Follow Me IN! Follow Me IN! The Initiation - Be Unclutched!
When you decide 'I should get rid of this headache,' you are constantly remembering the word headache also. So what you need to do is this, whenever these memories rise, have a glass of water! The moment you decide to have a glass of water, your greed has disappeared; your fear has disappeared! But you say it comes back. How? Your faith in it is what brings it back; that is the basic problem.
You feel frustrated about it coming back. But if it comes back, it also means that it leaves you right? Why don't you then celebrate those moments when it left you? Why do you constantly remember only the moments it comes back? A young man came and asked me, 'I am suffering a lot because of my lustful thoughts and fantasies. What to do?' I told him, 'Just have a cup of coffee.' He was surprised. Unless the lustful thought has left you, you can't have a cup of coffee. You can't have the thought while having a cup of coffee. Only if it has left you, you can move to the coffee, but what do you do? You bring it back while you are having coffee. That is the problem.
It is so easy to renounce a thought. You ask me how it can be so simple! It is simple. The problem is that you are constantly taught that it is not so simple. If you really understand the whole process, it is so simple. Constantly people are telling you that it is not so easy. But I am telling you that it is so easy. Nothing needs to be done. Just a simple understanding is enough.
People come and tell me, 'I have a constant fear of death, what should I do?' I tell them to come and sit and have a cup of tea. When they are having tea I ask them, 'What happened to the death fear?' For that moment, it is not there! So all you need to do is have tea. Understand what I am trying to convey through the tea. Your fear of death can be replaced with just the thought of having a cup of tea! That is all it is worth. But you empower it so much and allow it to wreck your life.
One elderly person, a well read scholar, came to me and said, 'I am constantly searching for enlightenment. For the last 35 years, I have been searching. Please teach me meditation for enlightenment.' I sat down and started talking to him. I asked him about his family, where he is from and those types of things. He was with me for four hours. He did not even remember his first question again! He did not remember because his question had only that much depth. It did not come from his being. So just remember that your thoughts rarely have depth.
You see, all your negativity has only one power, and that is the faith you place in it, that's all. Understand that it is a simple game, that's all. You do not need to work for unclutching. People ask me again and again why they fail when they try to unclutch. I ask them why they are connecting their past failures with their present failures. When you connect your past failures, you create one more shaft: failure shaft.
The failure which happened nine years ago, the failure that happened eight years ago, and the failure that happened yesterday, are independent incidents. Why do you connect all of them and influence the experience that is yet to happen? Just relax and stop connecting, and suddenly you will see such deep inner healing happening in you, such deep peace happening in you. Suddenly you will see that you have dropped out of the war that was going on within you.