Words from the Master

When your inner chatter comes down, when your TPS or Thoughts per Second comes down for even a split second, for that split second you are totally in the present and for that split second, you have the ability to access your past and future like an open book. When your inner chatter is high, your TPS is high and you are all the time either in the past or in the future; never in the present.

Let me explain to you what I mean by being able to access your past and future clearly:
Sometimes you might have experienced: When you are at a lecture or at a party, or in some other place, suddenly out of nowhere, you feel that the whole scene has happened before. The voices, the conversation, the place, even a few curios in the place, all will look like a replay of a scene that you have witnessed earlier. You are jolted.

Or, suddenly you think about a particular person, a friend whom you haven’t contacted in a long time, and that person calls up on your phone. You feel jolted when these things happen to you. In these few moments, you are completely in the present. Accidentally somehow you fall into the present.

You are never consciously in the present. You are always in the past or future. You move from past to future without touching the present. This is the truth. But accidentally your thoughts per second come down for a moment and you are jolted into the present.

When you are completely in the present for even a second, your past and future become transparent to you. That is why you see these kinds of intuitive things happening to you.

You see: Our thinking is never clear. It is always just association, it is never real thinking.

Let me explain what I mean by association:

You wake up in the morning and see a rose that has bloomed in your garden. Immediately your mind goes to someone who gave you a rose sometime in the past; your thought then goes through your reaction at that time to the flower, or you start thinking about that person. You then start thinking about incidents that happened with that person. In the end what happens? You miss enjoying the rose that is in front of you!

This is how you run behind the past and miss the present. This is what I mean by the word association. This is the nature of your current mental setup. As long as your mental setup is nothing but association, you will continue to go behind the past or the future, creating words and more words within yourself.

Masters live always in the present. That is why they have access to the vast ocean that is the past and the future. For you, it is an accident. It is a split second when this happens to you. You even feel scared when this happens! You are so used to living unconsciously, that when you are jolted into consciousness, it is too much. Reality becomes too much!

Your TPS plays a major role in determining how far you are from reality or the present. You live unconsciously when your TPS is high. You are so far flung from reality.

Understand: Only your doing will speak for you. Your speaking will not do anything for you. Whether you speak inside or outside, it does not matter. Simply bring in awareness and automatically you will stop speaking unnecessarily.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.