A very thoughtful man in America was passing through a crossroads.
His mind was deep in contemplation.
At the crossing, he suddenly encountered an overwhelming blaze of light—
advertisements burning with color and intensity.
He whispered a prayer:
“O God, if only I were illiterate, I could enjoy these colors.”
If I were illiterate, I could simply drink in the colors—
such rainbow abundance!
But now that I am educated, my skull is boiling.
Burning advertisements—
Lux Toilet Soap, Panama Cigarettes, Saras Cigarettes—
everything is being read,
and all this rubbish is being stuffed into the mind.
You are not even the master of your own eyes—
that you can prevent garbage from entering within.
If seeing is unavoidable,
then let your seeing transform.
Let the magic of the eyes grow.
Let the quality of vision change.
Then capacity and power will arise.
If hearing is unavoidable,
then hear—
but hear consciously.
~ Translated from Nirvan Upanishad by Osho (Hindi Discourse), Discourse 1
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