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out of god. So the problem becomes very difficult. If there were any possibility to take human consciousness o~t of god, then everybody would have become religious immediately, because then we would have suffered tremendously, we would have missed. But there is no possibility -- all is god. Wherever we are, we are in him. We are born in him, live in him, die in him. We breathe in him... we breathe him!
He is so close that it is difficult to remember. Because it is so simple, that's why it has become so difficult.
God is not far away -- god is very close by.
And that is the meaning of the name. Henceforward, I declare you a god, a goddess. Now you have to just make it a constant remembrance. Be more and more alert about it.
I don't say become god, because you are god.... I say start behaving like a god, that's all.
The Buddha Disease
Chapter #3
Chapter title: This feeling of belonging -- that you are together with these trees and the stars and the moon and the sun -- is what I call trust
3 January 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7701035
ShortTitle: DISEAS03
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Veet means beyond, sandhaya means doubt -- beyond doubt. And that's how one approaches truth. Doubt never leads towards truth -- only trust. Trust is the key. It is difficult. To doubt is very easy. Every child is born with doubt. Doubt seems to be very natural. One has to learn trust; one has to grow in trust. Trust is not a given property -- one has to find it.
All the ingredients are there but they have to be mixed in the right proportion -- then trust arises. And with trust the whole life changes, is transformed.
So there are only two types of people in the world: the doubting people and the trusting people. The doubting people can believe, but they cannot trust. Belief is a substitute trust -- remember it. Belief is not real trust -- it is a pseudo-coin. When you don't have trust, you crate a pseudo-coin -- belief. Somebody believes in christianity, somebody in hinduism, somebody in the geeta, somebody in the koran.
People believe because it is really
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