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Emptiness takes nothing seriously, raises no one thing up over another. Worship ping nothing, it celebrates all.
Kabir is a celebrant. He celebrates all -- all colors of life, the whole rainbow of it. What he is going to say to you is not philosophy but pure poetry. It is not religion but a hand beckoning, a door half opened, a mirror wiped clean. It is a way back home, a way back to nature.
Nature is God to Kabir -- the trees and the rocks and the rivers and the mountains. He does not believe in the temples and the churches and the mosques, he believes in the living reality. God is there, breathing, flowering, flowing. And where are you going? You are going to a temple, man-made, to worship an idol, again manufactured by man, in his own image.
Kabir calls you back from the temples and the mosques: What are you doing there? He calls you back to celebrate life.
I have heard:
The old man of Zen, Dr D. T. Suzuki, was asked by a student at a lecture once: 'When you use the word REALITY are you referring to the relative reality of the physical world, or to the Absolute Reality of the spiritual world?' Saying nothing, Suzuki closed his eyes. ('Doing a Suzuki' the students called it, for at such times it could not be known whether he was profoundly meditating or jut fallen asleep.) After a full minute that seemed very much longer, Suzuki opened his eyes and said 'Yes'
This is the way of a wise man. Questions don't mean much, this way or that. Answers don't mean much, this way or that. Life has to be lived without questions and without answers, only then do you live in its authenticity. So go to life -- that is the only temple where God can be found. And with no questions and with no answers, just go silently, innocently. IGNORANTLY. Just go there and let life take possession of you.
Don't try to possess life -- that's what the ego goes on doing. Don't try to grab it, allow yourself to be possessed by it. Be overwhelmed by it, be flooded by it, and you will know. And you will know so deeply that you will never be able to say 'I know.' You will know so intimately that you will not be able to reduce it to knowledge.
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