Osho Quotes On Sadness and silence
- You can misunderstand your first acquaintance with
silence as sadness, but it is not sadness. It is just that you have been
always engaged in a thousand and one things and now they have all
disappeared. You feel a little lost. Before silence becomes a song, a
small period, a transitory period, is absolutely necessary. You know
sadness. And sadness has something of silence in it -- whenever you are
sad, you are a little silent. So there is an association between your
sadness and silence. When you become silent for the first time, the only
thing you can feel from your past experience is sadness. Allow it to
deepen. Don't judge it as sadness, because that very judgment may become a
barrier. The moment you say something negative you are trying to get rid
of it. Don't say anything negative about it. Just accept it as a bridge
between silence and song.
- You are sad. Go into your sadness rather than escaping
into some activity, into some occupation, rather than going to see a
friend or to a movie or turning on the radio or the tv. Rather than
escaping from it, turning your back towards it, drop all activity. Close
your eyes, go into it, see what it is, why it is -- and see without
condemning it, because if you condemn you will not be able to see the
totality of it. See without judging. If you judge, you will not be able to
see the whole of it. Without judgment, without condemnation, without evaluation,
just watch it, what it is. Look as if it is a flower, sad; a cloud, dark;
but look at it with no judgment so that you can see all the facets of it.
And you will be surprised: the deeper you go into it, the more it starts
dispersing. If a person can go into his sorrow deeply he will find all
sorrow has evaporated. In that evaporation of sorrow is joy, is bliss.
- You will be surprised: if you can meditate on sadness,
sadness will reveal its secrets to you -- and they are of tremendous
value. And sadness, once it has revealed its secrets to you, will
disappear. Its work is done, its message delivered. And when sadness
disappears, joy arises. Joy arises only when sadness disappears out of
meditation; there is no other way. Joy wells up when you have broken the
ice of sadness that surrounds it. In fact, sadness is like the shell that
surrounds the seed; it is protective, it is not the enemy. Once the seed
has dropped its protection, is surrendered into the soil, the shell has
died, only then the sprout is born.
- Sadness, seriousness are parts of a psychologically
sick man -- they need causes. So when you are feeling happy, don't start
asking, "Why am I happy?" When you are feeling sad ask why you
are sad. But strangely, it has become conventional to our minds that when
we are sad we accept it as if it is our nature. And when we are joyous
even we are surprised; deep inside we even start worrying: "What is
happening to me?"
- Sadness has come. It has happened to you; it is not
you. The moment you remember this, suddenly you will see a distance
arising between you and the sadness. It does not affect you anymore. When
you lose awareness, it affects you; when you gain awareness, there is a
distance. The more awareness rises to a higher peak, the more the distance
becomes greater and greater. A moment comes when you are so far away from
your sadness that it is as if it is no longer there. The same has to be
done with happiness also. It will be difficult, because one wants to cling
to happiness. But if you want to cling to happiness, you are sowing the
seeds of unhappiness.
- The world is sad, it is in misery. There is great
suffering in the hearts of people. But you need not be sad about it, for
the simple reason that by becoming sad you join them, you create more sadness.
It is not a help. It is just as if people are sick, and you see their
sickness and you also become sick. Your sickness is not going to make them
healthy, it is simply creating more sickness. To feel for their sadness
does not mean to become sad. To feel for their sadness means to look for
the causes of what is creating all their suffering and misery, and to help
them to remove those causes. And at the same time you have to remain as
joyful as possible because your joy is going to help them, not your
sadness. You have to be cheerful. They should know that there is a
possibility of being cheerful in this sad world. They have completely lost
hope, because everywhere they look there is sadness. They have accepted
the fact that sadness is just the nature of things -- you cannot do
anything about it, you have to suffer it.
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