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What happens when I believe there is something wrong with me?

Believing that something is wrong with you is the mind's creation; in disidentifying from it through meditation, you dissolve the illusion and find a profound, peaceful clarity.

— Osho
According to Osho, the very belief ‘something is wrong with me’ is a creation of the mind; believing it makes it real, birthing endless problems and pseudo-solutions. Mind is the problem-maker; trying to fix it within mind multiplies issues. Through meditation—disidentifying from mind—problems lose significance, dissolving into a silent, peaceful clarity, though a vulnerable transition may occur.

If you think you’re a problem, your mind makes it one; drop the thought, rest in awareness, and it melts.

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Guida Spirituale · Discourse 3
1980-08-28 · Buddha Hall · English

Osho, my problem is that I think there is something wrong with me. If I think that I have a problem then I really do have one. In fact, thinking seems to be just the making up of problems. What do you think?

Have you watched this? If one day many things happen you have a different sense of time; if some day nothing happens You have a totally different sense of the time. The sense of time depends on what happens. Time is measured through events. But nothing is happening in the womb all is quiet, The child cannot feel that there are nine months only; it is infinity. It is a timeless state. And floating in the mother's womb in a warm liquid is immensely pleasant. That's how the desire for bliss arises in us, because we have experienced it. Otherwise, you cannot seek for anything that you have never experienced. Something must be there lingering deep down in your unconscious -- some experience, some nostalgia that keeps you searching for bliss. The whole search for God is basically the search for the mother's womb. And the meditator really enters into…
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Ancient Music In The Pines · Discourse 2
1976-02-22 · Buddha Hall · English

Why do I make mountains out of molehills?

If people can dance a little more, sing a little more, be a little more crazy, their energy will be flowing more, and their problems will by and by disappear. Hence I insist so much on dance. Dance to orgasm; let the whole energy become dance, and suddenly you will see that you don't have any head -- the stuck energy in the head is moving all around, creating beautiful patterns, pictures, movement. And when you dance there comes a moment when your body is no longer a rigid thing, it becomes flexible, flowing. When you dance there comes a moment when your boundary is no longer so clear; you melt and merge with the cosmos, the boundaries are mixing. Watch a dancer -- you will see that he has become an energy phenomenon, no longer in a fixed form, no longer in a frame. He is flowing out of…
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Hsin Hsin Ming The Book Of Nothing · Discourse 9
1974-10-29 · Buddha Hall · English

In this world of suchness there is neither self nor other-than-self.

TO COME DIRECTLY INTO HARMONY WITH THIS REALITY JUST SIMPLY SAY WHEN DOUBTS ARISE, "NOT TWO." IN THIS "NOT TWO" NOTHING IS SEPARATE, NOTHING IS EXCLUDED. NO MATTER WHEN OR WHERE, ENLIGHTENMENT MEANS ENTERING THIS TRUTH. AND THIS TRUTH IS BEYOND EXTENSION OR DIMINUTION IN TIME OR SPACE; IN IT A SINGLE THOUGHT IS TEN THOUSAND YEARS. You eat in suchness, you sleep in suchness, you breathe in suchness, you love in suchness, you weep in suchness. It becomes your very style; you need not bother about it, you need not think about it, it is the way you are. That is what I mean by the word 'imbibe'. You imbibe it, you digest it, it flows in your blood, it goes deep in your bones, it reaches to the very beat of your heart. You accept. Remember, the word 'accept' is not very good. It is loaded -- because…
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And The Flowers Showered · Discourse 10
1974-11-09 · Buddha Hall · English

A master was asked by a curious monk: 'what is the way?' 'it is right before your eyes,' said the master.'why do I not see it for myself?' asked the monk.'because you are thinking of yourself,' said the master.'what about you,' said the monk, 'do you see it?' the master said: 'so long as you see double, saying I don't, and you do, and so on, your eyes are clouded.' 'when there is neither I nor you, can one see it?' said the monk.'when there is neither I nor you, who is the one who wants to see it?' replied the master.

The Way is there, and you are thinking about yourself: 'Why can't I see?' Nobody can see who is filled so much with the ego. Put it aside, because the ego means your whole past, all that you have experienced, all that you have been conditioned for, all that you have known, studied, collected, gathered -- information, scripture, knowledge -- all that is your ego, the whole lot, and if you are concerned with it, you cannot see it.'WHAT ABOUT YOU?' SAID THE MONK. Whatsoever a master says, every answer could lead to a satori -- if the person is right. Just the first thing, when he said, 'IT IS RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES,' would have become an enlightenment if the right person had been there. But he missed; otherwise the next statement would have been an understanding. 'WHY DO I NOT SEE IT FOR MYSELF?' HE ASKED.'BECAUSE YOU ARE…
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The Tantra Vision Vol 1 · Discourse 2
1977-04-22 · Buddha Hall · English

Sometimes as I watch people playing the same old games over and over, my eyes feel ancient and jaded and my heart weary and cynical. I guess it's because I'm seeing more and more my own games and tricks and I hear your maddening voice between my ears saying,'that's okay -- just you have to accept and love yourself; and there is no problem.' just???! I think if you say this word again I will scream. Wasn't I happier when I thought there was a goal?

So it depends on you whether you create a problem or you don't create a problem but problems are not there. Problems are not in existence: they are in the psychology of man. Just look next time you are having some trip and riding a problem just watch. Just stand aside and look at the problem. Is it really there? or have you created it? Look deeply into it, and you will suddenly see it is not increasing, it is decreasing; it is becoming smaller and smaller. The more you put your energy into observation, the smaller it becomes. And a moment comes when suddenly it is not there... and you will have a good laugh. Whenever you are having a problem, just look at it. Problems are fictitious, they don't exist. Just go around the problem, look from every angle -- how can it be? It is a ghost!…
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