Thursday, March 30, 2006
Even Illness Can Be a Blessing
I like the notion that we are all in the course known as Earth 101. And with that understanding, everything that happens on this planet has an ability to teach us about our lives and about deeper mysteries.
I wrote to a friend earlier today about her illness. Before I did that, I read a passage from the Indian mystic Osho about how even illness can be used to connect deeper with our being.
Here's what Osho said:
"Healthy people have been very destructive. Health has not always proved a blessing. They became generals, but they were never great painters or musicians or poets -- not creators. If you look at the creators you will find that many of them were ill; their illness became a blessing.But the point I would like to emphasize is that when you are ill, your energy is low, and a few things come up only when your energy is low. Otherwise it works like a weight; it doesn't allow things to come up. Have you watched? -- if you have been ill for many days, ill, feverish, and suddenly the fever is not there, you are perfectly cool, collected. The storm has gone and there is a silence that you had not known before. You may not like it because it has an association with fever and illness, but if you look directly at it, it has a different quality. It is beautiful. It has its own space that no health can give you.
I am not against health (a chuckle). I am saying that even illness, if you are alert, can give you some spaces which are beautiful. And if you can use illness, of course you can use health. Then health can become a blessing. Always remember that everything can be used, has to be used." Osho
I wrote to a friend earlier today about her illness. Before I did that, I read a passage from the Indian mystic Osho about how even illness can be used to connect deeper with our being.
Here's what Osho said:
"Healthy people have been very destructive. Health has not always proved a blessing. They became generals, but they were never great painters or musicians or poets -- not creators. If you look at the creators you will find that many of them were ill; their illness became a blessing.But the point I would like to emphasize is that when you are ill, your energy is low, and a few things come up only when your energy is low. Otherwise it works like a weight; it doesn't allow things to come up. Have you watched? -- if you have been ill for many days, ill, feverish, and suddenly the fever is not there, you are perfectly cool, collected. The storm has gone and there is a silence that you had not known before. You may not like it because it has an association with fever and illness, but if you look directly at it, it has a different quality. It is beautiful. It has its own space that no health can give you.
I am not against health (a chuckle). I am saying that even illness, if you are alert, can give you some spaces which are beautiful. And if you can use illness, of course you can use health. Then health can become a blessing. Always remember that everything can be used, has to be used." Osho
©2006 Subhan Schenker
