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says. "I have known God," know well that he has not known God; because once God is known, who is there to claim? The knower is lost in the very phenomenon of knowing. Knowing happens only when the knower is not When the knower is absent, the knowing happens -- so who will claim?
There was one Zen monk, Nan-in. Someone asked him, "Have you known the truth?"
He laughed, but kept silent. The man said, "I cannot understand your mysterious laughter. Nor can I understand your mysterious silence. Use words. Tell me. And be dear about it. Tell me yes or no. Have you known the truth, the divine?"
Nan-in said, "You are making it difficult for me. If I say yes, the scriptures say, 'One who says, "I have known," has not known.' So if I say yes, it means no. And if I say no, it will not be true. So what am I supposed to do? Don't force me to use words. I will laugh again and keep silent. If you can understand, it is okay. If you do not understand, it is also okay. But I will not use words. Don't force me to, because if I say yes it means that I have not known, and if I say no it will not be true."
You will reach, but in your purity. In that purity, your ego will not be there. The ego is the impure, foreign element within you -- just the dust gathered all around you. It is not you. Naked, you will reach. Your ego is just like your clothes. It will not be there.
DESIRE ONLY THAT WHICH IS UNATTAINABLE.
The New Alchemy: To Turn You On
Chapter #5
Chapter title: The Power That Shall Make You Nothing
8 April 1973 pm in Bikaner Palace Hotel
Archive code: 7304085
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DESIRE POWER ARDENTLY.
... AND THAT POWER WHICH THE DISCIPLE SHALL COVET IS THAT WHICH SHALL MAKE HIM APPEAR AS NOTHING IN THE EYES OF MEN.
WE WILL BE MOVING more and more in contradictions. The language of religion is bound to be contradictory. On the face, it looks irrational. In a way it is, because it goes beyond reason, it transcends reason. This sutra says DESIRE POWER ARDENTLY -- but that power which makes you nothing. You become a non-being.
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