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Extract from: The Tantra Vision, Vol 2 Talks on the Royal Song of Saraha by Osho WHY AM I ALWAYS AFRAID OF OTHERS OPINION? Because you are not, because you are not yet. You are nothing but a piled-up phenomenon of others opinion. Who are you? Somebody says you are beautiful, so you are beautiful. And somebody says you are ugly, so you are ugly. And somebody says you are wonderful, so you are wonderful. And somebody says I have never seen such a nasty person, so you are a nasty person. And people go on saying, and you go on collecting all these things. And that is your image. Thats why your image is very contradictory, ambiguous. One person says you are beautiful, another says you are ugly. You want to forget this persons idea that you are ugly, but you cannot forget it; it will be there. If you keep the opinion that you are beautiful you will have to keep the opinion that you are ugly too. Your image is very ambiguous. You dont know exactly who you are. You are a hodge-podge, what we in India call a KEDGEREE, a mixture of so many things. You dont have a soul yet. You dont have any individuality, you dont have any integrated centre; you are just a junkyard of others opinions. Thats why you are afraid, because if others opinions change, you change. You are in the grip of THEIR hands. And this is the trick society has used. Society has a technique: it makes you very ambitious for social respect -- through it, it manipulates you. If you follow the rules of society, it respects you. If you dont follow the rules of society, it insults you tremendously, it hurts you very badly. And to follow the rules of society is to become a slave. Yes, it pays you great respect for being a slave, but if you want to be a free man, the society becomes angry: it does not want to have anything to do with you. You ask: WHY AM I ALWAYS AFRAID OF OTHERS OPINION? Because you are not yet. You are nothing but others opinion, hence the fear: they can take ~ Osho
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 12:54:08 +0000

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