Comparison

 

 

Every man, every woman, every tree, every bird, every flower has its own uniqueness. it is incomparable but We are continuously taught to compare, this is how the society creates a hierarchy. Somebody is superior to you, somebody is inferior to you … You are constantly trying to rise higher in the hierarchy and you are constantly preventing others from rising higher than you. This is our whole unnecessary life, our whole mess, confusion, chaos, and all depends on a simple thing – the idea of comparison.

 

Comparison brings competition comparison brings wounds and ego on the one hand wounds because there are people who are superior to you and wounds are bound to be and on the other hand it brings ego because there are people who are inferior to you and you are crushed between these two rocks and the whole thing is invented.

 

You are simply yourself you don‘t belong to any hierarchy nobody is higher than you and nobody is lower than you because nobody is like you hence comparison is impossible and competition is futile.

 

 

One has just to be oneself that‘s my basic message the moment you accept yourself as you are all burdens, all mountainous burdens simply disappear then life is a sheer joy a festival of lights.

 

This discovery of one's uniqueness happens only when you become a little silent calm and quiet and you drop out of all those imposed ideas which the society has been throwing upon you from the very childhood.

 

These do-gooders they may be parents, they may be teachers they may be priests... and i don't suspect their intentions their intentions are good but they are unconscious people and unconscious peoples' good intentions also bring bad results they may like you, they may love you, they may desire for you a beautiful life but they have lived in ugliness. they have lived in suffering. they can only impart their suffering to you. they will teach you the same strategies that they have followed. they will teach you the same ideas that they have lived by they will give their lifestyle to you and they are enough proof that their lifestyle has been an utter failure but still they will go on giving you the same thing. each generation gives its diseases to the other generation. generations die, diseases seem to be immortal people come and go but diseases remain and if you decide to get out of that bondage, they feel betrayed. they would like you to just repeat their life although they have been miserable.

 

So i don't suspect their intentions but intentions don't mean anything at all. all that has significance is consciousness not unconscious good intentions.

 

-Osho, “The Sound of One Hand Clapping, #1”