13/07/2025
Osho, The Discipline of Transcendence #4
“If you enter a dark house sometimes you stumble upon the furniture, and you become angry, and then you grope in the dark; a painting falls on you and then you are furious. But all these problems are created by darkness.
Bring light, bring awareness, and then suddenly darkness disappears - and you no longer stumble upon the furniture, and there is no anger and no rage, you don't go insane. Those problems were concerned with darkness; they disappear with darkness.
In the West, they start trying to analyze. Now, it is a very costly affair to go to a psychoanalyst. “Why did this painting fall in the first place? There must have been something wrong in your childhood between you and your mother, otherwise why did the painting fall? Why did you stumble on the furniture? You must be accident-prone because other people have passed through the same room and they have not stumbled on the furniture. So it shows something about your childhood trauma: maybe when you were being born you were stuck, and the doctor had to pull you out. So since then you have been stumbling, and you go on stumbling. Now the trauma has to be dissolved.” These things – you laugh, but they have become very serious philosophies in the West.
In the East we have not worked that way. We don’t ask “why.” We say, “The painting has fallen, so the painting has fallen. Now I am struck by it, so I am struck. The problem is not with the painting, the problem is not with the furniture, the problem is that the room is dark.” If you pay too much attention to the problems that are happening, you will go in a wrong direction because they are not real problems. The real problem is that the room is lacking light. Bring light in.
If you watch a fact rightly, penetratingly, it disappears. Just by observation, exactly as you bring light to your dark room, darkness disappears.
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