Clean mind every day
Just as you clean your body every day, clean your mind. This is a bath for the mind. Throw everything, but don't throw it upon anybody; that is violence. Throw it into the vacuum. The vacuum is big enough; the space is big enough. Don't get worried about what will happen to the pillow, what will happen to the space. Nothing is going to happen, all that you throw into it is absorbed. Then it never replies to you, no chain is created there. The act simply ends; no karma is created through it. Do things in such a way that no future is created through them.
Whatever has happened to you, relief is needed. You need it to be thrown out, but don't throw it at people.
If you can remember this, you will soon realise that it was absolute foolishness to throw it on someone when it could just be thrown on a pillow.... And, there is no way you cannot move to the past; it will remain there always. That's what Hindus have called the theory of karm: whatever you do will remain and will have its influence on your future.
A catharsis is necessary, every day it is necessary, unless you have become enlightened. Then you don't gather the past. Now you gather, you collect dust. At night, every day for one hour, just throw the past, the whole day: whatever has been done to you, and you have done to others, or you wanted to do to others. Emotions, anger, hate - many things are there. Drop them before you go to sleep.
Abridged from Vedanta: The Seven Steps to Samadhi, Courtesy: Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com
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