We are used to being told by everyone around us in difficult times that we must definitely tune in to positive thinking. Well, it’s like it’s easier, the pain goes away, and the problems don’t seem so bad. But the Indian religious and spiritual leader Osho thought otherwise. He said that a person fixated on positive thoughts begins to deny real life.
Chronic positive thinking, like: “Think and grow rich”, “Believe and everything will be fine”, etc. not endowed with magical powers at all. Osho argued that all these positive thoughts are trash for a person who also harms him.
By constantly thinking positively, we not only deny reality, but also lie to ourselves. We begin to face real things, but we still deny them, which means that we are deceiving those around us.
Negative things and events will not disappear if we just close our eyes to them. Reality cannot be deceived. Night changes the day, a person is certainly free to think that the day lasts all day, but this is not so. And no matter how much you say the word "sugar" in your mouth it will not become sweeter.
The negative, according to Osho, is also a part of our life. The negative and the positive must balance. Think of those books that shop assistants snatch at us, like Think and Grow Rich. And how do you like the trainings that bear the same name in the meaning? Is it possible that if a person sits on the couch and tune in to the positive, money will come to him? Really, if, like a fool, smile at the sun, then you will definitely become happy? Everything is only in our hands, so we need to accept both positive and negative.
Positive is like a half-truth. Deep down somewhere we know that negative surrounds us, but we try to think positively, and this is dangerous. Reality will sooner or later make itself felt, and then it will really hurt!
Deception always remains deception, it is like a house of cards, only the wind blows and everything will fall apart! The problem with positive philosophy is not that it is a lie, but that it is a half-truth posing as the true truth.
But they say that you need to think positively, set yourself up for good. Drive all negativity out of your head. But this is presented to us all wrong. For example, upon the loss of a loved one, we can hear: “Well, now what to cry, he lived life and is good,” or something like that one should think about the living. That's how it is, but you need to accept and endure the pain, and then live on. Otherwise, sooner or later it will burst out, and it will be so unbearable that no positive thinking will help.
Osho said that a person, by suppressing negative emotions in himself, causes great harm to himself. Everything negative in our head needs to be released, and not subdued with a positive. Everyone needs to acquire a consciousness that will be free, and not only positive or only negative. Only free consciousness will help to live a happy and natural life.
If we don't want to accept what we don't like, then we don't like ourselves. We turn into hypocrites, telling others about our love, as well as about love for ourselves. But in fact, there will be no happiness in our life, because blackness will begin to devour from within.
You can continue to lie to others, but if you start doing this on a regular basis, you will soon begin to believe in your own lies.
Osho considered the philosophy of positive thinking to be deceitful, useless and even dangerous. After all, she is convinced that when you want to cry bitterly, you have to dance and sing. But sooner or later negative emotions will come out and in a more ugly form!
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