Let the Past Pass

If you can season your mind to witness whatever happens around you, not belittling yourself looking upon someone as big nor ill treating someone considering them lower to you; you can be peaceful.

The raft of life teaches you that the easiest way to cross the ocean of birth is to flow along with the river, and you will be transported comfortably to your destination. If you try to push against the current, you will be stranded. If you flow, you will not encounter any problem.

What can your mind do dwelling upon the disappointments of the past or the expectations of the future? Can you change anything? Is anything in your control?

Suppose someone dies. Would anyone keep thinking about the departed soul? They will cry for a few minutes and then focus on the funeral rites, wouldn’t they? Any past is a dead corpse. Why do you want to nourish it? A soul has come into a body for its own experiences, the experiences are over and it has departed. Don’t carry it further. It is just a corpse. The past is over.

Even if you are unable to do good, never do anything that will hurt others.