Why Be Sad, When You Could Be Sly!

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Osho Times

If you can float between being angry and being sad, both become similarly easy.
You will have a transcendence and then you will be able to watch, and escape.
Anger and sadness are both the same. Sadness is passive anger and anger is activ
e sadness. Because sadness comes easy, anger seems to be difficult. Because you
are too much in tune with the passive.
It is difficult for a sad person to be angry. If you can make a sad person angry
, his sadness will disappear immediately. It will be very difficult for an angry
person to be sad. If you can make him sad, his anger will disappear immediately
.
In all our emotions the basic polarity continues of man and woman, yin and yang,
the male and the female. Anger is male, sadness is female. So if you are in tun
e with sadness, it is difficult to shift to anger, but I would like you to shift
. Just exploding it within wont help much because again you are seeking some way
of being passive. No. Bring it out, act it out. Even if it looks nonsense, then
too. Be a buffoon in your own eyes, but bring it out.
If you can float between anger and sadness, both become similarly easy. You will
have a transcendence and then you will be able to watch. You can stand behind t
he screen and watch these games, and then you can go beyond both. But first you
have to be moving easily between these two. Otherwise you tend to be sad and whe
n one is heavy, transcendence is difficult.
Remember, when two energies, opposite energies, are exactly alike, fifty-fifty,
then it is very easy to get out of them, because they are fighting and cancellin
g each other and you are not in anybodys grip. Your sadness and your anger are fi
fty-fifty, equal energies, so they cancel each other. Suddenly you have freedom
and you can slip out. But if sadness is seventy percent and anger thirty percent
, then it is very difficult. Thirty percent anger in contrast with seventy perce
nt sadness means forty percent sadness will still be there and it will not be po
ssible; you will not be capable of easily slipping out. That forty percent will
hang over you.
So this is one of the basic laws of inner energies to always let the opposite po
larities come to an equal status, and then you are able to slip out of them. It
is as if two persons are fighting and you can escape. They are so engaged with t
hemselves that you need not worry, and you can escape. Dont bring the mind in. Ju
st make it an exercise.
You can make it an everyday exercise; forget about waiting for it to come. Every
day you have to be angry that will be easier. So jump, jog. scream, and bring i
t. Once you can bring it for no reason at all, you will be very happy because no
w you have a freedom. Otherwise even anger is dominated by situations. You are n
ot a master of it. If you cannot bring it, how can you drop it?
Gurdjieff used to teach his disciples never to start by dropping anything. First
start by bringing it in, because only a person who can create anger on demand c
an be capable of dropping it on demand simple mathematics. So Gurdjieff would te
ll his disciples to first learn how to be angry. Everybody would be sitting and
suddenly he would say, Number One, stand up and be angry! It looks so absurd.
But if you can bring it. And it is always available, just by the corner, you just
have to pull it in. It comes easily when anybody provides an excuse. Somebody i
nsults you it is there. So why wait for the insult? Why be dominated by the othe
r? Why cant you bring it yourself? Bring it yourself!
In the beginning it looks a little awkward, strange, unbelievable, because you h
ave always believed in the theory that it is somebody else whose insult has crea
ted the anger. Thats not true. Anger has always been there; somebody has just giv
en an excuse for it to come up. You can give yourself an excuse. Imagine a situa
tion in which you would have been angry, and become angry. Talk to the wall and
say things, and soon the wall will be talking to you. Just go completely crazy.
You have to bring anger and sadness to a similar status, where they are exactly
proportionate to each other. They will cancel each other out and you can slip aw
ay.
Gurdjieff used to call this the way of the sly man to bring inner energies to such
a conflict that they are engaged together cancelling each other, and you have t
he opportunity to escape. Try it, mm?