What is suppressed becomes attractive

“Only alertness to the mind’s games brings freedom. Negation does not really negate, on the contrary, it invites,” writes Osho in a letter.

Love.

What is suppressed becomes attractive,

what is negated, invites!

Only alertness to the mind’s games brings freedom.

Negation does not really negate,

on the contrary, it invites.

The mind plays around the forbidden

like the tongue around the gap of an extracted tooth.

A small shopkeeper in London once caused a sensation.

He hung in his show window

a black curtain with a small hole at the centre;

under the hole was written in large letters:

PEEPING STRICTLY FORBIDDEN.

Naturally, it brought the traffic to a standstill!

Crowds gathered around the shop

jostling one another for a peep through the curtain.

There they saw nothing but a few towels –

it was just a small towel shop

and the shopkeeper had devised this sure-fire

method of increasing his sales.

It worked like magic.

Man’s mind works the same way

and he becomes trapped by it.

Therefore – always be wary of negation,

opposition, suppression.

Osho, A Cup of Tea, letter 141

Photo by Dhinubhai – credit to Osho Resource Center – retouched by Osho News