No More Excuses
Perfection is not a goal but a reality. It has not to be achieved, but only to be recognized. All that is recognition of something that is already present. You are perfect - it is not that you have to become perfect.
See, the distance between you and the horizon will always remain the same, because the horizon exists nowhere except in your mind. It is an appearance, an illusion. All goals - worldly, other worldly - are illusory. To be herenow is the way of being in truth, in reality.
So this is the first thing to be remembered: It is not q question of becoming - you are alresdy perfect. Perfection is your being. Becoming is running after a goal; being is relaxing into your nature, relaxing herenow, resting in the moment, and suddenly that which was not acailable becomes available. You were not aware of it; suddenly you are awakened to it.
Perfection is an awakening. To be herenow is to be attired in divine glory. To be herenow is to attain the splendor of existence. To be herenow is to be in bliss, in paradise.
Those people who go on seeking and searching for something far away are unfortunates, cursed. And nobody has cursed them; they have cursed themselves. Nobody has planned their unfortunate life they are solely responsible for it. That is their own invention. Your misery is your invention: your bliss is your nature. Misery needs much effort, it has to be planned, it has to be earned. It is going against nature, hence it is very arduous. It is going upstream. It is a continuous conflict with nature.
Nature knows no future; nature is always here. Nature is always this moment and nothing else. The trees are growing this moment and the rivers are flowing this moment. Everything is happening this moment, except your mind. Even your body is growing this moment. Your blood is circulating this moment; your heart is beating this moment. Except for your mind everything is herenow. Mind is far away.
And the mind is the root cause of your misery.
You keep on blaming this thing or that for your misery but not yourself, but not your mind; this is just unburdening yourself, and very dangerous is this unburdening because then you will never change, you will remain the same.
Understand well: you are the cause of your suffering, nobody else. To recognize this is the first step into being a religious person. You don't throw your responsibility onto others; you simply recognize the fact that "I am the cause of my suffering." And with that, of course, you will feel a little sad, you will look a little stupid. If you are the cause, then why do you go on creating suffering for yourself?
In the beginning you will feel a little sad, stupid, puzzled, confused. But soon you will feel a great freedom. If you are the cause of your misery, then you can be the cause of your blessing too, of your bliss too; then great freedom is attained. When one takes responsibility on oneself, one becomes free. You become free from past karma, you become free from fate, kismet. You become free from history and you become free from psychology. You become free from all excuses. And once you have pinpointed the real cause, things start changing.
We are searching for bliss, we are searching for happiness, but very far away, in faraway lands, in utopias, in fantasy. We are dreaming, and life remains a suffering. We go on dreaming about better lands, better states of the society, better states after life - paradise, moksha. These are all fantasies! They are created by us so we can bear our suffering, so hope remains. But this is very unfortunate. It is because of this hope that you remain in a hopeless state. It is because of this seeking that you go on missing. Because it is inside you. It can be found only when all seeking ceases.
(Excerpted from Philosophia Perennis, Osho)
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