been really struggling with a traditional view of a psychotherapist. Because I have that credential of course it’s not unexpected that people perceive me in that way. And for a number of years a great number of years actually from the beginning it never fit for me. I was always trying to find my own way within that guideline. So I was delighted to see the question asked of Osho if there’s a Tao way of doing therapy. Totally fits for me. From the pathless path.
“ he will be a therapist but in a totally different sense – not in the Freudian sense – he will be in the real sense of therapist. And what is the real sense of therapist? He will allow freedom; he will simply be a presence, a light, a joy. He is not going to change the patient though the patient will be changed he will not make any effort to make him well. He will not make any effort to make him normal. He will not make any effort to help him to be adjusted to this neurotic society. He will not try to do anything. He will simply be a presence, a catalytic agent. He will love. He will share his energy with the patient, he will shower his energy on the patient. And remember, love is real therapy; everything else is secondary.
In fact, there’s so many psychiatric patients in the world because they have not been loved, nobody has loved them – that’s why they’ve gone berserk. They have lost contact with their center, because it’s only in love that one becomes centered. Their illness is not the real problem; the real problem is that deep down they have never been loved, that they have never known the melody of love. So it Taoist therapist will simply give his love, His understanding, his vision. He will share his energy and he will not in any way interfere.”
