61. Do you have high-resolution memories?
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I can say this from my own experience: the more you unclutch, the more memories will become available to you, without disturbing you. Let me give you an example: in your computer, if you store a large number of high resolution pictures, you can store only a few pictures. Retrieving them also takes too much of time - you will have to be sitting and watching the hourglass symbol and waiting! But if you store only Word documents on your hard disc, you can store a lot more files, and retrieving them will also be very easy. How to make your high resolution pictures into Word documents - that is the whole technique!
What are the high-resolution pictures inside your hard disc? The pictures which are affecting you too much, which are disturbing you emotionally, which are stored inside you with a lot of emotional connections and emotional charge – those are high-resolution pictures. High-resolution pictures take too much of your inner space. For example, your relationships - even by just remembering once a person with whom you have a strong emotional connection of love or hatred, so much of your inner space is occupied by that person’s picture. The moment you remember the person, you can see that a thousand thoughts about that person will come up, whether love or hatred. If a thousand thoughts come up, it means that it is a heavy file you are carrying about the person – like a high-resolution picture.
If you can store files without emotional attachment, the ability to store and the ability to retrieve are both tremendously increased. If you are constantly clutched to your memories, even Word documents become high-resolution pictures. Your hard disc is full with just a few files. Even a little memory is enough to bring pain, suffering, torture, into your life. If you constantly unclutch from memories, your high-resolution pictures will be automatically converted into Word documents!
A normal person gets tired just by handling ten or twelve relationships. You can see, at nine o'clock you go and sit in your office; by eleven o'clock you are stressed out just by interacting with ten or twelve people! Moreover, we carry all these negative words inside us as strong high-resolution pictures, 'I am burnt out, I have too much on my plate, I can't do anything more!' I feel blessed that I was born and brought up in an Indian village; I did not learn all these words! Once such words pop up in you, your whole day is gone.
The question is: how to convert the high-resolution pictures into Word documents? The secret is to unclutch! Whenever high-resolution pictures are getting downloaded into you and flooding your system, use those moments of stress to unclutch again and again. Whenever the pain or pleasures related to memories is happening inside you, unclutch, unclutch, unclutch. The first few times you may find it a little difficult, you may be lost, it will really take some effort. You may say, 'It is not happening!' Relax.
Keep on unclutching. It is possible and it will happen!
> The more you unclutch,
> the more memories
> will become available
> to you.

ACTIVITY
Today, pick any five 'high-resolution' memories and unclutch from them with awareness.

SUTRA 12
Abhyāsavairāgyābhyāṁ tannirodha||12||
Relaxing from these thought patterns through constant and intensive practice of unclutching.