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What is neurosis and what is the cure for it?

Neurosis is the result of a mind burdened with unassimilated experiences; the cure lies in restoring balance through equal parts action and inaction, thought and meditation.

— Osho
According to Osho, neurosis arises when the mind is overloaded and unassimilated, and when we compulsively repeat failed patterns instead of learning. The cure is restoring balance: fifty percent action with fifty percent inaction, fifty percent thinking with fifty percent meditation. In meditation you close the senses, rest inwardly, digest experience, discard junk, and drop reactions and paths that don’t work.

Your mind gets sick when it’s stuffed with too much and you keep doing what doesn’t work; sit quietly to digest and let go, and learn to stop the dead ends.

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