The mind needs the future in order to move. It can move either in the past or in the future. It cannot move in the present; there is no space. The truth is in the present, and mind is always in the future or in the past, so there is no meeting between mind and truth.
But when the mind starts seeking the truth the very effort becomes nonsense, because the truth is here and now and the mind is always then and there. There is no meeting. So understand the first thing: you cannot seek truth. You can find it, but
you cannot seek it. The very seeking is the hindrance.
The moment you start seeking you have moved away from the present, away from
yourself, because YOU are always in the present. The seeker is always in the present and the seeking is in the future, you are not going to meet whatsoever you are seekin
The present has no space in which to move; you cannot think. If you are in this very
moment, how can you move? Mind stops, you attain to no-mind.
So the real thing is how to be here and now. You can try, but effort may prove futile --because if you make it a point to be in the present, then this point has moved into the future. When you ask how to be in the present, again you are asking about the future.
This moment is passing in the inquiry, "How to be present? How to be here and now?"
This present moment is passing in the inquiry, and your mind will begin to weave and
create dreams in the future: some day you will be in a state of mind where there is no movement, no motive, no seeking, and then there will be bliss -- so how to be in the present?
Osho - The book of secrets
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