Whenever the sublime Gotama spoke about the world in his sermons, he had to divide it into samsara and nirvana, into illusion and truth, into suffering and salvation. You have no alternative, there is no other method for a man who wants to teach. But the world itself, what exists around us and inside us, is never one-sided. A person or an action is never totally samsara or totally nirvana; a person is never totally saintly or totally sinful. Because we are subject to illusion, it does actually look as if time were something real. Time is not real, Govinda; I have learned that over and over
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