Emotional Wellness by Osho

Author:Osho
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307383013
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Published: 2007-04-02T16:00:00+00:00

Miss Johnson, the English teacher, said, “Today we are going to do definitions. When you define something, you say what it is. Now, Wesley, will you define ‘unaware’?”

Wesley replies, “It’s the last thing I take off at night!”

We are all living in such a situation! Nobody is conscious; nobody is listening to what is being said.

It is such a strange world. If you are aware, then everywhere miracles are happening. But you don’t see miracles because rarely are you aware, very rarely. Most of the time you keep your eyes open; most of the time you don’t snore. But that does not mean that you are awake. It simply means that you are pretending to be awake, but deep inside are so many thoughts, so much confusion, so many wild horses…how can you see anything? How can you hear anything? So although your eyes are open, they don’t see. Although your ears are open, they don’t hear.

It is a strange phenomenon that nature made eyes in a different way from ears. You cannot close your ears but you can close your eyes. You have eyelids to close, to open, but what about your ears? Nature never bothered to give little earlids, because she knew you are so involved in the mind, you don’t need them. Your ears are always deaf; you don’t hear—or you hear only what you want to hear.

I have heard that after the church service one Sunday, a preacher stopped a man who had been snoring loudly during the sermon. He caught hold of him and told him, “It is not right! While I was giving the sermon, you were snoring.”

The man said, “I am sorry. Next time I will take care.”

The preacher said, “You have to take care, because there were so many people asleep and you were disturbing them all. I am not worried about you listening to my sermon, I am worried about the rest of my congregation, who were all fast asleep. You were snoring so loudly you might have woken them up. I go on repeating the same sermon every Sunday, and if you start keeping them awake it will mean more work for me. I will have to prepare new sermons again and again, and that is unnecessarily tedious. I have been using the same sermon forever and nobody objects, because nobody has heard it.”

You go into any church and you will find people fast asleep; it is a place to sleep, to have a little rest from worldly affairs, from the world and its tensions. But people are twenty-four hours asleep as far as spirituality is concerned. And in your sleep you see anger and you see greed, and they become so magnified, so big, that you get caught into their net very easily.

One who has a simple art of watchfulness has a golden key. Then it does not matter whether it is anger, or greed, or sensuality, or lust, or infatuation. It may be any kind of disease, it doesn’t matter: the same medicine functions.

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