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What happens when I experience deep sadness?

Deep sadness is not emptiness; it is the spaciousness that arises when old negativity falls away, inviting life to enter and transform sorrow into openness.

— Osho
According to Osho, deep sadness often appears when old negativity, fixed ideas, and familiar miseries are falling away. You mistake the loss of these long-time 'companions' for emptiness, but it is actually new spaciousness. If you stop labeling it as empty and allow it, that spaciousness becomes a temple for life (God) to enter, transforming sorrow into openness.

Your sadness means old pains are leaving; if you don’t cling or call it “empty,” the space they leave becomes a fresh room where joy can come.

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