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December 1977 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 7712120
ShortTitle: BODY02
Audio: Yes
Video: No
Length: 88 mins
The first question:
Question 1
IS ENLIGHTENED CONSCIOUSNESS LESS SPICY THAN ORDINARY CONSCIOUSNESS?
CONSCIOUSNESS IS ONE. You cannot divide it in two. Consciousness is indivisible. You cannot say 'ordinary consciousness' and 'enlightened consciousness' -- consciousness means enlightenment.
The ordinary person is not conscious, he is unconscious. He believes he is conscious -- his very belief prevents him from becoming conscious. If an ill man believes he is healthy then there is no cure for him, no medicine, no remedy. If a man who knows nothing of love thinks he is a lover he will never know anything of love. The ordinary man lives in unconsciousness because he believes he is already conscious. He has be fooled himself, he has deceived himself.
Consciousness is always enlightenment. To be conscious means to be a Buddha. And the possibility exists in everybody. Yet people go on living in an unconscious way because they believe they are already conscious, so there is nothing to be done, there is nothing to be transformed to. They go on thinking this is all that they have. This is not even the beginning; the journey has not started. You are fast asleep. But you can have a dream-journey -- you can go in your dream to the farthest corner of the earth, and you can go on believing that you are a traveler. And all the time you are asleep here now.
Here now you are asleep. That is what unconsciousness is. You may be conscious of the past -- but the past is no more, so that consciousness is of absence. You may be conscious of the future, and the future is not yet. That consciousness is pseudo. The only consciousness is of here now, of this moment. If you are utterly here this moment, totally here this moment, then you are conscious. And in that very intensity you become a flame of light. A smokeless flame. That is what enlightenment is.
So please don't divide consciousness in two; it cannot be divided. Consciousness has one taste -- of being aware. Consciousness
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