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it if they took it out completely; otherwise, it would take many hours. So they left the politician in the operating theater and took his mind to the next room to clean it. And naturally a politician's mind needs great cleaning ... almost dry cleaning.
While they were cleaning his mind, a man came running. Knowing nothing about what was happening, he shook the politician, who opened his eyes. And the man said, "What are you doing here? You have been chosen to be the president of the country."
So the politician got up, and as he was leaving the hospital, the doctors saw him. They said, "My God! His brain is still in the lab." They rushed out and told him, "Wait! Your brain is still being cleaned."
He said, "Now I don't need it; I have become the president. You keep it -- after five years if I'm not chosen again, perhaps I may need it; you can preserve it. What do I need a brain for now that I'm the president?"
In a strange way, the meditator also does not need the mind -- but in a very different context. A meditator goes beyond the mind. The mind becomes slowly, slowly silent, calm and quiet. And more efficient, of course -- whenever the meditator wants to use it, he can use it better than anybody else. Whenever he does not need to use it, he is enjoying his inner spaces, ecstasies, blessings. The mind remains silent, it does not disturb.
That's the whole art of meditation: to keep the mind completely quiet, and make it understand that it is not supposed to comment on any experience that is beyond it.
Meditation is beyond the mind.
You say, "Life is so exciting when I am open to each moment, and not asking where it is going to take me next." That's what I call being in a let-go, being relaxed with existence.
"The problems disappear and nothing can harm me. The moment my mind comes in saying, `Watch out!' the fear arises, and life looks dangerous, and I take only calculated steps. How can I remain with the relaxed, joyful, and trusting experience?" You will just have to teach the mind: "It is not your territory; you are not supposed to interfere or say anything."
It is just an old habit that the mind goes
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