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mechanism. If some memory is needed you can use the mind, otherwise you can turn it off.
Nobody wants to lose their job, and that is why mind goes on creating new miseries. There are many professions like this. For example, the physician, the doctor: on the one hand he tries to help people to get rid of diseases; on the other hand he goes on discovering new diseases -- he has to. Even if a very healthy person goes to the doctor the doctor is bound to find something wrong.
One woman was telling another, "My son's practice is going so well that now he has even started telling people, 'You don't have any disease -- go home!'" Otherwise he can always find something. Hence it is always good to go to the doctor whose practice is good, who can afford to lose a patient, otherwise he will find something -- it is his business. So his business is in a way suicidal.
If one day physicians succeed in destroying all illnesses in the world they will have to commit suicide, they will not be able to exist any more; their need is finished. So they are not going to do that. That's why there are strange things....
For two thousand years medical science has been working and working and working but diseases are not finished; if one disease is finished they immediately discover two more. In fact there are many more new diseases. If some two-thousand-year-old person could be found, he would not recognise what cancer is; he would never have heard of it in his lifetime.
If you could bring out somebody alive from his grave he would not be able to recognise many diseases -- they never existed before. In the old medical treatises there is not even a mention. The physician has to go on discovering -- that's the only way for him to exist.
And that's how mind is it is its work, its business, its investment, to go on creating misery, to invent it even if it is not there.
A sannyasin has to be aware of this fact. Once you know it, it is not very difficult to slip out of the mind. And meditation is just slipping out of the mind, and by a very simple technique. Just by being a witness to the mind one slips out of it. Just by being a witness, just watching
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