Comparison- Jealous

BELOVED MASTER,
DO ALL ORDINARY PEOPLE THINK THAT OTHERS HAVE SOMETHING MORE OR BETTER THAN THEY DO?

That’s the definition of ordinary people. They are continuously comparing themselves with others.

Comparison is their whole life’s work.

Certainly people have... somebody has a better house, somebody has a better nose, somebody has a better body, somebody has a better mind. There are thousands of things. You can find in every person something better than you.

Even a beggar may have something better than you. Just the way he walks may have a grandeur, a
carelessness. He has no worries, he has nothing to worry about. He sleeps in the street better than you sleep on the best mattress in the best house. The better the mattress, the worse the sleep.

It is very strange but that’s how it is, because for sleep what is needed is at least eight hours of hard work. That’s the way your physiology is built. It has a built-in program. If you don’t work eight hours at least, you can’t have eight hours of deep, beautiful sleep.

You will feel jealous, and people are burning with jealousy, because it is not one thing with one person; everybody around you has something better than you: fair color, beautiful hair....

How many things are there? Can you find a person who has nothing better than you? And if you are looking only for ”Who has something better than me?” then this whole world has things better than you.

So many people, and you are burning with jealousy!

This is the ordinary state of humanity. And what creates it?  Comparison.

You have been told from your very childhood to compare. That is poison. You should have been told never to compare.

You are unique, so is the other, and there is no question of comparison. Comparison is possible only if two persons are similar, but there are not two persons similar on the whole earth.

Comparison is not possible.
The moment comparison drops from your mind, all jealousy disappears.

Suddenly you find yourself strangely peaceful, contented, strangely respectful towards yourself, grateful to existence for whatever it has given to you.

And it has given you so much, and without charging you anything.

It has given you life –
which you cannot purchase.
No money can purchase it.

OshO 
CHAPTER 32. THE GREAT ACCIDENT
From Bondage to Freedom