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Every film is unique, but this film begins in a very mysterious way.
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Thousands of dollars appeared in my bank account with no strings attached, no demands or conditions.
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Weeks later a letter explained that someone I'd never met would like me to visit a teacher: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
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and his spiritual community in Poona, India;
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and if I chose to go, I might also take a camera and some film.
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And I was told that the money came from someone who lived very simply
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and yet it sent me all that they have.
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No contract could have been more compelling.
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But, why me?
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I wondered what this Bhagwan had to teach?
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I knew about the famous master teachers of history
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but this Bhagwan was alive, my contemporary.
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What is the power of such a teacher?
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A person whose life transforms other people's lives.
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I wasn't a religious seeker.
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I pursued accomplishment, and love, pleasures of the mind and body.
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And like most people, I had experienced brief moments
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when I felt especially alive, in tune with everything.
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sometimes those moments came with creative breakthrough or with a woman I loved
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sometimes those moments came up while jogging, dancing, playing music or simply watching a sunset.
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I experienced something special, something beyond the words,
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and with that feeling came a sense of being a part of everything,
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being absolutely whole.
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I valued those times.
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These were the spiritual moments in my life.
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I wondered, were the great teachers
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people who never came back from those peak moments?,
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the reason to share with others.
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I had my usual doubts, but I wanted to see for myself, just who is this Bhagwan Rajneesh and what's going on over the India.
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* Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho)'s disciples during the first stage of a meditation session called: Chaotic Meditation. *
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This is a meditation.
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First heavy breathing and then crazy screaming, now this jumping and chanting.
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It's called "Chaotic Meditation".
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I'd been cramped in a airplane seat for 24 hours,
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I needed to unwind.
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These people encouraged me to blow off my head of steam, and let go of some of the madness.
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They do every morning before dawn, to clear their minds.
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* Second stage of meditation: they stop and remain in alertness, watching, feeling, listening. *
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* Third stage of meditation: with loving and grateful attitude, they celebrate meditatively, dancing experience. *
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Bhagwan is known as an enlightened teacher.
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He has over hundred books in print
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but he doesn't write them, they're just transcribed form his daily discourses.
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Every morning he speaks for ninety minutes.
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Those teachings attract highly educated people from the west.
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He said that the real value of being with him has nothing to do with words.
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"I am a drunkard.
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You may believe it or not,
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but I am a drunkard.
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You can look into my eyes
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and you can see it.
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Religion
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is a sort of intoxication.
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This has to be understood
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because without a deep intoxication,
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your life will never have any meaning.
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It will remain a superficial prose
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and will never become a poetry.
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You will walk but you will never be able to dance,
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and unless you dance you have missed.
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Unless you dance with such abundance,
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with such forgetfulness
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that you disappear in it,
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that the dancer is lost,
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and only the dance remains...
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that the dancer is lost,
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and only the dance remains...
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only the dance remains...
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only the dance remains...
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that the dancer is lost, and only the dance remains...
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that the dancer is lost,
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and only the dance remains...
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And only then will you be able to know
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what life is."
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For Bhagwan
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what life is can't be figured out.
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The endless thoughts and patterns of the mind
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may be what's in the way.
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Shaking and dancing can silence the mind.
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Movement meditations are not rituals but techniques, that help people experience their life directly.
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The clamor of words and even clever commentary can be suspended.
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"I remember: Once Alexander the Great asked Diogenes,
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You are so learned, you know so much.
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Can’t you tell me something about God,
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what God is?
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Diogenes said, The moment you asked me, I thought that I knew.
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But the more I tried to catch hold of it, the more it became elusive.
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The more I thought about it,
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the farther away it was,
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and the only thing I can say to you,
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is that those who think they know God, they know not.”
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"God can be known only when you are not...
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(when you are not,
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(when you are not...
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when you are not)
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God can be known only when you are not...
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when your ego is lost."
