![]() We can then learn to control both the experience and our reaction to it, freeing us to go on to blissful being. When we are fully aware, we understand that we are all projecting our own experiences. Or, we can move on to transcendence directly by learning to stop identifying with the body/personality and its experiences. As Osho teaches, we will eventually become sick of the valueless behavior and become ready to transcend it. The behavior, when carried to an extreme, will lead us to seeing the futility and ridiculous quality of unbridled emotion. This is done in a safe manner such as pounding a pillow rather than the object of our anger. ![]() We can "become" the emotion we are feeling and act it out as fully as possible in complete awareness. Osho explains that if we are to stop this unproductive emotional cycle, we have two choices. When we try to ignore our emotions, they will inevitably resurface and also begin the pendulum swing. We blow up and then swing to a period of relative calm, but the pendulum will inevitably bring us back to another situation where we feel the need to blow up again. When we react thoughtlessly, we resemble the constant motion of a pendulum that swings from one extreme to another. The student reaches this Higher Self by approaching all emotion with awareness rather than blindly reacting or suppressing the emotion. Osho's goal is for the student to move from "doing" to "being" as they reconnect with the Higher Self of pure consciousness. "Emotional Wellness" does not teach coping mechanisms it is concerned with transcendence of the little "self" that appears to control the body. Although this book is a daunting 1,139 pages, it is an eye-opener that will greatly assist the reader in obtaining value from Osho's many other books. Only a very small percentage of the techniques discussed involve sex. While most Westerners connect the word tantra with sex, it actually means technique, and contains 112 techniques for returning to the spiritual "center" that reunites us with the Divine. Osho's greatest work (in our opinion) is a series of his lectures contained in the volume "The Book of Secrets." These lectures are based on the 5,000 year old "Viyan Bhairav Tantra" (literal translation: techniques for going beyond consciousness). ![]() Although Osho did eventually lean toward Zen Buddhism, "Emotional Wellness" cannot be considered a primer for Buddhism. ![]() Unless a reader understands that Osho is primarily a philosopher whose teachings are grounded in Indian tantric philosophy, they will misinterpret the message and lose the value of this phenomenal book. ![]()
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