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see that there is no future -- either your heart will stop or you will run away backwards, thinking that at least the past will be there. But the past is not there.
The past and the future both are in your mind.
Existentially there is only this moment.
So when you meditate today, do it as if this is the last day. You may not have any chance to meditate again, so go all the way to the seashore. And once you have got the taste of your being -- the rejoicing, the dancing, the blessing, the ecstasy -- then there is no problem, you know the way. It is not far, it is just within you, just a few inches away from your mind. But once you have to know it. Just once you have to know it, then there is no problem. Then you cannot forget it, then you cannot go away against it; then it becomes your very life. And when meditation becomes one's very life, there is nothing more in this existence to make you richer, to make you more of a splendor. The secret is hidden within you.
A Zen poet wrote:
WITH A PIERCED NET -- a net with holes.
WITH A PIERCED NET
I'VE CAUGHT
ALL THE BUTTERFLIES
OF THE UNIVERSE.
He is not talking about butterflies; neither is he talking about a pierced net. He is talking about your mind, which is certainly pierced -- so many holes, so many loopholes, so many stitches here and there, so many cracks. But the poet is saying, don't be worried:
WITH A PIERCED NET
I'VE CAUGHT
ALL THE BUTTERFLIES
OF THE UNIVERSE.
Just know the secret. And the secret is to go beyond the pierced net. Be a master of your mind, then even a pierced net is capable of catching all the butterflies of the world. Right now your mind catches nothing. From all the holes and loopholes everything goes on leaking out. Have you seen that you are leaking continuously? I don't think... but now you will see.
Basho says, sitting silently... It is right, but he does not know that when you sit silently it is not necessarily true that the grass grows by itself. What seems to be more likely is that the mind leaks by itself. Basho's experience is a great experience, but this is a very simple experiment
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