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nude person has only the sky as his clothes; when the sky becomes your clothes, then you are close to god.
I am not talking about dropping your clothes; I am talking about dropping your mind, because that is your real clothing. And once the mind is gone, the heart is pure. In that purity is all.
The Sun Behind the Sun Behind the Sun
Chapter #2
Chapter title: None
2 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7801025
ShortTitle: SUNSUN02
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Prem means love, devayana means the path of the gods -- love, the path of the gods. It is through love that god comes; love opens the door. Love makes you vulnerable, love makes you courageous enough to die as you are so that god can be in you. It is only through love that the ultimate can penetrate you. And love needs no conditions, knows no conditions. It is a pure gift; it asks nothing. The moment it starts asking it is no more love.
Never ask for anything and all will be provided. Never desire and you will be mystified that all desires are being fulfilled, that the universe cares, that you are not accidental here, that you are welcome, that this is your home. To feel at home in existence is to be religious. To feel uneasy with existence is to be irreligious. The moment you feel uneasy with existence, remember: love is missing. The ego is coming and love is missing.
And always watch those moments when you are at home and you will find great love flowing through you and the ego absent. Just watching these two phenomena -- that whenever the ego is there one becomes ill at ease -- one starts feeling a kind of disease; something goes wrong, one is no more flowing with the total. Something is functioning like a block, the river is not flowing. And because of that not flowing, sadness arises, because then you are no more part of this great life; you have become small. Then your boundary is you and that is not much. You have fallen apart from the procession of the whole, you are no more part of the universe; hence unease.
The moment you are flowing with the total there is great ease, grace;
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