The ideal of a mystic
is never to think of disagreeable things.
What one does not want to happen one should not
think about. A mystic erases from his mind all the disagreeable
things of the past. He collects and keeps his happy experiences, and
out of them, he makes a paradise. Are there not many unhappy
people who keep part of the past before them, causing
them pain in their heart? Past is past; it is gone.
There is eternity before us.
the nature and work of a mystic
Return the mind
to quietude whatever you are doing,
not imagining what is yet to come and not thinking
about what has already passed. After a long time at this, spirit and
energy merge, feelings and objects are forgotten; spirit solidifies,
energy congeals, and there is just one breath in the belly,
revolving without going out or in.
This is called womb
breathing.
What do sad people
have in common? It seems they
have all built a shrine to the past and
often go there and do a strange
wail and worship.
What is the
beginning of happiness?
It is to stop being
so religious
like that.
Do not
do anything (good or bad)
and do not even do this not-doing;
then straightaway one reaches that place where
there is no concern for external affairs, that
vast and peaceful place where there
are absolutely no obstructing
thoughts.
There,
all thoughts of the past
are extinguished, all thoughts of
the future do not arise, and
all present thoughts
are void.
Nevertheless,
this void-ness is also not
to be maintained. This non-maintenance
(of the void) is also to be forgotten, and this forgetting
is also not to be legitimized; further, free yourself from this
non-legitimizing. At the time when even the idea of
getting free is not preserved, only the alert
yet calm light from the spirit will
appear prominently before
oneself.
The present
moment is the source of
everything. As long as you have
resentments about the past or ideas
about the future, you cannot
genuinely be in the
present.
You owe it
to your future self, and
to the rest of us, to be completely
absorbed here and now. Make all
notions of past and future a
cool pile of ashes in
the corner.
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