The alchemical way of transforming the very nature of sadness

ONE CAN LIVE IN A CONTINUITY OF JOY. Even in sadness there can be joy -- because you can become capable of enjoying sadness too. Accept sadness as part of life -- don't resist it, allow it, befriend it. And that is the alchemical way of transforming the very nature of sadness. The very nature of sadness becomes luminous. Soon it is no more sadness, it is transformed into cheerfulness.

SADNESS REMAINS SADNESS IF YOU FIGHT WITH IT, if you deny it, if you reject it. Sadness remains sadness if you are against it, otherwise sadness is pure energy. If you welcome it, if you embrace it, if you are not afraid of it, not angry with it -- you will be surprised, immensely surprised: you have changed its very nature, it is no more sadness. Even tears start becoming laughter and sadness becomes silence.

All that we have known as negative can be transformed into the positive. AND THE SECRET IS SIMPLE: ACCEPTANCE, TOTAL ACCEPTANCE. Nothing has to be condemned, nothing at all. All that comes has to be received with great gratitude, as a gift from God. And you will be able to make flowers out of thorns and ordinary pebbles turn into diamonds. The very ordinary life starts taking on the flavor of extraordinariness. Then nothing is ordinary because everything starts having a thrill. Nothing is ordinary -- because you are so ecstatic about it, how it can remain ordinary?

Although you move in the same world with the same people, you can live in a totally different world -- and not be part of it any more. A KIND OF TRANSCENDENCE HAPPENS. Even death is so deeply accepted that it loses all fear and itself becomes a dance.

OSHO
The Rainbow Bridge
Ch #5, a darshan diary
pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

Posted by: Subhuti