Your Ambition Should Not Overtake You

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    • Publish Date: Feb 2 2017 6:04PM
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Your Ambition Should Not Overtake You

 Ambition is the greatest poison there is. It brings all other poisons in: greed, violence, competitiveness, struggle, a constant state of war with everybody else. It does not allow you any space for love to grow, and your real being flowers only with love. Ambition is against love.Anything that is against love is against you and your real life, your real destiny. And nothing kills love more than ambitiousness.


You Are Unique

Ambition means you want to be ahead of others. Ambition depends on creating an inferiority complex in you. It creates an ill state of affairs; it depends on that. Unless inferiority complex starts existing in you, unless you are full of it, ambition cannot function. So each child has to be wounded in such a way that he starts feeling a deep inferiority: that others are superior and he has to surpass them, otherwise he is nobody. Each child is taught to create a name in the world, fame in the world. Each child is told,“The way you are is not right.You have to prove your mettle, you have to become ‘somebody’ — as if you are not anybody yet!”You are born with a certain flavour of your own, with a uniqueness, with an individuality.

Nobody else is like you — nobody else has ever been like you — and nobody else will ever be like you. But this truth is never told to you. You are told,“Become somebody; as if you are nothing. So you have to become, you have to compete to become. And of course then struggle starts, because everybody is told to become somebody, everybody is told to become the president or the prime minister.Now how many people can be presidents and prime ministers? Then naturally there arises a cut-throat competition. Everybody is against everybody else. Life becomes a war, a constant war. In this state, there is no possibility of peace, love, silence, joy, celebration. All is lost. This competitiveness in individuals becomes competitiveness on many planes, on many levels. Societies compete with each other, nations compete with each other. Everybody is trying to convey,‘I am superior to you’ and naturally nobody will allow that — it hurts.Hence so many wars. In three thousand years, there have been five thousand wars.... An intelligent person is one who comes to see that there is no need to compete at all — ‘I am myself, you are yourself I need not be you, you need not be me.’A rose is a rose is a rose; it need not be a lotus.The lotus need not become anxious,worried about becoming a rose flower.

Ends And Means

Competitiveness believes that whatsoever succeeds is right and whatsoever fails is wrong.That is the only criterion for an ambitious mind: the end makes the means seem absolutely right. For a non-competitive mind there is no question of thinking of others; you simply go on growing on your own.Your roots go deeper into Tao, into nature; deeper the roots go, higher the branches reach — but it has nothing to do with others; others are accepted as they are.Tao: The Golden Gate, Osho Times International, Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com. 


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