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says she is frightened because her head is turning all the time; it fades away and comes up and fades away.]
Whenever it happens, just watch it. There is no need to be worried about it. Worrying will make the problem worse. Trying to stop it will create more trouble. Simply be aloof and watch it happening as if it has nothing to do with you. A kind of indifference -- as if it is just the road and the traffic is passing by and you are sitting in your house looking at the road.
And that's exactly how it is: the mind is just the way along which the traffic of thoughts passes by. Sometimes there are rush hours and sometimes the road is empty, and you are sitting there deep in the heart watching it. And when I say "watch it," I mean don't judge -- don't say it is not right, it should not be -- because then the watching disappears. It has nothing to do with you.
In the fall the leaves fall. What can you do? In the spring the trees bloom. What can you do? So there are seasons in the mind. Sometimes it is empty, sometimes it is full, sometimes it is very noisy and sometimes it is silent; this is a rhythm. You are neither the silent mind nor the noisy mind -- you remain the watcher of both. So don't choose.
That's where you are creating the problem: when it is silent you become identified. You think, "So this is who I am -- so beautiful!" If you become identified with the silent mind, then of course when it is noisy you will feel troubled. Don't get identified even with the silent mind, because the mind is the mind; silent or non-silent makes no difference. When it is silent then too know it is just the mind so it's okay. When it is noisy, it is the mind; you are away from it.
Develop this aloofness, this distance, and things, will change slowly slowly of their own accord. But . whether they change or not is none of your business; just leave it. Leave it to the mind itself. Don't interfere. Don't come in. Your energy is going perfectly well -- only this watching has to be added.
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[A sannyasin, who has just completed primal therapy, says that since a bike accident when she was eight she feels pain
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