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... entertainment than sex. And they are not ready to listen to me. They are ready to listen to the pope, who goes on saying that birth control is against God, that the pill is the worst thing that has happened to humanity, that abortion is anti-life. They listen to these people, and these people are making them more and more poor. Q: COULD THE POOR SAVE THEMSELVES BY LISTENING TO YOU? A: Certainly -- immediately...
.... Q: HOW WOULD THAT WORK, THOUGH? A: It would work immediately. For example, in India I had been telling people for thirty years to use birth control methods, to use the pill, to use abortion -- whatsoever prevents population growth. But it goes against their religious ideas, it goes against their tradition. Q: BUT EVEN IF THEY WERE TO BEGIN PRACTICING BIRTH CONTROL, THAT WOULD NOT PAY THEIR FOOD...
... BILL FOR THE NEXT MONTH. HOW CAN THEY SAVE THEMSELVES NOW BY LISTENING TO YOU? A: The government was providing for free every birth control method. And in thirty years they have doubled the population. When I started speaking to them they were one four hundred million Indians; now there are eight hundred million Indians. Q: BUT WHAT ABOUT THE POOR TONIGHT; THE PERSON WHO IS HUNGRY TONIGHT, THE PERSON...
... become fascist rulers. Q:* THEN HOW COULD THIS FASCIST RULE GROW UP IN YOUR MIDST? A:* Because I was in silence and isolation. That became an opportunity. Q:* YOU HAVE DISCUSSED OFTEN THE SENSE THAT DOUBT AND THE ABSENCE OF FAITH ARE VERY IMPORTANT. HOW COULD IT BE SO THAT SO MANY OF YOUR FRIENDS COULD LET THIS HAPPEN? A:* It is one of the paradoxes of human life. The more I tell them, that "Don't...
... CONSULTANTS, AND.... A:* I'm not involved in it. Q:* WILL YOU CONSULT WITH THEM AT ALL? A:* No. This is the function of the corporations. We have almost a dozen corporations for different functions, and they should look after it. We have four hundred legal experts in the commune itself. Q:* BUT YOUR MOST RECENT EXPERIENCES DON'T SUGGEST TO YOU THAT YOU NEED TO TAKE MORE DIRECT CONTROL OF ANY...? A:* No. I...
... have never been interested in any control, NEVER. Q:* (INAUDIBLE) A:* I am just a friend available for any advice. To take it or not to take it is their freedom, but I don't want to have any control in my hands. Q:* HOW DID YOU CHOOSE HASYA, AS OPPOSED TO ANYBODY ELSE? HOW WAS THAT PROCESS DONE, AND HOW...? A:* No, I have not chosen her. Q:* AS YOUR SECRETARY FOR THE MOMENT? A:* As my secretary I...
... hearts meet. But the intellect has been praised down the centuries because intellect is very useful. The intellect is capable of exploitation. The intellect is capable of domination. The intellect is capable of cheating nature, of oppression. The intellect is very, very useful as far as the world of things is concerned. So man has cultivated his intellect and has denied his heart, because the heart is...
... do you think is playing Laxmi's role? It is Chuang Tzu. A few things to be understood about the question. It's certainly difficult to play an authoritative role, but the difficulty arises not because of the role but because of the unconscious desire to dominate. You can repress the desire, you can avoid any authoritative role; the desire will remain there. Whenever the authoritative role is given...
... is not of roles; the question is of consciousness. So Nirgun, be more conscious, be more loving. Don't allow that urge to dominate to become an unconscious trip, that's all. Become conscious of it. Through consciousness, it will be dropped. Because of this fear, millions of people down the ages became monks and nuns. What was their fear? Why were they afraid of the world? They were afraid not of...
... are creating an idea around themselves. So what is to be done? You have to watch all the ways of the mind. Greed, desire, ambition, jealousy, possessiveness, domination -- you have to watch everything. And they are all interconnected, remember. If greed disappears, then anger will disappear. If anger disappears, jealousy will disappear. If jealousy disappears, violence will disappear. If violence...
... black that with that background just a little white paint will show and shine like silver. The only way to prove that you are a great mahatma is first to prove that you have been a great sinner - the greatest. But the ego is such that even when you are talking about sin you cannot be moderate, you have to be the greatest sinner. The greatest saint or the greatest sinner - nobody wants to be mediocre...
... are against me. Their fear is that if people go on coming to me they will go on slipping out of their power, their domination, their folds. This may be the only place on the whole face of the earth where nobody bothers about whether you are a Christian or a Hindu or a Mohammedan. You are simply human beings. You have slipped out of your cages so easily, because the cages are not real. You have to...
