Emotion

Beloved Osho, why do I always weep when I can't laugh? Isn't weeping opposed to dancing, singing and celebrating?

The phenomenon of weeping is mysterious. It does not mean that you are sad, not necessarily. It is not necessarily against celebrating, against cheerfulness, against laughing; no. The tears have a very strange function: whenever something in your heart is so much that it cannot be expressed by normal means, tears are an emergency method. So they may mean anything. You may be very happy, so happy that laughing will look stupid but tears will look perfectly right. Your tears will show that your happiness is not an ordinary happiness -- it is so deep that only tears can express it; it is so extraordinarily deep that an emergency method is used. Two friends meeting after many days, many years, may not feel like talking; talking may look too profane. They may like just to hug each other and weep on each other's shoulders. They are saying many many things...…

Beloved Osho, during your first discourse on the mahagita many people were weeping streams of tears. What does this mean? Are those who were crying weak hearted or is it the power of your voice? Please throw some light on this.

Everywhere in the world it has always been like this. Politicians only have lust for power, they are not concerned with order or revolt. Yes, when they are not keeping order, when the power is not in their hands, then they say everything is wrong; then a revolution is needed. And as soon as they come to power, revolution isn't needed any more because the work of the revolution is complete. Its work was this -- to bring him to power -- the job is done. Then whoever mentions revolution is an enemy. And those that speak of revolution also have nothing to do with it. It is an amazing thing to watch -- it is happening every day, and still man does not become alert. All revolutionaries become counter-revolutionary when they come to power. And all ousted politicians become revolutionaries as soon as they step down from office. Political…

Osho, before the discourse, when Jagjivan’s verses were recited, my heart suddenly filled, my eyes welled up, and as the recitation continued my tears kept flowing on their own. When the recitation ended, the tears stopped. I understood the meaning of those verses after your discourse. Why did this happen?

Sumer Singh, you are fortunate that your feeling was soaked, and afterward understanding came. First dive, then understand. First be colored, then understand. First let things descend into the heart; afterward the intellect will do the arithmetic on its own. Those who say, “First we will do the intellectual accounting, and then we will drown the heart”—their heart never drowns, because the intellect’s accounting is never complete. It never completes! The intellect never comes to a conclusion; it has no conclusions. The intellect does not know how to conclude. It cannot conclude, because its nature is doubt. The heart’s nature is trust. The intellect can doubt, can think; it cannot conclude. The heart cannot think, cannot doubt; it takes the leap—and the conclusion happens. These two processes are very different. Therefore conversation between the intellectual and the feeling one cannot really happen; even in conversation, dilemma arises, dispute arises. There…

Beloved Osho, during your first discourse on the mahagita many people were weeping streams of tears. What does this mean? Are those who were crying weak hearted or is it the power of your voice? Please throw some light on this.

Everywhere in the world it has always been like this. Politicians only have lust for power, they are not concerned with order or revolt. Yes, when they are not keeping order, when the power is not in their hands, then they say everything is wrong; then a revolution is needed. And as soon as they come to power, revolution isn't needed any more because the work of the revolution is complete. Its work was this -- to bring him to power -- the job is done. Then whoever mentions revolution is an enemy. And those that speak of revolution also have nothing to do with it. It is an amazing thing to watch -- it is happening every day, and still man does not become alert. All revolutionaries become counter-revolutionary when they come to power. And all ousted politicians become revolutionaries as soon as they step down from office. Political…