The mind will go on haunting you. It will try in every way. It will create fantasies, reveries, dreams; it will create all
types of allurements, seductions. It is written in the lives of the prophets that Satan comes, the Devil
comes, to seduce. No one comes – only your mind. Your mind is the only Devil and no one else. It
will try in every way. It will say to you, ”I will give you the whole world, come back.” It will make you
depressed. The mind will create negativity all around you.
If you persist and you remain aware that this
is what the mind is doing, this is what the mind is bound to do, and if you don’t get identified with
the mind, a moment comes when the mind leaves you, and with it all the pressures. When the mind
leaves you, you are unburdened, because it is the only burden. Then there is no worry, no thought,
no anxiety, you have entered the womb of existence. Unworried, you float. A deep silence explodes
within you.
[Osho]
Misery means getting identified with something. Bliss means when there is no identification of any type – not even with bliss. This is very subtle. If you feel that you are blissful, sooner or later you will be in misery again. If you feel you are blissful, you are preparing to be miserable again. You are still getting identified with a mood.
You feel happy: now you get identified with happiness. The moment you get identified with happiness, unhappiness has started. Now you will cling to it, now you will become afraid of the
opposite, now you will expect it to remain with you constantly. You have created all that is needed
for misery to be there and then misery will enter, and when you get identified with happiness, you
will get identified with misery. Identification is the disease.
[Osho]
The mind will go on haunting you. It will try in every way. It will create fantasies, reveries, dreams; it will create all types of allurements, seductions. It is written in the lives of the prophets that Satan comes, the Devil comes, to seduce. No one comes – only your mind. Your mind is the only Devil and no one else. It will try in every way. It will say to you, ”I will give you the whole world, come back.” It will make you depressed. The mind will create negativity all around you.
If you persist and you remain aware that this is what the mind is doing, this is what the mind is bound to do, and if you don’t get identified with the mind, a moment comes when the mind leaves you, and with it all the pressures. When the mind leaves you, you are unburdened, because it is the only burden. Then there is no worry, no thought, no anxiety, you have entered the womb of existence. Unworried, you float. A deep silence explodes within you.
[Osho]
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Misery means getting identified with something. Bliss means when there is no identification of any type – not even with bliss. This is very subtle. If you feel that you are blissful, sooner or later you will be in misery again. If you feel you are blissful, you are preparing to be miserable again. You are still getting identified with a mood.
You feel happy: now you get identified with happiness. The moment you get identified with happiness, unhappiness has started. Now you will cling to it, now you will become afraid of the opposite, now you will expect it to remain with you constantly. You have created all that is needed for misery to be there and then misery will enter, and when you get identified with happiness, you will get identified with misery. Identification is the disease.
[Osho]
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