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contrast with the money that you have achieved
your inner emptiness
looks even emptier than before
you have attained power outside
but deep inside you know you are impotent
impotent in the face of death
one has to die, no power can save one
so whether a desire succeeds or fails
it fails all the same
this is one of the most fundamental truths
to be understood
once you see the point
then you don't go on changing horses
because they are all the same
the black horse and the white horse, devil and god
it doesn't make much difference
it is just the difference between
a black horse and a white horse
they will all lead you into misery
then one simply gets out of the whole trip
one forgets desiring, one starts living
desiring is always somewhere else
the fulfilment is in the future
living
is now
here
these are the only two ways
to create a style of life
living in the future
which is only so-called living
because the future is non-existential
and living in the present
which is the only way
of living, authentic living
time consists only of two tenses, not of three
ordinarily it is divided into three parts
the past, the present and the future
that is existentially wrong
grammatically it may be right
linguistically it may be right
but i have no concern with language and grammar
my concern is with existence
as far as existence is concerned
time only consists of past and future
the present is not part of time
it is part of existence
existence is always now, it is never then
it is never yesterday, never tomorrow
it is this very moment
and to go beyond time
is the whole art of meditation
meditation is the transcendence of time
past and future both
and the plunging into the now, the here.
the deeper you plunge into the now and the here
the more you disappear
because mind cannot exist without past
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