The Miracle of Ordinariness

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"The only miracle, the impossible miracle, is to be just ordinary. The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers for recognition. The ego feeds on the recognition that you..."
The Miracle of Ordinariness
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"The only miracle, the impossible miracle, is to be just ordinary. The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers for recognition. The ego feeds on the recognition that you..."

Osho continues:
"But Bankei was really an ordinary man.

"Once it happened that Bankei was working in his garden. Somebody came, a seeker, a man in search of a master, and he asked Bankei, 'Gardener, where is the master?'

"Bankei laughed and said, 'Wait. Come to that door – inside you will find the master.'

"So the man went round and came inside. He saw Bankei sitting on a throne, the same man who was the gardener outside. The man said, 'Are you kidding? Get down from this throne. This is sacrilegious, you don't pay any respect to the master.'

"Bankei got down, sat on the ground, and said, 'Now then, it is difficult. Now you will not find the master here – because I am the master.'

"It was difficult for that man to see that a great master can work in the garden, can be just ordinary. He left. He couldn't believe that this man was the master; he missed.

"We are all in search of the extraordinary. But why are you in search of the extraordinary? It is because you also long to be extraordinary. With an ordinary master, how can you become extraordinary, exceptional?

"Bankei was talking, lecturing, and one man stood and asked. He belonged to some other sect, a sect which worked through mantras, holy names. Remember that a mantra is a secret technique to achieve more power. A mantra is not spiritual, it is political, but the politics are of the inner space, not of the outer.

"The mind can become powerful if you narrow it down; narrowing is the method. The more narrow the mind, the more powerful it becomes. It is just like the sun's rays falling to the ground. If you focus those rays through a lens, fire can be created. Those rays were falling all spread out but now they have been narrowed down through the lens. They have become one-pointed, concentrated; now fire is possible.

"Mind is energy, in fact, the same energy that comes through the sun, the same subtle rays. Ask the physicists. They say the mind has the voltage of electricity, that it is electrical.

"If you can focus the mind through a lens – and a mantra is a lens – and you go on repeating Ram, Ram, Ram, or Om, Om, Om, or anything, just one word; if you go repeating and repeating and repeating it, and the mind's whole energy is centered in that one word, it becomes a lens."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 102 mins
File Size 25.06 MB
Type Conversa Individual