Remain with the moment

Osho: “And because of this mind who is always on journey you can never be in touch with the real. You eat but you miss eating, the flavour, the taste, the smell, you miss it. You simply go on throwing things inside. It is ugly. But why you miss? Because the mind goes on thinking. You are thinking thousand and one things while you are eating.

Says Rinzai, that when I eat I only eat and when I sleep I only sleep. Somebody said nothing is special in it, everybody is doing it. Rinzai laughed and said: is everybody is doing it everybody is a buddha. Everybody is enlightened then. Eating simply eat, be with it. Walking simply walk. Be there. Don’t go ahead, don’t jump here and there. Mind always goes ahead or lags behind.

Remain with the moment. In the beginning it will be very difficult to remain with the moment. And sometimes the moment will not be very happy. You are angry. Then the mind start thinking of repentence. Or trying to do something so that the anger never happens again. Sometimes you are sad, you put on the radio or the tv, you start reading a book, because you would not like to be sad. You want to divert the mind. And because miserable moments are more than happy moments it becomes a constant habbit and when it is fixed, even when happiness comes you are not found at home, you are found somewhere else.

Make it a point: whatsoever, sadness, anger, whatsoever, depression, unhappiness, be with it. And you will suddenly become surprised, that when you remain with sadness sadness changes into a beautiful thing. Sadness becomes a depth. If you remain with anger, not thinking about, just being with, anger is transformed. It becomes forgiveness. If you remain with sex, sex takes a different quality, it becomes love.

If you start living with the moment you will see your ‘being with’ is a miracle, it has a magic to it. Happiness will become deeper. Ordinarily your happiness is just on the surface. Deep down you carry millions of things. Just on the surface it is. If you remain with it it will become deeper and deeper and deeper. If you start ‘living with’ everything is transformed because you bring a new quality of being, of awareness, of witnessing. Don’t fight against sadness and don’t hanker about happiness, because that is going away, astray.

Have you observed? If you go for a holiday to the Himalayas or to Switzerland, for months you plan. To arrive there. And the moment you arrive your mind has already started to plan when to depart. How to go back home. Look, for months you plan how to arrive, and when you arrive or not even arrive, just on the way, and your mind has started to go back. How to depart? Your every arrival is just the beginning of a departure. And you are never there, because you can not be there.

Again back home you will start thinking. Back home you will start thinking: what happened in the Himalayas. What beautiful experiences you went through. And you were never there. It is as if you have read about them, it is as if somebody else has told you. You look at the memory as if the memory functions on its own. It takes photographs and becomes an album. Back home you will open the album and see and you will say to friends: beautiful, and you will start planning again, next year, you are going to the Himalayas.

Mind is never where you are. Awareness is always there where you are. Drop more and more mind and minding and become more and more aware and alert. Bring yourself together in the moment. Difficult in the beginning. Because of the old habbit it will go again and again, bring it back. No need to fight, simply call it back: come! Again it will go within seconds. It will not be there. Call it back again. And by and by when you start enjoying this moment, the eternal now, the only time that there is, only existence that there is, the only life that there is, when you start enjoying it, more and more, the mind will be coming to it less and less; it will be going. Then a tuning happens, suddenly you are here, at home, and the reality is revealed. The reality was always there, you were not there. It is not the truth that has to be sought, it is you who has to be brought home.”