Fwd: The world will never be peaceful unless old values are removed

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Words of Osho..............

 

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[RiverIIOsho] The world will never be peaceful unless old

values are removed

 

 

 

Beloved Osho,

I've heard that in Europe the threat of terrorism is striking fear in

everyone. Airplanes are delayed by extraordinary security measures,

many of the seats are empty. And some airports are closing, people

are even thinking twice about going out in the evening. And all this

is more prevalent since the recent bombing of Libya. Is the rise of

terrorism over the last decade in some way symbolic of what is

happening to society in general?

//Osho://

EVERYTHING IS DEEPLY RELATED with everything else that happens.

The event of terrorism is certainly related with what is happening in

the society. THE SOCIETY IS FALLING APART. Its old order, discipline,

morality, religion, everything has been found to be wrongly based. It

has lost its power over people's conscience.

TERRORISM SIMPLY SYMBOLIZES THAT TO DESTROY HUMAN BEINGS DOES NOT

MATTER, that there is nothing in human beings which is

indestructible, that it is all matter -- and you cannot kill matter,

you can only change its form. Once man is taken to be only a

combination of matter, and no place is given for a spiritual being

inside him, then to kill becomes just play.

 

THE NATIONS ARE IRRELEVANT BECAUSE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS. If the

whole world can be destroyed together within minutes, the alternative

can only be that the whole world should be together. Now it cannot

remain divided; its division is dangerous, because DIVISION CAN

BECOME WAR ANY MOMENT. The division cannot be tolerated.

 

ONLY ONE WAR IS ENOUGH TO DESTROY EVERYTHING. And there is not

much time left for man to understand that we should create a world

where the very possibility of war does not exist.

 

TERRORISM HAS MANY UNDERCURRENTS. One is that because of nuclear

weapons, the nations are pouring their energy into that field,

thinking that the old weapons are out of date. They are out of date,

but individuals can start using them. And you cannot use nuclear

weapons against individuals -- that would be simply stupid. One

individual terrorist throws a bomb -- it does not justify that a

nuclear missile should be sent.

 

What I want to emphasize is that THE NUCLEAR WEAPON HAS GIVEN

INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE A CERTAIN FREEDOM TO USE OLD WEAPONS, a freedom

which was not possible in the old days because the governments were

also using the same weapons. Now the governments are concentrated on

destroying the old weapons, throwing them in the ocean, selling them

to countries which are poor and cannot afford nuclear weapons.

 

And all those terrorists are coming from these poor countries,

with the same weapons that have been sold to their countries. And

they have a strange protection: you cannot use nuclear weapons

against them, you cannot throw atom bombs at them. THEY CAN THROW

BOMBS AT YOU AND YOU ARE SUDDENLY IMPOTENT.

 

You have a vast amount of atomic bombs, nuclear bombs in your

hands -- but sometimes where a needle is useful, a sword may not be

of any use. You may have the sword; that does not mean that you are

necessarily in a superior position to the man who has a needle,

because there are purposes in which only the needle will work -- the

sword will not be of any use.

 

Those small weapons from the old times were piling up, and the

big powers had to dispose of them -- either drown them in the

ocean... That means so much money, so much manpower, so much energy

has gone to waste. Economically it was disastrous. But just to go on

piling them up was also economically impossible. How many weapons you

can gather? There is a limit. And when you get a new way of killing

people more efficiently, then the old simply has to be gotten rid of.

It was thought that it was better to sell them to poor countries.

 

Poor countries cannot create nuclear weapons -- it costs too

much. And these weapons were coming cheap -- as help. They accepted

it, but these weapons cannot be used in a war. In a war these weapons

are already useless. But nobody has seen the possibility that THESE

WEAPONS CAN BE USED INDIVIDUALLY, and a new phenomenon -- TERRORISM --

can come out of it.

 

NOW, A TERRORIST HAS A STRANGE POWER, EVEN OVER THE GREATEST

POWERS. He can throw bombs at the White House without any fear,

because what you have is too big and you cannot throw it at him. And

these are the weapons sold by you! But the phenomenon was not

conceived of, because human psychology is not understood.

 

My understanding is that the way he has lived, MAN NEEDS A WAR

EVERY TEN TO TWELVE YEARS. He accumulates so much anger, so much

rage, so much violence, that NOTHING SHORT OF A WAR WILL GIVE HIM

RELEASE. So, war after war, there is a gap of only ten to fifteen

years. That gap is a kind of relaxation. But again you start

accumulating, because the same psychology is working -- the same

jealousy, the same violence.

 

AND MAN IS BASICALLY A HUNTER; he is not by nature vegetarian.

First he became a hunter, and for thousands of years he was just a

meat-eater, and cannibalism was prevalent everywhere. To eat human

beings caught from the opposing tribe you were fighting with was

perfectly ethical. ALL THAT IS CARRIED IN THE UNCONSCIOUS OF HUMANITY.

 

Religions have imposed things on man very superficially; his

unconscious is not in agreement. EVERY MAN IS LIVING IN A

DISAGREEMENT WITH HIMSELF. So whenever he can find a chance -- for a

beautiful cause; freedom, democracy, socialism -- any beautiful word

which can become an umbrella to hide his ugly unconscious, which

simply wants to destroy and enjoys destruction. Now the world war has

become almost impossible; otherwise there would have been no

terrorism.

