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it is not experience.
Suddenly he realized that the woman had closed one eye: she had closed one eye as symbolic of closing the eye of reason, logic. And she had opened the other eye symbolic of love, intuition, awareness. And then he remembered the posture.
Aiming at the unknown invisible, we are on the journey to know the unknown -- to know that which cannot be known. That is real knowledge: to know that which cannot be known, to realize that which is unrealizable, to attain that which cannot be attained. This impossible passion is what makes a man a religious seeker.
Yes, it is impossible. By'impossible' I don't mean that it will not happen; by'impossible' I mean that it cannot happen unless you are utterly transformed. As you are it cannot happen, but there are different ways of being. And you can be totally a new man... then it happens. It is possible for a different kind of man. That's why Jesus says: Until you are reborn, you will not know it. A new man will know it.
You come to me. YOU will not know it. I will have to kill you, I will have to be drastically dangerous to you... you will have to disappear. And the new man is born, a new consciousness comes in -- because there is something indestructible in you, which cannot be destroyed; nobody can destroy it. Only the destructible will be destroyed and the indestructible will be there. When you attain to that indestructible element in your being, to that eternal awareness in your being, you are a new man, a new consciousness.
Through that the impossible is possible, the unattainable is attained.
So he remembered the posture. Aiming at the unknown, the invisible, the unknowable, the one -- that is the aim. How to be one with existence? The nondual is the aim, where subject and object are lost, where I and thou are lost.
There is a very famous book, and a great book, of Martin Buber, I AND THOU. Martin Buber says the experience of prayer is an I-thou experience -- he is right. The experience of prayer is an l-thou experience: God is the'thou', you remain an'I', and you have a dialogue, a communion with the thou. But Buddhism has no prayer in it, and Buddhism
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