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to them that this is your own doing, that you can get out of it; that there is a way out of it, that there is a state beyond it; that life is not what you think it is -- your thinking about life is just like the thinking of a blind man about light. The blind man can go on thinking about light, but he will never be able to come to a true conclusion. His conclusions may be very logical, but still they will miss the experience. Light is an experience; you don t need logic for it -- what you need is eyes.
Buddha has eyes -- and eyes are attained only when you have gone beyond the mind, when you have become a witness of the mind, when you have attained to a higher state than psychology; when you know that you are not your thoughts, not your body, when you know that you are only knowing -- the energy that reflects, the energy that is capable of seeing: that you are pure seeing.
Once Buddha was asked, Who are you?" He was such a beautiful man and the Buddhahood had conferred such grace on him, that many times he was asked, Who are you?" He looked like an emperor or a god who had come from heaven, and he lived like a beggar! Again and again he was asked, "Who are you?" And the man who was asking was a great scholar. He said, "Are you from the world of gods? Are you a god?"
Buddha said, "No."
"Then are you a GANDHARVA?
GANDHARVAS are the musicians of the gods. Buddha had such music around him -- the music of silence, the sound of no sound, one hand clapping -- that it was natural to ask him, "Are you a GANDHARVA, a celestial musician?"
Buddha said, "No."
And the man went on asking. There are many categories in Hindu mythology from gods to man. Then finally he asked, "Are you a great king, a CHAKRAVARTIN, one who rules over the whole world?"
And Buddha said, "No."
Annoyed, the scholar asked, "Are you a man, or not even that?"
Buddha said. 'Don't be annoyed, but what can I do? I have to state the truth as it is. I am not a man either."
Now the scholar was very very angry, enraged. He said, Then are you an animal?"
Buddha said, "No, not an animal, not a tree, not a rock."
Then who are
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