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Chapter #4
Chapter title: None
4 May 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7705045
ShortTitle: THISIS04
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Deva guhen.... And the heart is just a divine cave. The heart does not consist of the lungs only. The lungs are the centre of the body, life circulates through the lungs, but hidden somewhere behind the lungs is the cave where you live, where god lives.... Because you and god are not two separate things. You are the seed and he is the blossoming of it; you are the potentiality and he is the actuality of it; you are the beginning, he is the end.
But god abides in the heart, so in the East we call the heart 'the divine cave', and the whole search is to find where that cave is and to enter into it.
Entering into the heart is entering into existence; and modern man has gone very far away from the heart. The head is the farthest point from the heart. We can measure the distance between the head and the heart and ordinarily it is only a few inches, but the difference is so infinite -- they are poles apart. The heart is on one corner of existence and the head is on another corner of existence. Infinity is between them, because the head functions in a totally different way to the heart.
The head functions through thought, through logic, through argument, and the heart functions through love, through intuition, through feeling. The head functions through doubt and the heart functions through trust, and doubt and trust never meet. A doubting mind, a doubting thomas, remains in the head, is hung up there, and suffers tremendously because life never opens its doors for doubt. Doubt itself is the block. The moment you doubt, you are closed -- so the mind is a closed phenomenon; the heart is an opening. When you trust, you open -- when trust is utter then the opening is total. Those few moments of trust become great glimpses into divinity.
And that's what sannyas is all about -- a learning in trust; an unlearning of doubt and learning of trust, a dissolving of the mind and growing into the heart. And it is very simple for you, because I can feel that
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