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EMPTINESS HERE, EMPTINESS THERE, BUT THE INFINITE UNIVERSE STANDS ALWAYS BEFORE
YOUR EYES.
INFINITELY LARGE AND INFINITELY SMALL NO DIFFERENCE...
Because if something is infinitely large and something is infinitely small, there cannot be any difference
because of the question of infiniteness. If you go down, dividing, analyzing, you will reach to the infinitely
small. Science has reached to the infinitely small, the electron. Now everything has disappeared, nothing
can be seen. The electron has not been seen, nobody can see it. Then why do they say the electron is?
Physics has become almost metaphysics, and physical statements, statements of the physicists, look
almost philosophical, mystic, because they say, "We cannot see the electron, we can only observe the
consequences. We can see the effects but not the cause. We infer that the electron MUST be there, because
how, if the electron is not there, can these effects be there?"
This is what mystics have always been saying. They say, "We cannot see God but we can see this
creation. And God is the cause and this creation is the effect. We cannot SEE God but we see the creation --
he must be there, otherwise how is this creation possible?"
If you listen to my voice and you cannot see me, you will have to infer that I must be somewhere,
otherwise how can you listen to my voice? The effect is seen but the cause is not seen. Science has reached
to the infinitely small, and the small has disappeared completely -- because it has become so small, so small,
so small, so subtle, that now you cannot catch it.
Religion reaches to the infinitely great. It becomes so great, so great, so vast, that you cannot see its
boundaries. It becomes so vast you cannot catch it, you cannot cling to it, you cannot demark it. The
infinitely small cannot be seen, it becomes invisible; and the infinitely great also cannot be seen, it becomes
invisible.
Then Sosan says a beautiful thing: they both are the same because they both are infinite. And the
infinite, whether small or great makes no difference, they are the same.
INFINITELY LARGE AND INFINITELY SMALL; NO DIFFERENCE, FOR DEFINITIONS HAVE VANISHED
AND NO BOUNDARIES ARE SEEN.
SO TOO WITH BEING AND NON-BEING.
When you are totally empty, with no ego, with nobody inside the house, are you a being or a non-being?
Are you or are you not? Nothing can be said.
People used to ask Buddha again and again, "What happens when one becomes a Buddha? Is he, or is he
not? Does the soul exist or not? What will happen when Buddha leaves the body? Where will he be? Will he
be somewhere or not?"
And Buddha says, "These questions you don't ask. You simply become a Buddha and see, because
whatsoever I say will be wrong." And he always avoided the temptation of answering such questions.
DON'T WASTE TIME IN DOUBTS AND ARGUMENTS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS.
Reality does not depend on your arguments. Whether you prove this way or that is irrelevant -- the
reality is THERE. It has been there before you, it will be there after you. It does not depend on your mind;
on the contrary, your mind depends on it. It does not need any proof or disproof. It exists on its own. You
cannot prove it, you cannot disprove it.
But people go on arguing whether God exists or not. Thousands of books are published every year on
whether God exists or not. All foolish Those who say yes and prove, and those who say no ARID prove,
both are in the same boat -- the boat of proof, argument, logic.
And if there is a God, he must be laughing. Does he need your argument? What are you saying? You are
saying that if he is there, then his being depends on whether you prove him or not. Whatsoever you do --
prove or disprove -- but do you think that his being depends on your arguments?
Existence is there without anybody's argument. No witness is being called, and there is no court which is
going to decide. How can you judge? And who is the judge? And arguments have been going on
continuously; for millions of years people have argued this way and that. Atheists are there who go on and
nobody can convince them; theists are there and they go on and nobody can unconvince them. Theists and
atheists both argue and no argument proves to be the final thing, the problem remains the same.
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