"You can jump only to a certain limit. It was a miracle to see Nijinsky jumping – beyond gravitation, as if he has become so light and free from gravitation.

"Even more miraculous was his coming back to the earth. If anything comes toward the earth, it comes with a force, the gravitation pulls it. You cannot hesitate, and you cannot delay and postpone. It is not in your hands. If you fall from a height, it is not in your hands to go with lesser speed or more speed. There is no speedometer in your hands.

"But Nijinsky fell just like a feather, showing again that gravitation is transcended. He was asked again and again – obviously: 'What is the secret?'

"And he said, 'Don't ask me, because whenever 'I' try I fail. I cannot jump that height, neither can I fall like a feather. But dancing, once in a while I forget myself and suddenly it happens. The moment I am not – the miracle! I cannot give you the secret, because there is no secret in my hands.'

"Nijinsky was not a mystic, but he was experiencing a mystical state. He was not a philosopher; hence he could not even give an explanation. He simply said in the most authentic, sincere way that, 'There comes a moment in my dance that I don't find myself anywhere. In that state whatever happens is not my doing.'

"You can experience buddhahood just by being silent or just by being so loving that your hands melt into love; or by being so total in any act that your 'I' disappears and only isness remains.

"Isness is another name of buddhahood.

"It is always within you, the question is by which door you are going to enter in.

"This anecdote says:

In ancient times, there were sixteen Bodhisattvas. At the monks' bath-time, following the rule, they had baths.
They suddenly experienced realization through the touch of the water…

"Don't think it is just a story. If you are really alive and your touch is total, you can become enlightened just under your own shower. This anecdote is being told by some teacher to some disciples. He says,

You reverend Zen students…

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