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EVERYONE IS APPOINTED BY GOD", but we have forgotten completely our
mission. We have forgotten even why we are here. We have forgotten the
message that has to be delivered. We have forgotten who has sent us and
we have forgotten to whom the message has to be delivered. We have
forgotten everything! We are living in a deep forgetfulness and we call
it life. And people who are so utterly forgetful, of everything think themselves intelligent people. If you ask the awakened ones they will call this is sheer foolishness.
We have to wake up out of this foolishness, We are here to fulfill a certain purpose. Everyone is here to sing a song to dance a dance, to release a certain perfume, but that is possible only if you become very very conscious, that is possible only if you become so much alert that you can see yourself directly, not via others.
Right now whatsoever you know about yourself is via others: Somebody says you are very nice and you believe it. Of course, Everybody wants to believe that one is nice. And somebody says you are very intelligent and you believe it.
There are troubles some people also who say you are not intelligent, you are stupid, you are a fool; Nobody believes them but they create a disturbance. That's why we get angry: Everything was running so smoothly, your father, your mother, your uncle, everybody was saying you are so nice, so beautiful, then somebody turns up and says that you are just a fool -- how he annoys you. And he may be right! There is far more possibility that he is right because the world is full of fools. But no mother can think that her son is a fool. She will realize it only but later on when the son has fallen in the hands of another woman.
Then she will realize that he was a fool because then she will see that
'I have made so much effort and worked hard... It took twenty-five years for me to make him intelligent enough and here comes another woman and within five minutes she make a fool out of the same man!' but till that happens, she will believe in you that you are a great hero, that you are somebody special because through your specialty she becomes unique: Her son is special. Your father believes that you are great because though you he is great!
So anybody who disturbs you, annoys you, says anything against your beautiful beliefs, enrages you -- you may not believe him but he creates a contradiction in you, you become confused. That's why everybody is in confusion, bound to be because contradictory opinions are coming from every side from every nook and corner. One person says on thing another person says another thing and you go on collecting all these things. And it is impossible to make any sense out of the whole so you are just like a patchwork: Mm? you drop all that is not good and nice, you drop it into the unconscious. It remains there and you make a beautiful image out of public opinion but it is not self-knowledge, you don't know anything about yourself directly. You know your face through the mirror.
Zen masters say to their disciples, 'Discover your original face.'
It happened once, a great Zen master, Bokoju Told one if his disciples, 'Discover your original face.' And another day he came with a mirror and he said, 'Yes, sir I have looked into the mirror --
This is my original face!' and the master threw him out and said that
'Never come back again because this is not a place for such damned fools as you are. I accept fools but not damned fools!
How can the mirror show your original face? It can only reflect your mask. For the original face you have to go inwards you have to discover it, at the very core of your being. No mirror can help, no scripture can help, all the Buddhas can only indicate the way
But no Buddha can go with you there.
I can show you the way but you will have to follow,
You will have to do it on you own.'
Once you know your original face a great joy arises, great bliss is born. Suddenly you see that you are not accidental you are appointed by god, that you are carrying some important message for existence, that you are needed, that you are fulfilling a certain deep purpose in this great scheme of things, you are fulfilling
Some intrinsic, organic utility, that gives great peace, great joy. "
~ O S H O , No Man is an Island # 23
We have to wake up out of this foolishness, We are here to fulfill a certain purpose. Everyone is here to sing a song to dance a dance, to release a certain perfume, but that is possible only if you become very very conscious, that is possible only if you become so much alert that you can see yourself directly, not via others.
Right now whatsoever you know about yourself is via others: Somebody says you are very nice and you believe it. Of course, Everybody wants to believe that one is nice. And somebody says you are very intelligent and you believe it.
There are troubles some people also who say you are not intelligent, you are stupid, you are a fool; Nobody believes them but they create a disturbance. That's why we get angry: Everything was running so smoothly, your father, your mother, your uncle, everybody was saying you are so nice, so beautiful, then somebody turns up and says that you are just a fool -- how he annoys you. And he may be right! There is far more possibility that he is right because the world is full of fools. But no mother can think that her son is a fool. She will realize it only but later on when the son has fallen in the hands of another woman.
Then she will realize that he was a fool because then she will see that
'I have made so much effort and worked hard... It took twenty-five years for me to make him intelligent enough and here comes another woman and within five minutes she make a fool out of the same man!' but till that happens, she will believe in you that you are a great hero, that you are somebody special because through your specialty she becomes unique: Her son is special. Your father believes that you are great because though you he is great!
So anybody who disturbs you, annoys you, says anything against your beautiful beliefs, enrages you -- you may not believe him but he creates a contradiction in you, you become confused. That's why everybody is in confusion, bound to be because contradictory opinions are coming from every side from every nook and corner. One person says on thing another person says another thing and you go on collecting all these things. And it is impossible to make any sense out of the whole so you are just like a patchwork: Mm? you drop all that is not good and nice, you drop it into the unconscious. It remains there and you make a beautiful image out of public opinion but it is not self-knowledge, you don't know anything about yourself directly. You know your face through the mirror.
Zen masters say to their disciples, 'Discover your original face.'
It happened once, a great Zen master, Bokoju Told one if his disciples, 'Discover your original face.' And another day he came with a mirror and he said, 'Yes, sir I have looked into the mirror --
This is my original face!' and the master threw him out and said that
'Never come back again because this is not a place for such damned fools as you are. I accept fools but not damned fools!
How can the mirror show your original face? It can only reflect your mask. For the original face you have to go inwards you have to discover it, at the very core of your being. No mirror can help, no scripture can help, all the Buddhas can only indicate the way
But no Buddha can go with you there.
I can show you the way but you will have to follow,
You will have to do it on you own.'
Once you know your original face a great joy arises, great bliss is born. Suddenly you see that you are not accidental you are appointed by god, that you are carrying some important message for existence, that you are needed, that you are fulfilling a certain deep purpose in this great scheme of things, you are fulfilling
Some intrinsic, organic utility, that gives great peace, great joy. "
~ O S H O , No Man is an Island # 23
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