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Emotional Wellness
transforming fear, anger and jealousy into creative energy
emotions cannot be permanent that's why they are called "emotions"...
the word comes from "motion," movement
from one to another you continually change...
...this moment you are sad, that moment you are happy...
...this moment you are loving another moment full of hatred
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OSHO International Foundation presents
Osho: Almost Drunk with Emotion
Dhyan Raga,
there is certainly
something very similar
in very different emotions:
the overwhelmingness.
It may be love,
it may be hate,
it may be anger --
it can be anything.
If it is too much,
then it gives you a sense
of being overwhelmed by something.
Even pain and suffering
can create the same experience,
but overwhelmingness
has no value in itself.
It simply shows
you are an emotional being.
This is typically
the indication of an emotional personality.
When it is anger, it is all anger.
And when it is love, it is all love.
It almost becomes drunk
with the emotion,
blind.
And whatever action comes out of it
is wrong.
Even if it is overwhelming love,
the action that will come out of it
is not going to be right.
Reduced to its base,
whenever you are overwhelmed
by any emotion
you lose all reason,
you lose all sensitivity,
you lose
not only your
heart into it...
it becomes almost like a dark cloud
in which you are lost.
Then whatever you do
is going to be wrong.
Love is
not to be a part of your emotions.
Ordinarily that's what people think
and experience,
but anything overwhelming
is very unstable.
It comes like a wind
and passes by,
and leaves you behind
empty,
shattered,
in sadness
and in sorrow.
Love,
according to those
who know
man's whole being --
his mind,
his heart
and his being --
love has to be
an expression of your being,
not an emotion.
Emotion is very fragile,
very changing.
One moment
it seems it is all.
Another moment
you are simply empty.
So the first thing to do
is to take love out
of this crowd
of overwhelming emotions.
Love
is not overwhelming.
On the contrary,
love is a tremendous
insight,
clarity,
sensitivity,
awareness.
But that kind of love
rarely exists,
because very few people
ever reach to their being.
There are people who are drinking
because they have wives,
and there are people who are drinking
because they don't have any wives.
It is a strange world.
One does not know on what
logical basis it is being run,
whether there is any logic
at all
in life or it is absolutely absurd.
You have to, Raga,
take out
your love
from the emotional grip
where it is
already found
at birth,
and you have to find a route
to your being.
Unless your love
becomes part of your being
it is not much different
from pain,
suffering,
sadness.
Emotions are not going to
help you
become an integrated individuality.
They are not going to give you
a granite soul.
You will remain
just
like dead wood
moving
in the stream, here and there,
not knowing why.
Emotions blind man exactly as does
alcohol.
Source: 'Om Shantih Shantih Shantih #17' Copyright © Osho International Foundation, Switzerland. OSHO is a registered TM.
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