What practices can help rise above mental afflictions like lust, anger, greed, and attachment?
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"Loosen the habit-bound mind, embrace the newness of each moment, and in choiceless awareness, the grip of afflictions like lust, anger, greed, and attachment will dissolve."
According to Osho, the way beyond lust, anger, greed, and attachment is to loosen the habit-bound mind: stop clinging to fixed images and molds, become watchful, and stay open to the newness of each moment. Learn from many approaches rather than idolizing one. Inquiry into impermanence—like Buddha’s mustard-seed teaching—melts possessiveness. In choiceless awareness, afflictions lose their grip.
Why this matters practically
- Interrupts automatic reactions by breaking mental habits.
- Encourages flexibility and learning from diverse wisdom instead of dogmatism.
- Seeing impermanence softens attachment and calms strong emotions.
- Encourages flexibility and learning from diverse wisdom instead of dogmatism.
- Seeing impermanence softens attachment and calms strong emotions.
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