[Guruvayur/Guruvayoor] Forget About Knowledge: Just Be Yourself-Not a Dudley dud.

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HARI AUM

 

Very true. Be true to oneself and experience enduring

peace.

 

Thanks Soumyaji. Hope you will post more of such

excerpts.

 

Regards

 

Balagopal

 

NARAYANA NARAYANA NARAYANA

--- Soumya Vinod <soumya0406 wrote:

 

> Forget About Knowledge: Just Be Yourself

>

> How can i be myself if I don't know myself?

>

> Whether you know or not, you cannot be other than

> yourself. To be yourself,

> knowledge is not needed. A rosebush is a rosebush.

> Not that the rosebush

> knows that it is a rosebush. A rock is a rock. Not

> that the rock knows that

> it is a rock. Knowledge is not needed. In fact, it

> is because of knowledge

> that you are missing being yourself.

>

> Knowledge is creating the problem. The rosebush is

> not confused. Every day

> it goes on being a rosebush. Not even for a single

> day does it become

> confused. It does not start some morning growing

> mari-golds; it goes on

> being a rosebush. Knowledge is not needed for being.

> In fact, you are

> missing your being because of knowledge.

>

> I was reading about a certain man named Dudley: To

> celebrate Uncle Dudley's

> 75th birthday, an aviation enthusiast offered to

> take him for a plane ride

> over the little West Virginia town where he had

> spent all his life. Uncle

> Dudley accepted the offer.

>

> Back on the ground, after circling over the town 20

> minutes, he was asked:

> " Were you scared, Uncle Dudley? " " No " , was the

> hesitant answer, " but i never

> did put my full weight down " .

>

> In an airplane, whether you put your full weight

> down or not, the weight is

> carried by the airplane. Whether you know yourself

> or not is not the point.

> Knowledge is disturbing you. Just think if there was

> a rock also on that

> airplane with Uncle Dudley, the rock would have put

> the whole weight down.

> Uncle Dudley is unnecessarily worried. He could have

> rested, he could have

> relaxed just like the rock, but the rock has no

> knowledge and Uncle Dudley

> has knowledge.

>

> The whole problem of huma-nity is that humanity

> knows, and because of

> knowing, the being is unnecessarily forgotten.

>

> Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation

> means how to become ignorant

> again. Meditation means how to become a child again,

> a rosebush, a rock.

> Meditation means how just to be and not to think.

>

> When i say to you to be yourself, i mean meditate.

> Don't try to be anybody

> else. You cannot be! You can try, and you can

> deceive yourself and you can

> promise yourself and you can hope that someday you

> will become somebody

> else, but you cannot become. These are only

> illusions that you can go on

> having. These are dreams. They are not going to

> become realities ever. You

> will remain yourself whatsoever you do.

>

> Why not relax, Uncle Dudley! Put your full weight on

> the airplane. Relax. In

> relaxation, suddenly you will start enjoying your

> being, and the effort to

> be somebody else will stop. That is your worry how

> to be somebody else, how

> to be like somebody else, how to become like a

> Buddha, how to become like

> Patanjali. You can only be yourself. Accept it,

> rejoice in it, delight in

> it. Relax.

>

> Zen Masters say to their disciples, " Beware of

> Buddha. If you meet him on

> the way, kill him immediately " . What do they mean?

> They mean there is a

> human tendency to become imitators. There is a book,

> Imitation Of Christ. In

> a way, that title is very symbolic. It shows the

> whole mind of humanity.

> People are trying to imitate, to become somebody

> else.

>

> Nobody can become a Christ. There is no need.

> Existence will be bored if you

> become Christ. It wants somebody new, something

> original. It wants you, and

> it wants you to be just yourself.

>

> Excerpted from The Alpha and The Omega. Courtesy:

> Osho International

> Foundation. Website: www.osho.com.

>

>

 

 

 

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