3. The Living Present

Qn: As I can see what has gone wrong is the inner body, call it mind, consciousness, antah-karana!

Ans: What do you consider wrong with your mind!

Qn: It is restless, greedy of the pleasant and afraid of the unpleasant!

Ans: Between the banks of pain and pleasure, the river of life flows. Flow with life, with acceptance. Desire not, fear not.

Qn: Between body and self, there lies a cloud of thoughts and feelings, mental dust that blinds and chokes.

Ans: The memory of an event cannot pass for the event. There is a livingness about it, an actuality-the stamp of reality. It is my own reality that I impart to the present events. Things and thoughts are changing, but the feeling that what is now real has never changed, even in dream.

Qn: Between life's source and experience (body), there is the mind, ever-changeful. Stream of mental states is endless, meaningless and painful. Desire and fear are the weft and warp of living. Can there be a happy mind?

Ans: Desire is memory of pleasure and fear is memory of pain. Go to the other mind, which unite and harmonizes. The inclusive mind is love in action. Mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it.

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