The earth is undivided. India and Pakistan and England and Germany exist only on maps, and those maps are created by the politicians, the power-mad people. This whole earth is yours.
There is no need to identify with anything. Why become confined to small territories? Why be confined by politics? Claim the whole heritage of the earth. It is your earth. Be a planetary being rather than a national one. Forget about India and England and think of the whole globe. Think of each and everyone as brothers and sisters; they are!
When you are an Indian you are against others. You have to be, otherwise how will you define your Indianhood? You are against China, against Pakistan, and against this and against that; all identifications are basically against. When you are for something, you are against something else, naturally. Don't be for and against -- just be. There are better things to think about. You don't ask, "With what disease should I identify myself -- tuberculosis or cancer?" You don't ask that. These national identities are just like tuberculosis and cancer.
In a better world there will be no countries, in a higher world there will be no religions. To be human is enough, and one has even to go beyond that one day; then one becomes divine. Then even this earth is too small to contain you, then the stars are also yours, this whole universe is yours. And when one becomes universal, one has arrived.
Text: Osho
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Comments (7)
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Posted by will | May 26, 2007 1:09 AM
Posted on May 26, 2007 01:09
I amj with Lewis. i love maps. I read them to take imaginary journeys
Posted by will | April 21, 2007 12:42 AM
Posted on April 21, 2007 00:42
Would that it were, my friend
Posted by D-Man | April 20, 2007 1:34 PM
Posted on April 20, 2007 13:34
What? No borders or divisions? No fighting? No religions? I can deal with all of that......but NO MAPS? I love them too much to not have maps of countries, cities, etc.
Posted by Lewis | April 19, 2007 2:20 PM
Posted on April 19, 2007 14:20
Not only that, sometimes I see Americans overseas behave as if they are better than the locals. It's flat out conceited. Why do we always want to be the center of attention?
Posted by Matt | April 19, 2007 2:09 PM
Posted on April 19, 2007 14:09
Thanks for sharing those wise words and I must say that I agree with Jeffrey on this. Perhaps we could put one of the oceans or perhaps Antarctica in the centre...
Posted by lola | April 19, 2007 12:47 PM
Posted on April 19, 2007 12:47
That is a GREAT quote and a nice post! I always like to challenge how things appear. If you look at maps of the world made in the USA, for example, they place the USA in the middle. I think, in subtle ways, this really promotes the thinking that the US is the center of the world. I know they have to place something in the center, and that it may be done for practical reasons - but we need to question the way things appear to arrive at the truth.
Posted by Jeffrey Zacko-Smith | April 19, 2007 11:50 AM
Posted on April 19, 2007 11:50