The Master is a Diamond
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August 24, 2010
Living around the Master is just like living with a dynamic dynamite diamond. The quality of diamond is, when it is made to work on any object, all other particles in that object which are not diamond, will be automatically removed. That's the way the diamonds are polished. Only diamonds are used to polish diamonds.
Same way, when you live around the Master, everything other than the Master component in you, everything other than the Cosmos in you, everything other than the enlightenment in you, is burnt away. This is the greatest fortunate and unfortunate thing.
If you identify yourself with enlightenment, the highest reality, this is the most fortunate thing. You don’t need to do anything; just be around the Master, just hang around him, that’s all! Enlightenment simply happens. But if you identify yourself with the perishing components, the carbon, the non-diamond components, it is the most torturous suffering. As long as you think you are a separate entity, anything other than your highest reality, the Master will be driving you crazy; he will be constantly shaking the very roots on which you build your foundation. If you identify with him, with your higher reality, this is the most fortunate thing that can happen on the planet Earth, because, without any effort, the ultimate will just happen in you.
I am very clearly telling you, if you are inside his sangha, you are under controlled conditions where your ego is constantly operated upon. Whatever is not you, but which you hold on to as you, is constantly removed from you. I can say, living around the master without resistance is the definition of the living enlightenment process!