Uddrag fra Osho´s bog ”the Book of Wisdom”:

 

”This is one of the greatest methods. When you breath in, think that you are breathing in all the miseries of all people in the world. All the darkness, all the negativity, all the hell that exists anywhere, you are breathing it in. Let it be absorbed in your heart.

 

You may have read or heard about the so-called positive thinkers of the west. They say just the opposite – they don´t know what they are saying. They say, “When you breath out, throw out all your misery and negativity, and when you breath in, breath in joy, positivity, happiness, cheerfulness.”

 

Atisha´s method is just opposite: When you breath in, breath in all the misery and suffering of all the beings of the world – past, present and future. And when you breath out, breath out all the joy that you have, all the blissfulness that you have, all the benediction that you have. Breath out, pour yourself into existence. This is the method of compassion: Drink all the suffering and pour out all the blessings.

 

You will be surprised if you do it. The moment you take all the sufferings of the world inside you, they are no longer sufferings. The heart immediately transforms the energy. The heart is a transforming force: Drink in misery, and it is transformed into blissfulness... then pour it out.

 

Once you have learned that your heart can do this magic, this miracle, you will like to do it again and again. Try it. It is one of the most practical methods – simple, and it brings immediate results. Do it today, and see.

 

When you take the breath in, let it become your meditation that all the suffering of all the beings in the world is riding on that incoming breath and reaching your heart. Absorb all that suffering, pain and misery in your heart, and see the miracle happen.

 

Whenever you absorb somebody else´s misery, pain and suffering, the moment you absorb it, it is transformed. The natural tendency is to avoid it; the natural tendency is to protect yourself against suffering. The natural tendency is to keep aloof, not to sympathize, not to empathize

 

Everybody is burdened with great misery, everyone is under great suffering, everybody's heart is hurting. There is much pain.

 

Atisha says: Before you can do this with the whole existence, you will have to start first with yourself. This is one of the fundamental secrets of inner growth. You cannot do anything with others that you have not done in the first place with yourself. You can hurt others if you hurt yourself, you will be a pain in the necks of others if you are a pain in the neck to yourself. You can be a blessing to others if you are a blessing to yourself.

 

Whatsoever you can do with others, you must have done to yourself before, because that is the only thing that you can share. You can share only that which you have; you cannot share that which you don´t have.

 

 

 

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