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imprints will tempt you and play tricks on you. If you are not careful, they will keep on giving flickering signs to you and they may make new scars on your consciousness.
You must not allow them to make you angry and frustrated. You must talk to them and tell them, "Now you go! You are old tenants and your lease is up! I will not renew your contract." Once you recognize that these socalled tenants are unwanted guests, then you are ready to evict them. You realize that you must have invited them into your consciousness long ago when you were in a hazy, ignorant state of mind. Old habits of thinking know how to make themselves at home, but no matter how comfortable or comforting they may appear to you, you must be firm in your resolve to empty your mental house.
If this sentient living energy does not give up the old insentient, the stale stagnant matter becomes a burden to you and a cause of pain. The more thorough the mental housecleaning you do the more buoyant you feel. The more you allow dry leaves to drop away, the more aware you are of what you are in essence and of what is relevant to your present living. Now you are open to receive the
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THE DYNAMICS OF MEDITATION
What is the new life? None other than that living conscious energy pulsating and vibrating in the entire universe. It is your own latent power. To enter the path of meditation you must have a conscious awareness of your latent power. If you are not aware of that treasure within you, you are not going to long for it. You are not going to reach for it. If we see the end in the beginning, we will take the beginning to the end.
