How do I deal with anxiety?

How do I deal with anxiety?

People go on and on, creating big problems out of nothing. I have talked to thousands of people about their problems and I have not come across a real problem yet! All problems are bogus—you create them, because without problems you feel empty. Without problems, there is nothing to do, nothing to fight with, nowhere to go. People go from one guru to another, from one master to another, from one psychoanalyst to another, from one encounter group to another, because if they don’t go they feel empty and they suddenly feel life to be meaningless. You create problems so that you can feel that life is a great work, a growth, and you have to struggle hard. The ego can exist only when it struggles, remember—when it fights. And the greater the problem, the greater the challenge, the more your ego arises, soars high.

Please look at what you are doing, what nonsense you are doing. First you create a problem, then you go in search of a solution. Just watch why you are creating the problem. Just exactly in the beginning, when you are creating the problem, is the solution—don’t create it! But that won’t appeal to you because then you are suddenly thrown flat upon yourself. Nothing to do? No enlightenment, no satori, no samadhi? And you are deeply restless, empty, trying to stuff yourself with anything whatsoever. You don’t have any problems—only this much has to be understood. Just exactly in the beginning, when you are creating the problem, is the solution —don’t create it! This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creations. So have another look at your problems. The deeper you look, the smaller they will appear. Go on looking at them and by and by they will start disappearing. Go on gazing and suddenly you will find there is emptiness—a beautiful emptiness surrounds you. Nothing to do, nothing to be, because you are already that. Enlightenment is not something to be achieved, it is just to be lived. When I say I achieved enlightenment, I simply mean that I decided to live it. Enough is enough! 

Then, with no problem to solve, what will you do? Immediately you start living. You will eat, you will sleep, you will love, you will have a chitchat, you will sing, you will dance—what else is there to do? You have become a god, you have started living.

If people can dance a little more, sing a little more, be a little crazier, their energy will be flowing more and their problems will by and by disappear. 

Live, dance, eat, sleep, do things as totally as possible. And remember again and again: Whenever you catch yourself creating any problem, slip out of it, immediately. Once you get into the problem then a solution will be needed. And even if you find a solution, out of that solution a thousand and one problems will arise again. Once you miss the first step you are in the trap. Whenever you see that now you are slipping into a problem, catch hold of yourself—run, jump, dance, but don’t get into the problem.

The worry, the problem, the anxiety, all simply show one thing: that you are not living rightly, that your life is not yet a celebration, a dance, a festivity. Hence all the problems.