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there -- just single meditators, because a person has become able to join with the inner woman or the inner man.
In the first, two bodies are very prominent. In your photographs also those two bodies have to be very prominent. In the second, the bodies become shadows, secondary. The heart becomes prominent. In the third the heart itself becomes secondary; it is no more human love. Something of the divine has entered in. So you can have a few pictures... pictures of bells ringing, prayer, incense burning, flowers. You have to create the quality of the temple in the third.
The first is gross, animal, the second is human, the third is divine, and the fourth is beyond. In the fourth it is pure poetry without words. It is music without notes. So in the fourth you will have to be very inventive, because the fourth will be the most important part. And everything will depend on the fourth -- if the fourth can come up then everything else falls into an organic unity. If the fourth is not there and only the first is, then it becomes pornographic. These same pictures become pornographic if they have no wider context.
Pornography is taking the body as the sole and whole. It is just trying to titillate the sexual desire. But if the context of love is there it is no more pornographic; it is aesthetic. And if the context of prayer is also there it is religious. And in the fourth it is transcendental, it has no levels left... it is the state of Buddhahood, nirvana.
So start working and with no problems. Finally I will see. First start and do the whole thing, then I will see.
The Tongue-Tip Taste of Tao
Chapter #2
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2 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7810025
ShortTitle: TONGUE02
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[To a new sannyasin:]
You have come home! This was the search for your whole life -- now the moment to fulfil it has come. And it is very rare, because many strive but very few reach. The desire to know, the desire to know the mystery of life is every heart's desire, but very few fortunate people find a way to it, a door to it. And the moment
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