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the forest, a wild flower. It grows as a big forest... the whole forest of pallas, and when it flowers, you cannot see anything -- just red flowers all over the forest... almost as if the forest is on fire because all leaves disappear and there are only flowers and flowers. And that's what I am creating -- an orange flame....
Beloved of My Heart
Chapter #3
Chapter title: Life is in Movement
5 May 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7605055
ShortTitle: MYHART03
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Dervish means a sufi mystic, a sufi seeker, and anand means bliss -- a blissful seeker.
Sufism is a mohammedan path...
It is just like Zen. Zen is the essence of Buddhism and Sufism is the essence of Mohammedanism, Islam, just as Yoga is the very essence of Hinduism. Only the names are different, but if you try to understand them, they are all one: Sufism, Yoga, Zen. The essential thing is one but their terminology is different.
Sufism has a mohammedan terminology, a very beautiful terminology.
[A sannyasin says: I 'm still getting migraine and I feel it must be something very deep. I don't go into it as much -- I keep on working and it often dissolves. But often I long for night-time to just go into oblivion.]
No, it is nothing deep. Even the head is not very deep, so how can a headache be? You have just got into the habit of it. It is really no more a disease but just a learned habit.
It can happen that a real disease may disappear and it will leave just a trace. The mind takes the cue from that trace and starts imagining it again and again and again. But as far as you and your misery is concerned, it is the same; whether it is real or unreal makes no difference. Just by saying it is unreal or mental does not help at all because you suffer almost in the same way. I see it is just a learned pattern.
So you have to unlearn it. Migraine is more or less always a habit. You have much energy. That's why when you are using it, the headache disappears. When you are not using it the energy accumulates and moves into the channel and again the headache is
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