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... song of joy. But these bureaucracies, religious and political, would not allow it. They are so afraid of joyous people. It was a strange feeling for me in the beginning. I had never thought that people should be so afraid of joyous people. Slowly slowly, I became aware that joy has many implications: A joyous person is not retarded. A joyous person is intelligent. A joyous person knows the art of...
... society. Yes, it has to be one of my basic works to make people aware that the powerful ones -- either religious or political -- are not your friends. They are your enemies. And unless the common humanity goes through a rebellion against all types of bureaucracies, man will remain stuck, not evolving, not reaching to the heights which are his birthright. Question 2: BELOVED OSHO, HAS ANYONE REALLY...
... both are lovers of flowers. That's the meeting point, that we both love flowers. You love Christ, that is one flower; I love Buddha, that is another flower; somebody else loves Lao Tzu, that is another flower. We are all friends because we love flowers. And I can appreciate your rose, you can appreciate my lotus. There is no need to create any divisions. The divisions come from man's political mind...
..., Buddha or Mahavira or Mohammed. To follow is to be political. Only the blind follow, the superstitious people follow, gullible people follow. The people who are intelligent try to understand Buddha, Mahavira, Krishna, but it is just an effort to understand the message, what these people were doing, what they were living. Finally, you have to discover your own inner light. That's what I call meditation...
... whole misery and suffering that you see around you. All our cultures, religions, political ideologies and, more importantly, our educational systems are based on a fundamental principle and that is, how to be more successful than others. all this. But the moment you start struggling for success, which has almost become the very aim of life, you are creating suffering all around. Your ambitions are not...
... have to destroy millions of people - their pride, their dignity, their very humanity. You have to reduce them into different kinds of slavery - economic, political, psychological, spiritual. Only then can you be in power. You have to keep the world constantly in a state of war, either cold or hot. Adolf Hitler, in his autobiography, had many insights. One of his great insights is that the great men...
... political strategy, a diplomatic effort on the part of the mind, not to let you see the obvious - the buddha that is you. In this simple anecdote you laughed; you laughed as if it is just a joke. It says everything that needs to be said, it contains the whole essence of Zen. But you laughed because you did not understand its implications. Sometimes one laughs because he does not understand; sometimes one...
..., and to know yourself and your roots in existence. Except that, all are political promises which are not going to be fulfilled, ever. So only a few people have lived freedom, like Gautam Buddha or Joshu or Nansen. I would like you all to live freedom, but I have to make a distinction clear to you. There are two kinds of freedom: one is freedom from, and another is freedom for. Freedom from is not...
.... Good. [A group member said: It feels like I had a good rest. It's been a long time since I allowed myself to stop seeking, begging and asking. trying. But just at this moment it seems that soon I'll be leaving to go back to being a political journalist. That was my old job two and a half years ago. It seems like a terrific shift.] No, it will be good. Such changes are good, such polar opposites are...
... in it. Work as a political journalist but don't become a politician, that's all! [A group member says: I got in touch with some very deep blocks in myself. Osho asks where in her body she feels those blocks. She answered that she was not aware of where it was, but rather in the fact that, in whatever she does, she only goes so far and then gives up.] Good... this experience has been good. Next time...
... like sunlight - cool, calm, beautiful. Such a man has no inferiority complex at all. He is so full, so contented, so utterly blissful, there is no reason for him to feel any ambition to have power over others. I call it the power of the mystic. Power over others is political, and the people who are interested in power over others are people who feel a deep inferiority complex. They are continuously...
... mystic creates an immense aura. In that aura, whoever is open, available, receptive, immediately starts feeling like bursting into a song or into a dance. Political power is ugly. Power over others is ugly. It is inhuman, because to have power over somebody means to reduce that person to a thing. He becomes your possession. For example, in China, for centuries the husband had the power over his wife...
... with whom he lives. There is no need of any government. I am reminded of an old president. He was sick and his friends and his family was consistently persuading him for an holiday, but he will not go for an holiday. They could not understand his resistance. They said, "You are sick, you need rest in the hills, in a better climate, unburdened, with all your political rubbish." The president...
... do not have any respect for any politician in the world. I have much more respect for beggars on the street. They are the real humanity. When you talked of politicians and political leaders, could this also apply to religion and religious leaders? In our own country we see that it is because of religion that there is so much strife in so many places. And this has been seen elsewhere also. What you...
... America and no Americans. This small planet earth is simply one. All divisions are false. If I fail, then these divisions can remain. If I succeed in convincing the intelligent youth of the world, then all the political lines on the map will have to disappear - they are absolutely unnecessary. They are against humanity's welfare. It is one single whole; and we should be proud that our planet earth is...
... THEN AND THERE. NOW I REALLY DO FEEL LIKE AN EXISTENTIAL GYPSY, AND I LOVE IT! I want everyone to become an existential gypsy. You don't need roots - you are not trees. You are human beings. And the moment you become a sannyasin, everything else automatically falls away from you. To be a sannyasin simply means renouncing your past, renouncing all political ideologies, renouncing all religious...
... many degrees, Ph.D.'s and D.Litt.'s in law -- was defeated by Frohnmeyer only on one point: because that man was not against us. He made a political mistake by making a statement that "I don't see why these people should be harassed. They are not doing any harm to anybody." And that became the cause of his defeat. Against that man, Frohnmeyer was nowhere close -- the man was an authority on...
... for Governor Atiyeh -- poor fellows. They proved to be retarded, not understanding the ways of politics. I am not a politician but I can see it clearly: in politics you should not destroy your enemy completely. You should go on threatening him -- that's enough -- because by his presence, there is immense support to you, from all those people who are afraid. Prem Christo, it is just a political...
... now I can say with absolute certainty, that if there is going to be a third world war it is not going to be between America and Soviet Russia, it is going to be between America and the whole world. YOU TALK ABOUT POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS SUPPRESSION IN AMERICA. IS THERE ANY OTHER KIND OF SUPPRESSION? There are many things which are not known outside America. In India sexual suppression has destroyed...
... corners - because I have attacked all the vested interests. It is a unique situation. Nobody perhaps in the whole history has been condemned so unanimously - the Christian priests, the Hindu priests, the Mohammedan priests, the Buddhist priests, the Jaina priests, the Communists, the Socialists, the Congressites, the Republicans, the Liberals, the Democrats. You cannot find a single political party or a...
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