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So you can think in this way: at the very innermost core there is

emptiness, pure sky, nothingness, FANA. The first layer around FANA

is that of BAKA, individuality -- what religions call the self,

ATMAN, the soul. But the soul is already a step away from your being.

The self is already distant from your being. Buddha has the right

word for it. He calls it ANATTA, no-self. Your innermost being is a

non-being. Nothing is there, or only nothing is. The first layer, the

first fence that surrounds it, is BAKA, individuality.

 

This is your true and simple being: non-being surrounded by being,

defined by being.

 

The real core is empty but the emptiness has to be defined by

something -- otherwise there will be no division between you and

anything else. So a thin. a very thin, layer of being divides you.

But that being is also a circumference not the centre. At the centre

is FANA, dissolution, disappearance. Even at the point of BAKA,

individuality, you don't meet God, you are still there. Very little

is left of you, but there is still just a thin line -- even that has

to disappear in FANA. Then you enter God.