YOU ARE NOT A GAUTAM BUDDHA - SAYS OSHO

BLOSSOMLIFE ITSELF IS ENOUGH.SEEING PEOPLE ALL AROUND… WALKING CORPSES… IS INSPIRATION ENOUGH NOT TO MOVE WITH THEM, NOT TO GO THEIR WAY, BUT TO FIND A SMALL FOOTPATH OF YOUR OWN IF YOU WANT TO BE ALIVE.I HAVE NEVER HAD A MASTER, AND I AM FORTUNATE THAT I NEVER HAD A MASTER.I HAVE BEEN, IN MY PAST LIVES, WITH A FEW LIVING MASTERS. THEY WERE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, LOVABLE,BUT ONE THING HAS BEEN CLEAR ALL ALONG TO ME… THAT NOBODY CAN BE A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR ME, BECAUSE THAT WORD ‘INSPIRATION’ IS DANGEROUS.FIRST IT IS INSPIRATION, THEN IT BECOMES FOLLOWING, THEN IT BECOMES IMITATION…AND YOU END UP BEING A CARBON COPY. THERE IS NO NEED TO BE INSPIRED BY ANYBODY. NOT ONLY THERE IS NO NEED, IT IS DANGEROUSTOO. JUST WATCHING, I HAVE SEEN…EACH INDIVIDUAL IS UNIQUE. HE CANNOT FOLLOW ANYBODY ELSE.HE CAN TRY… MILLIONS HAVE BEEN TRYING FOR THOUSAND OF YEAR. MILLIONS ARE CHRISTIANS, MILLIONS ARE HINDUS, MILLIONS ARE BUDDHISTS. WHAT ARE THEY DOING ? INSPIRATION FROM GAUTAM BUDDHA HAS MADE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE BUDDHISTS, AND NOW THEY ARE TRYING TO FOLLOW IN HIS FOOTSTEPS. AND THEY ARE NOT REACHING ANYWHERE; THEY CANNOT.YOU ARE NOT A GAUTAM BUDDHA, AND HIS FOOTPRINTS WON’T FIT YOU, NEITHER WILL HIS SHOES FIT YOU; YOU WILL HAVE TO FIND THE EXACT SIZE OF SHOES THAT FIT YOU.HE IS BEAUTIFUL, BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU HAVE TO BECOME LIKE HIM. AND THAT’S THE MEANING OF THE WORD ‘INSPIRATION’. IT MEANS YOU ARE SO INFLUENCED THAT THE MAN BECOMES YOU IDEAL, THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO LIKE HIM. THAT HAS MISLED THE ENTIRE HUMANITY. INSPIRATION HAS BEEN A CURSE, NOT A BLESSING.I WOULD LIKE YOU TO LEARN FROM EVERY, SOURCE TO ENJOY EVERY UNIQUE THAT YOU COME ACROSS. BUT NEVER FOLLOW ANYBODY AND NEVER TRY TO BECOME EXACTLY LIKE SOMEBODY ELSE; THAT IS NOT ALLOWED BY EXISTENCE. YOU CAN BE ONLY YOURSELF.AND IT IS A STRANGE PHENOMENON: THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BECOME AN INSPIRATION FOR MILLION OF OTHER PEOPLE WERE THEMSELVES NEVER INSPIRED BY ANYBODY… BUT NOBODY TAKES NOTE OF THIS FACT. GAUTAM BUDDHA WAS NEVER INSPIRED BY ANYBODY, AND THAT’S WHAT MADE HIM A GREAT SOURCE OF INSPIRATION. SOCRATES WAS NOT INSPIRED BY ANYBODY BUT THAT,S WHAT MAKES HIM SO UNIQUE.ALL THESE PEOPLE WHOM YOU THINK OF AS SOURCES OF INSPIRATION HAVE NEVER BEEN INSPIRED BY ANYBODY ELSE.THAT IS SOMETHING VERY FUNDAMENTAL TO BE UNDERSTOOD.YES,THEY LEARNED;THEY TRIED TO UNDERSTAND ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE.THEY LOVED UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS,BUT NOBODY WAS TO BE FOLLOWED.THEY STILL TRIED TO BE THEMSELVES.SO PLEASE DON’T BE INSPIRED BY ME;OTHERWISE YOU WILL NEVER BECOME A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION.YOU WILL BE JUST A CARBON COPY,YOU WONT HAVE YOUR AUTHENTIC,ORIGINAL FACE.YOU WILL BE A HYPOCRITE:YOU WILL SAY ONE THING…YOU WILL DO ANOTHER.YOU WILL SHOW YOUR FACE IN DIFFERENT SITUATION WITH DIFFERENT MASKS,AND SLOWLY YOU WILL FORGET WHICH ONE IS YOUR REAL FACE;SO MANY MASKS…