And the reality is very ordinary, it is very simple. It is not interested in the simple, it is not interested in the ordinary, it is not interested in the natural, it is interested in something which is neither natural, nor simple, nor ordinary. The ego exists through challenges it wants to prove itself. The more difficult it is, the more attractive it appears. The farther the goal, the more challenging it appears to the ego. We are always seeking and searching for some goal “there,” far away. We are being brought up in such a way that we all become extroverts. But you don’t go in, your whole journey is outward. You are not to become a light unto yourself, it is already the case. It is only a question of recognition–it is a question of going within yourself and seeing what is there. It is not that you have to become buddhas it is not a question of learning, of achieving. The seed simply discovers itself through dying into the soil: dropping its outer shell, it becomes revealed in its inner reality. A rock cannot become a rose that doesn’t happen because a rock has no potential to become a rose. It is not a question of becoming, otherwise a pebble could become a flower. The flowers were there unmanifest, now they are manifest. The seed already had the tree within itself, it was its very being. The seed only appears to become the tree that is an appearance. There is a great difference between being and becoming.īecoming is a process, being is a discovery. These were the last words of Gautam the Buddha, his parting message to his disciples: “Be a light unto yourself.” But when he says, “Be a light unto yourself,” he does not mean to become a light unto yourself. Osho, how can I become a light unto myself?
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