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result. Death and life are not two either.
THE NAME OF THE BOW IS LIFE,
BUT ITS WORK IS DEATH.
So death cannot be really the opposite -- it must be the lyre. If the name of the bow is life, then the name of the lyre must be death. And between these two the fairest harmony of life comes up.
You are just in the middle between death and life -- you are neither. So don't cling to life and don't be afraid of death. You are the music between the lyre and the bow. You are the clash and the meeting and the merging, and the harmony, and the fairest that is born out of it.
Don't choose!
If you choose, you will be wrong. If you choose, you will become attached to one, identified with one. Don't choose!
Let life be the bow, let death be the lyre -- and you be the harmony, the hidden harmony.
THE HIDDEN HARMONY IS BETTER THAN THE OBVIOUS.
The Hidden Harmony
Chapter #2
Chapter title: Fast Asleep Even While Awake
22 December 1974 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 7412220
ShortTitle: HARMON02
Audio: Yes
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Length: 101 mins
MEN ARE AS FORGETFUL AND HEEDLESS
IN THEIR WAKING MOMENTS
OF WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND THEM
AS THEY ARE DURING THEIR SLEEP.
FOOLS, ALTHOUGH THEY HEAR,
ARE LIKE THE DEAF;
TO THEM THE ADAGE APPLIES
THAT WHENEVER THEY ARE PRESENT
THEY ARE ABSENT.
ONE SHOULD NOT ACT OR SPEAK
AS IF HE WERE ASLEEP.
THE WAKING HAVE ONE WORLD IN COMMON;
SLEEPERS HAVE EACH A PRIVATE WORLD OF HIS OWN.
WHATEVER WE SEE WHEN AWAKE IS DEATH,
WHEN ASLEEP, DREAMS.
Heraclitus touches the deepest problem of man: that is -- fast asleep even while awake.
You sleep when you sleep, but you also sleep while you are awake. What is the meaning of it? -- because this is what Buddha says, this is what Jesus says, this is what Heraclitus says. You look wide awake, but that is only appearance; deep within you the sleep continues.
Even right now you are dreaming within: a thousand and one thoughts continue and you are not conscious of what is
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