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to you in a unique, individual way. When it happens to you it will be absolutely new. The innermost core of the experience will be the same -- the same bliss, the same silence, the same enlightenment -- but on the periphery everything will be different.
So don't imitate anyone. That is part of ambition. Don't imitate Buddha, don't imitate Jesus. Try to be yourself. Rather, even trying is futile. Just be yourself. When you are yourself, you are open to all possibilities. When you are yourself, the whole existence starts helping you. You are not fighting it.
When you are not fighting.... This is what trust means. When you are not fighting, existence happens to you. If you are fighting with existence you are simply destroying yourself, destroying your possibilities, your energy, your life, your existence. Don't fight! Surrender to existence. Accept yourself as the whole wishes you to be, don't try to be anything else, and enlightenment can happen any moment. This very moment it can happen; there is no need to wait.
The New Alchemy: To Turn You On
Chapter #2
Chapter title: The Sense of Separateness
7 April 1973 am in Bikaner Palace Hotel
Archive code: 7304070
ShortTitle: ALCHEM02
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KILL OUT ALL SENSE OF SEPARATENESS.
MIND THINKS IN TERMS OF SEPARATENESS, division analysis. Through mind, life is divided into fragments. Life itself is not divided; life itself is a unity. Life itself remains undivided, but the mind thinks in terms of fragments so whatsoever the mind says is bound to be false. The tree over there, the sky above you, the earth, you and everything are in a deep unity. The tree appears to be separate from you. but it is not. it cannot be. The sun is so far away. but you cannot exist here if the sun dies. Immediately, you will cease to exist here. Without the sun there -- ten crore miles away -- you cannot exist here. If the sun ceases to exist we will never be able to know that it has ceased, because there will be no one to know it. We are part of the rays of it.
The whole universe is a cosmic unity. You are not isolated; you are not
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