"White"  wrote:
>> As a professional therapist it is my experience that suppressed problems
>> do cause problems over long periods of time.
>
>Of course they do: when one is loosing weight there will be problems, when
>one is getting rid of cigarettes there will be problems, when one is getting
>rid of alcohol there will be problems, long time problems. The laws of
>addictions are not known to psychology well enough, that's why you don't
>know this point as well as you should. It's about the memory of action; all
>will be stored, and from there they die only if they are suppressed. The
>main argument about the suppressed matter I have already given, I have shown
>that the idea that is given to people of that term "suppress" is wrong.

This is quite absurd. It's like saying that if you suppress hunger, it
will gradually go away. Sure, it will, and your life will go away with
it. 

You are an extremist, because you think in extremes: all suppression
is good. Rajinish was an extremist in the opposite; he said that no
suppression is good. The truth is not always in the middle, but this
time it seems to be. 

People have desires because they are unfulfilled. They keep attempting
to become complete and fulfilled, but they have limited concepts of
fulfillment, which causes suffering. They think that they will attain
inner unity by money, or sex, or control, or some other means. Whether
they suppress it or not, they will remain unfulfilled. If they indulge
their whims, they will increase their attachment to the wrong things
and thus become even more entangled in the sphere of illusion, to the
point where they won't be able to recognize the reality even if they
see it in front of them; they will thus be ruined. 

The worldly desires appear when the spiritual connection to God is
clouded or severed; people then try to fill the holes within them with
what they have, and that is usually in the world of senses. Not only
that it doesn't give them the fulfillment, but it even further clouds
their spiritual eye, and thus increase the problem, and when the
problem becomes extreme, people turn either to drugs or to suicide. 

 From this perspective, you are right, and Rajinish is wrong. He didn't
realize that desires are a fire that can't be extinguished with
gasoline; they are a symptom of a very real need, but the solution is
not in gratifying them, in setting them free and putting them in
control of one's life, but in finding the solution to their source, in
finding the real, lasting fulfillment, which can be accomplished only
through firm focus on God, on the Absolute, which is the foundation of
the human soul. One should build one's life on awareness of this
foundation, and then the need for control will end. 

 From this perspective, you are wrong, and so is Rajinish. Control
doesn't accomplish anything; you won't stop the baby from crying by
silencing it with hits; or mayby you will, by killing it. You can put
the baby in the bag, where you won't hear its cries, but the fact that
the cries are suppressed doesn't mean that they are not there, that
their source is not there. Eventually, the baby will either break free
and cry its lungs out, or die in silence. Repression of senses and
needs, without higher satisfaction and fulfillment, can cause only the
death of the soul, which can be seen in many repressive cults. People
there keep rationalizing the suppression of their needs, while their
needs keep popping up at the most inconvenient moments. Rajinish saw
that pattern and went into another extreme - let's turn everything
free, that will cure everything. You noticed that this turned people
into animals and you are right, this doesn't work, if you let the fire
loose you get to lose your home.

There is, of course, a legitimate place for control. One should at the
same time apply firm control of oneself, in order to stop everything
(s)he's doing, and to turn the focus inwards. This is impossible if we
keep our focus on sense gratification and worldly affairs; it all has
to stop and some degree of control is necessary. However, such control
is only temporary; with correct yogic practice, one will almost
immediately be correctly aligned, and the connection with the source
of all things will be re-established, and then, with practice, further
enforced. The inner fulfillment, which is the result, will make all
the worldly desires obsolete, and the control will no longer be
necessary. 

It's like the situation where a child wants to cross a dangerous
street in order to get the candies. You have to stop it, and then show
the child that it already has the candies in its pockets. The child is
then pleased and it no longer wishes to run over the street where it
can be hit by a car. If you, however, keep restraining the child, it
will eventually run away, when your control weakens for even a moment,
and you will face a disaster. 

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