Equilibrium
Equilibrium is when you don’t choose, when you see the fact as it is. Life is not an either/or question, there is nothing to choose. It is all together.
By your choice, nothing is changed. By your choice, you only get into a kind of ignorance. That which you choose is part, and that which you are not choosing is also part of reality. The unchosen part of reality will remain hanging around you, waiting to be accepted. It cannot disappear; there is no way for it to disappear. If you love life too much and you don’t want to see the fact of death…death is there hanging around like a shadow.
See both – they are one piece, they are together. Seeing them together, without any choice, without any prejudice, you transcend them. Seeing them together, you are no longer identified with life and no longer identified with death. When you are not identified, you are free, you are liberated.
Identification is what imprisonment is. Let this be understood perfectly, because that is the root cause of all our misery, slavery. Identification – this word is very significant. It means you get identified with a part. You become one with one part of life; that part you start thinking of as if it is the whole. Nothing is wrong with the part as such, but the part is the part; it is not the whole. When you start thinking of the part as the whole, partiality arises. When you start claiming the part as if it is the whole, you are becoming blind to the whole. Now you will be in conflict with reality.
You cannot win against reality, remember it. You cannot win against reality. It is impossible. You can win only with reality, never against reality. If you are with it, you will be a winner; if you are against it, you are going to be a loser. And we are all losers; we have been fighting.
We choose a small part and claim that this is the whole. We choose life, we take life out of its basic context – death – and we say, ‘This is me. I am life.’ Now you are getting into trouble. You will be encaged in this identification. How will you manage death then? – it is there, it is happening every moment, and it is going to take you unawares one day.
You get identified with the body, “I am the body”; then there is trouble. You get identified with the mind, “I am the mind”; then there is trouble. Getting identified is getting into trouble. Identification is the very stuff ignorance is made of. Once identification is dropped, once you don’t get identified with anything, you simply remain a witness – not saying, “This I am” or “That I am”. You simply remain a witness. You see life as passing, you see death as passing; you see sex as passing; you see frustration, joy, success, failure….. You go on seeing; you remain a pure seer. You don’t get hooked with anything; you don’t claim “I am this”. Without claiming, who are you? Without confining and defining yourself, without giving a limitation to yourself, if you can remain flowing, just seeing, there is liberation. There is great liberation.