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I guess I was raised with a strong ego, to have pride of my accomplishments,
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to respect the victories of great men,
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to believe the human being is with superior mind and ego
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had conquered nature.
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But these Indians showed me a more gentle, humble, respect for nature.
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Anointing cows looks peculiar to me,
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but this gesture celebrates the nobility of all life.
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It was the Indian visitors
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who blessed these cows given to Bhagwan.
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It was his birthday and thousands had gathered from many distant parts of the world.
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At this morning's meditation, they were mostly westerners and today's lecture was in English.
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But this afternoon belongs to the Indians, and their love of ritual and celebration.
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They turned everything into a dance.
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Bhagwan's mother and father arrived and joined in a many Indian ceremonies.
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Everything was so different from home.
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But what an opportunity
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to travel beyond my usual attitudes and judgements,
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to just be here, with fresh eyes!
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"Look!
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I love human beings, but not humanity.
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Humanity does not exist.
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Only concrete human beings exist -
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someone here, someone there,
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but it is always someone.
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Humanity is an empty word.
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And just like that is Christ. Jesus exists,
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sometimes in Gautam the Buddha,
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sometimes in Mohammed the prophet,
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sometimes in Krishna the fluteplayer -
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somewhere here, somewhere there,
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but it is always a concrete phenomenon.
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Christ is abstract.
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It exists only in the books of philosophy and theology;
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Christ has never walked on the earth.
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Or, we can say it another way:
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Christ is the son of God, Jesus the son of man.
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Let me talk about Jesus the son of man,
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because only the son of man is real,
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and only the son of man can grow
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and become the son of God.
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Only man can grow and become God;
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because man is the seed, the source;
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God is the flowering.
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God does not exist anywhere.
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When you flower, God comes into existence -
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it comes into existence and disappears...
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it comes into existence and disappears.
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When Buddha was here, God existed.
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When Jesus was here, God existed.
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When Jesus disappears, God disappears -
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just as when a flower disappears, it disappears.
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God is not somewhere, always existing.
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Whenever a man realizes his essence,
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whenever a man really exists,
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whenever a man exists in totality,
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God exists in those rare moments.
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So when you come and ask me, 'Where is God?' I cannot show you.
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Unless you prove him into your own being,
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he will not be there.
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Until you become him he is not.
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Everybody has to realize him
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in his own innermost shrine, in his own being.
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You carry him as a seed.
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It is up to you
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to allow it to grow and become a great tree."
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"Jesus
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is a revolution in the world of religion.
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He is the first poor man who declared,
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'I am the son of God' -
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that even a poor man who has nothing to renounce, can renounce,
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because the real renunciation
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is not of wealth, but of the ego.
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The real renunciation is not of wealth,
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let me repeat it, but of the ego.
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It is not a question of renouncing what you have,
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it is a question of renouncing what you are.
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You can have much
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and you can renounce that.
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But if the ego continues
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you remain ordinary,
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you remain superficial."
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Groups like this allow people who have been meditating alone
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to experiment, to experience themselves in relationship to others.
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Bhagwan does not encourage people
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to repress their desires, nor does he allow them to lose touch with their frustrations.
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Rather, he teaches people how to use their bodies,
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to go beyond the mind, with expressions of love.
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"Once you start meditating,
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a very fragile quality,
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a very delicate quality of consciousness is born in you.
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A flower of the unknown starts opening -
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it is delicate.
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And whenever you go into the crowd
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you lose something.
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Whenever you move with others,
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they push you off center.
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You don't find yourself in it, you simply miss the other.
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Your aloneness becomes sad.
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Your 'aloneness' is not 'aloneness',
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it is a 'loneliness'.
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'Loneliness' is when you desire
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others;
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'aloneness' is when you enjoy yourself.
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The crowd pulls you down,
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it has a gravitation of its own.
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You are infected by it.
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Whenever you come back home from the crowd,
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you come lesser than you had gone.
