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only different, but contradictory, and diametrically opposite too.
At first, to know this will be very confusing, because to feel that one is many, one feels that one is almost on the verge of going mad! How is one going to manage? -- so many people inside and all running in every direction possible; nobody listening to anybody else... just like a marketplace. And there seems to be no director, no single voice. One feels confused. But it is good that you understand it -- that there is no one person in you. Now this is the beginning of creating the one.
Once you understand that 'I am many', the one has already been born. Who is understanding this -- that 'I am many'? This understanding cannot be one member of this crowd. This understanding is standing far back, looking at the crowd. First you become. aware of the crowd and then by and by you will become aware of this one who has become aware. Then you become aware of this awareness. And then you attain to one.
In the gap there will be a little confusion. Don't be worried about that, mm? And don't lose this understanding and insight. Good.
Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle
Chapter #19
Chapter title: None
3 April 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7604035
ShortTitle: PLAN19
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[A couple returning to the West. The man had recently had hepatitis and was feeling apprehensive about trying to cope with the weakness it had left him with.]
For a few weeks, just go and rest... don't do anything, mm? Sometimes weakness of the body can be used in very very creative ways.
[Osho went on to say that usually people abuse and waste their health and times of high energy, because they don't know how to use it... ]
... they become accidental, and they start drifting. That's why young people become drifters. That's why whenever a society is very healthy, rich, rooted, affluent, the young generation starts drifting. It has been happening in the past... it is happening today. It has always been so. If the society is poor, not healthy, not rich, and bread and butter is a great struggle, then the
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