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miserable. So one thing can be deduced, and can be deduced unconditionally, that just by being alive one is not bound to be happy. Just being alive is not enough to be happy -- something more is needed to be happy, something 'plus'. Life plus awareness... then happiness arises, because in awareness, in the light of awareness, the darkness of ego disappears.
Now, when life has a plus point of awareness great things happen. First: the ego disappears. and with the ego disappears death, because only ego can die -- because ego was born. With ego, birth has disappeared, death has disappeared. With ego, your separation from existence has disappeared.
This is the meaning of the crucifixion: ego is crucified. When Jesus is crucified, Christ is born -- that is the meaning of resurrection. On one side crucifixion, on the other side resurrection.
Die if you really want to be alive -- very paradoxical. but tremendously true, absolutely true. As you are, you are neither dead nor alive. You are hanging in-between, hence the misery. the tension, the anguish. You are split: you are neither alive nor dead. Either be totally alive, and then you will know what life is; or be totally dead, then too you will know what life is -- because with totality opens the door of Tao.
Be total. A man who is asleep cannot be total in anything. You are eating, you are not total there; you are thinking a thousand and one things, you are dreaming a thousand and one dreams, you are just stuffing mechanically. You may be making love to your woman or to your man you are not totally there. You may be thinking of other women: making love to your wife and thinking of some other woman. Or you may be thinking of the market, or of the prices of things that you want to purchase, or of a car, or of a house, or of a thousand and one things -- and you are making love mechanically.
Be total in your acts, and if you are total you have to be aware; nobody can be total without being aware. Being total means no other thinking. If you are eating, you are simply eating; you are totally here-now. The eating is all: you are not only stuffing, you are enjoying it. Body, mind, soul all are
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