Everybody is after being extraordinary. That is the search of the ego: to be someone who is special, to be someone who is unique, incomparable. And this is the paradox: the more you try to be exceptional, the more ordinary you look, because everybody is after extraordinariness. It is such an ordinary desire. If you become ordinary, the very search to be ordinary is extraordinary, because rarely does somebody want to be just nobody, rarely does somebody want to be just a hollow, empty space. This is really extraordinary in a way, because nobody wants it. And when you become ordinary you become extraordinary, and, of course, suddenly you discover that without searching you have become unique.

In fact, everybody is unique. If you can stop your constant running after goals for even a single moment, you will realize that you are unique. Your uniqueness is nothing to be invented, it is already there. It is already the case - to be is to be unique. There is no other way of being. Every leaf on a tree is unique, every pebble on the shore is unique, there is no other way of being. You cannot find two identical pebbles anywhere on the whole of earth.

Two identical things do not exist at all, so there is no need to be "somebody." You just be yourself, and suddenly you are unique, incomparable. That's why I say that this is a paradox: those who search fail, and those who don't bother, suddenly attain.

It is said by one of Lao Tzu's great disciples, Lieh Tzu, that once an idiot was searching for fire with a candle in his hand. Said Lieh Tzu: "Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice sooner." He remained hungry the whole night because he was searching for fire but couldn't find it - and he had a candle in his hand, because how can you search in the dark without a candle?

You are searching for uniqueness, and you have it in your hand; if you understand, you can cook your rice sooner. I have cooked my rice and I know. You are unnecessarily hungry - the rice is there, the candle is there, the candle is fire. There is no need to take the candle and search. If you take a candle in your hand and you go searching all over the world, you will not find fire because you don't understand what fire is. Otherwise you could have seen that you were carrying it in your hand.

You need not search for uniqueness, you are unique already. There is no way to make a thing more unique. The words "more unique" are absurd. It is just like the word "circle." Circles exist; there is no such thing as "more circular." That is absurd. A circle is always perfect, "more" is not needed.
There are no degrees of circularity - a circle is a circle, less and more are useless. Uniqueness is uniqueness, less and more don't apply to it. You are already unique. One realizes this only when one is ready to become ordinary, this is the paradox. But if you understand, there is no problem about it, the paradox is there, and beautiful, and no problem exists. A paradox is not a problem. It looks like a problem if you don't understand; if you understand, it is beautiful, a mystery.

Become ordinary and you will become extraordinary; try to become extraordinary and you will remain ordinary.

Excerpt from "The Book of Understanding" by OSHO.

天降大任。晨思中英文都好，可以考虑一下中英互译的工作。很有意义。：))

谢为力，中英文都不错不假，换个说法是都不怎么样。

用google translation 软件来翻一下，好笑，翻得云里雾里的


每个人都被非凡。这是寻找自我：是谁的人是特殊的，是有人谁是独一无二的，无与伦比的。这是悖论：你越是试图例外，更普通的你看看，因为每个人都在后extraordinariness 。它是这样一个普通的愿望。如果您成为普通，非常普通的搜索将是非凡的，因为很少有人愿意只是没有人，很少有人愿意只是一个空洞的，空洞的空间。这确实是非凡的方式，因为没有人希望它。当你成为普通您成为非凡的，当然，你突然发现，没有搜索您已成为独一无二的。

事实上，每个人都是独一无二的。如果您可以停止运行后，您的目标不变，即使某一时刻，你会认识到，你是独一无二的。你的独特性是没有什么可发明的，它已经存在。这已经是如此-是是是独一无二的。没有其他途径的福祉。每一棵树的叶子是独一无二的，每一个圆在岸上是独一无二的，没有其他办法的福祉。您无法找到两个相同的鹅卵石上的任何地方，整个地球。

两个相同的事情不存在，因此没有需要“有人。 ”你刚才是你自己，突然你是独特的，无与伦比的。这就是为什么我说这是一种矛盾现象：那些谁搜索失败，谁不打扰，突然实现。

这是说的一个老子的伟大门徒，列慈，一旦白痴正在寻找一支蜡烛火在他的手。说烈慈济： “如果他知道火灾是，他可以有他的水稻熟越快。 ”他仍然渴望整夜，因为他正在寻找火灾，但无法找到它-他有一个蜡烛在他的手，因为你怎么能在黑暗中搜索没有一支蜡烛？

您所搜索的独特性，你必须在你的手;如果您了解，您可以您的水稻库克越早。我已经煮熟的饭，我知道。您是不必要的饥饿-水稻是有的，有蜡烛，蜡烛是火灾。因此没有必要采取蜡烛和搜索。如果你把一支蜡烛在你的手和你去寻找世界各地的，你不会找到火灾，因为我们不明白火。否则，你可能已经看到，你是执行它在你的手。

你不必寻找独特性，你是独一无二的了。没有办法的事情，使更多的独特性。改为“更多的独特的”却是荒谬的。这就好比用“循环。 ”界存在不存在这样的东西“更圆。 ”这是荒谬的。一个圆圈总是完美的， “更多”是没有必要。
没有学位的圆-一个圆圈是一个圆圈，少，更是无用。独特性是独特性，越来越多并不一定适用于它。您已经是独一无二的。人们认识这个只有当一个愿意成为普通，这是自相矛盾的。但如果你了解，不存在任何问题了，矛盾存在，而美丽的，没有任何问题存在。一个悖论不是一个问题。它看起来像一个问题，如果你不明白，如果你了解，这是美丽的，是个谜。

成为普通，你将成为非凡;尝试成为非凡，您将继续正常。