A Christian mother was telling her child, ”Serve others: service is religion. God has made you to serve others.” The little boy asked the mother, ”I can understand it, that God created me to serve others, but a question arises: why did God create others? To serve me?” That looks very unscientific: ”I am here to serve others and others are here to serve me. Why can’t I serve myself and you serve yourself? Because I will be able to take care of myself in a better way than anybody else can take care of me, and you will be able to take care of yourself better than I can ever take care of you.” I teach self-service. And then, as a consequence, a totally different vision arises. The person who serves himself, enjoys himself, loves himself, respects himself, is BOUND to respect others. Because, slowly slowly, he becomes aware that the same life exists in others – the same life. The More you love yourself, the more you become aware that you are not separate. Only in love is union felt. The more you love yourself the more you merge and melt into your own being, the more you become orgasmic in your inner world, the more you see that all definitions are false, all demarcations are arbitrary, that you are not separate, that the universe is one. That’s why we call it ’universe’ – ’uni’ means one. We don’t call it ’multiverse’. It is one, it is one whole. OshO ❤️ Philosophia Perennis, Vol 2
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 16:00:26 +0000
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