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while learning is moment to moment
because learning is not accumulation but movement.
So do not be dead with knowledge
but move with learning,
only then will you be alive.
Do not be tethered to experience –
experience is slavery.
Always transcend that which has been
so that you are ready to receive the new.
Ecstasy is always with the new,
with the fresh, with the young,
with the discontinuous –
and to be always in the discontinuous
is to be in the divine.
217. Love.
If one is aware of the present moment
then one also becomes aware of the fact that
there is no me inside.
The me is my past,
the me is the dead past.
The me is not my life because it is not living.
The ego can exist only in the past
or in the future –
which is nothing but a projection of the past.
That is why awareness, moment to moment awareness,
leads to egolessness –
because the ego cannot exist in the present
and because awareness cannot exist except
in the present.
So they cannot exist simultaneously.
Ego is unawareness
and awareness is egolessness.
218. Love.
I live without planning,
and I also feel that this is the only way to be alive at all.
In fact I live a wild life,
absolutely unplanned,
not knowing anything about the future –
not even about the next moment.
Today is enough for me –
really more than enough!
The moment that is present is the only living moment –
the past is dead in the sense that it is no more
and the future is also dead
in the sense that it is not yet born.
And so to be concerned with the past is to be dead
and to be concerned with the future is also to be dead.
The only way to be alive is to be here and now –
in the moment and totally in it.
Living moment to moment I have found that ecstasy and bliss
which is not of this world at all.
The single moment lived totally transcends time itself.
It becomes the gap between two moments of time,
and if one can be in this gap
then one is beyond death
because time is death
and timelessness is life.
Life is not something fixed and finished,
life is living what is,
a process, just riverlike,
flowing always into the unknown,
from the shores of the known to the shores
of the unknown.
219. Love.
Anger, violence, greed or envy
cannot be overcome by the cultivation of their opposites,
because anger itself will cultivate its opposite
and violence will be present in its cultivated non-violence.
So always be aware
of the hypnotic spell of the opposite:
it never solves any problem
because it is beating around the bush.
Do not fall into the trap of the opposite
but understand anger, violence or greed
or anything else
directly.
To seek the opposite is a way of escape.
To seek the opposite is cowardice.
Live with your mind as it is.
Do not try to change it.
Be brave and face it and understand it.
When the light of awareness falls on anger or
greed or envy
there is change.
Awareness acts as a catalytic agent –
and then anger does not change into its opposite,
it is not that violence becomes non-violence,
but there is no-anger,
there is no-violence.
And when there is no-violence there is no-mind,
and an altogether different dimension opens its door:
the dimension of the spontaneous,
the dimension of the divine.
220. Love.
Moment to moment life passes into death,
because it is death.
Covered, it appears as life,
uncovered it is death.
Always remember this fact.
This is silent meditation.
And when this remembering even penetrates
your dreams
you will have a new door opened unto you.
In fact through it you will be altogether new,
and ultimately reborn.
Remembering death gives a new dimension
to consciousness
because to remember death is not natural.
On the contrary nature has arranged
that one should not be aware of it
because the moment one transcends death
one transcends nature also.
And one cannot transcend death
unless one is totally aware of the fact.
So be totally aware of death.
And it is happening each moment within and without.
It is present everywhere.
And because it is so obvious one becomes absent to it.
Remember – and deepen the consciousness,