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has no character, but if you follow him you will have to follow his character as you understand it. You cannot see his consciousness, you can only see how he behaves, and through that behaviour you can find some cues. You will miss.
The only way to become a buddha is to be yourself.
It is going to be a totally different and unique phenomenon. It is not going to be a repetition. Existence never repeats. It is infinitely original. It never repeats; there is no need. It goes on innovating new persons, new beings. Never again will you be here; never before have you been here. Totally new, fresh, you come. Why try to become stale?
"lt happened in a very famous hotel. A new person was being recruited. The experienced veteran bellhop was explaining the ropes to the young trainee+. 'This thing,' he said, 'isn't all carrying bags. In a big hotel, you're forever encountering delicate situations and you have to think fast.
'For instance, I had to deliver some ice to a particular hotel room and walked into the one across the hall by mistake. The door shouldn't have been open, but it was. Inside the room, the bathroom door was open -- which it shouldn't have been -- and inside the bathroom was a fat lady taking a bath. In a minute, I knew the fat lady was going to scream her head off."' -- Fat ladies are dangerous.
"'Thinking fast, I said, "Excuse me, sir," and left. The "excuse me" was politeness, but the "sir" was tact, and it saved the day. She figured I hadn't been there long enough to see anything and she calmed down. Get it.?'
The trainee got it -- and there starts the trouble -- but the next day he was in the infirmary with a black eye and assorted bruises. The veteran said, 'And what happened to you.?'
The trainee said, 'I was following your advice. I was delivering ice and got into the wrong room and there was a man and a woman on the couch with almost all their clothes off. So I said quickly, "Pardon me, gentlemen," and the guy got off that couch and nearly killed me."'
If you have got cues from anybody else other than your own awareness, you are moving in a very dangerous situation. You will miss yourself and
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