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the peak of existence -- why should it be so with man? Whenever you attain to a peak, almost side by side the valley becomes deeper. A high peak can exist only with a deep valley. For rocks there is no unhappiness, no valley part, because their happiness is also on the plain ground. Man is a peak, he has risen high, but because of this rise, side by side there is a depth, a valley. You look down and you feel nauseous, you look down and you feel afraid. The valley is part of the peak, the valley cannot exist without the peak and the peak cannot exist without the valley, they are together, they are a togetherness. But a man standing at the height of the peak looks down and feels nauseous, giddy, afraid, fearful.
Man is conscious -- that is where the whole trouble lies.
Consciousness is a two-edged sword; it cuts both ways. It can make you so utterly happy that that type of happiness is not known anywhere in existence; it can make you so unhappy and miserable that that type of unhappiness is also not known anywhere else in the world. Man is a double possibility; by being conscious two roads suddenly open before him.
Consciousness can become a blessing, but it can become a curse also. Every blessing comes with a curse, the problem is that it depends on you how you choose. Let me explain it to you, then we can enter the sutra easily.
Man is conscious. The moment man becomes conscious he becomes conscious of the end also -- that he is going to die. He becomes conscious of tomorrow, conscious of time, conscious of the passing of time -- then sooner or later the end will come near. The more he becomes conscious, the more death becomes a problem, the only problem. How to avoid it? This is using consciousness in a wrong way. It is just as if you have given a child a telescope, and the child doesn't know how to use it. He can look into the telescope from the wrong end.
Consciousness is a telescope, you can look through it from the wrong end. And the wrong end has some benefits of its own -- that creates more trouble. Through the wrong end of the telescope you can see that many benefits are possible; in the short range many benefits are possible.
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