The Vibe Of Silence (3rd week Mystic Rose, Osho Afroz, Oct '16)

Tears, The Language Of The Heart (Crying week in Osho Afroz's Octobre Mystic Rose)

Heads don'y cry. Yes, tears come out from the head, where eyes are located but really, it's the heart that cries, not the head. And we may not feel very comfortable about it, since the heart is naked when we are "in front of the mirror of the tears". So we have condemned them. We see somebody crying and we want to console him, take him away from that space. It makes us feel uncomfortable. Among all the stupid conditionings that we've created in our society it's the one that tries to cast away everything that has to do with feeling sad, grief, pain. No wonder why there is so much depression around, when we're conditioned to believe that we have to be happy and in order to be, that we have to suppress what ever has to do with "difficult" feelings. But there's no way we can feel happy or feel anything at all actually, if we don't allow ourselves to experience all the range of feelings there are.

In this beautiful transformative process, Osho's Mystic Rose meditative therapy, in this amazing space of Oshos Afroz, in Eressos, Lesvos, in this particurarly wonderfull time of the season, Octobre, when everything is magically calm, settling down to the roots, and specifically in the crying week of this process, I experienced this conditioning, as something that makes me hide from myself, as finding a numbness in my way to go deep in myself. And the beauty and wonder of this process, is that there's nothing to do about it no conclusion or judgment to make about it, nothing good or bad, it is just as it is. Only to stay present with it.

Tears can find their way to go deep and touch us in the core of our being. Heart is a transformer, it can take our pain or even that of all the world and transform it into love and compassion. And actually, tears don't nessecerily have to do with sadness. Tears flow when we are feeling overwhelmed with emotion. It can be sadness and grief as well as it can be joy, laughter, love, gratitude or anything else, in an overflowing volume. Whatever the feeling, it is the only language to unlock the path and mysteries of the heart, to take us to this truly human space where we are just being. ANd I'm gratefyl to have the oppotrunity to be in this space in Osho Afroz with the amazing presence of the fascilitators Unmata and Salim.

As the Sufi mystic poet, Rumi, said: ‘the wound is the place where the light enters you’.

“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.” – Osho