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clear that there is no question about it; one can simply see the point that if you are jealous, love is impossible. Jealousy is bound to create misery. Jealousy is part of ego, the shadow of the ego, the shadow of a shadow -- and love needs egolessness. They can't go together, they can't co-exist.
If one chooses ego knowingly, the one drops the whole project of love and once accepts the misery. But then there is no question of being miserable about your misery. That is your doing, this is your choice. There is no point in making any fuss about it. Either you drop the ego and all its companions -- jealousy, domination, possessiveness -- and then love flows and there is bliss -- or, you cling to the ego. Then love disappears, bliss disappears, god disappears, and your life is nothing but hell.
The basic requirement is to be aware -- that's what you have to learn here. The art of awareness becomes the art of love, becomes the art of bliss. It is the whole of religion.
Bliss happens in a profound silence. Bliss is not a not a state of excitement, it is not feverish. Pleasure is feverish, happiness too -- not as much as pleasure, a little milder, but it too has its own excitement. Bliss is absolutely cool -- not cold but cool, utterly silent. And to receive it one has to be very silent, because we can be in communion only with that which we are creating in ourselves.
A madman can be in communication only with other madmen. A Buddha can commune only with other Buddhas; otherwise the gap is so big, unbridgeable. You can commune with bliss only when you are in a total silent state, when everything in you has become still, as if all has disappeared, as if there is nobody inside. When your temple is absolutely empty bliss comes dancing. It fills you and it fulfils you.
Being here learn to be more and more silent, learn to be more and more still. Enjoy silence and stillness. Those are the basic preparations for the ultimate guest. When you are in a profound silence you are capable of becoming the host to god.
The Imprisoned Splendor
Chapter #6
Chapter title: None
6 June 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
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