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there is immense health, wholeness
i call that wholeness, holiness
that has to be
the flavour of my sannyasins
their perfume
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Chapter #4
Chapter title: None
4 March 1981 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8103045
ShortTitle: CLAPP04
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the only way to honour existence is to rejoice in it
no prayer can be real honour
because prayer is basically a demand
in fact deep down it is a complaint
you are asking for something more
it is not gratitude
it is just the opposite of gratitude
hence, what goes on
in the churches and the temples
and the mosques and the synagogues is not honour
for existence the real honour can be only one
to rejoice
in existence's absolute ordinariness
in the small things
because there are no great things
eating, drinking, sleeping, walking, sitting
looking at the stars or at the trees
just small things
life consists of all these small things
but if you know how to rejoice
then the ordinary becomes extraordinary
then you know the magic of transformation
then the mundane is no more mundane
it becomes sacred
and to make the mundane sacred
is the whole philosophy of sannyas
there is only one real marriage
and that is marriage to bliss
in fact all other marriages
are indirect ways of reaching bliss
but when there is a direct route
why unnecessarily go by an indirect route?
and the experience of thousands of years is
that the people who go through the indirect
never reach
there are a thousand and one obstacles
they get distracted
they search for bliss but they attain only misery
they hope for heaven but what they gain is only hell
existence has to be approached directly
not via anything, no mediator is needed
and the direct approach to existence
is what i call meditation
without any mediator
without
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