Message #10662

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Much food for thought here Yoshi. This is a good reminder to not blame our suffering on others by Osho~Watch: whenever suffering is felt, you will always feel as if it is coming from the outside, and whenever you feel happy, you simply feel that happiness is arising from within you. Happiness is a flower of your own consciousness. Suffering is a thorn which has entered into you: alien, foreign, not of you. So whenever you suffer you start thinking that somebody, somewhere, must be responsible for it; known, not known, but somebody must be responsible for it.

i think i would add to this that sometimes we do feel as though others make us happy although later we often find out that is not the case. So i am not sure that this quote is a true; 'Remember, others can cause suffering for you, but they cannot cause happiness.' Sometimes we must recognize that the misery that others experience also affects us. So this rings true to me: 'Only you suffer, and because of your suffering, you make others suffer.'

Also; does a hungry man suffer because he is not happy? Or did God make us dependent on food? Does the lack of physical appeasement make us suffer or were we created to perpetuate the species? In many ways i find this post helpful though.

Jitendra