silence shared in words
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You Can Become Extraordinary
In what ways would you like to see us become as ordinary as you are?
One never becomes ordinary;
you can become extraordinary,
the very process of becoming leads you away from being ordinary.
So there is no how
as far as being ordinary is concerned.
You are ordinary,
you don't have to become.
You have to drop becoming,
you have to start living.
These are the two types of people in the world:
those who are continuously becoming
and in their very effort of becoming this and that
they are losing being what they are.
They are losing time, life, energy,
and their becoming is never going to end.
It is just like the horizon --there,
looking so close that you can reach it -- just a few more miles to go.
But as you reach those few miles,
you find the horizon has receded again,
the distance remains always the same.
The person who is caught in the net of becoming
wastes his whole life,
dies unfulfilled,
in tremendous despair,
because he can see
that the whole life was there for him to live,
but
because of his desire to become something,someone,
he sacrificed all that was freely available to him.
One does not become ordinary,
you are ordinary.
You are born ordinary,
just like everything else in existence:
animals, birds, trees.
No bird needs to be ordinary,
no tree asks,inquires how to be ordinary.
But man asks it
and this very process of becoming
makes you insane.
Drop becoming anybody else.
Drop the very idea that you have to
be according to some discipline, some scripture,
some theology.
Forget completely that you have to be like Jesus or Buddha or Mahavira,
and suddenly you will find that you are who you are.
Live it, joyously, without any guilt.
Existence wanted you to be what you are.
If existence wanted another Jesus he would have created
thousands of Jesuses, there is no problem.
He would have made Jesuses on an assembly line.
But he makes only individuals.
Existence never duplicates,
never makes anybody similar to somebody else.
This is the beauty and the glory of existence.
This is a blessing
that nobody like you has ever existed and will ever exist again,
you are simply unique.
Don't waste this uniqueness
in running after some goal,
some shadow.
Now, because I am telling you
it is so beautiful to be ordinary,
it is so joyous to be ordinary,
you have made being ordinary also a goal.
Your question
would have been perfectly right if you had asked how to become a Jesus Christ,
how to become a Buddha,
how to become
a great
celebrity.
But
the very processes of becoming
and being ordinary are
absolutely diametrically opposite to each other.
You are where you are trying to reach,
there is nowhere to go
You have not to become anybody,
this very moment you are
what existence wanted you to be
don't miss it,
enjoy it
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