"Everything happens outside"

A house caught fire. The owner beat his breast and wept loud. A man standing next to him said,

”You are tormenting yourself unnecessary. It was only yesterday that your son sold the house for a
good sum.
The man could not believe his ears. He stopped his lamenting. The house was still burning, but he
looked on unconcerned. He stood at a distance; he was no longer the owner of the house.
After a little while his son came running, ”Oh, ’god, how did the house catch fire? I made a deal on
the house but the payment is still to come. Now who will pay for a ruined house?”
The father began to wail again. The house was unaffected. The happiness or sorrow of its owners
had no effect on it. It was burning before and it continue burning after, but the owner’s mood would
have changed again if the buyer had appeared and said he would honor the contract although the
house was burned down.

Everything happens outside you, but you stand too close; that is the trouble. Keep your distance!
When happiness comes stand apart and watch. When sorrow comes stand a little away and watch.
Mind you, start with happiness, not with sorrow. Generally people try to dissociate from themselves
at times of sorrow in order to escape from it. That is a general tendency of the mind, and it gets
you nowhere. Create the distance when you are happy, because everybody wants to escape from
sorrow. If you want to establish a genuine detachment just running away from sorrow will not do.
You have to do just the reverse
OSHO :The Great Path"