Why there is chaos in my life?

There are many contradictory forces working simultaneously in the being, pushing you here and there in opposite directions and that's why there is chaos in life. If you are little aware of the cause of your movements then you will be able to see them.

Suppose if you do something and you feel somewhere it is immoral, it is not ethical then your mind may become little uneasy, you will feel uncomfortable but the other part of the mind will come forward with an encouraging and flattering reason to justify yourself.

The people who live on the surface of their being are obviously exposed to the external influences. They are not familiar to stepping back. They don't know how to go deep within. The only place where you will be safe from external contradictory influences is deep within.

One should learn to always keep composure and always keep peace. One should resist all temptation to lose it. You should never decide anything without consulting your innermost being. Always consult with your inner being before you enter into action and you will never regrate again. Then there will be no contradictions in your life.

You should develop the sense of the relativity of things so that you can always step back and look. Then you can easily remain undisturbed and wait for the right answer. Only then you will know what to do in a particular situation.

If you look inward, you will see there are many contradictory desires. One part wants things this way, another wants things that way. This part want something and immediately another part says no.

It is only by observing these opposite movements with great care we can bring a natural order in our life. Just by observation of these opposite velocities you get rid of them, then you are not part of them. You don't get identified with them. You move on upper level from where you can see things much clearly.

Clarity is important to get free from the chaos. Clarity is not a virtue which you can bring in your life through practice and hard work. You can not bring this clarity in your life through some technique. It comes when you watch your mind without having any opinion. Then you don't condemn the chaos, rather you try to understand it. You carefully observe it.

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How to get free from depression?

There is just one thing that we have forgotten: how to laugh. We have simply forgotten the language of laughter, that's all. We have to learn it again, that's all. I believe no treatment is needed. One is overpowered by depression only when one keeps the consciousness in the lower level, on the very superficial level. If you are living too much on superficial level of consciousness then you are going to affected by all kind of madness.

Superficial layers of consciousness are always disturbed. But most of the humanity choose to live on the superficial level. There are ups and downs and waves on the surface. As you move towards the center, deeper and deeper there are no waves.  

If you get out of the superficial level and enter into deeper levels of consciousness or you may call it deeper awareness or higher mind then better thoughts have the power to influence, to drive away depression. Even when you reach just the highest fields of thoughts you will find depression vanish immediately into thin air.

To surrender to depression when things go wrong is the wrong way to face the depression. There must be some desire within you to overcome depression. Only this desire can revolt against the depression.  

To drive away the depression, don't feel antagonistic towards it, neither friendly nor opposed. Just take a simple note, as if it has nothing to do with you, "This is depression" and remain intact, remain untouched. There is no need to get influenced by it. Just remain watchful and alert. Just take a note, don't get depressed because of depression, just take a not, "This is depression" That's all you need to do. You will not believe, because you have learned to believe in complicated things, technical things. So it is very difficult to believe that just by noticing or taking a note your depression can vanish.

If it returns back then just take the note, "It is back", and it will go again.

Remember you are a watcher on the hill. You don't need to get identified with every emotion or thought. If you get identified with everything that is going into the mind then you will get mad. Then you will become a slave.You are not a slave, you are the master.

When you just take the note, you are not on the same level. You get detached. You created a distance from that thing which you call depression. Just take the note and leave the whole thing behind.

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How to control anger?

"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. " ~Buddha

Once a man came to a master, and said that he is a very angry person. He told that he become really mad and he easily lose his control. He do stupid things. He can not believe later on that he can do such nonsense. So he requested to the master to guide him how to drop his anger, how to control it.

Master took the head of the man in his hands and looked into his eyes. The man became a little uneasy, and master said, "Where is that anger? I would like to see into it".

The man laughed uneasily and said, "Right now, I am not angry. Sometimes it happens."

So the master said, "That which happens sometimes cannot be your nature. It is an accident, It comes and goes like clouds,so why to be concerned so much about the clouds? Just think of the sky which is always there."

Anger comes and goes. But the sky remains there. It never comes and goes. There is a gap between two thoughts. It never comes or goes. The clouds of anger, fear, frustration comes and goes but the sky remains the same, untouched. 

Once a warrior came to a Zen master and asked "Is there such a thing as heaven and hell?
Master asked "Who are you?"
The warrior replied "I am chief samurai to the emperor."
The master said, "You, a samurai? With a face like that, you look more like a beggar."
At this the warrior became so angry he drew his sword.
Naturally he was a chief of samurai, his pride was hurt.He forgot for what he had come to the master and he drew his sword.
Standing calmly in front of him the master said,"Here open the gates of hell."
Perceiving the master's composure, the samurai enclosed his sword and bowed.
Master then said "And here open the gates of heaven."

Anger means your ego gets hurt. Ego is just an image which you build in years. It is a kind of hypnosis. It is not real. If you don't have any self image then you will never get hurt. Having a strong self image means having great possibility of getting hurt by others.

In above story you can see that the anger of samurai disappeared within a moment when the master said, "This is the door of hell." What happened in that moment? The samurai suddenly becomes alert. The moment he becomes alert he realizes why he come to the master and he bow and the master says, "This is the door of heaven". The doors of heaven and hell are very close to each other. A small mistake and you are in the hell. And a moment of alertness and within a fraction of second you are in the heaven.

To get free from anger you don't have to go through therapies and you don't have to waste your time and money on psycho analysis. Anger is like clouds, just try to look beyond the clouds. There is sky which is always there. It is your real nature.

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