You May Not Know

There is a famous doctor somewhere in America. She was a psychiatrist before, but now she refuses to be called a doctor or psychiatrist. She just lives somewhere in a very remote place and she cures people not by medicine but by scolding them back to health. A lot of other doctors and people say she is so cruel, so rude, so rough; but she cures people. Ninety-eight percent of the people who come and go back healthy. What she does is that she just kicks them out of their sympathy-starving state.

Some people, they just like to be nursed, like to be sympathized with, like to be taken care of so they feel, "Oh, no responsibility." They don't have to go to work, they don't have to take responsibility for the house or for anything. They just lay there, because they're sick. So what can we do to them, and woe to us if any of us say something bad to that patient. Wow, then the whole lof of army would come to say, "You, this kind of cruel person, you're heartless! She's so sick like that and you say things like that. You'll make her worse." Things like that. Then we get out or we have to say soft words again.

This doctor, she doesn't care. As soon as you walk in, any patient who is wheeled inside, terminal cancer, something like that, she would say, "Hey, you lazy bum! (Master and audience laugh.) Just what do you think you're doing? The whole African children are starving, the whole Indian people are dying of hunger, and you're lying there needing sympathy. You're not ill, you're just lazy, you're just stupid, you're an idiot, you are..." anything you can find, the worst words in the dictionary she will use them. (Laughter) She doesn't do any studies, no medicine, no herbal cure treatment, nothing. No mud bath, hot bath, hot pad, nothing! She just studies the dictionary to get out the worst words (Master and audience laugh), and that's her medicine for her patients. After scolding one or two hours, her patients get up and walk home. (Laughter) Maybe boiling with anger but cured. (Master and audience laugh.)

So, sometimes it's truly our psychological state of mind that keeps us in bondage. If it can keep us in physical unfitness like this, as terminally ill cancer, things like that, it can create cancer. If it can create sickness within our physical body, it can as well create sickness in our mental state or in our psychological well-being. So, never ever allow yourself to be weak if you're not truly weak. Try your best to be mighty, to be the Buddha. I don't say that if you're sick you don't go to the hospital. Don't overdo it. Like me, after five days I still want to stay there, because I have never been treated so well. Not that I don't have the attention from you, but too much attention from you. You smothered me with affection and undue attention. That kills me. Everything natural is all right. If you're sick, you're sick; but don't try to be sicker than you are. Don't try to stay longer in the sickness, it's no good for us.

You remember sometimes in the magazines, people wrote some of the experiences, like one or two elderly ladies or something. She normally could not do anything at home, her husband had to take care of her, her children worried about her. But when she went to the retreat she had to run with everyone. She became fit, healthy, ate a lot, and then no more sick. (Master laughs.) Understand? Yes, sometimes you have to just stand up and do something about it.