Anger arises as a protection against pain. If somebody hurts you, you become angry as a protection of your being against pain. So every pain is suppressed by anger--layers and layers of anger on top of pain.
Continue working on anger, and suddenly any moment you will feel the anger has disappeared--that you are becoming sad, not angry.
The climate will change from anger to sadness, and when it does you can be certain that now you are close to pain; then the pain will erupt. It is just as if we dig a hole in the earth to make a well. First we have to remove the earth and many layers of stone, and then the water comes up. At first it is not clean water, it is muddy; then by and by cleaner sources become available. First anger will come and it has many layers, like earth. Then sadness will come like muddy water, and then pain--clean, pure pain-will be available. And pure pain is tremendously beautiful, because it will give you another birth immediately.
Osho
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Continue working on anger, and suddenly any moment you will feel the anger has disappeared--that you are becoming sad, not angry.
The climate will change from anger to sadness, and when it does you can be certain that now you are close to pain; then the pain will erupt. It is just as if we dig a hole in the earth to make a well. First we have to remove the earth and many layers of stone, and then the water comes up. At first it is not clean water, it is muddy; then by and by cleaner sources become available. First anger will come and it has many layers, like earth. Then sadness will come like muddy water, and then pain--clean, pure pain-will be available. And pure pain is tremendously beautiful, because it will give you another birth immediately.
Osho
