WISE WORDS III
Letting Go of the Past
It is good to know that mere facts never burden us. The memory of our name or phone number is not a burden but a psychological memory or an insult or even a felicitation can become a hang up. Interestingly, many of us tend to forget facts but we tend to remember and dwell upon psychological memories.
Osho points out, “Memory has technical uses. You have to know how you drive, you have to know where your home is and you have to recognize your wife and your children. But those are not the psychological hang-ups Factual memories are useful. It enhances life, facilitates it.
But if you come home and you look at your wife and think of all your past experiences with her then this is a psychological hang-up. If she was angry with you in the recent past, then that memory can cloud your eyes. If she was nasty or sad, then it too can color your perception. Psychological impressions change your way of looking and perceiving her as she is standing in the front of you at this moment You are not longer looking at her but at someone who doesn’t exist. You are looking at a ghost, not at your wife. And she may also be looking at you at the same way.
Drop the past each moment … Just as you clean your house, clean your inner house of the past. All psychological memories have to be dropped. Just keep the factual things and you mind will be very clean and clear
Soon n you will find there is a new light in your life – the light of here- now the PRESENT.
OSHO, citations from timesfoundation@timesgroup.com
It is good to know that mere facts never burden us. The memory of our name or phone number is not a burden but a psychological memory or an insult or even a felicitation can become a hang up. Interestingly, many of us tend to forget facts but we tend to remember and dwell upon psychological memories.
Osho points out, “Memory has technical uses. You have to know how you drive, you have to know where your home is and you have to recognize your wife and your children. But those are not the psychological hang-ups Factual memories are useful. It enhances life, facilitates it.
But if you come home and you look at your wife and think of all your past experiences with her then this is a psychological hang-up. If she was angry with you in the recent past, then that memory can cloud your eyes. If she was nasty or sad, then it too can color your perception. Psychological impressions change your way of looking and perceiving her as she is standing in the front of you at this moment You are not longer looking at her but at someone who doesn’t exist. You are looking at a ghost, not at your wife. And she may also be looking at you at the same way.
Drop the past each moment … Just as you clean your house, clean your inner house of the past. All psychological memories have to be dropped. Just keep the factual things and you mind will be very clean and clear
Soon n you will find there is a new light in your life – the light of here- now the PRESENT.
OSHO, citations from timesfoundation@timesgroup.com
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