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can. The more times you fall in love, the more you will become young again and again and again. The moment you fall in love you again become young. lust see, watch: when people fall in love ... even an old man falling in love starts feeling young. His eyes have a sparkle, his walk has the quality of dance. He is again young; he dreams again, hopes again. Again there is meaning. Again he has forgotten about death; again life is cherished, welcomed.
Think it over. My feeling is: if you feel that it is no more a celebration then just unobtrusively, unpretentiously, without creating any trouble, get out of it. If the father wants to keep the child, let him; don't go to the court. There is no need; that is ugly.
The Sun Behind the Sun Behind the Sun
Chapter #4
Chapter title: None
4 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7801045
ShortTitle: SUNSUN04
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[Gyan anala: knowledge fire]
Knowing is fire. You can use knowledge. Knowledge is something dead in your hands; you can possess it, you can control it. But you cannot possess knowing; knowing is fire, it consumes you. In the knowing the knower disappears: in knowledge the knower remains in control.
When you are in the moment of knowing, you are not. You are watching the river flow by and you are in the moment of knowing. You are simply watching it, enjoying the flow, the joy of the river, the aliveness of it. Then you are not there. Once you see that you have known this river, you are acquainted with it, you know the name and the geography and everything, you have come back. In knowing, the ego dissolves; in knowledge it comes back.
Knowing is a fire that consumes the knower, and when there is no knower, there is great experiencing; when there is no knower all is revealed. Life allows its mysteries only to those who can come to it utterly empty. Then you become the host and life becomes the guest. But if you are there then life never enters you.
[The new sannyasin says: I find it very hard to open myself, to be open.]
You find it very hard to open? Mm mm, that
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