Be aware of that which never changes in you
Something in you remains continuously the same, it never changes. You may not have observed it, you may not have encountered it yet, but if you observe you will come to know that something in you remains constantly the same. Because of that sameness, you can have an identity. Because of that sameness, you feel yourself centered; otherwise you will be a chaos.
You say, ”My childhood.” Now what has remained of it? WHO says, ”My childhood”? Who is this”my, me, I”? Nothing has remained of your childhood. You are not able to recognize your childhood pictures. Everything has changed. Your body is no more the same; not a single cell has remained the same. Every moment many cells are dying and many new ones are born. Within seven years your body will have changed completely. So if you are going to live seventy years, ten times over your body has renewed itself completely. Your mind is even more of a flux than your body. Every moment everything changes, nothing remains the same.
In the morning you were different as far as your mind is concerned. In the evening you are totally a different person. If you try to understand your mind, it changes. It is never the same. Your personality goes on like a flux.
If this is all and there is nothing which remains the same continuously, eternally, timelessly, then who will remember that this was ”my childhood”? Childhood has changed, the body has changed, the mind has changed. This knower must remain the same; this witness must remain the same. Only then can the witness have a perspective.
So you have two realms or two dimensions existing together in you. You are both – the changing which is always changing and the non-changing which is always remaining non-changing. If you become aware of these two realms, then this technique will be helpful:
To the friend and to the enemy, or to the stranger, be the ”unsame same.”
The attitude must remain the same, but the behavior will be ”unsame.”
Someone honors you; if you take it that he is honoring YOU, you will be in difficulty. He honors a particular manifestation in you, not you. How can he know you? You don’t even know yourself. He honors a particular manifestation; he honors something which has come into your changing personality. Who is honored and who is dishonored? You? Never! Only that which is changing, and that you are not.