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here,' said the professor, 'engage more than once a week?
Five people raised their hands.
'And how many engage once a week?' Ten hands went up.
'How many twice a month?' Eight hands went up.
'Once a month?' Four hands were raised.
'And how many once a year?'
A little guy in the back waved his hand frantically and giggled hysterically.
'If you engage only once a year,' said the professor, 'I don't see what you are so overjoyed about.'
Flushed with excitement, the little guy said, 'Yes, but tonight's the night!'
Let this moment be the moment. Don't live in the past because nobody can live in the past. It is no more. And don't make your palaces in the future, it cannot be done. The future does not exist. Live in this moment.
Jesus says to his disciples, 'Look at these lilies in the field. How beautiful they are. Even Solomon, attired in all his costly garments, was not so beautiful.' And what is the secret of the lilies in the field? They live in the moment. Today is the day, tonight is the night and this moment is the only moment.
Once you start living in the moment you are constantly in touch with life. And life refreshes you, life goes on rejuvenating you.
Yes, the body will disappear one day, but that is not death -- it is simply a tired body going to rest. Yes, this mind will be lost, because this mind has been used. What do you want? Do you want to use this same mind forever and ever? Are you not fed up with it? This mind works from the day you are born up to the day you die -- seventy, eighty, ninety years. It is a mechanism. Feel a little compassion for the mechanism -- by and by it gets old, by and by it does not function so well, so you need a new mechanism.
This body becomes old, this body becomes rotten, it is a mechanism. And it is a tremendously intricate and complex mechanism; science has not been able to invent anything else like it yet. It is so automatic. You think automation is new? Your body has been automatic for millions of years. When you eat food it is digested automatically. You don't have to digest it. When you breath in, the blood takes in the oxygen
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