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Something has been lost.
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You need to be alone with yourself,
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so that you become together again,
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so that you again become centered,
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rooted.
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You need a higher altitude to purify yourself.
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So whenever you go to pray,
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don't start saying something.
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God already knows what you are going to say.
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And what can you say, what do you have to say?
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It will be all nonsense,
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It will all be nothing but
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desires,
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demands,
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and deep down, complaints.
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And there is no need to say anything,
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you can just be silent.
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A prayer is not talking,
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it is listening.
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You can miss the point - if you start thinking about God, then you are not alone.
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If you start talking to God,
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then in your imagination you have created the other.
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And then your God is doing nothing;
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he is just a projection.
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And in that projection you will find all
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the others that you have ever known:
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your father will be there - whenever you say to God, 'Father,' your father will be there,
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a part of you projected.
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Or you say, 'Mother,' your mother will be there.
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All words
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are your words,
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so whatsoever you say will be your projection.
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A prayer is not to say anything.
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It is to be simply silent, open,
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ready to listen - it is a listening.
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And there is no need to believe in God
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because that too is a projection.
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The only need is to be alone, to be capable of being alone -
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and immediately, you are with God.
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Whenever you are alone, you are with God.
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To say 'with God' is not exactly right
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because that shows that you are here and God is there.
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It would be better to say that
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whenever you are alone, God is, and you are not,
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and there is prayer.
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Prayer is a fragrance
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that arises whenever you are ready to be alone.
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Whenever you are not afraid to be alone,
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it arises.
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Something opens within you
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like a lotus,
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and that lotus is in tune with the whole around you.
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You dissolve,
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you meet and merge,
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boundaries disappear.
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You are no more an island,
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you have become part of the continent.
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God is, you are not.
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God is, and you are not.
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(and you are not...
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you are not)."
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So many thoughts are triggered by what I see!
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My mind prefers to be busy with those thoughts.
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Rarely will it dissolve into silence
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or allow me to see things as if for the first time.
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Extreme physical activity had often enabled me to forget what was on my mind
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so I tried this 'Chaotic Meditation'.
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I found I had to wear a blindfold,
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otherwise, with a glimpse of something, my mind would begin talking to itself,
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and usually that constant chatter overwhelmed what was really happening.
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How rarely do we look at something
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and experience it
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without labeling or comparing,
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without attitude or judgment?
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Can we let our minds go?
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I've got lost in the rhythms dancing at parties,
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and I've screamed my head off with others at sporting events,
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but the release was always limited to those brief moments.
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Bhagwan teaches awareness by letting go,
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he takes people when they've surrendered to that spontaneity,
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he takes them deep into that openness,
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that vulnerability,
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that freedom from their minds.
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and fills them with the love of who they are.
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And then he connects that love
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to the universe.
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People come to me and say, "Everything has become beautifully silent:
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meditation is growing,
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the anger has disappeared,
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the sex has become a faraway thing,
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as if it never belonged to me.
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But
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is it all true?,
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or am I simply imagining?"
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They come to me and they say,
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"We talk to our friends and they say,
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'Beware.
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This man has hypnotised you'."
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It is their experience
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that they have become silent,
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that the anger has disappeared,
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that the sex has become less and less a boss,
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more and more a servant,
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and it is up to them - they can fire the servant any day,
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and there is not even a union
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to protest and fight against them!
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But they become suspicious
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- a doubt arises:
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"Am I imagining?
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Am I hypnotised?
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Am I dreaming all this?"
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They cannot believe even when the experiences are happening to them.
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How can they believe that it has happened to somebody else?
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If you could believe it right now, the world disappears
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and only God is.
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Because the world is not more than a dream.
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With doubt, the dream continues;
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with trust, suddenly
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you are awake.
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Be not afraid - at least, be not afraid.
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If you cannot dance,
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if you cannot celebrate,
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if you cannot sing a song,
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then at least,
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be not afraid;
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be of good cheer.
