Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living) by Osho

Author:Osho [Osho]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2011-03-31T22:00:00+00:00

Love should be one

of the most natural

things, but it is not.

On the contrary, it

has become the most

difficult thing–almost

the impossible thing.

Hate has become

easy; you are trained,

you are prepared

for hate.

Illness has a few advantages that health cannot have; don’t become attached to those advantages. Hate also has a few advantages that love cannot have. And you have to be very watchful. The ill person gets sympathy from everybody else; nobody hurts him, everybody remains careful what they say to him, he is so ill. He remains the focus, the center of everybody—the family, the friends—he becomes the central person, he becomes important. Now, if he becomes too much attached to this importance, to this ego fulfillment, he will never want to be healthy again. He himself will cling to illness. And psychologists say there are many people who are clinging to illnesses because of the advantages illnesses have. And they have invested in their illnesses for so long that they have completely forgotten that they are clinging to those illnesses. They are afraid if they become healthy they will be nobody again.

You teach that, too. When a small child becomes ill, the whole family is so attentive. This is absolutely unscientific. When the child is ill, take care of his body but don’t pay too much attention. It is dangerous, because if illness and your attention become associated … which is bound to happen if it is repeated again and again.

Whenever the child is ill he becomes the center of the whole family: daddy comes and sits by his side and inquires about his health, and the doctor comes, and the neighbors start coming, and friends inquire, and people bring presents for him … . Now he can become too much attached to all this; it can be so nourishing to his ego that he may not like to be well again. And if this happens, then it is impossible to be healthy. No medicine can help now. The person has become decisively committed to illness. And that’s what has happened to many people, the majority.

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