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with religions such as Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism, Islam. Buddhism is the highest vision possible.
DO YOU NOT SEE HIM...?
The Buddha is within you. Do you not see him?
THE REALLY WISE MAN, ALWAYS AT EASE, UNMOVED?
Have you never experienced something in yourself that remains always unmoved? If you look, you will find. You are in pain, but something remains above it: that is your Buddha nature. You are in great misery; just look a little deep, just search a little deep, dig a little deep, and you will find something hidden there which is untouched by the misery. There is great turmoil in your mind -- thoughts and thoughts, and the traffic goes on and on; it is a mad traffic -- but can't you see that there is a witness to it all? a watcher on the hills?
That is your reality. That is Buddha hiding in you.
And it is already there; just a recognition is needed.
DO YOU NOT SEE HIM,
THE REALLY WISE MAN, ALWAYS AT EASE, UNMOVED?
HE DOES NOT GET RID OF ILLUSION...
There is no need to get rid of any illusion. Illusion is illusion. Knowing it as illusion is enough; there is no need to get rid of it. That's why the Zen Master goes on living in the world, in the market-place. He is not an escapist; he is not afraid of the world. He is not like the vedantists who say 'The world is illusory, so we have to renounce it.' Just see the ridiculousness of it. If the world is illusory, what is there to renounce? How can you renounce an illusion? And not only that, but these people renounce the world, they go to the Himalayan caves and they sit there greatly satisfied that they have renounced. What have they renounced? If it is illusory, it cannot be renounced, and if it is not illusory then you are a fool to renounce it. Either way it cannot be renounced. If it is real, there is no way to renounce it -- there is no need either. If it is unreal, how can you renounce it?
Seeing that it is illusory is enough. Seeing it, the gestalt changes; suddenly you are no more concerned with the illusion around you, you are centred in the witnessing consciousness.
HE DOES NOT GET RID OF ILLUSION, NOR DOES HE
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