Joy: The Happiness That Comes from Within (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living) by Osho

Author:Osho [Osho]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010-03-31T22:00:00+00:00

Just exactly in the beginning, when you are creating the problem, is the solution—don’t create it!

This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creations.

So have another look at your problems. The deeper you look, the smaller they will appear. Go on looking at them and by and by they will start disappearing. Go on gazing and suddenly you will find there is emptiness—a beautiful emptiness surrounds you. Nothing to do, nothing to be, because you are already that.

Enlightenment is not something to be achieved, it is just to be lived. When I say I achieved enlightenment, I simply mean that I decided to live it. Enough is enough! And since then I have lived it. It is a decision that now you are not interested in creating problems—that’s all. It is a decision that now you are finished with all this nonsense of creating problems and finding solutions.

All this nonsense is a game you are playing with yourself. You yourself are hiding and you yourself are seeking—you are both parties. And you know it! That’s why when I say it you smile, you laugh. I am not talking about anything ridiculous—you understand it. You are laughing at yourself. Just watch yourself laughing, just look at your own smile—you understand it. It has to be so because it is your own game: You are hiding and waiting for yourself to be able to seek and find yourself.

You can find yourself right now because it is you that is hiding.

That’s why Zen masters go on hitting people. Whenever somebody comes and says, “I would like to be a buddha,” the master gets very angry. The person is asking nonsense, he is a buddha. If Buddha comes to me and asks how to be a buddha, what am I supposed to do? I will hit his head! “Whom do you think you are fooling? You are a buddha.”

Don’t make unnecessary trouble for yourself. And understanding will dawn on you if you watch how you make a problem bigger and bigger and bigger, how you spin it, and how you help the wheel to move faster and faster and faster. Then suddenly you are at the top of your misery and you are in need of the whole world’s sympathy.

You are a great problem creator … just understand this and suddenly problems disappear. You are perfectly in shape; you are born perfect, that is the whole message. You are born perfect; perfection is your innermost nature. You have just to live it. Decide, and live it.

If you are not yet fed up with the game you can continue, but don’t ask why. You know. The why is simple. The ego cannot exist in emptiness, it needs something to fight with. Even a ghost of your imagination will do, but you need to fight with someone. The ego exists only in conflict—the ego is not an entity, it is a tension. Whenever there is a conflict, the tension arises and the ego exists; when there is no conflict, the tension disappears and the ego disappears.

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