It Is Up to You
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This is a fascinating recording of an interview with Osho, while at the commune in the USA, answering questions for the first time from the world’s press.
This is a fascinating recording of an interview with Osho, while at the commune in the USA, answering questions for the first time from the world’s press.
Osho continues:
"They are losing time, life, energy, and their becoming is never going to end.
"It is just like the horizon – there, looking so close that you can reach it – just a few more miles to go. But as you reach those few miles, you find the horizon has receded again, the distance remains always the same. The person who is caught in the net of becoming wastes his whole life, dies unfulfilled, in tremendous despair, because he can see that the whole life was there for him to live, but because of his desire to become something, someone, he sacrificed all that was freely available to him.
"One does not become ordinary, you are ordinary. You are born ordinary, just like everything else in existence: animals, birds, trees. No bird needs to be ordinary, no tree asks, inquires how to be ordinary. But man asks it and this very process of becoming makes you insane.
"Drop becoming anybody else. Drop the very idea that you have to be according to some discipline, some scripture, some theology. Forget completely that you have to be like Jesus or Buddha or Mahavira, and suddenly you will find that you are who you are. Live it, joyously, without any guilt. Existence wanted you to be what you are. If existence wanted another Jesus he would have created thousands of Jesuses, there is no problem. He would have made Jesuses on an assembly line. But he makes only individuals. Existence never duplicates, never makes anybody similar to somebody else.
"This is the beauty and the glory of existence. This is a blessing – that nobody like you has ever existed and will ever exist again, you are simply unique. Don't waste this uniqueness in running after some goal, some shadow.
"Now, because I am telling you it is so beautiful to be ordinary, it is so joyous to be ordinary, you have made being ordinary also a goal. Your question would have been perfectly right if you had asked how to become a Jesus Christ, how to become a Buddha, how to become a great celebrity.
"But the very processes of becoming and being ordinary are absolutely diametrically opposite to each other."
"It is just like the horizon – there, looking so close that you can reach it – just a few more miles to go. But as you reach those few miles, you find the horizon has receded again, the distance remains always the same. The person who is caught in the net of becoming wastes his whole life, dies unfulfilled, in tremendous despair, because he can see that the whole life was there for him to live, but because of his desire to become something, someone, he sacrificed all that was freely available to him.
"One does not become ordinary, you are ordinary. You are born ordinary, just like everything else in existence: animals, birds, trees. No bird needs to be ordinary, no tree asks, inquires how to be ordinary. But man asks it and this very process of becoming makes you insane.
"Drop becoming anybody else. Drop the very idea that you have to be according to some discipline, some scripture, some theology. Forget completely that you have to be like Jesus or Buddha or Mahavira, and suddenly you will find that you are who you are. Live it, joyously, without any guilt. Existence wanted you to be what you are. If existence wanted another Jesus he would have created thousands of Jesuses, there is no problem. He would have made Jesuses on an assembly line. But he makes only individuals. Existence never duplicates, never makes anybody similar to somebody else.
"This is the beauty and the glory of existence. This is a blessing – that nobody like you has ever existed and will ever exist again, you are simply unique. Don't waste this uniqueness in running after some goal, some shadow.
"Now, because I am telling you it is so beautiful to be ordinary, it is so joyous to be ordinary, you have made being ordinary also a goal. Your question would have been perfectly right if you had asked how to become a Jesus Christ, how to become a Buddha, how to become a great celebrity.
"But the very processes of becoming and being ordinary are absolutely diametrically opposite to each other."
| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 126 mins |
| File Size | 32.66 MB |
| Type | Conversa Individual |
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