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in a meeting two persons are needed.
This is a very strange meeting.
This meeting happens only when one is absent.
If two are present it never happens.
Of you are there and god is there
Then it won't happen
Because you will be the barrier.
If you are not there then it happens.
In your absence the barrier falls
The block disappears
Suddenly you are one with god
There is nothing to divide, nothing to separate.
It is like a dewdrop
Slipping from a lotus leaf into the lake.
Be a dewdrop -- allow yourself
To slip from the lotus leaf
Don't cling to the lotus leaf.
This buddhafield is only a lake
Sannyas is only a lotus leaf
You are a dewdrop on the lotus leaf
Don't cling! Slip!
And go dancing, go singing, die into the lake!
And immediately you are no more but god is.
And that's what you in reality are>
You are that -- 'Tat-tvam-asi'
That is one of the greatest statements ever made;
Thou art that.
No Man is an Island
Chapter #4
Chapter title: None
4 May 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8005045
ShortTitle: ISLAND04
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed.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 Iris) -- Your name: Ma Iris. Iris is a beautiful
Name; it means rainbow.
In Greek mythology
The rainbow represents the messenger of gods
Because it is a bridge between man and god.
It joins the earth and heaven
And it is seven-colored.
Man also has seven planes of being.
Existence is seven-layered and the rainbow
Connects existence in every dimension.
My sannyasin has to be a multi-colored
Multi-dimensional person -- not one-dimensional.
The ancient idea of monks and nuns
Was one-dimensional.
they were escapists, they were avoiding life.
My sannyasin has to live in the life
With all its sweetness and bitterness
With
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