Do self-realized individuals experience happiness or unhappiness from the pleasure and pain of others?
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outcome
"A self-realized being remains untouched by the pleasure or pain of others, for they see both as mere dreams; their compassion shines like a light, awakening you from the illusions of your own making."
According to Osho, the self-realized neither becomes happy nor unhappy from others’ pleasure or pain. Seeing both as dreamlike misperceptions, they remain unaffected yet deeply compassionate. They don’t fight your 'demons'; they try to wake you by bringing light, like revealing a rope mistaken for a snake. Their empathy remembers past delusion, but their response is compassionate clarity, sometimes laughter at the power of the false.
Enlightened people don’t catch your joy or sorrow; they care and try to wake you from the bad dream by showing what’s real.
Why this matters practically
- Practice compassionate detachment instead of emotional contagion.
- Help others by bringing clarity (the lamp) rather than battling illusions.
- Reduce personal drama by seeing pleasures and pains as passing dreams.
- Help others by bringing clarity (the lamp) rather than battling illusions.
- Reduce personal drama by seeing pleasures and pains as passing dreams.
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