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Similarly, space is also undivided.

The body is not one’s limit – in fact, the limit or non-limit of the whole

is one’s limit.

But, the mind does not rest without dividing.

It is like a prism; to divide is its function.

Passing through it the ray of existence becomes divided into many rays

and many colors.

What is one at the root becomes many at the branches.

The root is eternal – beginningless, endless.

Branches are in time – they have their beginning, they have their end.

Branches are change.

The root is ever-lasting.

Neither the root changes nor can it be changed.

Yes – one can desire it to be changed, and then such a desire

inevitably takes one into failure and anguish.

Branches go on changing.

They cannot be stopped from changing.

But certainly it can be desired that they don’t change, and then

such a desire inevitably transforms itself into failure and anguish.

The West is in the first kind of failure and anguish.

The East is in the second kind of failure and anguish.

And so far man has not been able to give birth to such a culture

which not only succeeds but becomes fulfilled too.

The two realities I have talked about above – the reality of the root

and the reality of the branches; the law of the intransient

and the law of the transient – it is only in the harmonious balance

of these two that such a culture can be born

which will neither be polar nor lopsided,

which will use the tension of the opposite poles, the same

as architecture

uses opposing bricks in creation of an arched door.

The truth of life is pluralism.

And, the stream of life always flows taking the opposite poles

as its banks.

160. Love.

We just do not know life, that is why we get bored.

We make life mechanical, that is why we get bored.

We are not living life, we only drag along with it, that is why we get bored.

Boredom is not in life, rather it comes out of our fear of living.

We are not only afraid of death – we are afraid of life as well.

In fact, we fear death because we fear life.

Otherwise, death is not the end of life – it is the completion of life.

This is why I say: live – live fearlessly.

Let go of the past: man goes on carrying it because of fear.

And do not invite dreams of the future, because in order to avoid living today

man plans for living in the future.

Live today, and now, and here.

‘Tomorrow’ is a deception –

the ‘tomorrow’ that has passed as yesterday, as well as the tomorrow

that is yet to come.

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