All ambition arises out of an inferiority complex. An intelligent person, by his very intelligence, becomes noncompetitive. Intelligence is noncompetitive.
Intelligence can see the whole absurdity of it. Intelligence can see: "I am myself and there is no need to compare myself with anybody else. I am neither higher nor lower. Not that I am just like others – I am different – but there is no higher and lower." We are all different and unique human beings, but nobody is lower and nobody is higher – the whole effort to become higher is stupid.
A man can go to the monastery. He cannot earn money there, but he can earn virtue. He can become more and more religious, he can meditate more than others – he can become the greatest meditator. He can repress himself more than the others and can become the greatest saint. Again an attitude is bound to arise: the attitude of holier than thou. It is the same politics, the same competition, the same ego. Nothing has changed; only the object of competition has changed, but the subject remains the same. Now there will be politics again.
You can see a continuous hierarchy from the lowest priest to the pope. The lowest priest is trying to reach the higher post. Every bishop is trying to become the archbishop. Once they were trying to rise in political power; now they are trying to rise in religious power. But the whole effort is the same.
The world cannot be renounced. Renunciation is a desperate effort of a person who has indulged too much. Indulgence is foolish, renunciation too. The wise man finds the harmony. He neither indulges nor renounces. He simply becomes aware of the whole situation. He does not bother to escape from the world; he starts becoming aware of his ego which projects the world.
By becoming aware of all the hidden desires of the ego, those desires disappear. The more light enters in your being, the more aware you become, the less competition. Not that you make any effort to renounce; the very understanding becomes a subtle light in your being and you start laughing at all the foolish competitions, comparisons, evaluations that you have been suffering for.
Remember, renunciation is of the same stupid mind. Nothing has changed. One day you were seeking more and more indulgence – more and more money, more and more women and men. Now you have become afraid and you start escaping, running away from the world, but your stupidity has not changed.
Unless your innermost core changes, transforms, becomes luminous with a new light and new awareness, it is impossible. The change cannot happen. The change does not happen from the outside; the change has to happen somewhere in the inside. Then the glow spreads all over.
Excerpted from Ecstasy – The Forgotten Language /courtesy Osho International
Intelligence can see the whole absurdity of it. Intelligence can see: "I am myself and there is no need to compare myself with anybody else. I am neither higher nor lower. Not that I am just like others – I am different – but there is no higher and lower." We are all different and unique human beings, but nobody is lower and nobody is higher – the whole effort to become higher is stupid.
A man can go to the monastery. He cannot earn money there, but he can earn virtue. He can become more and more religious, he can meditate more than others – he can become the greatest meditator. He can repress himself more than the others and can become the greatest saint. Again an attitude is bound to arise: the attitude of holier than thou. It is the same politics, the same competition, the same ego. Nothing has changed; only the object of competition has changed, but the subject remains the same. Now there will be politics again.
You can see a continuous hierarchy from the lowest priest to the pope. The lowest priest is trying to reach the higher post. Every bishop is trying to become the archbishop. Once they were trying to rise in political power; now they are trying to rise in religious power. But the whole effort is the same.
The world cannot be renounced. Renunciation is a desperate effort of a person who has indulged too much. Indulgence is foolish, renunciation too. The wise man finds the harmony. He neither indulges nor renounces. He simply becomes aware of the whole situation. He does not bother to escape from the world; he starts becoming aware of his ego which projects the world.
By becoming aware of all the hidden desires of the ego, those desires disappear. The more light enters in your being, the more aware you become, the less competition. Not that you make any effort to renounce; the very understanding becomes a subtle light in your being and you start laughing at all the foolish competitions, comparisons, evaluations that you have been suffering for.
Remember, renunciation is of the same stupid mind. Nothing has changed. One day you were seeking more and more indulgence – more and more money, more and more women and men. Now you have become afraid and you start escaping, running away from the world, but your stupidity has not changed.
Unless your innermost core changes, transforms, becomes luminous with a new light and new awareness, it is impossible. The change cannot happen. The change does not happen from the outside; the change has to happen somewhere in the inside. Then the glow spreads all over.
Excerpted from Ecstasy – The Forgotten Language /courtesy Osho International
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