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Don’t be unnecessarily burdened by the past; close its chapters and stop judging everything through its lens. Letting go of ego and suffering frees you to live in the present, where meditation is a continuous practice. The present offers deep water or high sky, while the past fades away.

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NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

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Because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.

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Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind.

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Whatever happened yesterday was the past.

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"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured…

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The heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present.

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To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic.

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The past is not clinging to you; YOU are clinging to the past. Once you are not clinging, the past simply EVAPORATES!

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Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future.

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Whatever you are doing, don't let past move your mind;don't let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the…

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Our whole energy remains blocked either in the past or in the future. When you withdraw all your energy from past and…

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Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.

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All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of all the inhibitions of the past. And laughter and…

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Mind is nothing but dreams and dreams - dreams of the past, dreams of the future, dreams of how things should be,…

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There is only one courage and that is the courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not…

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The present gives you the opportunity to dive deep into the water of life, or to fly high into the sky of…

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Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young.…

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The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present…

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Tonight go to sleep as though your whole past has been dropped. Die to the past. And in the morning wake up…

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This mind goes on continuing. This mind will go on continuing, unless you become aware. And this is a miracle: that the…

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The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons,…

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Meditation is not something you do in the morning and you are finished with it, meditation is something that you have to…

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Tension means hurry, fear, doubt. Tension means a constant effort to protect, to be secure, to be safe. Tension means preparing for…

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Real spirituality is going through fire. Real spirituality is rebellion against all that is rotten, against all that is past, against all…

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First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is…

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I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity…

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These tenses-past, present and future-are not the tenses of time; they are tenses of the mind. That which is no longer before…

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A person who lives moment to moment, who goes on dying to the past, is never attached to anything. Attachment comes from…

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Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go…

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Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from…

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Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death,…

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If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out…

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Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all…

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Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past…

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The past is no more and the future is not yet. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment,…

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Bring awareness to each act. Walking on the road, walk fully alert; eating, eat with awareness. Whatsoever you are doing, don't let…

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All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past…

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Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with the past,…

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The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time; it exists in the past and the future. And remember, time…

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Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are…

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"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.