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A healthy man does not feel continuously that he is healthy, only sick 
people become interested in health. The moment that you have become 
healthy...coming out of your sickness, you will feel health but when it 
becomes your natural experience of every day, every moment, you don$B!G(Bt 
have any contrast of sickness to compare it with.

You don$B!G(Bt know your head unless you have a headache — have you observed 
it? Do you become aware of your head? You become aware of your head only 
when you have a headache. A headache gives you the idea — people who 
have not experienced headaches, don$B!G(Bt know what it is to have a healthy 
head without any headaches.

All our experiences depend on their opposites. If you cannot taste the 
bitter, you cannot taste anything sweet either — they go together. If 
you cannot see darkness, you cannot see light. And if you are 
continuously in one state, you start forgetting about it.

That$B!G(Bs what I call going beyond enlightenment — the day you start 
forgetting that you are enlightened, the day it becomes just the natural 
course of your life, ordinary, nothing special. The way you breathe, the 
way your heart beats, the way your blood runs in the body, enlightenment 
also becomes part of your being. You forget all about it.

When you ask about enlightenment, I am reminded that yes, there is an 
experience called enlightenment. But when I am sitting alone I never 
remember that I am enlightened, that would be crazy! It has become such 
a natural, ordinary experience.

First go beyond mind. Then go beyond enlightenment too. Don$B!G(Bt get stuck 
anywhere until you are simply an ordinary part of the existence, with 
the trees, with the birds, with the animals, with the rivers, with the 
mountains. You feel a deep harmony — no superiority, no inferiority.

Gautam Buddha had some glimpses of going beyond enlightenment. He 
mentioned it, that there is a possibility of going beyond enlightenment. 
He did not say that he had gone beyond it, but he recognizes the fact 
that there should be a state when you forget all about enlightenment. 
You have been so healthy, you have forgotten all about health; only then 
have you come home. Finally even enlightenment is a barrier — the last 
barrier.


The Invitation, #14

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