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we have to learn the art of living today without any past, without any future. This moment is all -- there is no other moment. God knows only the present, and if we also know only the present, then the meeting...
Snap Your Fingers, Slap Your Face and Wake Up!
Chapter #10
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10 June 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7906105
ShortTitle: WAKEUP10
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Anand Rosalba. Anand means bliss; Rosalba means a white rose. Bliss is a white rose. It is white because white is the combination of all the colors. White represents totality. White is the most positive phenomenon, just as the black is the most negative. The black represents the absence of all colors, and white, the presence of all colors.
And my sannyasin has to be a white rose. Nothing has to be renounced; everything has to be rejoiced. Nothing has to be rejected; everything has to be accepted and welcomed, because it is through acceptance that transformation happens. Transformation never comes through rejection. Rejection is suppressive; it is cutting your intrinsic parts. It leaves you bleeding, it leaves you half-alive; it leaves you lukewarm. It takes all energy away from you and it creates a conflict and inner war.
If you repress sex you will be in constant war, and you can never win. Failure is absolutely certain, because the more you fight with your sex, the more you give energy to it. And the same is the case with anger, jealousy, greed. Fighting is not the way of wisdom; it is the fool's path. The stupid and the mediocre fight. The intelligent ones transform; they absorb.
Sex has to be transformed into superconsciousness. And it contains the seed of superconsciousness, just as anger contains the seed of compassion and greed contains the seed of sharing. They are not enemies, they are friends; they have to be befriended.
One has to learn to accept one's all energies; then only life can become an orchestra. And the white represents the orchestra of life and the rose represents the opening of your heart.
Bliss is a white rose. It is opening of the heart and it
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