Illusion

The sage was asked:

- How can I achieve Eternal Life?

- Eternal Life is now. Enter the present.

- But I'm already in the present now. Is not it so?
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- Not.

- Why not?

“Because you didn't throw away your past.”

“Why should I throw away my past?” Not everything about him was bad.

- The past must be thrown away not because it is bad, but because it is dead.

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