"All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact:
Be - don't try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance."
Osho
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Be. Don't try to Become. Being is Enlightenment, Becoming is Ignorance.
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That is it!
"Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it."
Osho
On the other hand -
"He not busy being born is busy dying"
Bob Dylan.
"Evolution has no time for Final Forms."
Tim Leary.
And Morpheus to Neo of course,
"Stop trying to hit me and hit me."
Stop trying to be enlightened and Be.
That's a good quote. Incredibly simple, but true.
101, yesh! It's like "fake it till you make it" but without the faking ;p
What then is being?
What then is becoming?
Ignorance is foolishness; void of knowledge. What is enlightening but the revelation of truth? And knowledge of truth, ‘to become’ is ‘to advance’ and ‘to be’ is ‘to exist’, by extension, ‘to live’, furthermore, ‘to live consciously, aware of existence’, so to live consciously in a state of advancement is the goal of man; to a . He who does not know god seeks this but it eludes him.
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