The Real Rebellion

1. Don’t Identify with Your Thoughts/Feelings
“If you want to overthrow the mind’s domination, destroy all identifications with it. A thought arises inside you — don’t be one with it! You becoming one with it gives it strength; stand far away. Stand as if you are just standing by the roadside watching people pass by. Look at it as you would look at a cloud in the faraway skies while you stand on the earth below. Don’t identify. Don’t unite with your thoughts. Don’t say, ‘This is my thought.’ As soon as you say ‘my’, you are identified; as soon as you are identified with it, all your energy flows into that thought. It is this energy that makes a slave of you — and it is your own energy!

Don’t be identified. As you begin to stand apart from your thoughts, they begin to lose strength and become lifeless, for they get no energy.

2. Wait For the Gap
“When anger comes, stand away form it and observe. Let the anger arise; let it permeate your body. It will envelop you from all sides. Let it! You only have to remember one small fact — you are not your anger. Don’t be in too great a hurry to dive in, for then it will be difficult to come out of it.
Watch your anger, but be firm on one point: if you really must reply to the man who has insulted you, do so when the anger is gone. Under no circumstances reply before then.

“In the beginning this is going to be difficult, very difficult. You will have to be very alert and on your guard, but gradually it will become easy. The greater the distance you create between yourself and your thoughts, the more you establish your control: but you stand so close, so very close to your desires that you have even forgotten that there is any distance between them and you — that there is any gap between the two.

“Start today. The results will not come immediately, because your closeness, your association, has existed for countless births. Such old associations cannot be broken in a day; it will take time, but slight effort on your part will bear results, because this is a false identification.

“As long as your mind is your master, you will remain a slave. The moment you realize reality, natural freedom happens. Do not fight the mind. Fight, and the natural freedom will not result. If you fight you give the mind an equal status. You fight a person only when you consider him your equal. He was a friend before, now he is an enemy. The master is not an equal; the master is always above — in the skies, and the servant is always below — on the ground. When you are master you acquire the freedom that is natural, and this freedom is unique.

Osho, The Great Path, Talk #6