Meditation is nothing but trying to clean your being, trying to become
fresh and young, trying to become more alive and more alert. If you are
afraid of meditation it means you are afraid of life, you are afraid of
awareness, and the resistance comes because you know that if you move
into meditation, something is bound to happen. If you are not resisting
at all, it may be because you don't take meditation very seriously, you
don't take meditation very sincerely. Then you can play around – what is
there to be afraid of?"Start being aware with day-to-day, routine actions, and while you are doing your routine actions, remain relaxed.
“There
is no need to be tense. When you are washing your floor, what is the
need to be tense? Or when you are cooking the food, what is the need to
be tense? There is not a single time in life that requires your tension.
It is just your unawareness and your impatience.
“I have not
found anything — and I have lived in all kind of ways, with all kinds of
people. I have always been puzzled: why are they tense? It seems
tension has nothing to do with anything outside you, it has something to
do within you. Outside you always find an excuse only because it looks
so idiotic to be tense without any reason. Just to rationalize, you find
some reason outside yourself to explain why you are tense.
HOW CAN I BURST MY STRESS WITHOUT HAVING RUDE OR BAD ?
ReplyDeletePLSZ TELL ME....
Stress is not always wrong; it can be used in beautiful ways. It is not necessarily negative, but if we think that it is negative, that it is not good, then we create problems. Stress in itself can be used as a stepping stone, it can become a creative force. But ordinarily we have been taught down the ages that stress is bad, that when you are in any kind of stress you become afraid. And your fear makes it even more stressful; the situation is not helped by it.
ReplyDeleteFor example, there is some situation in the market and that is creating a stress. The moment you feel that there is some tension, some stress, you become afraid that this should not be so: 'I have to relax.' Now, trying to relax will not help, because you cannot relax; in fact, trying to relax will create a new kind of stress. The stress is there and you are trying to relax and you cannot, so you are complicating the problem.
When stress is there use it as creative energy. First, accept it; there is no need to fight with it. Accept it, it is perfectly okay. It simply says, 'The market is not going well, something is going wrong,' mm? – 'You may be a loser'... or something. Stress is simply an indication that the body is getting ready to fight with it. Now you try to relax or you take pain-killers or you take tranquilizers; you are going against the body. The body is getting ready to fight a certain situation, a certain challenge that is there: enjoy the challenge!