... critical moment in the history of humanity, when things are really in a very dangerous state -- a third world war can happen and can destroy the whole human life. AIDS is spreading, and without a third world war, it can destroy almost two-third of human beings. This is not the moment for me to be silent, I should say something. There are many people who may not be sannyasins, but who would like to know...

... there are Christians, Hindus, Mohammedans? How can there be any possibility of brotherhood if there are nations - India, Germany, England? It is impossible. Man is constantly at war, each moment you are living in conflict. And how can there be equality when you have been taught from the very beginning to be ambitious? Ambition means that you have to be higher than the other. Ambition means that you...

..., when he will see untruth he will not obey. He will remain free to obey or not to obey. And it is good to be free, because you have obeyed stupid politicians for too long, and they have been creating violence, war, bloodshed and nothing else. You have obeyed the priests too long and they have given you churches and the temples and the mosques, and they have taken the real temple of God away from you...

... gathered such a capacity to destroy. It is one- thousandfold: every man, every single man, can be killed one thousand times, one thousand earths can be destroyed. We have piled up that much capacity to destroy, and we go on piling more up every day. It may be a communist country or a capitalist country, it makes no difference; but each country is trying to put all its energy into war, into destruction...

.... Even a country like India, which boasts of being non-violent and all that jazz, is greatly desirous of having atomic weapons. Even a country like India, which thinks and claims and boasts that it is a religious country, puts seventy percent of its energy into war efforts. People are dying, starving, and the Gandhians, who have been the rulers of this country for three decades, go on piling up more...

.... First they said they had to study the case, because the land is too close to Pakistan: in times of war they might need it. In times of war - when that war is going to happen, nobody knows - but in times of war they might need the land. Somehow we convinced them that it was not likely. Then they started writing letters saying that because there would be so many foreigners and it is on the boundary of...

...Tug of War...

... Osho Sufis The People of the Path Volume 1: Tug of War Main Books Headers Help Your browser does not support iframes. < Prev  Osho Sufis The People of the Path Volume 1   Next > Tug of War From: Osho Date: Fri, 24 August 1977 00:00:00 GMT Book Title: Osho - Sufis - The People of the Path, Vol 1 Chapter #: 14 Location: am in Buddha Hall Archive Code: N.A. Short Title: N.A...

.... Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. The first question: Question 1: OSHO, I WANT TO BECOME ENLIGHTENED. WHY DON'T YOU HELP ME? What do you think I am here for? As far as my own work is concerned, it is finished. I am here just for you. And all that I can do, I am doing, and all that you can do to prevent it, you are doing. It is a tug of war. It is a conflict between the Master...

... lunatic, but sometimes lunatics have great insights. This is a great insight into mob psychology. He says in another place, "If you want your country to be ready and alert, always keep them full of the fear that they are going to be attacked, that the war is just knocking on the doors, that everybody surrounding the nation is your enemy. Whether they are enemies or not does not matter; if they are...

..., good; if they are not, still, invent, propagate, that they are enemies. only then will your country be united." Hindus become united if there is a fear of the Mohammedans. Mohammedans become united if they are afraid that Hindus are going to attack. India becomes united if the fear arises that Pakistan is getting ready for war. Russia goes on piling up more and more atom bombs, hydrogen bombs...

... and whatnot, just out of the fear that America is getting ready for war. And America goes on piling up the same atom bombs, hydrogen bombs, in the fear that Russia is getting ready for war. This whole world seems to live out of fear and hatred. Love has been destroyed. For centuries, for thousands of years, your love has been paralyzed and poisoned, so whenever love arises in you, your whole...

.... Create contexts, spaces, where more love can grow. That's what I am doing here: creating a space where your love energies can flow, where they have no hindrance, no obstructions. All the societies of the world have been too much war-oriented, hence they have not allowed love - because if you allow love to flow, war disappears. If you allow love and help love and create contexts for love to grow and...

