[osho gyaan]
oh!!! wo-(man-ia)
edition 5 july‘2014
excerpts from discourse of Osho
One has to see the foolishness of it. It is not a question of
resolving it. One has to see the ridiculousness of it, then it
falls. It is not resolved. Diseases are not to be resolved;
they fall away. Just try to see the foolishness of it.
Creation carries his signature. You also go on carrying his
signature. Drop this begging!
Somebody is asking for money, somebody is asking for bread,
somebody is asking for approval. All are beggars. Don't ask. In
asking you will miss much that is already available to you.
Look rather than asking. Look within yourself and the emperor
of emperors is there. Start enjoying it, start living it!
I will tell you a few anecdotes.
A woman, newly arrived to live in a spacious mansion, met the
woman she knew lived in a cottage at the edge of her estate.
"Welcome to our little community," greeted the cottage dweller.
The new resident, drawing herself up haughtily, replied, "Please
do not address me. I never speak to an inferior." "Oh," replied
the cottage dweller sweetly, "and where in the world did you ever
meet one?"
It happened: The famous college athlete had just returned from
the Olympics with a chestful of medals when he fell ill. At the
hospital the doctor took his temperature, shook his head
doubtfully, and said, "You're running a temperature of a hundred
and five."
"Oh, yeah?" answered the athlete weakly. Then, suddenly
interested, he asked, "Hey, doc, what's the world record?"
Everybody is an egoist.
It is difficult to see that you are in the same boat. You can see
all others in the same boat. Just see it -- that everybody in
deep ignorance remains an egoist, goes on thinking in terms
of the ego. Nobody is there in the world to fulfill your ego;
everybody is trying to fulfill his own. Who has time to fulfill
your ego? And if sometimes somebody fulfills your ego, he
must be fulfilling it as a means to fulfill his own.
Drop all this nonsense! You are already approved of,
otherwise you could not have been here. God has accepted
you, given birth to you.
If van Gogh paints, whatsoever painting he creates is already
approved of -- otherwise he would not have created it in the
first place. If Picasso paints something, in the very painting,
the painting is approved of. The painter has put his heart into
it. Just go deeper into your own being -- God has put all the
treasures that you need there. He has approved of you,
accepted you. He is happy that you are!
Basically, everybody is interested in himself. As you are
interested in yourself, others are interested in themselves.
Just become aware of this.
Everybody is trying to compete; and in this competition, and in
this egoistic, ambitious race, one is destroying all that is
beautiful. One is destroying a beautiful life that could have
flowered and become a pinnacle of existence -- Buddha-like,
Jesus-like, Krishna-like. But everybody is asking others,
begging: Approve of me! Say something that gives me a good
feeling about myself. Hence, flattery works. Hence, anybody
can deceive you just by flattering you. And people go on doing
things which they never wanted to do, but they go on doing
them because that is the onl