To: K-list
Recieved: 2003/12/04 22:15
Subject: [K-list] Re: K-list Digest, Vol 6, Issue 4
From: Stephen Kowalchuk

David,

Coincidentally, I was paging through Osho on Tao the other night and came
upon the story of the "Man Who Knows How to Console Himself".

Isn't it interesting, as Osho pointed out, that there are so many kinds of
illness or pain or disease but only one kind of happiness? There can be
reasons for happiness, but (according to Osho) under the reasons lie
attachments to the temporal causes of these moments of happiness. True
happiness has no cause, joy simply is.

By looking for reasons for happiness, we are looking for ways to console
ourselves for that which we do not have, are not capable of, or things
which we believe are somehow out of reach. This is in essence putting the
cart before the horse, at least according to Osho.

Of course, this is really easy in theory, but I think there's an important
message here. Everyone has their respective burdens, difficulties,
impediments to growth and success. We are all scarred and broken in one
way or another by our existence here. Acceptance of our "damaged yet
perfect" nature is the price of admission for experiencing a blissful life
in the physical world, at least in my mind.

With acceptance, and the resultant change in orientation, allowing joy into
one's life is possible. The hard part is clearing away the crud of
expectations, lost opportunity, and other similar illusions.

My $0.02.

Steve


At 12:00 PM 12/4/2003, you wrote:
>
>Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:41:40 -0500
>From: David Bozzi <david.bozzi AT_NOSPAM softhome.net>
>Subject: [K-list] Everybody's Horrorscope
>To: k-list AT_NOSPAM kundalini-gateway.org
>
>Everybody's Horrorscope for week of December 4, 2003
>
>Psychotherapy obsesses on what's wrong with people and gives short
>shrift to what's right. The manual of the profession is a 943-page text
>called the DSM-IV that identifies scores of pathological states but no
>healthy ones. I often complain about this tragic fact and ask my readers
>to help me compile material for a proposed Anti-DSM-IV, a compendium of
>all the positive, noble, feel-good categories....


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