My message to the young is to always remain young. Never become old. Your body will become old, but your mind has no necessity to become old. If your mind remains young and fresh, ready to learn, ready to explore new dimensions of life, you are alive. The moment your mind stops exploring, expanding, you are no more alive. You may vegetate, you may drag you body around for twenty, thirty more years.
DON’T ACCEPT OTHERS’ PRESCRIPTION FOR YOU
Others want to prescribe everything in your life. You can remain young only if you never accept any conditioning from anybody else. Youngness is something like sharpening your sword; you should inquire everything on your own. Don’t believe in the Holy Scriptures, because there is nothing holy in them, they are not even first-rate literature.
HAVE A HEALTHY DOUBT
Your starting point should not be belief, but a healthy doubt. And remember, doubt does not mean disbelief, doubt simply means, “I don’t know and I want to inquire. I have not come to a conclusion to say yes or no.” Doubt is youth, belief is old age. The person is tired of inquiry; he has started believing in somebody else. It is better to die as a seeker; at least you have the contentment that you did everything that was possible, and you will have originality.
WEAR YOUR ORIGINAL FACE
And this is my experience: to wear your original face is the greatest face is the greatest joy in the world, but everybody is wearing a mask. Somebody is Hindu, that is mask; somebody is a Mohammedan, that is a mask. A young man has to fight against all masks; he has to declare all the universe, “I am going to remain individual, I am going to remain just myself, I am not going to imitate anybody.”
WEALTH SHOULD BE RESPECTED
Young people should strive for health because centuries, unnecessarily, wealth has been condemned. Wealth should be respected in the same way as we respect any other creativity. Somebody paints, we respect. Somebody make a statue, we respect. Somebody makes music, we respect. Somebody creates wealth, and we condemn.
Richness should be respected if you want to destroy poverty.
CREATING WEALTH IS A GREAT CREATIVITY
The young people should change the whole movement. Richness should be respected and should be created – it can be created. Just as there are Picassos, there are Fords who can create wealth. With technology available, to create wealth is the simplest thing. You just have to inspire young people to create. Rather than wasting their energy in frustration and protests and fighting and throwing stones and destroying buses, the same energy can make the country a paradise.
Courtesy Osho
International Foundation
www.osho.com
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