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to go through friendship.
So you will have to do it... keep it in mind. Then next month our Hypnotherapy group will start, so you join it. It may be helpful. Hypnotherapy can be very very helpful if rightly used. It is one of the greatest methods ever developed, but it has not been rightly used yet.
[Chaitanya is a musician from Germany, who has produced five records. He sees the goal of music -- if there is a goal -- as that of awakening people. He says: I would like to know if there's anything I can do -- whether I can stay here a long time, or be here for a short time and then go.... It hurts so much when it comes time to go from you.]
Mm mm. Take it easy... don't become serious about it.
Whenever you can be herenow, be. If the mind moves and you forget, that too is natural. Don't worry about it -- otherwise first you move into the future, and then you start thinking about the past. So both ways you are killing the present, mm? First you are not in the present, so the present is lost. Then you start thinking that you have lost the present and that you have missed much and that that time is wasted -- so now you are thinking about the past. Again you are missing another present.
A serious mind can never be in the present. Only a playful mind, only children, are in the present. So be more childlike... play more.
And you can be -- you are a musician. The whole secret of music is to be in a playful mood, so play with the instruments. A musician need not have any other meditation; that's enough meditation. Just be absorbed in it. And never think about the time that is gone -- that is gone!
I will give you a method, mm? Start playing with your instrument -- any instrument will do. And do this method every night... it is in three steps. For the first seven days, the first step: Lying down on the bed, or sitting, put the light off, be in darkness. Just remember any beautiful moment that you have experienced in the past. Any beautiful moment -- just choose the best. It may be very ordinary -- because sometimes extraordinary things happen in very ordinary grounds.
You are just sitting still, doing nothing, and the
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