... innocent. And to be silent is the natural way, the spontaneous way. Then you act out of your spontaneity, not out of your knowledge. WHEN ONE REMAINS UNMOVED BY PLEASURE OR SUFFERING, HIS MIND MAY BE CALLED THE NATURAL, SIMPLE MIND. Joe entered a monastery where the rule of silence was very strict. Only once every seven years was a monk allowed to speak - briefly - to the father abbot. Joe had been a...
... and the food is terrible. Let the time come and I will say so!" Day and night he must be obsessed with it; otherwise, after seven years of silence there will not be anything to say. One will bow down. One will not even say, "Thank you," because that is too small, not worth saying. But this is how it is. At least Joe was a man of great control - for seven years! I have heard: Mulla...
... at the minimum, while he could have lived at the maximum. But a basic conspiracy against man has been practiced down the ages: divide. And that is the fundamental principle of all rulers -- divide and rule. Religious preachers, priests, have not been anything other than politicians. Their whole desire is also to divide and rule. An undivided individual cannot be enslaved. This division is a kind of...
... castration. Just see the beauty of a bull: you cannot force him to carry your cart, you cannot keep him on the road under your control. He has so much power and so much individuality that he will choose his path, he will go this way and that way. And if he comes across a girlfriend, then your life and your cart are both in danger! But just look at a bullock, carrying your carts, your loads ...you have...
... coward, but cunning; through cunningness he manages to rise even higher than the political leader; at least in the abstract sense he is higher than the political leader. But the desire of both is the same: to rule, to have control over millions of people. To me, a man who does not suffer from an inferiority complex has no need even to lead a single man, to be powerful over even a single man. Such a man...
... freedom to hallucinate! This is absolutely innocent because only you are doing it, nobody else is involved. No, you don't have the freedom to hallucinate. Reduced to the basics, that's what drug prohibition means, that you don't have the freedom to hallucinate. The government is in control of your dreams. Drugs can give you dreams, and properly used, can help you to see many things in yourself which in...
... Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. Question 1: BELOVED OSHO, I KNOW IT IS CERTAIN THAT ONE DAY I AM GOING TO DIE, BUT I DON'T FEEL ANY FEAR - WHY? It is not something exceptional, it is almost the rule. Nobody is afraid of death; otherwise living will become impossible. There is a natural safety measure, and that is something of a very basic nature to be understood...
... thought that it is tolling for him. It is always for somebody else. It is always for the other. So this is one fundamental thing: you are not an exception, you are just the rule. But I have to go deep into your question. It has many layers you may not be aware of. You say, "It is certain that I am going to die one day." On what grounds do you say it is certain? Have you seen anything in life...
... men. No, I don't agree with Aristotle. Although his syllogism is simple - all men are mortal, hence therefore, Socrates is mortal - no, I say no, because Socrates is not a number, Socrates is not just a part of all men. He is an individual, so unique that you cannot predict anything about him according to the rule. Perhaps he is the exception. Why do you think yourself to be just a number in the...
... condemnation depends on their own moods. And how can you control the moods? They are millions, there is no way. You cannot control your own mood; how can you expect to control others' moods? If you depend on others, you will always be in a continuous trembling and shaking. A mature man, a man who understands simply drops the whole idea - it is absurd, it is meaningless. He simply lives his whole life unself...
... politician is a criminal who has succeeded in attaining power. But their psychologies are not different. They both want power and domination; they both want to do things without any concern for the consequences; they are both end-oriented, they don't bother about the means. Their basic philosophy is the same: the ends justify the means. If you succeed, then how you have succeeded - using right means or...
... enforces it. Right. But if the parents enforce it, the constitution has no power over it." So, he argued, in non- governmental institutions which get governmental support - they are semi-governmental, not under the government's direct control, like colleges, even universities, schools in the thousands - the parents can decide, because they are the trustees of those institutions. They can decide...
... to make criminals disappear, because their demands are not much and perhaps their situations are forcing them to be criminals. Somebody cannot manage to have medicines for his dying wife and he steals. You cannot call him a criminal. In fact, the society is criminal which does not make arrangements for a dying wife. That man is simply breaking the rule of a criminal society. But he will be called...
... dominate you, will keep you in slavery just as God has done for so long. And the third thing... you ask me, "Should I drop 'It' also?" No, because then you will replace it by another word. The women's liberation movement uses for God, "She." And I think it is a better word than "he", because in "she," "he" is present, but in "he", the "she...
... charismatic personality. A little bit off his head, but that is not a crime. And Judas had been with him for years as a disciple. Why did he betray him? My understanding is that being a disciple is a kind of slavery, and there is a limit to how long one can tolerate it. And it is not only with Jesus that it has happened; otherwise, it would be just an exception, not the rule. But it is the rule, not the...
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