Suffering

Before you can transform suffering you will have to become a witness;
that is the third point. First: do not resist evil. Second: know that
opposites are not opposites but complementaries, inevitably joined
together, so there is no choice -- remain choiceless. And the third
is: be a witness, because if you are a witness to your suffering you
will be able to absorb it. If you become identified with it you cannot
absorb it.

The moment you become identified with your suffering you want to
discard it, you want to get rid of it, it is so painful. But if you
are a witness then suffering loses all thorns, all stings. Then there
is suffering, and you are a witness to it. You are just a mirror; it
has nothing to do with you. Happiness comes and goes, unhappiness
comes and goes, it is a passing show; you are just there, a mirror
reflecting it. Life comes and goes, death comes and goes; the mirror
is not affected by either. The mirror reflects but remains unaffected;
the mirror is not imprinted by either.

A great distance arises when you witness. And only in that witnessing
can you become able to transform the baser metal into gold. Only in
that witnessing do you become a scientist of the inner, a detached
observer. Now you know the opposites are not opposites, so they can be
changed into each other. Then it is not a question of destroying evil
in the world, but of transforming evil into something beneficial;
transforming poison into nectar.

Osho,
"The Book of Wisdom"