Be It Now
If you want to do something do it here and now. Don’t postpone, and don’t say: It is such a small thing we can take care of it tomorrow. Nothing is so small. If you are not alert, by the time tomorrow comes this thing will be great and big – and then you will be in difficulty. And it may not be possible tomorrow for you to tackle it.
Never leave problems incomplete, that is how you become burdened. Always live a life which is moment to moment complete. Whatsoever you have to do, do it now.
Whatsoever you have to say, say it now. Whatsoever you have to be, be it now. Don’t say “Tomorrow,” tomorrow is the fool’s land. That is the way stupidity goes on – postponing. If you can complete everything this moment you are always fresh for the next moment, there is no hangover. And if death comes to such a person he is always ready and happy, because he has never left anything incomplete. He is always ready because he is always complete.
If death comes to you, you will be in trouble – because a thousand and one things are incomplete and you would like to have a little more time. Because you always wanted to do some things and you have never done them.
In fact, useless things you have completed and useful things you have been postponing. If you postpone anger for tomorrow, that may be good, but you never postpone anger for tomorrow. Anger you do right now, love you postpone for tomorrow. Greed you do it now, sharing you postpone for tomorrow. Violence – you do it now, compassion – you say: “We will see tomorrow.” All nonsense you do right now, you don’t wait for tomorrow – and all that is beautiful you go on pushing away for some other day.
Misery you never postpone, bliss you always postpone. So when death comes you have led a miserable life – and blessings, benedictions, you have been postponing. And now comes death, and you cry and you weep and you say: “A little more time, because I have never lived really.” Do just the opposite: bliss this moment. Misery can be postponed – there is no hurry. And if you are blissful this moment misery will never happen because this moment is the total, all that is there. The next moment comes, and that moment will be coming out of this moment. If you are blissful this moment, the next moment will come more blissful out of it.
And when death comes you will say: “I am perfectly ready, because I have been postponing only miseries, so it is good you have come.” Now there is no need, now the tomorrow disappears completely.
This is what a wise man goes on doing. He tackles every problem this moment. He tackles every situation this moment.
Much energy is released if you complete things. Have you watched it in yourself? If you don’t complete a thing it remains on your head, knocking, to be completed. Until you complete it, it goes on hovering around you, haunting you. It may be a small thing but it goes on hovering. Finish it!
