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rejoices with me, you are as close as anyone can be.
And you all can be as close as existence allows. There is no need to feel resentful about anybody. It only hurts you, not the person to whom you are resentful.
Don't hurt yourself. And this shadow is going to disappear, you just have to be a little courageous, intelligent, alert.
You are lucky to be here. In the whole world there are five billion people. Out of five billion people, a few people are fortunate to be again in the golden atmosphere of a living master, of a Gautam Buddha.
I will tell you a small joke.
Marty was walking down the street when he saw his friend and yelled to him, "John, how are you?" John replied, "Don't call me John. Call me Lucky."
"Why should I call you lucky?"
John proceeded to tell him that he had been standing on the corner of 52nd Street and Third Avenue, when he stepped off the curb just as a two-ton safe fell from the twentieth floor. It landed right where he had been standing an instant earlier.
Marty said, "My God, you certainly are lucky! That will be your name from now on."
A few weeks later they bumped into each other again, and Marty said, "Lucky, how are you?"
To which came the reply, "Don't call me Lucky. Call me Lucky Lucky."
Marty said, "Tell me now, why I should call you Lucky Lucky?" and he was told that Lucky had been bumped from a flight to Miami that was later hijacked to Cuba.
Marty agreed, "You certainly are Lucky, Lucky."
The next time they met, Marty shouted, "Lucky Lucky, how are you?" to which he replied, "Don't call me Lucky Lucky. Call me Lucky Lucky Lucky."
Marty said, "Why?"
Lucky Lucky Lucky said, "Just last week I took my girlfriend to a hotel room for a martini, and we made such a commotion that the chandelier over the bed came down and landed right in her lap."
Marty said, "But what's so lucky about that?"
To which came the reply, "Ten seconds earlier, it would have cut off my head!"
Prem Christo, you are lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky -- four times lucky. Don't feel jealous, don't feel resentful.
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