Just the other day I was reading about a man who has been meditating for many years – almost fifty years. And he has become very, very old.
He came to a Master and said to the Master, “Fifty years! Don’t you think it is long enough? I have been meditating and meditating. Why have I not become a Buddha yet?”
The Master laughed and he said, “Now that explains why you have not become a Buddha yet – because you want to become. Hence you go on missing. Now it explains everything!”
If you want to become a Buddha you will never become, because a Buddha is one who has dropped all kinds of becoming, who is utterly happy in this moment – for no reason at all. He has nowhere to go, no goal to attain, no target. He has dropped the whole desiring mind with all its layers – layer upon layer.
Osho
Zen: The Path of Paradox, Vol 3