SERIOUSNESS Those who take life seriously become pathological, because life is not a serious phenomenon; it is all playfulness, from the top to the bottom. It is a song to be sung, a dance to be danced, a love to be lived - but with utter playfulness. The moment you become serious you become blocked, the flow stops; you are cut off from the universal energy. You cannot dance when you are serious because seriousness is basically sadness. Seriousness is also calculation, business: one is always looking for the motive - why? One is always asking Why do it? What am I going to gain out of it? What will the profit be? These are businesslike attitudes. They are good in the marketplace but they are absolutely wrong when you start moving inwards. The more you move inwards, the more life appears as fun, as tremendous fun. A sense of humor is needed and a sense of playfulness. In the past just the opposite has been the case: the saints have been very sad and very serious, as if life was a burden, a heavy burden; they were carrying mountains on their heads. They were not free like children, playing for no reason at all, playing just for the playing itself, playing for plays sake, no idea of gaining anything out of it... osho
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 16:55:38 +0000