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there, and there is a communion, there is a transfer of energy, because no barrier exists....
It will happen. It is happening! Everybody takes his own time. Everybody moves with his own pace. It is going to happen. It is happening already, mm? You need not be worried about it.
Blessed Are the Ignorant
Chapter #5
Chapter title: All Becoming is Illusory
8 December 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7612085
ShortTitle: BLESSD05
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Anand means bliss, blissful, and daruma is a japanese name; a japanese form of an indian name. The original name was bodhi-dharma -- the founder of zen. The last part of his name, dharma, became in japan, daruma; bodhidharma means awareness nature. Dharma means the ultimate nature -- that which is already the case, that which you are, that which you are not to become. There -is no question of becoming... it is your being.
And this is one of the most fundamental things to be understood: all becoming is illusory. All that you can become will be false. All that you are already, to know it, is to know the truth. One has to arrive where one has always been. One has to become that which one is already -- and that is dharma. This is the japanese form -- daruma; it is more soft, and more loving.
This man, Bodhidharma, was one of the rare flowerings of the world. If you count people of his calibre, they can be counted on the fingers. Not more than a dozen men like him have existed in the whole of human history.
His approach is not that of philosophy -- his approach is that of awareness. One is not to learn, one is not to become more knowledgeable; one has simply to be aware of that which is.
When Bodhidharma reached China, the Emperor of China came to receive him on the border. He was expecting much, because many rumours had arrived that a rare being is coming, that a buddha is coming. The Emperor was a Buddhist, and he had done much for Buddhism in China. He was one of the main causes of China being converted to Buddhism.
The moment the Emperor met Bodhidharma, the first thing he asked was, 'Reverend sir,
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