Head Off Stress by Douglas Harding

Author:Douglas Harding [Harding, Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780955451294
Publisher: The Shollond Trust
Published: 2011-09-26T22:00:00+00:00

The art of handling these inexorable goings-on is the art of resting on what underlies them, the art and science of consciously being the ground which supports all that commotion without itself becoming disturbed in the slightest. Here, you are the bedrock of the world, where it all begins and where it all ends. Eternally one and the same, you are the Unmoved Mover.

To sum up and conclude this section, let's put the question: what, precisely, are you to do about the depression that's getting you down at this very moment?

The answer comes in two parts. The first is: See, and see what happens. It is the basic proposition of this book, its working hypothesis for testing all day and every day, that the solution of your problem, no matter what it is, is to see whose it is. Not to understand or feel or think who has the problem, but actually to gaze on that WHO and await what comes of the gazing. This seeing and this waiting you can always do, whatever your need. The rest is out of your hands.

Which brings us to the second half of our answer. See, see what happens, and trust it. If, owing to your depressive temperament (say), or your acquired habits of mind, or the specially difficult circumstances you find yourself in, your depression insists on hanging around in spite of its ever-renewed dismissal - why then your business is to submit to it, willingly. The willingness doesn't leave it unchanged. It makes the world of difference. More than depression accepted, more even than depression intended, depression trusted as what's needed at this time, as hiddenly beneficent - this isn't depression at all in the old sense. It is precisely what the sage in the Tao Te Ching is referring to when he says that he alone is depressed. It is milk from the Mother's breast, containing what are for you essential vitamins.

In terms of an earlier chapter, your depression, belonging now to region (iii) of your will (what you really, really want) instead of region (ii) (what you really want) and region (i) (what you think you want), its character is changed absolutely. Repeat absolutely. The nature and the feel of that change you cannot foresee, but only await with confidence.

Be prepared for a joy that could be won in no way but through that monstrous and mysterious bugbear which we label DEPRESSION.

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