“Life is chaotic, with so many things to do, and so many places to go. And in all the outer activity we lose our sense of balance, be that ecological, health, or work-life balance. The inner balance is what Osho calls, ‘true balance.’
Osho says, ‘Life has to be lived in all its dimensions, only then is a life rich. Balance is something that comes out of the experience of all the dimensions of life.
Balance is something that HAPPENS; it is not something that can be BROUGHT. If brought, it will be false, forced, and if you bring it you will remain tense, you will not be relaxed, because how can a man who is trying to remain balanced, in the middle, be relaxed? He will always be afraid: if he relaxes he may start moving towards the left or towards the right—he is bound to remain uptight. And to be uptight is to miss the whole opportunity, the whole God-given gift.
I don’t teach you the middle way: I teach you the total way. And then a balance comes of its own accord. And then that balance has tremendous beauty and grace—you have not forced it, it has Come. By moving gracefully to the left, to the right, in the middle, slowly slowly, a balance COMES to you, because you remain so unidentified.
When sadness comes you know it will pass, and when happiness comes you know it will pass too. Nothing remains. Everything passes by. The only thing that always abides is your witnessing. That witnessing brings balance. That witnessing is balance.
In our logical minds, balance happens between opposite things. In reality, balance means the disappearance of the opposition, the two becoming one, their diametrically opposite ways merging into one, melting into one reality. That is balance, true balance.’ Osho”
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