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THE DYNAMICS OF MEDITATION
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One who is detached gives up with reverence. Like the leaves which dance as they give themselves up, you give up with joy. To receive is joy. Everyone likes to receive something new. To give up with the same joy is very difficult.
And yet if you don't give up, you don't receive. Continuously there is giving and receiving. When you give up with balance, tears don't cloud your vision. When you give up with poise, you don't feel inside pain and regret. When a person leaves you, say “I wish you well.” Holding on or regretting, you are losing both the person and your peace. In return you are getting nothing but the results of your negative vibrations.
To realize what you are, meditate on the philosophy of life which can help you change your old habits of mind. Say to yourself, “All right, the trees give up. Why do I not?" Watch each thought. Ask yourself, “Is this thought living in the past?" If so, then you know that you are not living in harmony with the season. If you notice that your mind likes to escape into the barn of old memories, say to yourself, “I am going out of the cycle of life because I am living in the past. The past has already given me the result I wanted and still I am clinging to it.”
By watching you are able to untie yourself. You - resolve, “I want to go further.” Many good things are waiting for you tomorrow if you untie yourself from the past. All the springs come from winter. What you call barrenness is to the trees nothing but a period in which they have to wait in expectation This period is given to you for your understanding.
