"Either you have to repress it chemically, through an Aspro or Novalgin, or you have to repress it in the consciousness – you don't look at it, you put it aside. You get involved in something else, you want to be distracted in something else so you can forget it. But in both ways you have missed suchness.

"What will Buddha suggest? Buddha says take note twice, 'Headache, headache.' Don't feel inimical towards it, neither friendly nor antagonistic. Just take simple note, as if it has nothing to do with you: 'Headache, headache.' And remain undisturbed, undistracted, uninfluenced by it, without any opinion.

"See the point. Immediately, ninety percent of the headache is gonebecause a headache is not a real headache, ninety percent arises out of the antagonistic opinion. Immediately you will see that the greater part of it is no longer there. And another thing will be noted: sooner or later you will see that the headache is disappearing in something else – maybe you are now feeling anger. What happened? If you repress the headache you will never come to know what its real message was. The headache was there just as an indicator that you are full of anger in this moment and the anger is creating a tension in the head, hence the headache. But you watched, you simply took note of it – 'Headache, headache' – you remained impartial, objective.

"Then the headache disappears. And the headache gives you the message that 'I am not a headache, I am anger.' Now, Buddha says, take note again: 'Anger, anger.' Now don't become angry with anger, otherwise again you are trapped and you have missed suchness. If you say, 'Anger, anger,' ninety percent of the anger will be gone immediately. This is a very practical method. And the ten percent that will be left will release its message. You may come to see that it is not anger, it is ego. Take note again: 'Ego, ego.' And so on and so forth. One thing is connected with another, and the deeper you move the closer you come to the original cause. And once you have come to the original cause the chain is broken – there is nothing beyond it."