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alive between me and you. It can again start flowing. And it has something of immense importance. If you understand it and if you practise it, you will be enriched.
But the first thing to understand is: remember that you have been hypnotized, and you have to go through a dehypnotizing process. Remember that you have been conditioned and you have to be unconditioned. Remember that death is coming. Don't think that it is not going to happen today; it can happen any moment.
In fact, all that happens always happens now. The seed dies now, the bud becomes the flower now, the bird starts calling now. All that ever happens happens only in the space made available by NOW, this moment. Nothing ever happens in the past, and nothing ever happens in the future. All that happens always happens in the present -- that is the only way for things to happen because the present is the only time there is.
Past is just your memory and future is just your imagination. But you have been hypnotized to live in the past, and you have been hypnotized to live in the future. Choose either past or future, but no society allows you to live in the present.
Christians and Hindus and Mohammedans -- they condition you to live in the past. Their golden age was in the past. Communists, socialists, fascists -- they condition you to live in the future, their golden age is in the future, the utopia is coming: 'When the revolution comes, then you will be able to really live, then there will be a golden age.'
Either you are taken to the past, which is false, or to the future, which is again false. No society tells you to live in the present, in the herenow. To be a sannyasin, to be a real seeker means to live herenow. And there is no other life. But for that you will have to de-automatize yourself, you will have to become a man and not a machine. You will have to become a little more conscious. You are not conscious.
Once I was sitting by the side of a dying man -- he was a professor in the same university where I was a professor. He was at the pinnacle of his successful career. And then came the heart attack -- which always comes when you are at the pinnacle. Success
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