have experienced Samadhi once, then whatever they do, they enter another level and Bodhidharma says: What is Enlightenment? This is the ability to not create delusion. To not create death.

The deluded ones unceasingly create evil in the world and they claim that it exists. – Look at Christ: what existed for Him? The world, the church, the rituals, or God? Immediately… Only God exists for Him.

(Interviewer)- The current topic – the best immunity is the Truth.

-Yes, the Master says of immunity: If you have one Divine thought to guide you in life, this is Divine immunity, you are already changing the human immunity.

Only people with a Supreme Reality do not create karma, they have achieved Dharma, i.e. the Truth – they have been accepted by Truth.

If your mind is Pure and mastered, then all your practices are Pure – whatever it is you are doing – sweeping the floor, in the woods, chopping trees…

When you drink the Truth for a long time, you become Buddha. – says Bodhidharma.

People foolishly occupy themselves with raising temples, statues – the other trap – and they are not able to raise Buddha within themselves, the Truth within themselves, the Buddha nature.

Discernment liberates from all evil deeds.

Here Bodhidharma had a meeting with one emperor, I will tell you about it now, it is known as a whole – I have presented it somewhere for the ones who follow my lectures.

The emperor said… He came with his whole entourage –not to someone else, but to Bodhidharma:

-I have done many righteous deeds!

Bodhidharma gazed at him and immediately perturbed him:

-But how could you do any deed, you have no Dharma, you do not have the Truth within yourself, you have no Spirit, you have no Reality.

The emperor was perturbed because he was with his people, and said:

-I built temples, I gave much for translations of holy books, I gave the people food.

Bodhidharma was laughing uncontrollably, he said:

– You are truly a fool! You have not built anything until you have built the Truth within yourself.

The emperor was even more distraught – if he could run away… but there was no way – he had already stumbled upon this. Because he knew that Bodhidharma is coming and he knew that this is a Great Master, and he must greet him – and maybe another time he will not greet him, but in this case…

He asks again:

-Then is there something holy or not?

Bodhidharma laughs again:

-There is nothing holy and unholy, there is only Truth and Boundlessness. Holiness and unholiness are games of the mind, this is a fall. As with good and evil, everything dual, like darkness and light. You are truly a fool! – in front of the whole entourage.

The emperor, as I was telling you, if he could run… but he cannot, he will embarrass himself in front of everyone. He was amazed by such direct Word, and straightforward – sincerity.

Bodhidharma – this is the fragrance of the Great Truth, like Buddha, but if you are not ready for the Truth, for you it is torment.

Bodhidharma is a speaking Spirit – some ask ’’are there spirits’’ – if you meet him, you will understand. And truly, if you go amongst the Gods, what holiness can you see there? This is Boundlessness, Truth and Mystery – and a Great Completeness. Here the saint is a stain, they will stain this world if they enter it – a fog.

The matter of mastering the mind – says Bodhidharma – is the most Essential. – Only from here you embark towards yourself and towards Knowing God. The saints do not have self-knowledge. There are some exceptions, one of them is St. Bernard and there are some other ones. – In self-knowledge there is no mind, neither light or dark mind. Pure Spirit, no impurities.  Nothing dual. – The Sage is not good, they are Love and Boundlessness. With them, both sainthood and sin are limitations, the Sage grows beyond both.

Translated by Ruah Ezekiel