Letting go of the past
Amrit Sadhana
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Our
lives are weighed down with past memories and expectations from the future. How
can we let go of all that clutter and live life spontaneously? We feel burdened
not because of our present but because of the past hanging around our neck like
a heavy stone.
Osho gives some
useful tips for separating psychological memories from the factual ones. It is
good to remember that mere facts never burden us. The memory of our name or
phone number is not a burden but a psychological memory of 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 to drive, you have to know where your home
is, and you have to recognise your wife and your children. But those are not
psychological hang-ups. Factual memory is 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 that 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 colour your perception. Psychological impressions change
your way of looking and perceiving her as she is standing in front of you at
this moment. You are no 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
in 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 factual things and your mind will be very clean and clear."
Soon you will find that there
is a new light in your life - the light of here-now, the Present.
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