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in a strong wind, ready to fall any moment. And the beauty of today will be tomorrow just a faded painting.
Personality is not you.
That which changes with time is not you. Hence, remember the distinction between personality and individuality. Individuality is your real, authentic being, not given to you by anyone. You have been it forever and you will be it forever. Everything can be thrown away -- TEARING DOWN, BREAKING UP -- still you are, as a consciousness. There will be no I, no ego, but a beautiful awareness. And this is the great experience that makes someone a buddha.
In this very moment, you all are buddhas. But what to do? You go on forgetting.
But I am also very adamant, I will go on reminding you. You can escape but I will follow. I will come into your dreams, I will haunt you wherever you are. Because once I have taken you into the field of my love, you can be anywhere; my work on you continues. And my work is to cut out of your block of marble a Gautam Buddha.
Koko wrote:
THE WORD AT LAST,
NO MORE DEPENDENCIES:
COLD MOON IN POND,
SMOKE OVER THE FERRY.
He's just giving expression to the inexpressible.
THE WORD AT LAST -- that is what he is saying about Ummon's statement, "Tearing down, breaking up." THE WORD AT LAST. Ummon has said it.
NO MORE DEPENDENCIES:
COLD MOON IN POND,
SMOKE OVER THE FERRY.
Even the most beautiful words indicating the experience are nothing but a reflection of the moon in the cold water of a lake, or smoke over the ferry.
Fumon commented:
MAGNIFICENT! MAGNIFICENT!
NO ONE KNOWS THE FINAL WORD.
THE OCEAN BED'S AFLAME,
OUT OF THE VOID LEAP WOODEN LAMBS.
This has been a tradition in Zen, not to speak in prose but to speak in poetry if at all you decide to speak. Because poetry comes closer to the experience than prose.
Maneesha has asked a question:
IS THERE A WORD IN THE END?
Maneesha, neither is there a word in the beginning nor in the end. It is always silence, eternal silence. Words are very small, they cannot contain it.
Question 1
She has asked:
I
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