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On My
Birthday
| Catharsis; it’s my purpose!
| Don’t suppress, express!
Don't suppress, express! |
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Never
suppress, but never create chains -- this is the rule. Remember
not to suppress, and remember not to create any chain. Once you
learn the art you can be free of all these madnesses which come
into you, without creating any disturbance in life. Every day
catharsis is needed. Life is complex, and many things come into
the mind which have to be thrown. That's why I emphasize Dynamic
Meditation so much. You don't know what you are doing here. When
you get into it you are doing all sorts of things. Somebody is
throwing anger, somebody is throwing jealousy, somebody throwing
hatred, somebody throwing his sadness, screaming -- the whole life
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Make
it a point every day: just as you clean your body every day, clean
your mind. This is a bath for the mind. Throw everything, but
don't throw upon anybody; that is violence. Throw it into the
vacuum. And the vacuum is big enough, the space is big enough.
Don't you get worried about what will happen to the pillow, what
will happen to the space -- nothing is going to happen, all that
you throw into it is absorbed. And then it never replies to you,
there is no chain created. The act simply ends, no karma is
created through it. Do things in such a way that no future is
created through them.
Whatsoever has happened to you, relief is needed, you need that it
should be thrown out, but don't throw it on persons. If you can
remember that, soon you will realize that it was absolute
foolishness to throw it on persons when it could be thrown just on
a pillow. And the same relaxation is felt -- even more, because
whenever you throw on a person you will feel repentance in the
end. You will feel bad, you will feel that you have not done good;
then you will feel that it would have been better if you had not
done it. But now nothing can be done, and you cannot undo
something which has happened. Whatsoever you do, it is there now,
you cannot wash it away. There is no way, because you cannot move
to the past; it will remain always there.
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That's what Hindus have called the theory of karma:
whatsoever you do will remain and will have its influence
on your future. A catharsis is necessary, and every day it
is necessary unless you have become enlightened, then you
don't gather the past. Now you gather, you collect dust.
Throw it every day. In the night, every day for one hour,
just throw the past, the whole day. Whatsoever has been
done to you and you have done to others, or you wanted to
do with others... emotions, anger, hate -- many things are
there -- drop them before you go to sleep.
In the West sleep has become a problem, and in the East
also it is becoming a problem. And the problem is only
this: you don't know how to get rid of the day. It follows
you, it continues in the mind, and you cannot stop it. You
cannot stop unless you throw it.
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Whosoever is suffering from insomnia should try this dynamic
meditation in the night. Just before going to sleep have an inner
bath; throw everything and then go to sleep. You will feel like a
child again -- innocent, unburdened. Sleep will be totally
different, the quality will change. But don't suppress -- express.
Osho
Vedanta:
Seven Steps to Samadhi
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