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comes. you will be able to witness it, you will be able to see it and you will know 'The body is dying, the ego is dying, but I am not dying because I am the witness.' That witness is the very core of existence. That witness is what other religions call 'God'. and what Lieh Tzu. Chuang Tzu call 'Tao': the knower, the knowing element, consciousness, awareness, alertness.
Start living a conscious life. Do whatsoever you are doing, but do as if you are a witness to it -- watch it, silently go on observing it. Don't get lost into things; remain alert, remain beyond. Start from small things: walking on the road, eating, taking a bath, holding the hand of a friend, talking, listening -- small things. but keep alert. You will forget again and again. Pick it up again, find it out again. remember it again. This is what Buddha calls 'mindfulness'. what Gurdjieff calls 'self-remembering'.
Go on remembering that you are a witness. In the beginning it is arduous, hard, because our sleep is long. We have slept for many lives. we have become accustomed to sleep. we are snoring -- metaphysically. It is difficult. but if you try. by and by a ray of alertness will enter in your being. It is possible -- difficult, but possible -- not impossible. And this is the most valuable thing in life.
'ONLY HE AND I KNOW THAT yOU WERE NEVER BORN AND WILL NEVER DIE.'
I know you will never die, because you were never born, but you don't know it. My knowing is not going to help you -- you have to know it. It has to become your own understanding: 'a light unto yourself.
'IS IT HE WHO IS TRULY MISERABLE, IS IT WE WHO ARE TRULY HAPPY?'
And then he puts a question to his disciple 'Who is happy those who are alive or those who are dead? Who is really miserable -- those who are dead or those who are alive? And who is really happy?' And he leaves the question. It is a koan: the disciple has to meditate on it.
The parable says nothing. it ends abruptly. Now the disciple has to work it out. Now he has to meditate, he has to be aware of death. of life. of love, of this and that. And he has to meditate on the fact: Who is really happy? Are you happy by being
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