What did Buddha discover? Buddha discovered the Truth! The direct, natural, and simple Truth of Your own Being! This was what Buddha discovered! You are also here for this Discovery.
So, the adventure of Buddha, this Self-Discovery adventure, is your own adventure. Thus, abandon your interest in Buddha and focus, put your real interest in Yourself. You cannot find anything other than what Buddha found when you find Yourself.
So, you need to focus on this. Focus on this Truth, on the Truth of your Self-encounter. This Self-encounter is the Realization of what You are. Therefore, it's not something you will accomplish by studying Buddha's life or studying Ramana's life or Jesus' life. Here, it's about you "studying yourself."
This "studying yourself" is to investigate the Truth of what is going on here and now within yourself. And when you look inwardly, you will at first be able to see what Buddha first saw in himself: a movement of restlessness, an inner movement of psychological disturbance. Mind lives in this condition. This is the egoic mind's condition.
Then, when you look inside yourself, what you notice is this psychological disorder, this psychological confusion, this restless movement, this movement of thoughts. Under this movement, you mistake yourself, you identify with it and get disturbed. Then, first you need to look and see this inside yourself, what's going on here and now. As long as there is no inner silence, inner stillness, there will be no Truth! And mind's movement is restlessness. It is conflict. This is the nature of the egoic mind.
Our emphasis on the importance of Meditation – and that was Buddha's path – is essential! You need to find out what Meditation is.
Meditation carries an extraordinary beauty in itself! Meditation gives you a Real Vision of Yourself. This Real Vision of Yourself, of Yourself, is Buddha's Vision. It is Christ's Vision. It is Ramana's Vision. So, to this question "what did Buddha discover?", the only answer is the answer of this Self-discovery. If you discover the Truth within Yourself, you know what Christ revealed, what Ramana revealed, and what Buddha revealed.
So, your work is towards the Realization of this Stillness, this Silence, the absence of this false center. Notice, Buddha didn't mention the word "God," which was different from Ramana and Christ. But they all referred, pointed to the same direction, the direction of Truth. The word itself is not the Truth. The word "Truth," the word itself, is not the Truth. The word "God" is not God. So, the answer to this lies in the Revelation of your own Being, In What your own Being reveals. So, this Revelation is Ramana's Revelation, Buddha's Revelation, Christ's Revelation, and it is your own Revelation.
So, our emphasis in these meetings is to show you that Happiness is possible in this Self-Realization, only in this Self-Realization, in the Realization of the Truth, the Truth that You are, the Truth that You bring here, now.
So, this is an association with Yourself. Then, the Guru's figure is just a figure. The Reality of your Being is the Divine Reality. It is God's Reality. It is Truth's Reality, or whatever name you want to give This.
The point is: find out what Ramana found, what Buddha found, and what Christ found. Then, you have the Revelation of Truth, and this Truth is the end of confusion and suffering. This is the only Truth. This Truth is the Divine Truth.
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