Why can we not see our mistake regarding suffering?
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"Only in the present moment, through direct awareness, can we truly see suffering as it arises and dissolve its grip; the past and borrowed beliefs keep us blind to our own mistakes."
According to Osho, we don’t see our mistake about suffering because we live on borrowed beliefs and lack awareness in the very moment pain arises. During anger or hurt we are unconscious, identified, “drunk,” so recognition comes only afterward, as regret. Only present, direct seeing—not doctrines or memory—reveals suffering as it appears and dissolves its grip.
Like being asleep while you’re angry, we miss the mistake as it happens and only realize it later, when the damage is done.
Why this matters practically
- Practice moment-to-moment attention to catch emotions as they arise.
- Trust direct experience over second-hand beliefs.
- Seeing in time prevents harmful actions and later remorse.
- Trust direct experience over second-hand beliefs.
- Seeing in time prevents harmful actions and later remorse.
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