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CHAPTER 4. TO BE DEAD DO NOTHING
carrying the ashes. The future is yet to be. You cannot make it happen. It comes when it comes, but
the present is now. That which is present is reality, truth. To dream is to wander in that which is not
present.
Remember the sutra: WHEN KNOWLEDGE IS DESTROYED THE DREAM IS SEEN. When
knowledge is absent, when the soul is not awakened, you are lost in dreams. The past and the
future become everything for you, and the present has no meaning; but in fact it is the present that
is everything. As you begin to awaken, the past and the future will get less and less and the present
will begin to have more and more meaning for you. The day you are fully awakened there will be
only the present. Then there is no past, no future. When there is no past and no future all diseases
of the mind, all its repetitions and circles, are destroyed. Then you are here in the present, pure,
immaculate, innocent, fresh like the morning dew. Then you are here in the present, like the lotus
flower. If you are present in your entirety at any given moment, that moment you are God.
Because you are not present in this moment you are the mind and the body but not the soul.
Meditation is an effort to drag you from the past and future into the present. You have to go neither
backward nor forward; you have only to be here. To be here and now totally peaceful and aware is
meditation! Through this is born knowledge and through knowledge you reach the highest peak and
attain the bliss of the final samadhi.
He who loses this, loses all! He who attains this, attains all!
Enough for today.
The Great Path 84 Osho