The fifth question:
Question 5
THE CLOSER I COME, THE THIRSTIER I GET. WHEN IS THE QUENCHING GOING TO START?
The very expectation will function as a barrier. You forget about the quenching; you simply be thirsty and enjoy it. When the thirst becomes total, it disappears.
I would like to read a few lines from T. S. Eliot:
We shall not cease from exploration.
And the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started,
and know the place for the first time;
when the tongues of flame are enfolded
into the crowned knot of fire
and the fire and the rose are one...
... and the thirst and the quenching are one; and the rose and the fire are one. When the fire is total, suddenly it is transformed and there is only a rose, not the fire. When the thirst is total, its very totality changes its quality -- it becomes quenching; infinite contentment. The quenching is not something separate from thirst, remember it.
Thirst. Become so total that you disappear in your thirst; and then, the fire and the rose are one.
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