Have you ever come across health? You have been healthy many times, but can you say what health is? Only decease exists. Health is non-existential; You cannot pinpoint it. If you have a headache you know it is there, but have you ever know the absence of headache? In fact, if there is no headache, the head also disappears. You don't feel it anymore. If you go on feeling your head, that simply shows that there must be a certain tension inside, a certain stress, a strain.
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In Zen, when meditators sit for many years, just sitting and doing nothing, a certain moment comes when they forget that they have bodies. That is their first satori. Not that the body is not there; body is there but there is no tension, so how to feel it? If I say something you can hear me, but if I'm silent how can you hear me? Silence is there -- it has much to communicate to your -- but silence cannot be heard.
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YOU DON'T FEEL A HEALTHY BODY...
When your body is perfectly healthy, you don't feel it. If some tension arises in the body, some disease, some illness, then you start hearing. If everything is in harmony and there is no pain and no misery, suddenly you are empty. A nothingness overwhelms you.
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the self is nothing but accumulated tensions. The self is nothing but desires unfulfilled, hopes frustrated, expectation, dreams -- all broken, fractured.
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WHY IS TOMORROW NEEDED?
You want to be there tomorrow also because today is unfulfilled. The tomorrow is needed; otherwise you will die unfulfilled. The yesterday was a deep frustration; today is again a frustration; tomorrow is needed. A frustrated mind creates future. A frustrated mind clings with the future. A frustrated mind wants to be because now, if death comes, no flower has flowered. Nothing has yet happened; there has only been a fruitless waiting. That unlived life creates a desire to be.
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PEOPLE WHO MISS LIFE ARE AFRAID OF DEATH...
People are so afraid of death: there are the people who have not lived. These are the people who are, in a certain sense, already dead. A person who lives totally does not think about death. If it comes, he will welcome. He will live that too, he will celebrate that too. Life has been such a blessing, benediction; one is even ready to accept death. One is not afraid because the tomorrow is not needed; the today has been so fulfilling. The desire for tomorrow is always out of fear, and fear is there because lover has not happened. Once the meaning has happened, you are ready to die-- silently, beautifully, gracefully...
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