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beautiful it is, how poetic it is, how musical it is. Once your idea of negating disappears and something positive settles inside, a secret door opens, life starts revealing its mysteries to you. Those mysteries can be revealed only to friends; they cannot be revealed to anybody, they cannot be made public. Only when you are in deep intimate relationship with life does life open its heart to you. In that very opening one comes to know what truth is, what love is, what bliss is, what god is.
Sannyas is life-affirmative. Categorically, absolutely with no exceptions. Life is good to me, life is all to me, there is nothing more. One has not to seek another kind of life, one has to go deep into this life and the other kind is found hidden in it. The other shore is hidden on this shore, the other world is hidden in this world. We have not to go away from it, we have to go deeper into it.
Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters
Chapter #4
Chapter title: None
4 January 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8001045
ShortTitle: RAFTER04
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed. It is for reference purposes only.]
(To Renate) -- This is your name: Ma Bhora. Bhora means the early dawn; those beautiful moments when the night is over and the day has not yet arrived -- that little interval, that gap.
Sannyas is exactly that interval: you are leaving the past, your mind, all that you have known yourself to be. The old will be gone and the new will take a little time to come. And between these two, great courage is needed. The man who is not courageous enough can fall back, can become afraid of the emptiness, can be frightened that the familiar is disappearing and there seems to be no sign of truth arising. That's why very few people take the initiative to move into the unknown, and god is the most unknown, the most unknowable phenomenon.
The function of the master is to help you in this interval. Once the sun has risen then there is no problem; then the new mind has arrived,
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