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Man is an Island
Chapter #3
Chapter title: None
3 May 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8005035
ShortTitle: ISLAND03
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed.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 Maitena) This is your name: Ma Asti Maitena. Asti means existence. Maitena means esteemed by, loved by.
Existence care for everybody. Without existence loving us we cannot exist even for a single moment. It goes on pouring life into us
We are immensely esteemed by existence
Although we go on taking it for granted --
That's where our stupidity lies.
If we take it for grated there is no gratitude
We think as if we deserve
We think as if it is our right; in fact
We think as if we are not getting as much as we deserve, hence there is
A constant undercurrent of complaints.
This is the state of the irreligious man.
The religious man feels gratitude
Immense gratitude.
Just for sheer being he is grateful.
And once you start feeling gratefulness
There are thousand and one things
To feel grateful for.
And the more you feel grateful
The more gifts go on arriving.
Many gifts are not reaching to us
Because of our complaining mind.
If this complaining mind is put aside
All the stars are ours and all the mysteries
That existence contains are ours.
(To Rinie) -- Your name: My Dhyan Rinie. Dhyan means means Meditation. Rinie is a beautiful name;
It has many meanings and all meanings are of
Significance.
The first meaning is pure, purity.
Man needs a pure heart to commune with existence.
The heart becomes pure
When the mind is no more dominant within you.
Till the mind dominates
The heart remains impure.
The mind clings to the heart
Like dust clinging to a mirror.
Mind is nothing but thought-dust.
Each thought is just dust and nothing else.
One has to clean
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