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very possibility -- it is suicidal.
In fact, if somebody is ecstatic, you should feel happy that ecstasy is possible and that it is humanly possible. It is happening to this man -- it can happen to you! Now there is no barrier; this man is a proof!
Then your whole outlook and attitude will be very creative. You will not try to prove that this man is wrong or insane or pretending or a hypocrite or something.... You take the hint that it can happen. It can be found so it is not impossible. You will feel great joy arising in you.
If somebody else can laugh, you can laugh. If somebody else can sing, you can sing. We are not so different... deep down, at the very innermost core, we are all one. So if buddha can become a god and jesus can become a god. You can become a god! There is no problem now. Other human beings have arrived at that stage so the door is open and the way is clear -- you are not groping in the dark.
But you will have to change your attitude -- and it can be changed deliberately and consciously. Then next time you see somebody unhappy, miserable, try to destroy his misery... and see the difference.
Ordinarily, the so-called do-gooders are not interested in destroying the misery -- they are more interested in being a help. They are not interested in destroying the misery; in fact, they have great investment in it. They would like the misery to continue so that they can always help and they can always remain the do-gooders and the great saints.
There is a chinese parable.... A great crowd had gathered on the shrine of a saint; it was the annual fair. A man fell in a well and started shouting from there, 'Save me!' but the crowd was so big and it was so noisy that nobody would listen.
Then came a buddhist monk, and of course he was a meditator so he could hear. Mm? he was more sensitive. So he looked in the well and the man was there, crying and saying, 'Save me!'
The buddhist monk said, 'What is the point of being saved? Misery is everywhere. ' Mm ? he gave a great sermon: 'Misery is everywhere. Birth is misery, life is misery, death is misery, and you will have to die anyway, so what is the point?
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