The seeker has to fulfill only one basic thing: he has to drop his mind. The moment the mind is dropped, a great silence arises — because the mind carries your whole past; all the memories of the past go on hankering for your attention, they go on crowding upon you, they don’t leave any space within you. And the mind also means future. Out of the past you start fantasizing about the future. It is a projection out of the past.
You have lived a certain life in the past: there have been a few moments of joy and many many dark nights. You would not like to have those dark nights; you would have your future to be full of those joyous moments. So you sort out from your past: you choose few things and you project them in the future, and you choose a few other things and you try to avoid them in the future. Your future is only nothing but a refined past — a little bit modified here and there, but it is still the past because that’s all that you know.
