posted December 09, 2007 12:21 AM         

I am posting a translation because most have problems understanding his accent. Enjoy.

Question: Why do most people have such a compulsion to reach power and prestige and so on, rather than just being simple human beings?

Answer: One - you have never been accepted by your parents , teachers, neighbors, society as you are.
Everybody was trying to improve upon you to make you better. Constant conditioning against you has created in you the idea that I am not enough as I am. Something is missing and I have to be somewhere else not here. This is not the place I am supposed to be somewhere higher more powerful, more dominant, more respected, more well-known.
This is the half story which is ugly. Which should not be the case. This can be simply be removed if people are little bit more intelligent , how to be mothers, how to be fathers, how to be teachers.
You are not to spoil the child, his self-respect. His acceptance of himself. You have to help to grow.
But the second part is tremendously important. Even if all these conditionings are removed, you are deprogrammed. All these ideas are taken out of your mind. Then too you will feel you are not enough. But that will be a totally different experience. The words will be the same but the experience will be different. You are not enough. Because you can be more. It will not be any more
a question of becoming famous, respectable, powerful, rich. It will not be at all your concern. Your concern will be that your being is only a seed. With birth you are not born as a tree.
You are born only as a seed. And you have to grow. To the point that you have to come to flowering and that flowering will be your contentment, fulfilment. This flowering has nothing to do with power, nothing to do with money. Nothing to do with politics. It has something to do absolutely with you . It is an individual progress. A seed has to travel long
to become flowers. It is a pilgrimage. The urge is beautiful. It is given by nature itself. But the society upto now has been very cunning. It turns, deviates, diverts your natural instincts in to some social utility. These two are the sides that are giving you the feeling that whereever you are that something is missing. You have to gain something, achieve something. Become a achiever, a climber. Now your intelligence is needed to make it clear what is your natural urge and what is social conditioning. Cut the social conditioning, it is all crap , so that nature remains pure, unpolluted. And nature is always individualistic. You will grow and you will come to blossom. And you may have rose flowers, somebody else may grow and may have marigolds. You are not superior because you have rose flower. He is not inferior because he has marigold. You have come to flowering and that is the point.
And that floweing gives a deep contentment. All frustration all tension dissapears. A profound peace prevails over you.
Peace that passeth understanding. But first you have to cut the social crap completely, otherwise it will go on deviating.
You have to be rich but not wealthy. Richness is something else. A beggar can be rich and an emperor can be poor.
Richness is quality of being.