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Is the flickering of the inner lamp of equanimity a phase in my growth or a result of slackness?

The flickering of your inner lamp is not a phase of growth but a result of your mind's projections; drop the future and immerse yourself in the present to cultivate true equanimity.

— Osho
According to Osho, the lamp flickers not as a necessary growth phase but because the mind drags in tomorrow—craving permanence and worrying, you create the gusts that shake it. Equanimity is steady; projection makes it tremble. Remedy: drop the future, live this single moment totally. Drinking the now strengthens your capacity for steadiness in the next, forging a chain of presence rather than anxiety.

Your calm wobbles because you worry about the future; stay with this moment and it will steady itself.

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