Fame, Fortune, and Ambition by Osho

Author:Osho [Osho]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-312-59544-9
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Dreams and Realities

The mind knows only the world of change. The mind knows only the dream, the illusion. A life lived through the mind is a life of dreams. And that is not to say that the reality is not real; it is not to say that existence is dream. It simply says that the way you look at it is so unconscious, the way you look at it is so unstable, your inner wavering gives you a world of flux, dreams. Attain to inner integrity. Attain to inner crystallization, and suddenly all fluxlike phenomena disappear. Suddenly you are face-to-face with the real, the substantial.

How can one get rid of desires without suppressing them?

Desires are dreams; they are not realities. You cannot fulfill them, and you cannot suppress them—to fulfill a certain thing, it needs to be real; to suppress a certain thing, it also needs to be real. Needs can be fulfilled, and needs can be suppressed. Desires can neither be fulfilled nor suppressed.

Try to understand this, because it is very complex.

A desire is a dream. If you understand this, it disappears, there is no need to suppress it. What is the need to suppress a desire? You want to become famous—this is a dream, a desire, because the body doesn’t bother about being famous. In fact, the body suffers very much when you become famous. You don’t know how the body suffers when a person becomes famous. Then there is no peace; then continuously you are bothered, troubled by others because you are so famous. Those who are famous are always prisoners.

The body doesn’t need to be famous; the body is so absolutely okay, it has no need for such nonsense things. It needs simple things like food, like water to drink; it needs a shelter when it is too hot or too cold. The body’s needs are very simple. The world is mad because of desires, not because of needs. But people go mad—they go on cutting back on their needs, and increasing their desires. There are people who would like to drop one meal per day, but they cannot drop their newspaper, they cannot drop going to the cinema, they cannot drop smoking. They can drop food—needs can be dropped—but desires cannot be dropped. The mind has become a despot.

The body is always beautiful; remember it. This is one of the basic rules I offer to you—a rule that is unconditionally true, absolutely true, categorically true—the body is always beautiful. It is the mind that is ugly. It is not the body that has to be changed. There is nothing to change in it. It is the mind. And mind means desiring. The body has needs, but those needs are real needs.

If you want to live, you need food. Fame is not needed to live; respect is not needed to be alive. You need not be a very great man or a very great painter, famous, known to the whole world. You need not be a Nobel Prize winner to live, because a Nobel Prize doesn’t fulfill any need in the body.

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