04/03/2025
Accept Your State of Mind
Whatsoever your state of mind, accept it and wait for when the state changes itself. You are not changing it; you can feel the beauty that comes when states change by themselves. You can know that it is just like the sun rising in the morning and then setting in the evening. Then again it will rise and again it will set, and it will go on. You need not do anything about it. If you can feel your states of mind changing by themselves, you can remain indifferent, you can remain away, miles away, as if the mind is going somewhere else. The sun is rising, setting; the depression is coming, the happiness is coming, going: but you are not in it.
Osho: Vigyan Bhairav Ta**ra v1.38
Friends,
A tough one. Notice he says "happiness is coming and going" but only "the depression is coming." Depression, in my experience, comes and makes itself at home. Stepping back to watch depression is a long dance. For me, watching and also taking action is needed e.g. take a walk, dance, do something to move the energy. Perhaps courage is lacking. As he often said, we are alone, totally alone. And Osho's love and loving friends are precious. As Bette Midler said, do you wanna dance?
Love,
niren
