The mind brings all kinds of miseries. The first: the mind is never in the present, it goes on missing the present. And only the present is! The mind is always in the past -- always and always in the past. Or always in the future -- always and always in the future. The mind goes on jumping from the past to the future, from the future to the past. It never stays here, now. The mind is like the pendulum of a clock -- it goes on moving from one polarity to another polarity but never stays in the middle. One has to get out of this trap of the past and the future -- because the door opens in the present; the door opens at this moment, either now or never. And the door is open, but our eyes are wavering. We look into the past, we look into the future -- and the present is very, very small between these two, and we go on missing it. Unless you drop the mind you can never be in tune with existence, you cannot pulsate with the pulse of the universe. If you don't drop the mind you go on living in a private world of your own creation; you don't live in the real world.