Today I would like to share some more
wonderful ideas of Osho regarding our problems. It made me think deeply about
the roots of my problems after reading it. And to be honest, I still didn't get all his ideas... But it helps me to change my attitude towards problems and find peace. Hopefully it will help my friends
and readers to overcome some difficulties or don’t take them seriously.
And here’s what Osho said:
Thousands of people told me about their
problems and yet I haven’t met any real one! All the problems are false – you
are creating them, cause you feel empty without your problems. When you don’t
have any problems there’s nothing to do, no one to fight with and nowhere to
go. People are visiting one guru after another, one master after another, one psychotherapist after another, one group
after another… because they when they are not doing it, they feel empty and all
of a sudden their life seems to be meaningless. You are creating problems in
order to feel that the life is a hard work, growth and an uphill battle.
Have you ever asked yourself the main
question: Are there real problems or you are creating them yourself and you are
used to have them so much that can’t help living without them – will you feel
lonely without them? You agree to be unhappy rather than to be empty. People
are bragging about their misfortunes just not to allow the emptiness inside.
You are feeding your misfortunes yourself.
See. When a problem disappears, pay attention how another current problem finds
a place right away. This situation is reminding a snake which gets rid of its
old skin, but always stays there itself.
As soon as you solve one problem, there’s
another after it. And if you look at it more attentively, you’ll notice that
the second problem has exactly same nature that the previous had. Start solving
it and there’ll be the third one waiting its turn already.
Please, take a look at what you are doing
and what nonsense you are busy with. You create a problem first and then you
start a major research to find a solution. The solution of a problem is
situated at its beginning, right where you are just creating it – so stop
creating it! You don’t have any problems – it’s all you need to understand.
When you are not enough of your own
problems, then you start thinking about humanity, destinies of the world –
socialism, communism and other nonsense. You start thinking about the world as
if it depends on your advice.
I don’t care about your problems. There are
millions of them and there is no point in trying to solve them – because you
are the creator. I will solve your problem and you’ll create ten more.
I’ll put your problems aside and reach you.
Their creator should change first and the problems will disappear from the area
around.
Remember this carefully: you enjoy
cherishing your problems, because you are creating them. There are many reasons
why you enjoy it.
The whole humanity is sick. There are some
basic motivations behind it, main reasons why we lose track of it. When a child
is sick, he gets all the attention. When he’s healthy, no one cares about him.
Attention is energy. When someone looks at
you with love, he feeds you with an ethereal food. Every child needs attention, however you get it only when you
get sick, when there’s a some kind of problem. That’s why when a chilkd feels a
lack of attention, he comes up with a problem and creates it himself.
Love is the basic need. As your body is fed by
food, so is your soul fed by love. But
you can get more love only when you are sick, when something happens to you…
otherwise no one will even think to give it to you. A child learns it from you
and thereafter starts creating problems as well. He understands that everybody
will rush to him as soon as any disease or other problem shows up.