EMOTIONS: Freedom from Anger, Jealousy & Fear
By Osho
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Osho offers a third alternative, which is to understand the roots of our emotions and to develop the knack of watching them and learning from them as they arise, rather than being "taken over" by them. Eventually we find that even the most challenging and difficult situations no longer have the power to provoke us and cause us pain.
Osho's unique insight into the workings of the mind, the heart, and the essence or "being" of the individual goes far beyond the understandings of conventional psychology. Over more than three decades of work with people from all walks of life, he has developed simple techniques and insights to help modern-day men and women to rediscover their own inner silence and wisdom.
Osho
Osho is one of the most provocative and inspiring spiritual teachers of the twentieth century. Known for his revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation, the influence of his teachings continues to grow, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world. He is the author of many books, including Love, Freedom, Aloneness; The Book of Secrets; and Innocence, Knowledge, and Wonder.
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EMOTIONS - Osho
Emotions
Freedom from Anger, Jealousy and Fear
Always remember,
problems
are yours…
OSHO
Copyright © 1999, 2013 OSHO International Foundation, Switzerland
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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission.
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Emotions is also available as a print edition ISBN-13: 978-1-938755-92-7
The material in this book is selected from various talks by Osho given to a live audience. All of Osho’s talks have been published in full as books, and are also available as original audio recordings. Audio recordings and the complete text archive can be found via the online OSHO Library at
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OSHO MEDIA INTERNATIONAL
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OSHO INTERNATIONAL
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Medical Disclaimer
Any advice or teachings given in this book are not intended to replace the services of your physician, psychotherapist, or psychiatrist. Nor is it meant to provide an alternative to professional medical treatment. This book offers no diagnosis of or treatment for any specific medical or psychological problems that you may have. Before you start any intensive exercises which may be part of some of the meditations, consult your physician.
Introduction
The title of this little book might give readers the idea that they have found another how to
book. Not at all – this book will provide you with a different dimension, where all the questions about how
are dissolved into a direct perception of your own, hidden reality.
Osho says:
We reduce everything into a how. There is a great how-to-ism all over the world, and every person, particularly the modern contemporary mind, has become a how-to-er: how to do this, how to do that, how to grow rich, how to be successful, how to influence people and win friends, how to meditate, even how to love. The day is not far off when some stupid guy is going to ask how to breathe. It is not a question of how at all. Don’t reduce life into technology. Life reduced into technology loses all flavor of joy.
Here you will find insights to unlock your own intuitive understanding of yourself and your inner world. Some of the ideas you encounter may disturb you, may go against everything you think you already know. Others may fill you with the shock of recognition, as they bring words to a truth that it suddenly feels you have always known.
Whatever the case, relax….give it some time to sink in and watch. Come back to it again and again – and soon you will find new levels of understanding growing between the lines, as you come closer and closer to the truth of your own being.
No, this is not a how to
book. It is a lamp that you can use, no matter who you are, to light the hidden corners of your own unique individuality.
Chapter 1: What Are emotions?
What are your thoughts except ripples on a lake?
What are your emotions, your moods, your sentiments?
What is your whole mind? – just a turmoil.
And because of this turmoil you cannot see your own nature.
You go on missing yourself.
You meet everybody in the world and you never meet yourself.
~
You are angry, but you cannot remain angry forever.
Even the angriest man laughs sometimes, has to.
It cannot become a permanent state of affairs,
being angry.
Even the saddest man smiles;
and even the man who laughs continuously
sometimes cries and weeps and tears come to his eyes.
Emotions cannot be permanent.
That’s why they are called emotions
!
The word comes from motion,
movement.
They move; hence, they are emotions.
You continually change from one to another.
This moment you are sad, that moment you are happy;
this moment you are angry,
that moment you are very compassionate;
this moment you are loving, another moment full of hatred;
the morning was beautiful, the evening is ugly.
This goes on.
~
The ordinary commonsense view
is that the heart is the source of emotions like love or hate or anger. Just as the mind is the source of conceptual thoughts, the heart is the source of all that is emotional and sentimental.
That is the commonsense view.
~
We have lived with this traditional division,
that imagination and feeling and emotions
and sentiments are of the heart.
But your heart is just a pumping system.
Everything that you think or imagine or feel
is confined in the mind.
Your mind has seven hundred centers
and they control everything.
~
When a person like Buddha talks about the heart
he means the very center of your being.
It is his understanding that your love,
your hate, everything, arises out of your mind.
And I think he is being absolutely scientific;
all psychologists will agree with him.
You can experiment yourself.
You can see from where your anger arises – it is the mind;
from where your emotions arise – it is the mind.
Mind is a big phenomenon. It covers conceptual thinking,
it covers your emotional patterns, your sentiments.
~
This has to be understood: emotions are in your head!
But consciousness is not in your head.
In fact, your head is in your consciousness!
Consciousness is vast, infinite.
Emotions, desires, ambitions, are in your head; they will dry up. But even when your head has completely dropped and disappeared into the earth, your consciousness will not disappear. You don’t contain the consciousness, the consciousness contains you; it is bigger than you.
~
It is absolutely true.
Your emotions, your sentiments, your thoughts – the whole paraphernalia of the mind – is from the outside, is manipulated by the outside. Scientifically it has become more clear.
But even without scientific investigation the mystics, for thousands of years, have been saying exactly the same thing – that all these things that your mind is filled with are not yours, you are beyond them.
You get identified with them,
and that’s the only sin.
~
Mind is a division which thinks,
and heart is another division of the same mind which feels.
Feeling and thinking,