Question – Your teaching seems to be: to be absolutely oneself. This is beyond me. How can one be oneself if one is not oneself?
Osho
– Let me ask you another question: how can you not be yourself? You can believe
it, but you cannot be anything other than yourself. You can think that you are
somebody else, you can imagine that you are somebody else, but all the time you
are just yourself, nothing else.
So
whether you believe you are yourself or not is irrelevant. You remain, all the
time, yourself. You can go on running and chasing shadows, but one day or the
other you will have to realize that you have just been doing an absurd thing.
How can you be other than yourself7 How? You ask me how one can be oneself. I
ask you how one can be other than oneself — and in my questioning is the
answer. Nobody has even been other than himself; nobody can ever be other than
himself. To be oneself is the only way to be, nothing can be done about it.
You
can believe…. It is just like you sleep at night in Poona and you dream that
you are in Philadelphia. That doesn’t make any change in reality. You remain in
Poona — here, somewhere in Mobo’s. You remain in Poona; Philadelphia remains
just a dream. In the morning you will not wake up in Philadelphia, remember.
You will wake up in Mobo’s, in Poona. Howsoever miserable, but it is the case!
Nothing can be done about it; at the most you can again dream of Philadelphia.
You
are gods. That is your reality. You can believe… you have believed in many
things. Sometimes you believed you were a tree — many trees are still believing
that. Sometimes you believed you were an animal: a tiger, a lion. There are a
few people who belong to Lion Clubs — Lion Bhabhutmal Sanghvi. They are not
satisfied in being men — lions! Sometimes you believed that you were a lion,
and then you WERE a lion: a dream. Sometimes you believed that you were a rock
and you WERE a rock: a dream. You have been changing your dreams.
Now
the time has arrived. Wake up! I’m not giving you another dream, remember. You
hanker for it, you would like me to give you another dream, but I am not going
to give you another dream. That’s why to be with me is difficult and arduous —
because I am insisting that you wake up. Enough is enough. You have dreamed a
lot; since eternity you have been dreaming. You have just been changing dreams.
When you get fed up with one dream, you start changing it; you dream another dream.
My whole effort is to shake you, to shock you — to wake you.
It
is not a question of achieving any new thing. It is already your being. Just
opening the eyes, just dropping the dreams, just dropping the clouds and the
vision. It is a question of clarity and understanding, that’s all. Between you
and Jesus, between you and me, between you and Buddha, there is no difference
of being — nothing. You are exactly the same. The difference, at the most, is
that you are asleep and Jesus is not asleep, that’s all.
So
don’t ask me how to be oneself; you cannot be otherwise. Just ask me how to be
awake. You are yourself ALL THE TIME! Just become a little more alert, just
bring a new quality of waking consciousness — just watch. Don’t try to be
anything because that will again be a dream. Just watch: whosoever you are,
wheresoever you are, just watch and be… and allow it. Then the happening, the
sudden happening, can come any moment. The heavens can open and the spirit of
God, like a dove, can enter in you.
In
fact, this is just a way of saying something that cannot be said. It can be
said in just the opposite terms also. Let me say it: that when John the Baptist
initiated, baptized, Jesus — Jesus opened and the spirit of God, like a dove,
was released from him and flew into the infinite sky. That is also exactly the
same truth. It is just a way of saying it from two polarities.
You
are gods and you have never been anything else. That’s why I am not worried if
you want to sleep a little longer. Nothing is wrong; the choice is up to you.
You can have a little more sleep — turn over and have a little more sleep;
snore a little longer — nothing is wrong. But don’t try to improve, don’t try
to achieve anything. Don’t try to become anything because you are already that which
you can become! The being is your only becoming, you carry your destiny within
yourself. Relax… and be.
Source
– Osho Book “Come Follow To You, Vol 1″
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