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this starts happening you become a rejoicing
You become a serenity, you become utter silence;
And a silence which is not dead
A silence which sings, a silence which dances.
A silence which is not empty.
A silence which is over full.
This is going to be your method:
Learn to accept life as it comes.
When something happens, accept it.
When it disappears, accept it.
When pleasure comes, accept it.
When it evaporates, accept it.
And the same with pain: remain non-judgmental,
Just a silent witness to all.
This is the most profound secret
Of all the buddhas, of all the awakened ones.
(To Kathleen) -- This is your name: Ma Arihanto.
Arihanto is also a name of Gautam the Buddha.
Arihanto means one who has conquered all his enemies.
There are two kinds of enemies; the first category
Consists of enemies who are outside you.
Buddha conquers them.
The awakened person conquers them:
Because he drops his enmity
Because he no more thinks of them as enemies --
That is his victory.
They may still think him as the enemy but
For him there is no enemy at all in the world.
He is friendly to everything.
That's why Jesus could say
In the last moments of his life
'Father, forgive these people
Because they know not what they are doing.'
He is praying for those who are crucifying him.
This is the meaning of Arihanto, first meaning:
Conquering the outer enemies
Not that they are conquered in the ordinary way
Not in the way of Alexander the great
But in a totally different way
They are no more enemies.
The enlightened person
Has no enmity towards anybody.
And there is a deeper meaning also
The second category:
He has conquered all his inner enemies --
The ego, the greed, the anger, the jealousy,
All those inner enemies.
They consist in fact of one
And the name of that one enemy
Which is hidden behind all these faces
Is unconsciousness -- He
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