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certainly the same. But the paths are millions. Somebody comes from the North and somebody comes from the South. One river comes from the Himalayas, another river comes from other mountains. But they all reach, big or small, to the same ocean.
The ultimate experience is the same but people differ in their uniqueness. Hence their ways of revealing themselves to themselves are different. Everybody is born in the same way but everybody does not die in the same way.
Birth is not in your hands. When you awaken, you are already born. It is not a question for you to decide to be born or not to be born. But death is a different matter. You can die unconsciously, you can die consciously, you can die joyously, you can die dancingly. You can make a joke of death itself. The birth is the same but the death has to be unique.
But most people are born in the same way and die in the same way. Both are unconscious. But remember, if birth and death -- the two ends -- are unconscious, then that which is in between -- the life -- cannot be conscious. It is a long sleep from the cradle to the graveyard.
Very few are fortunate enough to reach to their grave knowingly, consciously. And the moment a person reaches to his death consciously, there is no death at all.
Death exists only for unconscious people. For the conscious one, death is only a change of time and space, a change of form. But the essence remains the same.
Seppo has made you serious. A little laughter before we enter into meditation.
Barbara Bustline is about to undergo a minor operation. She has been prepared and wheeled along the corridor to the doors of the operating room, where the nurse leaves her to check if the surgery staff are ready.
The nurse has just left, when a young man in a white coat comes up to the trolley. Lifting the sheet, he begins to examine Barbara's naked body very carefully.
Then he nods reflectively and walks away.
Then a second man in a white coat comes along, lifts the sheet and examines her too.
But when a third man, similarly dressed, comes along and does the same, Barbara becomes impatient.
"It is all very well
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