Ghost
The past is a ghost. The future is a ghost. The past is gone, the future does not yet exist. The past is an invention of the mind, as well as the future. The past is attachment to what has already happened. The future is attachment to how we would like it to happen. What happened in the past does not exist any more, but it can remain present in the mind as a ghost for many years. What will be in the future has not yet occurred, but it can have already been present in the mind for many years. A mind so full of ghosts can see ghosts even where there are none and can turn into ghosts also the present and reality. Jesus' disciples are still anchored and tenaciously attached to the dark past of the dark days of the passion and killing on the cross of their Master and they are tenaciously attached to a future that will not happen now that Jesus is dead. Actually they are attached to their ghosts, to their ineradicable religious beliefs, to their rooted mental prejudices, to their congenital fear, to their primordial cultural heritage, to their limited selfish prospects.Why is the mind of the disciples unable to understand and accept Jesus' resurrection as a new, shining present? Why are the disciples still doubtful even before Jesus being present in their midst, eating a piece of broiled fish? The mind of the disciples was more prepared to accept Jesus' terrible killing than the reality of his radiant resurrection. The mind does not accept what it has never known before, and it cannot accept what it does not know how to manage in the future. The resurrection was not part of the cultural customs of Jesus' disciples, even though they had witnessed several resurrections wrought by Jesus. The satanic deceit has led the human mind to have more confidence, consideration, respect and reverence for death rather than for life, for violence rather than peace, for revenge rather than for forgiveness, for possession rather than for love and self-giving. At the same time Jesus' resurrection could not be accepted by the dumb minds of the disciples because they was crystallized in the belief that accepting Jesus' resurrection would mean not just to accept something unknown, and therefore radically new, but to accept something that would rewrite all history, past, present, and future. Jesus' disciples were mentally more willing to believe that Jesus was a ghost and that their beliefs were true, rather than to believe in Jesus as the truth and to question their beliefs as ghosts.