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Be of good cheer.
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Be happy! I have come to you.
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And you are crying out for fear!
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Dance!
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Celebrate!
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You should move in it
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without any fear of consequences and without any expectations.
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You should take a jump, you should dare.
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On the evening of his birthday, thousands of visitors had a brief opportunity to be with Bhagwan,
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he had tought them not to blindly worship holly people, instead
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he encourge them to really express their feelings,
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and many treated him with great respect and deep gratitude.
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By many other reasons,
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he would be meeting with an intimate group of people,
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responding to their individual questions and acomplishments,
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"Bhagwan - this is all very interesing, but I am full of questions,
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what is the meaning of all this?
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what do you want?"
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- All nonsense questions.
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Come to the basic question,
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the most fundamental question: Who am I?
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Who?
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You are god, you are Brahma,
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you are pure consciousness, you are The ultimate truth,
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the eternal soul,
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the deathless being.
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Those answers
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can destroy your very search.
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A seeker has to be aware of ready-made answers.
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They are available; from every side they are being supplied to you.
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Remain with the question.
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Don′t do anything,
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and don′t go anywhere;
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and don′t start believing in any answer.
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Remain with the question.
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That is one of the most difficult things to do
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- to remain with a question,
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and not to seek the answer;
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because the mind is very cunning,
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it can supply a false answer.
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It can console you;
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it can give you something to cling to;
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and then the question is not answered
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but suppressed.
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Then you go on believing in the answer,
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and the question remains deep down
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in your unconsciousness
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like a wound.
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The healing has not happened.
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If you remain with the question,
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I′m not saying that you will receive the answer,
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Nobody has ever received any answer.
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If you remain with the question,
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by and by the question disappears.
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Not that the answer is received;
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there is no answer.
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There cannot be, because life is a mystery.
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It is not a puzzle,
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it cannot be solved,
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it is a mystery.
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My mind is still full of questions,
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but my camera has led me into experience
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with intuition
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and feeling.
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Filming has become a movement to awareness,
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It's become my meditation.
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¡Beautiful!
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- that′s how it should be -
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Mind is the questioner.
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When there is no questioning,
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the mind has also disappeared
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- pure consciousness -
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just the sky without any clouds,
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the flame without any smoke:
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That′s what God is,
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that′s what a Buddha is,
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that′s what a Christ is.
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God is not the answer.
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God is the state of being where the question has disappeared.
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God is the state of no-mind.
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Remain with the question.
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I am here to help you to remain with the question,
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I am not going to give you any answer,
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you already have too many.
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I am not going to burden you any more.
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I am to teach you how to unlearn the answers that you have learned,
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so that the question becomes crystal pure;
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so the question becomes authentic and yours;
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so the question arises from your innermost being.
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Not that you have to verbalize it.
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Let it be like your breathing;
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Let it be there,
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silent.
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One day, if you have lived enough with the question,
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it starts disappearing.
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It evaporates,
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just as when the morning comes and the sun rises,
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and the dewdrops start disappearing.
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When the consciousness has become a fire,
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an intense light,
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the question starts disappearing.
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You cannot say who you are,
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but you know.
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You can dance it;
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you cannot answer it.
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You can smile it;
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you cannot answer it.
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You will live it, but you cannot answer it.
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Before I travel from San Francisco to Poona,
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I thought I understood the relationship between myself and my camera,
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and what I photograph.
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Now I know that that relationship can be much more subtle,
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mysterious, intimate,
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than I had ever let it be before.
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To be with a master teacher is an adventure,
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a challenge.
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I had to be willing to let go of all those habits and attitudes that had defined me.
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I had to be willing to let go of all those habits and attitudes that had defined me
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My questions have not been answered
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and my mind is only sometimes silent.
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But for the first time, the mysteries of life can be a joy.
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Between East and West the filmmaker is lost,
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and only the film remains.