WHETHER YOU HONOR HIM or whether you dishonor him, cannot make any difference to a sage, to a man of purity. What you think about him is really irrelevant.
WHY IS IT SO RELEVANT TO YOU WHAT OTHERS THINK? Why is the opinion of others so relevant to you? Why do you care so much?
BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE, YOU DEPEND ON THEIR OPINIONS ABOUT YOURSELF. That is your only self-knowledge. If they say you are good, you are good; if they say you are bad, you are bad. You have nothing inside which can say, "Their opinions are their opinions. If I am good, I am good, and whatsoever they say makes no difference. If I am bad, I am bad. The whole world may respect me like a saint, but if I am bad, I know I am bad, and this reputation cannot become a substitute; it is useless. And if I am good, the whole world may say that I am not good -- bad, evil, the very devil incarnate -- but what difference does it make? How does it make any difference?"
ONE WHO KNOWS HIMSELF IS NEVER DISTURBED BY WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT HIM. But one who doesn't know himself -- he is always disturbed, because his whole knowledge consists of your opinions. His whole knowledge is just a file he has gathered on what people think about him. This is not knowledge, not self-knowledge. This is self-ignorance, which you hide, disguise, by others' opinions. Your whole identity, your whole image is made by others. You are bound to remain in constant anxiety because others go on changing their opinions.
OPINIONS ARE LIKE THE CLIMATE: IT IS NEVER THE SAME. In the morning it was cloudy and now the clouds have gone. Now it is sunny, and the next moment it is raining. Opinions are just like clouds, just like the climate. What can you do about it? Look at Richard Nixon. Just a moment before he was everything, and just a moment later -- nothing. The opinion has changed, the people who were for him are against him -- and the same people!
This is the beauty of it: THE SAME PEOPLE WHO WILL PUSH YOU TOWARDS THE THRONE, WILL PULL YOU DOWN. There is a dynamics, an inner law that the people who respect you, deep down also disrespect you. The people who love you, also hate you -- because they are divided; they are not one. So when they help you to reach the throne, one part of them is finished -- the love part. Now what will happen to the hate part? Immediately the hate part starts functioning. So, once a man becomes respectable, the climate is already changing. Once a man has become a president or a prime minister, the voters are already changing. Really the moment they voted, one part finished -- the love part. Now the hate part will come up. So the same people take you to the throne, and the same people bring you down.
ONLY A SAGE REMAINS UNDISTURBED. Why? Because he never pays any attention to what you say. What you say is really rubbish. You don't know anything about yourself, and you say something about Mahavira, Buddha, Christ. You don't know anything about yourself, and you are so confident about Jesus: that he is good or bad. It is rubbish! And a person can pay attention to your rubbish only if he is just like you. A sage is not like you, and this is the difference....
IN MISERY, IN HAPPINESS, THE SAGE REMAINS THE SAME. Respected, insulted, the sage remains the same. In life, in death, the sage remains the same.
OSHO
WHY IS IT SO RELEVANT TO YOU WHAT OTHERS THINK? Why is the opinion of others so relevant to you? Why do you care so much?
BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE, YOU DEPEND ON THEIR OPINIONS ABOUT YOURSELF. That is your only self-knowledge. If they say you are good, you are good; if they say you are bad, you are bad. You have nothing inside which can say, "Their opinions are their opinions. If I am good, I am good, and whatsoever they say makes no difference. If I am bad, I am bad. The whole world may respect me like a saint, but if I am bad, I know I am bad, and this reputation cannot become a substitute; it is useless. And if I am good, the whole world may say that I am not good -- bad, evil, the very devil incarnate -- but what difference does it make? How does it make any difference?"
ONE WHO KNOWS HIMSELF IS NEVER DISTURBED BY WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT HIM. But one who doesn't know himself -- he is always disturbed, because his whole knowledge consists of your opinions. His whole knowledge is just a file he has gathered on what people think about him. This is not knowledge, not self-knowledge. This is self-ignorance, which you hide, disguise, by others' opinions. Your whole identity, your whole image is made by others. You are bound to remain in constant anxiety because others go on changing their opinions.
OPINIONS ARE LIKE THE CLIMATE: IT IS NEVER THE SAME. In the morning it was cloudy and now the clouds have gone. Now it is sunny, and the next moment it is raining. Opinions are just like clouds, just like the climate. What can you do about it? Look at Richard Nixon. Just a moment before he was everything, and just a moment later -- nothing. The opinion has changed, the people who were for him are against him -- and the same people!
This is the beauty of it: THE SAME PEOPLE WHO WILL PUSH YOU TOWARDS THE THRONE, WILL PULL YOU DOWN. There is a dynamics, an inner law that the people who respect you, deep down also disrespect you. The people who love you, also hate you -- because they are divided; they are not one. So when they help you to reach the throne, one part of them is finished -- the love part. Now what will happen to the hate part? Immediately the hate part starts functioning. So, once a man becomes respectable, the climate is already changing. Once a man has become a president or a prime minister, the voters are already changing. Really the moment they voted, one part finished -- the love part. Now the hate part will come up. So the same people take you to the throne, and the same people bring you down.
ONLY A SAGE REMAINS UNDISTURBED. Why? Because he never pays any attention to what you say. What you say is really rubbish. You don't know anything about yourself, and you say something about Mahavira, Buddha, Christ. You don't know anything about yourself, and you are so confident about Jesus: that he is good or bad. It is rubbish! And a person can pay attention to your rubbish only if he is just like you. A sage is not like you, and this is the difference....
IN MISERY, IN HAPPINESS, THE SAGE REMAINS THE SAME. Respected, insulted, the sage remains the same. In life, in death, the sage remains the same.
OSHO
No Water, No Moon
Ch #3: Is that so?
am in Buddha Hall
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