REMAIN YOURSELF.... - SAYS OSHO

NEVER BE INSPIRED BY ANYBODY. REMAIN OPENNEVER BE INSPIRED BY ANYBODY. REMAIN OPEN. WHEN YOU SEE A BEAUTIFUL SUNSET, YOU ENJOY THE OF IT … WHEN YOU SEE A BUDDHA, ENJOY THE BEAUTY OF THE MAN, ENJOY THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE MAN. ENJOY THE SILENCE, ENJOY THE TRUTH THE MAN HAS REALISED…BUT DON’T BECOME A FOLLOWER. ALL FOLLOWERS ARE LOST.REMAIN YOURSELF…BECAUSE THIS MAN GAUTAM BUDDHA HAS FOUND BECAUSE HE HAS REMAINED HIMSELF. AND ALL THESE BEAUTIFUL NAMES…LAO TZU, CHUANG TZU, LEIH TZU, BODHIDHARMA, NAGARJUNA, PYTHGORAS, SOCRATES, HERACLITUS, EPICURUS… ALL THESE BEAUTIFUL NAME WHICH HAVE BEEN A GREAT INSPIRATION TO MANY PEOPLE WHERE THEMSELVES NEVER INSPIRED BY ANYBODY. THAT’S HOW THEY PROTECT THEIR ORIGINALITY; THAT’S HOW THEY REMAIN THEMSELVES.I HAVE BEEN WITH MASTERS, AND I HAVE LOVED THEM. BUT TO ME THE VERY DESIRE TO BE LIKE THEM VERY UGLY. ONE MAN IS ENOUGH; A SECOND LIKE HIM WILL NOT ENRICH EXISTENCE, IT WILL ONLY BURDEN IT. TO ME, UNIQUENESS OF INDIVIDUAL IS THE GREATEST TRUTH. LOVE PEOPLE WHEN YOU FIND THEM IN SOME DIMENSION TRUE AND AUTHENTIC, BLOSSOMING. BUT REMEMBER, THEY ARE BLOSSOMING BECAUSE THEIR AUTHENTICITY AND ORIGINALITY; SO BE MINDFUL NOT TO FALL INTO THE TRAP OF FOLLOWING THEM. BE YOURSELF.THE FAMOUS MAXIM FROM SOCRATES IS: ‘KNOW THYSELF’. BUT IT SHOULD BE COMPLETED... IT IS INCOMPLETE. BEFORE ‘KNOW THYSELF’ ANOTHER MAXIM IS NEEDED: ‘BETHYSELF’; OTHERWISE YOU MAY KNOW ONLY SOME ACTOR THAT YOU ARE PRETENDING TO BE. KNOWING THYSELF COMES SECOND; FIRST IS BEING THYSELF. THE REAL GREAT MASTER HAVES BEEN ONLY FRIENDS, A HELPING HAND, FINGERS POINTING TO THE MOON; THEY HAVE NEVER CREATED A SLAVERY. BUT THE MOMENT THEY DIED THEY LEFT SUCH A GREAT IMPACT AROUND THEM THAT CUNNING PEOPLE… THEOLOGIANS, PRIESTS, SCHOLARS…STARTED PREACHING OT PEOPLE, ‘FOLLOW GAUTAM BUDDHA’.NOW THE MAN IS DEAD AND HE CANNOT DENY ANYTHING…AND THESE PEOPLE STARTED EXPLOITING THE GREAT IMPACT THAT BUDDHA HAD LEFT. NOW THE WHOLE OF ASIA, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, FOR TWENTY –FIVE CENTURIES HAVE FOLLOWED IN THE STEP OF GAUTAM BUDDHA, BUT NOT A SINGLE GAUTAM BUDDHA HAS BEEN CREATED. IT IS ENOUGH PROOF: TWO THOUSAND YEARS AND NOT SINGLE JESUS AGAIN; THREE THOUSAND YEARS, NOT A SINGLE MOSES AGAIN.EXISTENCE NEVER REPEATS ITSELF.HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF BECAUSE HISTORY BELONGS TO THE UNCONSCIOUS MOB.EXISTENCE NEVER REPEATS ITSELF. IT IS VERY CREATIVE AND VERY INVENTIVE.AND IT IS GOOD; OTHERWISE, ALTHOUGH GAUTAM BUDDHA IS A BEAUTIFUL MAN, IF THERE IS THOUSAND OF GAUTAM BUDDHA AROUND… IF WHEREVER YOU GO YOU MEET GAUTAM BUDDHA, IN EVERY RESTAURANT!... YOU WILL BE REALLY BORED AND TIRED. IT WILL DESTROY THE WHOLE BEAUTY OF THE MAN. IT IS GOOD THAT EXISTENCE NEVER REPEATS. IT ONLY CREATES ONE OF A KIND, SO IT REMAINS ALWAYS RARE.YOU ARE ALSO ONE OF A KIND. YOU JUST HAVE TO BLOSSOM, TO OPEN YOUR PETALS AND RELEASE YOUR FRAGRANCE.