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clear, because in your whole body only the witness is eternal; everything else is mortal. Sooner or later it will be in some grave. It has come from the earth, it will go back to the earth.
Only the witness will fly, without leaving its footprints in the blue sky, to become part of the cosmos.
Buddha is simply a name for your witnessing.
To make it clear,
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Relax. Witness the body lying there almost dead. The mind is there -- maybe chattering a little bit -- but you are not it. You are simply a watcher.
In this moment you are at the greatest peak of your consciousness, and also the greatest depth.
Thousands of flowers are showering on you.
In this silence, in this serenity, the evening has become tremendously beautiful. Before Nivedano calls you back, collect as many flowers, as much fragrance, as much juice of your life as possible. And persuade the buddha to come with you. He has been hiding in the center for centuries -- bring him to the circumference, the world needs it.
This is the right moment for every buddha to come out. That is the only hope for the whole planet. If buddhas can come out to their circumference, in their daily activities, we can change the very fabric of human life on the earth. It can become a benediction.
Man has lived uncivilized for a single reason: he never went deep into himself.
I call only those people civilized who have reached their center, and who have seen themselves as buddhas.
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Come back, but show even in your coming back the grace, the silence, the joy, the blissfulness of this moment.
Sit for a few moments, just to recollect the golden path you have traveled and the strange man, the buddha, that you have found -- not as a separate entity from you, but just as your innermost being, your very soul.
Okay, Maneesha?
Yes, Beloved Master.
Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky
Chapter #2
Chapter title: Inertia of habit
2 November 1988 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium
Archive code: 8811025
ShortTitle: ISAN02
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