The Middle Path

the middle path

it is very easy to move to the other extreme – very easy. If you eat too much you can fast
easily, but you cannot diet easily. If you talk too much you can go into silence very easily, but you
cannot talk less. If you eat too much, it is very easy not to eat at all – this is another extreme. But to
eat moderately, to come to a midpoint, is very difficult. To love a person is easy; to hate a person is
easy. To be simply indifferent is very difficult. From one extreme you can move to the other.
To remain in the middle is very difficult. Why? Because in the middle you have to lose your mind.
Your mind exists in extremes. Mind means the excess. Mind is always extremist: either you are for
or you are against. You cannot be simply neutral. Mind cannot exist in neutrality: it can be here or
there – because mind needs the opposite. It needs to be opposed to something. If it is not opposed
to anything it disappears. Then there is no functioning for it; it cannot function.
Try this. In any way become neutral, indifferent – suddenly mind has no function. If you are for, you
can think; if you are against, you can think. If you are neither for nor against, what is left to think?
Buddha says that indifference is the basis of the middle path. UPEKSHA indifference – be indifferent
to the extremes. Just try one thing: be indifferent to the extremes. A balancing happens.

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 2 285 Osho
CHAPTER 21. TECHNIQUES TO BECOME ONE WITH THE WHOLE