Owning Time
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September 13, 2010
What do I mean by the word 'having
time'?
Having time means, the time is your
own.
YOU should be the owner of your
time, not your thoughts or something
else or someone else.
Look in at this simple thing: are you owner of your time?
No!
Everybody else except you owns your time.
The whole world is nothing but a huge fight to own more and more people's time. Whether it is the field of politics, art, science, or even the field of religion, it is nothing but owning people's time. If you own more people's time, you are a big guy, that's all.
Actually, trying to own more time is the subtle reason even for giving birth to kids, bringing them up as you want, and fulfilling in their life whatever you wanted to have in your life. You just want to have little more time!
Understand this secret: if you know how to own your own time, you will not be trying to own others' time. You will not be bullying around. You will not be bossing around. In any other field, if you own more people's time, you are big guy. But in spirituality, if you own your own time, you are a big guy.
The first thing you need to understand is time is just matter. Only when you understand this will you have respect for yourself, and you understand that you can own time. As long as you think of time as something mysterious, not understandable, uncatchable, indescribable, you will think that is too big. Time is simple matter, just like this handkerchief here. You can own it.
The second thing: decide to hate everything which tries to own your time. Anything, everything, which tries to own your time, hate it. Just escape from it, even if it is your Guru. If you think I am trying to own your time, escape from me. Understand: if you think I am trying to own your time, you have a wrong concept about me. I am constantly trying to make you own your time!
I can give you a very powerful technique to own your time. Take 21 days and make your daily routine very stable by creating a timetable for yourself. Decide that at 6 a.m. you will be doing this, at 6:30 a.m. you will be doing that, at 7:30 a.m. you will doing this, and so on. Make a clear timetable from morning until night, and decide that you will not change your routine for any reason. Tell your mind that you will be comfortable and happy doing whatever has been scheduled for that time. That’s all; you will own time. It is a very powerful process.