“It is very simple. Just watch your mind for a few days and see what is the thing that takes most of your energy: jealousy? lust for power? ego? Just watch whatever takes most of your energy, and you will find what is your chief characteristic, and that it is your number one enemy; and you have always thought that that is your number one friend.
“Somebody may find greed, somebody may find anger, somebody may find repressed sexuality, somebody may find an inferiority complex or a superiority complex — it does not matter what it is. Finding it is almost half the victory. And only you can find it out.
“Just put down in your diary for seven days, noting every day what it is that takes most of your time, what it is that becomes your fantasy most of the time, where your energy always moves readily. Just watching for seven days, noting in your notebook, you can find your own chief characteristic…and this finding is half the victory. It gives you a great strength, that you know the enemy.
Step 2: When the Enemy Attacks....
“The second part is very simple: now be aware of it. When the enemy attacks, don't react. When it comes, you just remain cool. Just watch it, as if something is passing on the screen, and you have nothing to do with it.
“If you can remain detached, unaffected, suddenly a great energy will be released which was contained in your enemy, which you were putting into that enemy every day.
“You were watering it, you were caring about it. If anybody pointed at it, you were very angry; you protected it in every possible way. You gave all kinds of rationalizations. Now you are simply watching. All that energy is simply released. You will feel revitalized. Your whole being suddenly becomes new.
Step 3: Rout ‘Em All Out!
“Then go on looking for the enemy number two, the enemy number three, because you have to finish all the enemies.
“The day you don’t have any enemy left in your mind, you have a grace, a beauty, and a great energy that blossoms in thousands of flowers.”
Osho, The Transmission of the Lamp
No comments:
Post a Comment