I dont like Myself, Specially my body !
Osho : You
have a certain idea about how the body should be, and if you have some idea you
will be in misery. The body is as it should be. If you have some idea you will
be in misery, so drop that idea.This is the body that you have got; this is the
body that god has given to you. Use it... enjoy it! And if you start loving it,
you will find it is changing, because if a person loves his body he starts
taking care, and care implies everything.
Then you don't stuff it with
unnecessary food, because you care. Then you don't starve it, because you care.
You listen to its demands, you listen to its hints -- what it wants, when it
wants. When you care, when you love, you become attuned to the body, and the
body automatically becomes okay. If you don't like the body, that will create
the problem, mm? because then by and by you will become indifferent to the body,
negligent of the body, because who cares about the enemy? You will not look at
it; you will avoid it.
You will stop listening to its messages, and then
you will hate it more. And you are creating the whole problem. The body never
creates any problem; it is the mind that creates problems. Now, this is an idea
of the mind. No animal suffers from any idea about the body, no animal... not
even the hippopotamus! Nobody suffers -- they are perfectly happy because no
mind is there to create an idea; otherwise the hippopotamus will think 'Why am I
like this?' (laughter) There is no problem in it. Just drop the ideal.
Love your body -- this is your body, this is a
gift from god. You have to enjoy it and you have to take care of it. When
you take care, you exercise, you eat, you sleep. You take every care because
this is your instrument, just like your car that you clean, that you listen to,
to every hum -- to know whether something is going wrong -- mm? You take care
even if a scratch comes on the body.
Just take care of the body and it
will be perfectly beautiful -- it is! It is such a beautiful mechanism, and so
complex, and yet working so efficiently that for seventy years it goes on
functioning. Whether you are asleep or awake, aware or unaware, it goes on
functioning, and the functioning is so silent. Even without your caring it goes
on functioning; it goes on doing service to you. One should be grateful to the
body. Just change your attitude and you will see that within six months your
body has changed its form.
It is almost like when you fall in love with
a woman and you see: she immediately becomes beautiful. She may not have cared
about her body up to this moment but when a man falls in love with her, she
starts taking care. She stands before the mirror for hours... because somebody
loves her! The same happens: you love your body and you will see that your body
has started changing. It is loved, it is taken care of, it is needed. It is a
very delicate mechanism -- people use it very crudely, violently. Just change
your attitude and see!
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