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to Lose But Your Head
Chapter #4
Chapter title: None
16 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7602165
ShortTitle: TOLOSE04
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[A sannyasin says: Now I know I am not... and this comes to me all the time. Not only when I'm meditating, but when I'm alone in the hotel room, it takes over. Can I let go of it?]
Let go of it. Don't resist it, don't fight it. That is the whole effort we are making here -- so that you disappear and something bigger than you takes possession. The host has to go before the guest can enter, because it is the same space in which the host exists. When the host disappears, the space is ready and the guest can enter. So don't be afraid.
It is natural to get afraid because one is falling into an abyss. Allow it, and if you become too much afraid take the locket in the hand and relax -- and I will be helping you.
... Never be afraid of nothingness, because that is the nature of the innermost being. It looks paradoxical, but the innermost being is just like non-being. That is the meaning of the buddhist concept of anatta -- no-self.
One is empty within, and the deeper you go, the more empty you become. At the very core there is infinite emptiness. Out of that nothingness everything has evolved, and back into that nothingness everything disappears. So it is a great death, and fear is natural. But by and by you will become acquainted with the beauty of it, the blessing and the benediction of it.
Then one takes courage, and every day one goes a little deeper, a little deeper. One day you leave all fears and simply drown yourself in it. Here you disappear, and there is God. Man never meets God; when man disappears, God is, and while man remains, God is not. God is nothingness.
It has been good. Feel grateful, tremendously grateful -- and go into it.
[A sannyasin says: I feel very much depressed when I come to the ashram -- I don't know why. But I come because I feel very much love for you and I want to do all the meditations.
It seems all the people around here are very jealous. ... There are rules
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