What have we done
to our lives?
We
have become so mechanized. So robotic. We are trying to constantly ensure our
incomes go up, our families are provided for and yet we are not even bothered
if we are happy? In fact, our unhappiness has become so much a part of us that
we have stopped knowing that we are unhappy. We imagine that running the
household, driving the kids to school and back, preparing reports and
presentations, taking the annual vacation, IS Life! Is that really so?
Step
off this treadmill. For a second. Take a brief moment. Focus on a flower in
your neighborhood, in your garden, in a vase in your home. Just find a flower
this morning. Look at it intently. Examine every aspect of its creation __ the
color, the shape, the texture. Feel its pollen with your fingertips. Smell it.
And ask yourself, how often have you stopped, even paused, to look in the
direction of this flower? How you have chosen to ignore this flower represents the
way you live your Life. You are doing everything else except living, my friend.
When you are in front of the mirror, getting ready to rush to work, you have
time to examine that pimple on your forehead, the dark circles beneath the
eyes, or to certify the quality of your shave. But you don’t have time to look
into your own eyes and ask yourself how are you?
As
people we are becoming more and more efficient. There’s an App, an application,
for everything on our smart-phones. From music to medical tests to running our
schedules to buying stuff. Our phones can get us anything and everything we
want. Despite all this efficiency, why are we still so lost? What are we
searching for? What are we trying to complete in us? Ask anyone__yourself to begin with__as to
what will make them happy, and you would hear people express it differently of
course, but most will say that they would like to live a different Life from
what they are leading currently. Then why is it that nobody is willing to make
that change in the way they live?
Remember:
to go back to being who you are really are, you must stop becoming something.
Our entire efficiency race is about becoming: successful, rich and, eventually,
happy__as if it were some destination. How would your Life be, if you just
focus on being happy, being rich, being the way you are __ with WHATEVER
you have? Have you ever tried that? To find your Self, you must stop running
this rat race, and make the journey within. Pause. And dive within. Listen to
what, Osho, the Master has to tell you this morning: “Constantly remember that
you are not here in Life to become a commodity; you are not here to become an
utility, that is below dignity; you are not here just to become more and more
efficient — you are here to be more and more alive; you are here to be more and
more intelligent; you are here to be more and more happy, ecstatically happy.”
And that you will
surely be, my friend, when you stop becoming and start being!
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