How to remember things, how not to forget: An Osho Technique: My understanding is that I have never seen a man who has any fault with memory. The only problem is that he has no interest in something and he tries to memorise it; then nothing happens. So this time go and try to take interest moment to moment: get absorbed in the work, let it be a meditation, and then see what happens. You will remember, you will remember small details. And dont be bothered about memory -- forget about memory, memory will take care of itself. Simply take more interest in whatsoever you are doing. Change your emphasis from memory to interest, and one day you will be suddenly surprised: you are not forgetting things as you used to. When I was travelling in india for fifteen years continuously, I used to remember thousands of peoples names. For five years I might not visit their town and then suddenly one day I would be there and I would remember all those people! Hundreds of people -- and they were surprised how I could remember their names. But that was not a problem at all. They thought it had something to do with memory. It had nothing to do with memory -- I have a very lousy memory -- but I had a deep interest in people! So whenever I am talking to one person I forget the whole world. Then that person is my whole world -- at least for that moment, only he exists. So if you meet me after many lives somewhere, I will remember you. That one moment of total attention, that one moment of love, that one moment of focussing on you, that one moment when you become my world, is enough! You are engraved forever, enshrined forever -- it is impossible to forget! So just start taking more interest. Remain in the moment, take more interest in whatsoever you are doing. And after two or three months you will see that the memory is simply following -- it comes. ~ Osho Extracted from: For Madmen Only (Price of admission: Your Mind Only) Chapter # 20
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 05:24:09 +0000
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