Monday, November 16, 2009

OSHO on comparison.


With permission from this reader, the comment is worth sharing................

DengDeng has left a new comment on your post "Offer sincere compliments.":

Agreed.

Some girls do not know how to appreciate men's admiration due to they lack of wisdom, self-confidence and self-esteem. This is the most 'ugly' woman/girl from my point of view.

Many people like to compare themselves with others. I like the teaching of OSHO on the comparison.

Comparison
Comparison brings inferiority, superiority. When you don't compare, all inferiority, all superiority, disappears. Then you are, you are simply there. A small bush or a big high tree--it doesn't matter; you are yourself. You are needed. A grass leaf is needed as much as the biggest star. Without the grass leaf God will be less than he is. This sound of the cuckoo is needed as much as any Buddha; the world will be less, will be less rich if this cuckoo disappears. Just look around. All is needed, and everything fits together. It is an organic unity: nobody is higher and nobody is lower, nobody superior, nobody inferior. Everybody is incomparably unique.
Osho The Sun Rises in the Evening Chapter 4

Commentary:
Who ever told you that the bamboo is more beautiful than the oak, or the oak more valuable than the bamboo? Do you think the oak wishes it had a hollow trunk like this bamboo? Does the bamboo feel jealous of the oak because it is bigger and its leaves change color in the fall? The very idea of the two trees comparing themselves to each other seems ridiculous, but we humans seem to find this habit very hard to break. Let's face it, there is always going to be somebody who is more beautiful, more talented, stronger, more intelligent, or apparently happier than you are. And conversely, there will always be those who are less than you in all these ways. The way to find out who you are is not by comparing yourself with others, but by looking to see whether you are fulfilling your own potential in the best way you know how.

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Thank you DengDeng.

7 comments:

DengDeng said...

Should this labeled as knowledge or wisdom? ;)

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Robert Foo said...

Hi Deng Deng,

You are pretty sharp. Is wisdom. But the sharing from you to me and given out to our reader, i labeled it as knowledge. Because its not my original piece.

DengDeng said...

Understood. Wisdom is what we experienced ourselves and knowledge is what we learned from others.

Robert Foo said...

Hi Deng Deng...

U are intelligence and getting even more smarter.

DengDeng said...

Wisdom is what we experienced ourselves.
Knowledge is what we learned from others.
Zen is what we practiced everyday with our own philosophy of life.

Robert Foo said...

Hi Deng Deng,

Thanks so much for your sharing again. You completed the cycle of life with Knowledge, Wisdom and Zen.

DengDeng said...

Yes. This is what I shared with my colleges on last Thursday.