The knee jerk reaction is, universally, to want to fix what doesn’t work, what doesn’t please us.
“It’s wrong and it needs to be fixed.” you say…
This fixing thing has brought you more misery with every attempt to fix it. The more fixing you do the more unbearable life becomes, and the further the life you wanted to live has moved.
It’s not a mirage, it’s how it is. Not only seem that way. You get deeper into the bind all your fixings caused you.
But yet, every time you see something that doesn’t work as well as you’d like it, you have a new opportun
In this whole series, Osho examines a piece of poem or a story from a world culture that is spiritually meaningful. This poem is Japanese. Osho distinguishes being in the present, not being in the past, not being in the future, not desiring the present different from what it is.
Warning: this article is a little “technical”… if you are only reading for the fun of it, you’ll hate this article… Don’t tell me I haven’t warned you!
One commonality among my many readers is that they don’t feel well. That they are plagued with too much activity in the mind, that they listen from their minds, and that they have negative emotions that they resist, avoid, run from, urges they succumb to. They are in forceful resistance…