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Osho: Don't Use This Planet As A Waiting Room
Who is going to stay here?
Millions of people have been here before you
not even their names
can be remembered,
they were all guests --
and millions of people will be here
after we are gone.
Just don't use this planet
like a waiting room in a railway station,
particularly an Indian railway station.
I have been traveling for years,
staying in thousands of waiting rooms
and seeing the strange scene...
that people are
just throwing their banana peels on the floor,
spitting
their "pan" leaves on the floor,
even if I have asked them, "What are you doing!"
They answer me, that
"This is only a waiting room.
It is not anybody's home.
And who cares?
Just ten minutes more and my train is coming!"
It is true your train is coming,
but your train will be bringing a few passengers
who will be staying in this waiting room
with your banana peels!
You are a guest.
Leave this earth a little more beautiful,
a little more
human,
a little more
lovable,
a little more fragrant,
for those unknown guests who will be following you.
Nobody belongs here, Vimal.
But for the moment we are here,
and for the moment we have to be here totally,
intensely,
and we have to make this moment as beautiful as possible.
We have to live our life like a dance,
so when we leave,
anybody who comes after us
will find
that the people who have been here
were not ordinary people;
they have left flowers and fragrance;
they have left
the echoes of their songs
and their dances;
they have left their footprints
in pure, twenty-four carat gold.
It is not unfortunate that we are guests.
It is a great opportunity --
that the planet,
the existence, has been so generous,
so kind,
so loving,
so accepting,
that it has welcomed you
to be here.
Leave your mark.
You may be gone, but your laughter can remain behind.
You may be gone,
but your dance can remain behind.
You may be gone,
but the way you lived
will go on creating its own vibrations;
and that will remind the people
in the future,
with gratitude,
that they are
inheritors of a great planet
and of a great race of human beings.
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