The Psychic and The Truth: I Die Every Moment
Edited extract from the Tamborine Talk September 1987.
The psyche is not the spirit. Spirit presents no form. All form is psychic. Spirit is death, life and all knowledge behind form.
The spirit of any psychic experience is to learn, as a way of life, this: I am now free of all unhappiness. I am no longer attached to mood, to the need of excitement, to tomorrow or yesterday. I am new every moment because I die each moment.
I need no other worlds but what is here and now. Everything comes and goes but now. That is the truth. Psychic experiences are supposed to teach you that. But what do they do when popularly presented, without the balance of ‘I die every moment’? They excite the imagination. People strive for the untruth, the glamour of such things as astral travel and knowledge of future worlds. The price of such knowledge, of being that knowledge, is 'death now’. But how many of the populace will die now, for the truth?
Can you die now? Are you dying now? Not in agony, not in pain, but in conscious life, by your own will. Are you dying now to everything but what is?
To die is to not be what you were the moment before. Dying now means forgetting the previous moment. It means consciously cutting off your emotional attachment to the second before. This requires, not an intellectual understanding, but an actual doing, now, within.
A Buddha in Australia