From the Enlightened Zen Masters:

There are two kinds of fame in the world. One comes through outer riches. The people who have political power are famous, the wealthy, the rich. But there is another kind of fame also which is real fame. That happens to people who attain to inner richness. These people are famous for a totally different reason. They are not emperors, conquerors, but in a sense they are: they have conquered themselves, they have attained to the inner kingdom.

The first kind of fame is ugly, it is violent. These people are mad! They become famous but they are unhealthy, pathological; they bring misery into the world. They themselves are miserable and they create great misery in others. If they had not been, the world would have been far better -- they are calamities.

But the second kind of people -- these people are blessings to the world. Without them humanity would not have progressed at all; they are the salt of the earth. Life has some meaning because of them, some poetry, some music because of them. They made themselves blissful and they spread the secrets of being blissful into the world.

So choose the right kind of fame. Don't choose the wrong kind of fame. Become blissful, peaceful, serene, because you can give to others only that which you have got already in the first place. Become a source of bliss and blessing to others.

#Mindfulness #Zen   From the Book: "The Golden Wind" _ OSHO