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your best, but it won't fit with your nature. I wanted to see exactly if it can fit with your nature or not, because if it can fit with your nature, awareness won't be of much help -- but it cannot fit.
And there is no way to know before you try, because man is not a mechanism -- man is a freedom. All possibilities are open, so one has to try. And it is always good to try the opposite. It imme-diately makes things clear. If you are trying awareness, it is good sometimes to try unawareness. Then things become very clear -- whether you can move into it or not.
If you cannot move at all... and you tried, but you cannot move into it at all. It won't come naturally to you. So now we can move to awareness. Follow awareness and remain alert, and watchful, and a witness.
And always remember, whatsoever I say, even if sometimes it feels contradictory, try to do it.
Blessed Are the Ignorant
Chapter #6
Chapter title: Mystery is he Intrinsic Nature of Things
9 December 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7612095
ShortTitle: BLESSD06
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[The Soma group is present. One member says:... my body was weak, but I think it became much stronger when the blocks were removed from the heart area. There was a very very strong movement... energy going up to the head.]
It has been helpful, it has been a blessing. And of course you become afraid, because when such incredible things happen, it becomes difficult because you cannot control, and you don't know where it is going to land you. It is almost like a person is going mad, and the boundaries of madness and of real sanity, overlap. And when the energy really takes possession of you, it is almost as if you are possessed by some spirit. It is your own energy, but it feels as if somebody has entered you and taken possession.
When blocks melt, great work is needed, and your energy moves really fast, with incredible velocity. Only then the heat is created in which the block will melt.
In India we call the whole process, 'tapascharya'. Tapas means heat. And the heat is needed, mm? because a block means
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