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much pain, and once the shell is broken, life takes a quantum leap. You are no more a mortal you become an immortal. You are no more darkness; you become a full-moon night. And you know no misery any more. Even if you want to, you cannot be miserable. Bliss simply becomes your nature, your very existence.
Come back again. This has to be done, this has to happen: your name has to become your reality too!
The Shadow of the Bamboo
Chapter #6
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6 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
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Anand means bliss, nirup means formless. Bliss is not an object, so it can't have a form. Bliss is an experience, hence it is invisible, intangible. You cannot hold it in your hand; you cannot give it to anybody. Nobody can take it away from you. It cannot be stolen, it cannot be robbed. Not even death is capable of taking it away, because it is not a thing; it is a no-thing. Hence Buddha says: It is a nothing. It is a formless experience. That is the meaning of your name. That is the ultimate that happens in meditation.
One comes to know a formless bliss, and in knowing it one also becomes formless. It is a kind of disappearance of all forms -- the knower and the known -- and still, one is. Not only that one is: one is utterly blissful. That one is God.
Anand Hiltraud. Anand means blissful, and hiltraud we will make mean trust -- blissful trust.
A trust can be out of despair, but then it is not true, because despair cannot really trust; it can only doubt. It can pretend to trust out of helplessness, but that is not the trust that grows in the heart; it is just a mind phenomenon. One is tired of doubting, tired of thinking, and one takes shelter in trust. This is a negative trust, an impotent trust; it cannot transform you.
The real trust is not out of despair and helplessness: the real trust is out of joy, out of celebration, out of love, out of blissfulness. The real trust happens only when you start becoming more and more sensitive to existence: you feel more, you see more, you hear more. Then slowly
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