Monday, June 15, 2009

From Zen

This pain is not to make you sad, remember. That's where people go on missing... This pain is just to make you more alert--because people become alert only when the arrow goes deep into their heart and wounds them. Otherwise they don't become alert. When life is easy, comfortable, convenient, who cares? Who bothers to become alert? When a friend dies, there is a possibility. When your woman leaves you alone--those dark nights, you are lonely. You have loved that woman so much and you have staked all, and then suddenly one day she is gone. Crying in your loneliness, those are the occasions when, if you use them, you can become aware. The arrow is hurting: it can be used. The pain is not to make you miserable, the pain is to make you more aware! And when you are aware, misery disappears.

- Osho

3 comments:

A Chrysanthemum by any other name... said...

Aware and alert about what??

Seema Smile said...

Mr Rajneesh had nothing better to do than to sit around giving random pravachans. Usko bol kaam karne ko (wherever he is now... heaven, hell, in between?)

Flying Machine said...

Chrys Bhaiyya - Gotch you there! Only Osho can answer that and he is dead. So I guess you got to figure it out yourself. My idea is, it is about growing tails and in some cases antennas too.

Manju Bhabhi - With my limited communication means I can't reach anybody in heaven, hell or in between. Sorry da.