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"After twenty years you are giving me this examination? You must have examined me before."
The teacher said, "I couldn't. It would have been too cruel. Even now I was not sure if it was time."
The mind is so curious. It is always wandering here and there, everywhere. But a wandering mind will not do. The mind must be focused -- insistently focused, intensively focused. It must be brought to one particular point. Only then can any work happen.
A technique is nothing but a method of narrowing the mind down. Thousands are the possibilities of techniques, but you must not wander from one to another. The whole point is to narrow the mind down. Otherwise you will not be able to work at all, the possibility will not be there.
The problem is difficult and deep, and your energies are limited. They must not be thrown here and there. They must be pinned down somewhere. Only then is something possible. Thinking throws your energies from one place to the next. Nothing will be produced by it. That's why a technique is used. It is just to pin you down to one particular, narrow path in which all your energies can be channeled. Only then can your limited life, the limited time You have, come to a flowering that is unlimited. Otherwise it is not possible.
So don't go on thinking so much. Think only up to the point where you have decided what type of technique is for you. Then stop thinking and begin to work. If you cannot leave thinking behind, then no -- method is for you. Then your approach is through doubt.
Then, go on doubting. Never think about trust, never think about faith. But one must be decisive about it of one's whole life can be wasted. And we waste. We have wasted so many lives. It is not the first time that we are wasting our lives. It is an old habit.
Think up to the limit where you have come to a decision. Then, throw thinking. Now it is not needed. Jump, move existentially, don't speculate. Allow the momentum to move you along, remain in the flow. The more narrow the passage in which you are working, the nearer will be the realization. The only function of a technique is to narrow you....
The Eternal
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