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you want some new problem now. So one day you suddenly say, "Yes, it is no longer there, it is gone," and you thank the psychoanalyst. But it is simply time that has helped, that has healed. It is not psychoanalysis. But there are people who would not like simply to wait and watch.

When you bring a mad person to a Zen monastery, they simply put him in a corner, in a small hut, far away from the monastery; they give him food and they tell him, "Just be there, quiet." Nobody goes to talk to him; food is supplied, his comforts are looked after, but nobody bothers about him. And what psycho-analysis does in three years, they do in three weeks. Within three weeks the person simply comes out and he says, "Yes, the problem is finished."

For three weeks you are left with your problem - how can you avoid seeing it? And no analysis is given so there is no diversion, you are not distracted. The psychoanalyst distracts you! The problem may have died on its own within three weeks, but it will not die now because with the support of the psychoanalyst it will live for three years, or even more. It depends how rich you are. If you are rich enough the problem can continue for your whole life. That means it depends on how much you can afford. Poor people don't suffer from many problems. Rich people suffer; they can afford to. They can enjoy the game of having great problems. The poor person cannot afford and cannot enjoy that game.

Next time you are having a problem, look into it, look hard into it; no need for any analysis. Don't analyze it, because analysis is a way of diversion. When you start analyzing you don't look at the problem. You start asking why? from where? how did it come?...in your childhood, your mother's relationship with you, your father's relationship with you? You have gone astray, now you are not looking into the problem itself. Freudian psychoanalysis is really a mind-game, and played with great expertise.

Don't go into the causes! There is no need... because there is no cause. Don't go into the past; there is no need because that will be going away from the present problem. Look into it as a herenow thing, just enter into it. And don't think about causes, reasons. Just watch the problem as it is. And you will be surprised that looking hard into it, it starts dispersing. Go on looking into it and you will find it has gone.

Problems are not there. We create them because we cannot live without problems.

That is the only reason why we create them. To have a problem is to have an occupation; one feels good, something is there to do. When there is no problem you are left alone, empty - what to do next? All problems finished....

Just think: one day comes God and says, "No problems anymore - finished! All problems gone." What will you do? Just think of that day. People will be stuck.

People will start getting very angry about God. They will say, "This is not a blessing! Now what are we supposed to do? No problems?" Then suddenly the energy is not moving anywhere; then you will feel stagnant. The problem is a way for you to move, to go on, to carry on, to hope, to desire, to dream. The problem gives so many possibilities to remain occupied.

And to be unoccupied, or to be capable of unoccupation, is what I call meditation.

An unoccupied mind who enjoys a moment of unoccupation is a meditative mind.

Start enjoying some unoccupied moments. Even if the problem is there - you feel it