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TO TUMBLE INTO BED AND ALCOHOLIC OBLIVION -- AND THERE IS THE NOTE THAT SUDDENLY TOMORROW IS QUESTION AND ANSWER DAY!
AND TWO HOURS OF TYPING, CUTTING AND BEING AWARE, ARE AHEAD. AND, LO AND BEHOLD! WHERE IS THE DRUNKENNESS? GURDJIEFF IS NOTHING COMPARED TO THIS. ROARS OF LAUGHTER AND CLARITY IN THE HEAD. SPELLING MISTAKE, SPELLING MISTAKE.
THANKYOU FOR THE DEVICE.
This is from Arup....
ARUP IF YOU HAD INVITED ME TOO, then I would not have troubled you at all. I had to change suddenly. I was going to start a series of talks on Shankaracharya's Atma-Bodha -- self-knowledge. Looking into the sutras, it looked like an anti-climax to Buddha. The heights that we were flying with Buddha... and then the very ordinary and traditional sayings of shankaracharya I felt it would not be good. It would be like falling from the peaks into the valleys. It would be like one had suddenly cut your wings.
Buddha was talking of no-self; and shankaracharya's statements are very, very traditional Hindu.
I could have managed, but it would have been too much effort. Hence, I thought it was better to say goodbye to shankaracharya -- and I have said goodbye to him forever!
Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind
Chapter #2
Chapter title: First Taste Your Own Being
2 January 1978 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 7801020
ShortTitle: FEET02
Audio: Yes
Video: No
Length: 70 mins
The first question:
Question 1
DO YOU BELIEVE IN YOU?
DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD?
WHO IS GOD?
NO, I DON'T BELIEVE IN ME... I CANNOT, BECAUSE I AM NOT. There is nobody I to be believed in, and nobody to believe in it either.
If you believe in yourself, you believe in an illu-sion. The very belief will prevent you from knowing the reality.
Once you start believing in an illusion, you start losing contact with the real. To know the real, all illusions have to be dropped -- and the greatest illusion of all is the ego, the 'I'.
You ask me: DO YOU BELIEVE IN YOU?
No, not at all. That's why I am able to know.
You ask:
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