Happiness/Unhappiness is contagious

Jun 16

Osho
Paying too much attention to the miseries of life is the sign of a deceased mind, a neurotic and deranged mind.
A philosophy of life that affirms and emphasises sorrow and suffering is bound to be negative and nihilistic. And this what the Christianity cross represent.

Soul
I know. In a way, Buddhism is similar too. Both teaches that life is suffering and is a form of punishment from God.

(14 July 10 - I was punishing myself, not God. I created my own suffering. Because I projected it out to God. The fact that I am affected means I do believe there is suffering. If not, why would I be affected.)

Osho
It is not that life is without its hurts and pains, it cannot be. But if a person brings his focus only to the hurt and pain and goes on accumulating them, he will soon cease to meet with any happy moments in life.
It is not that there is no happiness in life; it has its fair share of happiness too. And if someone trains his attention on happiness alone, and goes on gathering it, he will eventually cease to come across painful moments in life.
Life consists of both pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. And it depends on us what we choose to see and take.
We become that which we choose to become. Infact, we see what we want to see; we find what we want to find; we receive what we ask for.
So, if u seek suffering, you are going to have it, without fail.

The irony is that if someone opts for suffering, he does not suffer alone, he makes many others suffer with him. And this where immortality comes into being. Unhappiness is a contagious disease; a single unhappy person can be the cause of the unhappiness of thousands.
It is impossible that an unhappy person can make another happy. How can he give happiness to another when he refuses to take it for himself.
We can only share wit others what we have, not what we don't have.

One who turned his life into a bundle of hurts and wounds is going to be the cause of suffering in the lives of others. Since suffering has become his life's breath, wherever he goes he will carry the germs of suffering wit him. An unhappy person really adds to the unhappiness of the whole world.
Remember when u choose unhappiness, u r not choosing it for urself alone, but for the whole world as such.


Soul
Since I don't validate myself, how can I validate others.
Since I am looking for love in future, how can I find it in present.


Osho
Similarly, a happy person becomes the source of happiness for countless numbers of people. So, if Krishna plays the flute, its melody, its bliss does not remain confined to him. It gladdens all those whose hearts come to hear it. And it is as it should be.
Pleasure and pain, happiness and unhappiness are contagious, they are communicable from one to another, they spread and escalate life wildfire.
Therefore a happy person is a religious person; and unhappy person is utterly irreligious.