Drop Your Memories!

hat is memory? Calling up of past experiences. Continuously, memory

W is happening. Whenever you see something, immediately memory

comes in and distorts it. You have seen me before. You see me again,
immediately memory comes in. If you had seen me five years before,
then the picture of five years, the past picture, will come into your eyes
and fill your eyes. And you will see me through that picture.
That's why, if you have not seen your friend for many days, the moment you
see him or her, you immediately say, "You are looking very thin," or "You are
looking very unhealthy," or "You have gathered fat." Immediately! Why? Because
you are comparing; the memory has come in. The man himself is not aware that he
has put on weight or he has become thin, but you become aware because
immediately you can compare. The past, the last picture comes in, and
immediately you can compare.
And this memory is continuously there, being projected on everything you see.
This past memory has to be dropped. It should not be a constant interference in
Dropping your knowing because it doesn't allow you to know the new. You always know in
doesn't mean the pattern of the old. It doesn't allow you to feel the new, it makes everything old
that you cease and rotten. Because of this memory, everybody is bored; the entire humanity is
bored. Look at anybody's face, he is bored, bored to death. There is nothing new,
to remember,
no ecstasy.
dropping only Why are children so ecstatic? And for such simple things you cannot imagine
means this how this ecstasy is happening. Just for a few coloured stones on the beach and
constant they start dancing. What is happening to them? Why can't you dance? Because you
interference. know those are just stones; your memory is there. For those children there is no
memory, those stones are a new phenomenon -- as if they have reached the moon.
When you
I was reading when the first man reached the moon all over the world there
need, you can was excitement. And everybody was looking at their TVs, but within fifteen
pull it back to minutes, everybody was bored, finished. What to do now? The man is walking on
the focus. the moon. After just fifteen minutes and this dream has taken millions of years to
When you reach there... And nobody is now interested about what is happening.
Everything becomes old. Immediately it becomes memory, it becomes old. If
don't need it,
you can drop your memories! Dropping doesn't mean that you cease to remember,
just let it be dropping only means this constant interference. When you need, you can pull it
there silently, back to the focus. When you don't need it, just let it be there silently, not coming
not coming continuously.
continuously Past, if continuously present, will not allow the present to be. And if you miss
the present, you miss all.
-Osho, Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega
-Osho

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