Osho : Such Are Things

Let healing energy flower in you, says OSHO

 

If you are ill, the attitude of suchness is: accept it — and say to yourself, ‘Such is the way of the body,’ or, ‘Such are things’. Don’t create a fight, don’t start struggling. You have a headache — accept it. Such is the nature of things. Suddenly, there is a change, because when this attitude comes in, a change follows just like a shadow. If you can accept your headache, the headache disappears.

You try it. If you accept an illness, it starts dispersing. Why does it happen? It happens because whenever you are fighting, your energy is divided: half the energy moving into illness, the headache, and half the energy fighting the headache — a rift, a gap and the fight. Really this fight is a deeper headache.

Once you accept, once you don’t complain or fight, the energy has become one within. The rift is bridged. And so much energy is released because now there is no conflict — the release of energy itself becomes a healing force. Healing doesn’t come from outside. All that medicines can do is to help the body to bring its own healing force into action.... Health cannot be forced from outside, it is your energy flowering.

This word ‘suchness’ can work so deeply that with physical illness, with mental illness and finally with spiritual illness — this is a secret method — they all dissolve. But start from the body, because that is the lowest layer. If you succeed, then higher levels can be tried. If you fail there, then it will be difficult for you to move higher. 

Something is wrong in the body: relax and accept it, and simply say inside — not only in words but feel it deeply — that such is the nature of things. The body is born, it is prone to death. And it is a mechanism, and complex; there is every possibility of something or other going wrong.

Accept it, and don’t be identified. When you accept you remain above, you remain beyond. When you fight you come to the same level. Acceptance is transcendence…. And this transcendence becomes a healing force. Suddenly the body starts changing. And the same happens to mental worries, tensions, anxieties, anguish.… You are worried because you have some ideas to enforce on nature.… Against nature, nothing can be done. Love was a flowering, now the flower has faded. The breeze has come into your house, now it has moved into another. Such is the way of things, they go on moving and changing.

The world of things is a flux.… This is the nature of things…life is not going to follow you, you have to follow life. Grudgingly, happily — that’s your choice. If you follow grudgingly you will be in suffering. If you follow happily, you become a Buddha, your life becomes an ecstasy.

Hsin Hsin Ming: The Book of Nothing.

Courtesy: Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com