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love, which is the ordinary course, you jump out of aloneness too. You jump deeper.
From two you get into one, from one you get into none -- no-one. That is ADVAITA, that is the non-dual; you cannot even call it 'one'. And that is the source. That is the ocean, we are the waves of it. And seeing that ocean, you know you have never been born and you are not going to die either. Your whole existence was a dream existence. All has disappeared.
BUDDHA HAS CALLED this tendency to be in love or to be alone, the disposition of the ego to remain -- either in relationship or in no relationship, but the ego wants to remain; either as a lover or as a meditator, either as a worldly man or as an other-worldly man, but the ego wants to remain -- Buddha has called this disposition AVIDYA, ignorance.
Remember, AVIDYA does not mean non-knowledge. It simply means unawareness. AVIDYA is a disposition to treat the ego as an absolute. This creates a gap between man and the universe -- because of it, man is not in his right relation to the world. This falsification is called by Buddha AVIDYA -- ignorance, non-awareness.
You move into love in a kind of non-awareness, and you move into meditation also in a kind of non-awareness. If you become aware, love disappears, meditation disappears.
But let me remind you, otherwise you can misinterpret the whole thing: when what you call love disappears, another kind of love arises. You don't have any inkling of it. When meditation disappears then a totally different kind of meditativeness arises; you don't have any idea of it. Your meditation is effort -- practice, cultivation, conditioning. When this meditation is dropped then a simple meditative quality arises in your being: you are simply silent, for no reason at all. Not that you are trying to be silent, not that you are trying to be still, not that you are making any efforts to remain tranquil. You are simply tranquil -- because there is nobody to disturb. The ego is not there, the sole cause of disturbance is gone. You are simply quiet -- not that you are trying to be quiet. Trying to be quiet simply means you are disturbed, split, divided in two parts --
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