... for war; we talk about world peace, and we prepare for war. This is sheer neurosis; this is not sanity! Man hitherto has remained insane, and the reason is a wrong upbringing. We have not listened to the buddhas yet. Now it is time! We HAVE to listen to buddhas now. If we don't listen, just a few years more and the whole humanity is doomed. We cannot afford anymore not to listen. ALL LOVE LIFE. Help...

... is the same. This cannot be solved - how nature arranges this, by what method, how this proportion. And then, in the two world wars another problem arose, because in wars the proportion becomes very disproportionate. After the first World War and after every war more children are born than ever. That too is something. In war many people die; immediately nature has to make arrangements. Some unknown...

... force, some unconscious force goes on working. After the war many children are born, but that too is not difficult to understand because it can be explained in other ways - maybe soldiers come back home very starved for sex and they make love more. That may be the cause of it. If that was the only thing, it could have been explained - but more boys are born than ever, and less girls are born, because...

... childish. In India, five thousand years ago a war happened. They call it MAHABHARATA, the Great Indian War. If somebody reads about it and analyzes it deeply, it seems they again had come to invent all the weapons we have invented. They had something like the H-bomb, because the description of the destruction is so vast that it could not have been done otherwise. They destroyed the whole country; not...

... graveyard creates the difficulties, but because of the thought: This is a graveyard - you project. I used to live with one of my relatives. In the night, he gnashed his teeth many times, so I used to play jokes. Whenever somebody new would be staying, I would tell him: Don't move through this room at night, it is very dangerous. A man who used to live here died in the First World War. He had been recently...

... married, married to a very young, beautiful woman - poor but beautiful, but with only one eye. The man went to war and he never came back. Nobody ever informed the poor woman that he had died. She inquired and inquired; she would go again and again to the post office for a letter. It never came. Then the woman also died, just waiting and waiting and waiting. She still waits here as a ghost and whenever...

... wants to become animal. It is very difficult to forget that garden of Eden; it was so beautiful. And there are moments we become animal-like - in deep anger, in violence, in war, we become animal-like. That's the enjoyment of being angry. Why do you feel so happy in being angry? Why do you feel such a rush of energy in destroying something? Why in wartime do people look more radiant, more healthy...

..., more sharp, more intelligent? - as if life is no more a boredom. What happens? Man falls back. Even for a few days, a few months, man again is an animal. Then he knows no law, then he knows no humanity, then he knows no god. Then he simply goes... drops his selfconsciousness, becomes unconscious; murders, kills, rapes - everything is allowed in war. That's why man needs war continuously. After each...

... ten years a big war is needed, and small wars have to be continued continuously. Otherwise it will be difficult for man to live. Man becomes a drunkard, becomes a drug addict. Through chemical drugs, man tries to reclaim the lost home, the lost paradise. When you are under LSD, you are back in the garden of Eden - from the backdoor; LSD is the backdoor of the garden of Eden. Again life seems...

... another monkey. Man is the only animal which kills other men. There is an in-built protection in every animal; zoologists say that every animal carries an in-built mechanism not to kill the same species. But it seems that something has gone wrong with man, he kills his own species. There is nothing like war in the animal world, although individuals fight. Animals have more understanding. If two dogs...

.... It is ordinary arithmetic that the stronger will win, so why fight? There is no need. Hitler can bark at Stalin, Stalin can bark at Hitler and they can both call their mathematician and count who has the most airplanes, the most bombs. Within minutes the thing can be settled - then you just show by your tail. No need to go to war, because a war will only prove what can already be done on a table...

... simply intelligent. He is weak, so what is the need to get into a fight? It is proved, and it is proved innocently without any bloodshed. The same thing is going to be proved even through a fight. Why go to war unnecessarily?' This is more economical. AT THIS THE PRINCE ORDERED HIS ATTENDANTS TO MAKE A CONCERTED ATTACK. Look at the foolishness! Just to kill a monkey a concerted attack is needed, many...