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that you are to lose yourself. If you are dancing then dance so totally that only dance remains and you are not there. If you are humming, hum so totally that humming is there but you are not there. And it happens: a moment comes when the humming goes on as if on its own accord. You are not doing it, it is happening. And the dancing happens on its own accord.
Whenever you have that feeling, things will start changing in your life immediately. From that moment things will be totally different, the world will have a different taste -- the taste of tao.
So being lost is the key for you. You are not to become an observer, you are not to stand aloof and see. Awareness is not going to be your way -- awareness will come at the last moment. When you are completely lost, suddenly you will see that you are lost, you are not there, and yet there is a suffused awareness, a twilight awareness -- not very hard but very soft. And it is not coming from you; you are not there. It is coming from nowhere or it is coming from everywhere, which means the same. But you are not to look for it and you are not to practice awareness. You have to practice losing yourself, getting lost -- that is the meaning of tanmaya.
It is one of the most beautiful words I am going to give to you. It is the last stage of love where the lover is lost in the beloved, the devotee is lost in god or the disciple is lost in his master.
For Madmen Only (Price of Admission: Your Mind)
Chapter #2
Chapter title: None
2 April 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7704025
ShortTitle: MADMEN02
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Prem means love and aja means unborn. And that's how we exist: we are born like seeds -- something has yet to flower. The love has yet to happen, it is not yet born; it is there, hankering to be born, it is still in the womb.
Every man is love unborn, hence the misery, the anguish. Because the seed cannot be contented as the seed. It wants to become a tree, it wants to play with the wind, it wants to rise to the sky -- it is ambitious! It wants to flower, to spread its fragrance to the wind -- it is
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