Osho
quotes on Suffering
- You would like to live a life where there is no
suffering, but that life is not possible if you continuously carry the ego
with you. You cannot make a life around you so that suffering disappears.
If you carry the ego, again and again you will bump into some reality
which will hurt the unreal. Whenever there is an encounter between reality
and unreality, the unreal causes suffering.
- Each suffering should be started in celebration. Then
you change the quality of suffering itself. Each suffering should be
welcomed through celebration; then the suffering is no more suffering.
- Use every opportunity in life for raising your
intelligence, your consciousness. Ordinarily what we are doing is using
every opportunity to create a hell for ourselves. Only you suffer, and
because of your suffering, you make others suffer. And when so many people
are living together, and if they all create suffering for each other, it
goes on multiplying. That's how the whole world has become a hell. It can
be instantly changed. Just the basic thing has to be understood, that
without intelligence there is no heaven.
- Opposites are complementaries. If you can suffer your
suffering in totality, in great intensity, you will be surprised: Saul
becomes Paul. You will not be able to believe it when it happens for the
first time, that your own suffering absorbed willingly, welcomingly,
becomes a great blessing. The same energy that becomes hate becomes love,
the same energy that becomes pain becomes pleasure, the same energy that
becomes suffering becomes bliss.
- If you really want to get rid of misery and suffering
then you will have to understand -- you don't have a self. Then it will be
not just a small relief but a tremendous relief. And if you don't have a
self, the need for the other disappears. It was the need of the unreal
self to go on being nourished by the other. You don't need the other. And
listen carefully: when you don't need the other, you can love. And that
love will not bring misery. Going beyond needs, demands, desires, love
becomes a very soft sharing, a great understanding. When you understand
yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then
nobody can make you miserable. You know that they are suffering from an
unreal self, and they are throwing their misery on anybody who is close
by. Your love will make you capable of helping the person you love to get
rid of the self.
- Remember, one who enjoys more is bound to suffer more
because he becomes very sensitive. But suffering is not bad. If you
understand it rightly, suffering is a cleansing. If you understand it
rightly, sadness has a depth to it which no happiness can ever have. A
person who is simply happy is always superficial. A person who has not
known sorrow and has not known sadness, has not known the depths. He has
not touched the bottom of his being; he has remained just on the
periphery. One has to move within these two banks. Within these two banks
flows the river.
- The moment you become identified with your suffering
you want to discard it, you want to get rid of it, it is so painful. But
if you are a witness then suffering loses all thorns, all stings. Then
there is suffering, and you are a witness to it. You are just a mirror; it
has nothing to do with you. Happiness comes and goes, unhappiness comes
and goes, it is a passing show; you are just there, a mirror reflecting
it. Life comes and goes, death comes and goes; the mirror is not affected
by either. The mirror reflects but remains unaffected; the mirror is not imprinted
by either.
- Suffering is there. It is part of life and part of
growth; nothing is bad in it. Suffering becomes evil only when it is
simply destructive and not creative at all; suffering becomes bad only
when you suffer and nothing is gained out of it. But I am telling you the
divine can be gained through suffering; then it becomes creative. Darkness
is beautiful if the dawn is coming out of it soon; darkness is dangerous
if it is endless, leads to no dawn, simply continues and continues and you
go on moving in a rut, in a vicious circle. This is what is happening to
you. Just to escape from one suffering you create another; then to escape
from another, another. And this goes on and on and all those sufferings
which you have not lived are waiting for you. You have escaped but you
escape from one suffering to another, because a mind which was creating a
suffering will create another. So you can escape from this suffering to
that, but suffering will be there because your mind is the creative force.
Accept the suffering and pass through it; don't escape. This is a totally
different dimension to work in. Suffering is there: encounter it, go
through it. Fear will be there, accept it. You will tremble, so tremble.
Why create a facade that you don't tremble, that you are not afraid? If
you are a coward, accept it.
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