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Osho on Loving your Body
Question: 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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