Just Be yourself

Somebody asked Jesus,”How we should live?” We’d automatically think that Jesus might have given a list of ‘Dos’ and ‘Don’ts’. But no, Jesus didn’t reply that way. Instead, Jesus looked into the eyes of that man and said,”Do not ask me. Go ask the trees, flowers, mountains, birds and fish.”

What did he mean by this? Well, what I understand from this is a spiritual message: ’Live simply and in a pure way. Live with existence. Try to be what you are . don’t destroy your originality by imitating others. Every personality has his/her own individuality and everyone is perfect creation of God.’
Have we ever thought about why the entire world is turning into a house of neuroses? Surely it’s because no one is ready to be in communion with existence, no one is discovering his/her individuality. Everyone is ‘aspirational’, striving to be something else or someone else instead of realizing their own selves. SO Jesus suggests looking at Nature. The lotus is not trying to be the rose, nor is the rose trying to be the lotus. The dove is not trying to be the peacock. But with us, somebody is trying to become Buddha, Somebody Christ, somebody Nanak, somebody else Gandhi and so on. But we never wish to be ourselves, do we?
Jesus says,”Just be yourself, in pure ordinariness. Don’t try to become ‘extraordinary’. Just be in ordinariness and you will find extraordinary transformation within yourself, you will find and extraordinary ecstasy in your inner world’. So why should we waste time trying to be ‘extraordinary’:we already are! We just have to live consciously, moment-to-moment, giving the present our full attention and effort.
Osho explained it beautifully, “God is perfect. We come prefect with the signature of God. Out of perfection comes perfection. And then we are manipulated, contaminated conditioned and pulled apart by human beings. And immediately our open sky starts closing, our windows, our doors, start closing. We are no more available to existence. We become windowless. And that is our misery.’