What are the nature and significance of problems?
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"Problems are not a part of reality; they are the shadows cast by a clinging mind, and in the presence of true awareness, they dissolve into nothingness."
According to Osho, problems don’t belong to reality; they belong to the mind that clings. They multiply with people and their egos, but before a master who is a choiceless emptiness, they find no surface to stick to and disappear. Their significance is diagnostic and transformative: they expose attachment, and by surrendering them into awareness, one discovers the abyss-like freedom where problems cannot survive.
Problems only stick to a clinging mind; let go into empty awareness (or a master’s emptiness) and they drop away.
Why this matters practically
• See problems as mind-clinging, not fate. • Practice surrender/meditation to create space where issues can’t stick. • Seek or embody emptiness (compassionate awareness) to dissolve reactivity.
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