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June 12, 2006
Awareness
There is nowhere to go; we just have to see where we are. If you become aware, then you suddenly recognize that you were already there, just where you have been trying to reach.
One is born as one should be--nothing has to be added, and nothing has to be improved. And nothing can be improved. All efforts to improve create more mess and confusion and nothing else. The more you try to improve upon yourself, the more you will be in difficulties, because the very effort goes against your reality. Your reality is as it should be; there is no need to improve it. One simply grows in awareness, not existentially.
It is as if you have not looked into your pocket and you think you are a beggar, so you go on begging, and in your pocket you are carrying a valuable diamond that can give you enough treasures for your whole life. Then one day you put your hand in the pocket, and suddenly you are an emperor. Nothing has changed existentially, the situation is the same--the diamond was there before, the diamond is there now. The only thing that has changed is that now you have become aware that you possess it.
So all growth is growth in awareness, not in being. Being remains exactly as it is. A Buddha or a Christ, you or anybody, have exactly the same state, the same space--but one becomes aware and becomes a Buddha, the other remains unaware and remains a beggar.
Text: Osho
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Have you found the diamond in your pocket? Happy Monday.
Current Music: Brian Eno - Winter Music
Posted by Robert at June 12, 2006 08:42 AM
Comments
I'm trying to figure it out!
Posted by: Dr.P at June 13, 2006 01:33 PM
I hope this to be soon =)
Posted by: mike.w at June 13, 2006 05:54 PM
We go with ourselves, in search of our selves. It's only when we stop searching that we find what we've been looking for.
Posted by: Gurustu at June 13, 2006 07:50 PM
I will be honest and say that I did not understand this one. Is it saying that we shouldn't work on improving ourselves? That our talents will naturaly come to light with experience?
I only know what I know in my head, and I'm not that graceful when it comes to me explaining my thots a lot of times. We all need knowledge to survive as beings, but 'holding' on to it, it creates barriers. Life itself is always fresh and new. "...not existentially." I think that's the keywords here. Here Osho gave an analogy about this in another book:
"...That's why I have spoken on the stupidity of knowledge--because it is ignorance masquerading as knowledge. The moment you drop it you will be again a child--fresh, alive, vibrant, curious; your eyes will be full of wonder and your heart will start throbbing again with the mystery of life. Then the exploration begins, and with that, the awareness. More and more you become aware of this inner consciousness that you have been carrying all along, but it has become too stuffed with knowledge, so whenever you go in you never find consciousness; you always find some content floating in consciousness.
Knowledge is like clouds in the sky. Right now, there are so many clouds in the sky. If you look at the sky you will not find the sky at all, only clouds and clouds. That is the state of knowledgeable person's mind: thoughts, scriptures, great theories, dogmas, doctrines--they all float like clouds, and you cannot see the pure sky. Let these clouds disappear. And they are there because you are clinging to them. They are there because you go on holding on to them. Loosen your grip, let them go. Then there is a pristine clarity of the sky, the absolute infinite of the sky. That is freedom. That is consciousness. That is true knowing."
Posted by: Cesar at June 14, 2006 06:33 AM
I just pop in to say hello. It's rainy here...long slow peal of thundering outside of my window. Hope you're well. :)
Posted by: Matt at June 16, 2006 07:58 AM
I see... I see white
Posted by: Wayne at June 16, 2006 08:12 AM