Mental hygiene

Just as you clean your body every day, clean your mind. This is a bath for the mind. Throw everything, but don't throw it upon anybody; that is violence. Throw it into the vacuum. The vacuum is big enough; the space is big enough. Don't 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. Then it never replies to you, no chain is created there. The act simply ends; no karm is created through it. Do things in such a way that no future is created through them.

Whatever has happened to you, relief is needed.

You need that it should be thrown out, but don't throw it on people - just throw it on a pillow. The same relaxation is felt, even more because whenever you throw on a person, you will feel repentance in the end. But now nothing can be done, you cannot undo something that has happened. Whatever you do, it is there now; you cannot wash it away....


A catharsis is necessary, every day it is necessary, unless you have become enlightened. Then you don't gather the past. Now you gather, you collect dust. In the night, every day for one hour, just throw the past, the whole day: whatever has been done to you, and you have done to others, or you wanted to do to others. Emotions, anger, hate - many things are there. Drop them before you go to sleep.

Abridged from Vedanta: The Seven Steps to Samadhi, courtesy: Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com