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OSHO International Foundation presents
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Osho: Behave as if you are the first here
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My whole
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vision is
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of a human being,
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totally alive, intensely alive,
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enjoying everything that life makes available,
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and enjoying it
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with grace, with gratitude
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towards existence.
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And that's what loving yourself means.
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It means that
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you have thrown
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all the garbage of
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religious rejection, repression.
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You have dropped all the ideals
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that they have given to you;
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you
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are now
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standing on your own
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as if you are
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Adam and Eve.
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No priest has been there before,
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no religion has been there before;
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you are uncorrupted,
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unspoiled,
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clean.
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Start like Adam and Eve --
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just think of the idea!
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Why bother about the past?
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Forget about it.
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You are the first man.
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Start living as if
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you don't know how to live.
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Nobody is there to teach you,
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no guidelines exist.
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No books exist
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which say
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how to do this, how to do that.
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You are just left alone on an island.
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Everything is available:
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Intelligence is within you,
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instinct is within you,
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intellect is within you,
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intuition is within you.
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Now start moving.
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Yes,
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perhaps you may commit a few mistakes --
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there is no wrong in it,
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that's how one learns.
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Perhaps a few times you may fall --
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nothing to be worried about.
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You can get up again;
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and
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next time you will be walking more carefully,
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more alert,
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so you have gained something out of that fall.
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Out of each mistake,
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each error,
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you are constantly gaining something.
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Errors are valuable.
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Mistakes are immensely
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necessary.
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If you are somehow
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protected from committing mistakes and errors,
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you will never grow,
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you will never learn a thing,
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you will never mature.
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So behave as if you are the first here.
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The whole world is available to you to explore.
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And in exploring it
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you will be surprised
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that simultaneously
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your inner world is being explored too,
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because as you explore the outer world
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your insight becomes deeper,
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your intelligence becomes sharper,
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your awareness becomes keener.
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And a perfectly fulfilled man is one
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who explores both the outer and the inner
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and who, at the moment of death,
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can have a smile on his face:
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that he lived totally,
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he is happy that he lived totally,
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that he burned
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his life's candle from both ends together.
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When you can burn your candle from both ends together,
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why be miserly and burn just one end?
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When you can enjoy double the light
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and two flames together,
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enjoy it --
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because enjoyment is not simply enjoyment.
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Every joy
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is growth
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and brings you closer to blissfulness,
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to ecstasy.
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And unless you have attained
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to a state of ecstasy
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where you can say,
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"I have arrived,
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I am fulfilled....
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The purpose of existence in me
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is completed.
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If now death comes, it is welcome.
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Now that is the only thing
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that I don't know."
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A man who can say,
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"Death is now the only thing that I don't know --
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life I have known,"
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will be enthusiastic about death,
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will be eager to meet it,
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would like to have a plunge into it.
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And this is the paradox of life:
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One who is ready to die, never dies.
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One who is himself ready to jump into death,
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for him death disappears.
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Death is only for cowards.
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Death is only for those who have not lived,
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who have really remained dead their whole lives.
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Death is not for the living.
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The more alive you are,
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the farther away is death.
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If you are totally living, there is no death:
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Death exists not.
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Then there is only life, life eternal.
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From Misery to Enlightenment #10 Copyright © OSHO International Foundation, Switzerland