The Roots Of Suffering

We are continuously contradicting ourselves, each moment. The action goes in one direction, the thinking goes in another, feelings are somewhere else. We go on falling apart, we become more and more fragmented. That's why misery is - we lose integration, we lose unity. We have become absolutely centerless, just a periphery. And naturally, a life that is not harmonious is going to be miserable, tragic, a burden to be carried somehow, suffering. At the most one can make this suffering less painful. And there are thousand and one kinds of painkillers available. It is not only drugs and alcohol~ but the so-called religion has also functioned as opium. It drugs people. And naturally, all the religions are against drugs, because they themselves deal in the same market; they are against the competitors. If people take opium, they may not be religious; there may be no need for them to be religious. They have found their opium, why should they bother about religion? And opium is cheaper, there is less involvement. If people are taking marijuana, LSD, and more refined drugs, naturally they are not going to be religious because religion is a very primitive drug. Hence all religions are against drugs. People are living in suffering. There are only two ways out of it: They can become meditators- alert, aware, conscious...that's an arduous thing. It needs guts. Or the cheaper way is to find something that can make you even more unconscious than you are, so you cannot feel the misery. Find something that makes you utterly insensitive, some intoxicant, some painkiller that makes you complete oblivion that you can escape into that unconscious and forget about your anxiety, anguish, meaninglessness. The second way is not the true way. The second way only makes your suffering a little more convenient. But it does not help- it does not transform you. The only transformation happens through meditation because meditation is the only method that makes you aware. To me, meditation is the only true religion. All other things are hocus-pocus and also remember that there are different brands of opium - Christianity, Hinduism, Mohammedanism, Jainism, Buddhism - but they are just brands. The container is different but the content is the same: they all help you in some way to adjust to your sufferings... My effort here is to take you beyond suffering. There is no need to adjust to suffering; there is a possibility to be totally free of suffering. But then the path is a little arduous; then the path is a challenge. 

 You have to become aware of your body and what you are doing with it.

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                                                                                        Source - Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance By OSHO