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me and this will be important for me tomorrow too.'
It changes....
While I am taking a bath, the shower is important.
While I am talking to you, talking to you is important.
While I am eating, eating is important.
While I am sleeping, sleeping is important.
So it is very difficult for me. Everything is important at the time I am doing it... and I don't do unimportant things.
Okay. Good Maneesha.
The Last Testament, Vol 6
Chapter #3
Chapter title: None
7 February 1986 pm in Kathmandu, Nepal
Archive code: 8602075
ShortTitle: LAST603
Audio: Yes
Video: Yes
Length: 119 mins
[NOTE: This is a typed tape transcript and has not been edited or published, as of August 1992. It is for reference use only.]
(Beginning of tape is scrambled)
BHAGWAN: The mind is a chattering box. You cannot stop it. The very effort to stop it gives it more nourishment to go on.
Millions of people, for centuries have been trying to stop it, and they have all failed, for the simple reason that the desire to stop it is also part of it. It is not beyond it.
One side of the mind is desiring the other side of the mind to become silent. This is not possible. The only way few people have been able to stop it without making an effort to stop it, are the people who have disidentified themselves with the mind. There is not even a desire to stop it or to continue it, because all desires belong to it.
One simply watches it. Let it chatter. You simply become a watcher. Let the traffic of thoughts move. There is nothing to be worried. It is going to harm nobody. These thoughts are only soap bubbles. Don't take them seriously. Don't become tense while watching them. Be relaxed.
I will tell you a story to understand it.
Gautam Buddha told one day, while they were passing into a mountainous region -- it was the midday, hot sun and he was getting old -- he told his disciple, Ananda, that "I am very thirsty. You should go back. Because while we had been we had passed a small current of the mountainous water, few bullock carts have
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