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you. I have been suffering from sleeplessness for as long as I can remember and I was hoping that when I learnt meditation it would help me. I expected to have to learn a lot of things, but this can't be true can it? I mean, Monday night, Tuesday night, I have slept like a child." I said, "But what else have you done? Have you taken some pills?" (which I really knew would not have helped him sleep like a child) ''Or have you worked more than usual?'' But he said he had done nothing.
So, I said, "Then maybe it is because you have learnt this meditation. Let me tell you a little story. About half a year ago I visited you together with a good friend who has now passed away." That friend was Ajit Mookerji, an Indian writer of books about tantric art, kundalini and many things. I thought that these two people should meet because they have a common interest in tantric art. Then I told him, "I walked behind you while you showed us your wonderful house."
The house was built in the 50's when Danish architecture was very fine, and it was a wonderful villa, "You had a wonderful workshop and so on. As I was walking behind you, I heard you talking about these wonderful paintings, about the kitchen, about how the house was built, and all that. But that was only half of what you said." Then he looked at me, a little astonished, and he asked, "What do you mean by that?"
: "Well," I replied, "the other half was – and then there is that damned road out there, and all these cars driving on that road. Over there is a neighbor who has a big dog and it is barking all the time. Over there the children are a nuisance!" "Did I say all that?" he asked. “Yes," I replied, “you said all that. Now maybe, for the first time, you can understand that you moved out of the city twenty years ago, but you just did not realize that the city moved along with you". "No," he said, "maybe not. But how can that be?"
"Well", I replied, "you sat in your garden didn't you, and meditated yesterday and the day before yesterday. For the first time in your life, you heard all the sounds as a whole. You realized that the traffic is not there because of you, the children are not there because of you and neither is the dog. The children are children, and after all the play of children is not a menace and you have told your subconscious mind that, through this meditation. Therefore, your subconscious mind has withdrawn the guards, so you can sleep. For the first time in maybe fifteen
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