In old Mongolia they had an ancient idea that every life, whatever pain is suppressed…and pain is suppressed, because nobody wants it. You don’t want to be painful so you suppress it, you avoid, you look somewhere else. But it remains. And the Mongolian idea was – and I agree with it – that life after life it goes on accumulating in you; it becomes almost a hard shell of pain. That’s why all the saints and the sages have been telling you, shouting “Go into yourself!” You listen to them, but you don’t go.
There is a reason why you don’t go; you know that going in, you have to encounter pain; going in you have to encounter misery, suffering, agony. It is better to remain outside – engaged, busy. Never be alone, because in your aloneness you may unconsciously start moving inwards. Being alone, having nothing else to do, you may start looking inwards…..
……..If you go in you will find both laughter and tears. That’s why sometimes it happens that by laughing, suddenly you find tears also start coming together with it – very confusing, because ordinarily we think they are contrary. When you are full of tears it is not a time to laugh, or when you are laughing it is not the right season for tears.
But existence does not believe in your concepts, ideologies; existence transcends your concepts, which are dualistic, which are based on duality . Day and night, laughter and tears, pain and blissfulness, they both come together. When a man reaches into his innermost being he will find the first layer is of laughter and the second layer is of agony, tears. So for seven days you have to allow yourself to weep, cry for no reason at all – just the tears are ready to come, you are preventing them. Just don’t prevent! This is absolutely my meditation.
So the first layer is of laughter, but once laughter is over you will suddenly find yourself flooded with tears, agony. But this too will be a great unburdening phenomenon. Many lives of pain and suffering will disappear. If you can get rid of these two layers you have found yourself……..
If you cry and weep without any reason, just as an exercise, a meditation…nobody will believe it. Tears have never been accepted as meditation. And I tell you, they are not only a meditation, they are a medicine also. You will have better eyesight and you will have better inner vision. I am giving you a very fundamental technique, fresh and unused.And it is going to become worldwide, without any doubt because it’s effects will show anybody that the person has become younger, the person has become more more graceful…. more flexible, less fanatic; the person has become more joyful, more celebrant.” Osho – Yaa-Hoo The Mystic Rose #30