The First Principle

talks on Zen

by Osho

10 talks given live   April 1977
Pune, India

    You can be unique only when you are
    nothing. If you are something, you are
    comparable.

    If you are somebody you can be
    compared with others, and that which can
    be compared cannot be unique. Unique
    means incomparable.

    Unique means you are alone, there is
    nobody like you. So if you are
    somebody.... If you are a man there are
    millions of men; you are comparable. If
    you are rich, then there are millions of rich
    people; you are comparable. If you are
    good you are comparable. If you are bad
    you are comparable. If you are a painter
    you are comparable. If you are a singer
    you are comparable. If you are somebody
    you are comparable, and by being
    comparable you cease to be unique.

    The moment you attain to a nothingness,
    when the "I" disappears.... The "I" is
    comparable; the "no-I" is incomparable.

    That's why I say if you become nothing
    you become unique. If you become
    nothing you become uncorruptible; the
    nothing cannot be corrupted...

                                         – Osho
                          The First Principle, ch. 2
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All Going Is Going Astray
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Discourse 1
Catching the First Principle   1:31:56
Discourse 2
Greed behind Greed behind Greed
Discourse 3
The Only One Who Has Not Talked
Discourse 4
Go with the River
Discourse 5
Beyond the Prism of the Mind
Discourse 6
The Irrational Rationalist
Discourse 7
The Profound and the Trivial
Discourse 8
The Song of Sound and Silence
Discourse 9
The Greatest Lie There Is
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