 

Enough time has passed since the second world war; THE THIRD

WORLD WAR SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED NEAR-ABOUT 1960. It has not happened.

This has been the routine for the whole of history, and man is

programmed for it.

 

It has been observed by psychologists that IN WARTIME PEOPLE ARE

MORE HAPPY THAN IN PEACETIME. In wartime their life has a thrill; in

peacetime they look bored. In wartime, early in the morning they are

searching for the newspaper, listening to the radio. Things may be

happening far away, but they are excited. Something in them feels an

affinity.

 

A war that should have happened somewhere between 1955 and 1960

has not happened, and MAN IS BURDENED WITH THE DESIRE TO KILL, WITH

THE DESIRE TO DESTROY. It is just that he wants good names for it.

 

TERRORISM IS GOING TO BECOME BIGGER AND BIGGER, because the third

world war is almost impossible. And the stupid politicians have no

other alternative. Terrorism simply means that what was being done on

a social scale, now has to be done individually. It will grow.

 

It can only be prevented if we change the very base of human

understanding -- which is a Himalayan task; more so because these

same people whom you want to change will fight you; THEY WON'T ALLOW

YOU TO CHANGE THEM EASILY. In fact they love bloodshed; they don't

have the courage to say so....

 

Until we change the basic grounds of humanity, TERRORISM IS GOING

TO BECOME MORE AND MORE A NORMAL, EVERYDAY AFFAIR. It will happen in

the airplanes, it will happen in the buses. It will start happening

in the cars. It will start happening to strangers. Somebody will

suddenly come and shoot you -- not that you have done anything to

him, but just that the hunter is back.

 

The hunter was satisfied in the war. Now the war has stopped and

perhaps there is no possibility for it. The hunter is back. Now we

cannot fight collectively. EACH INDIVIDUAL HAS TO DO SOMETHING TO

RELEASE HIS OWN STEAM. Things are interconnected.

 

The first thing that has to be changed is that MAN SHOULD BE MADE

MORE REJOICING -- WHICH ALL THE RELIGIONS HAVE KILLED. The real

criminals are not caught. These are the victims: the terrorists and

other criminals. But it is all THE RELIGIONS WHO ARE THE REAL

CRIMINALS, because they have destroyed all possibilities of

rejoicing. They have destroyed the possibility of enjoying small

things of life; they have condemned everything that nature provides

you to make you happy, to make you feel excited, feel pleasant. They

have taken everything away. And if they have not been able to take

few things away because they are so ingrained in your biology -- like

sex -- they have at least been able to poison it.

 

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, according to me, is one of the greatest

seers of the Western world; his eyes really go penetrating to the

very root of a problem. But because others could not see it -- their

eyes were not so penetrating, nor was their intelligence so sharp --

the man lived alone, abandoned, isolated, unloved, unrespected.

 

He says in one of his statements that MAN HAS BEEN TAUGHT BY

RELIGIONS TO CONDEMN SEX, TO RENOUNCE SEX. Religion has not been able

to manage it; and man has tried hard but has failed, because it is so

deeply rooted in his biology -- it constitutes his whole body. He is

born out of sex -- how he can get rid of it except by committing

suicide? So man has tried, and religions have helped him to get rid

of it -- thousands of disciplines and strategies have been used. The

total result is that sex is there, but poisoned.

 

That word poisoned is a tremendous insight. Religions have not

been able to take it away, but they have been certainly successful in

poisoning it. And the same is the situation about other things:

RELIGIONS ARE CONDEMNING YOUR LIVING IN COMFORT. Now a man who is

living in comfort and luxury cannot become a terrorist. Religions

have condemned riches, praised poverty.

 

NOW A MAN WHO IS RICH CANNOT BE A TERRORIST. Only the " blessed

ones " who are poor can be terrorists -- because they have nothing to

lose, and they are boiling up against the whole of society because

others have things they don't have. Religions have been trying to

console them.

 

But then came COMMUNISM -- a materialist religion -- which

provoked people and said to them that, " Your old religions are all

opium to the people, and it is not because of your evil actions in

this life or in the past lives that you are suffering poverty. It is

because of the evil exploitation of the bourgeois, the super-rich,

that you are suffering. "

 

The last sentence in Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto is:

Proletariats of the whole world unite; you have nothing to lose and

you have the whole world to gain. " You are already poor, hungry,

naked -- so what you can lose? Your death will not make you more

miserable than your life is making you. So why not take a chance and

destroy those people who have taken everything away from you. And

take those things back, distribute them. "

 

What religions have somehow been consoling people with --

although it was wrong and it was cunning and it was a lie, but it

kept people in a state of being half asleep -- communism suddenly

made them aware of. That means THIS WORLD IS NOW NEVER GOING TO BE

PEACEFUL IF WE DON'T WITHDRAW ALL THE ROTTEN IDEAS THAT HAVE BEEN

IMPLANTED IN MAN.

 

The first are the religions -- their values should be removed so

that man can smile again, can laugh again, can rejoice again, can be

natural again. Second, WHAT COMMUNISM IS SAYING HAS TO BE PUT CLEARLY

BEFORE THE PEOPLE -- THAT IT IS PSYCHOLOGICALLY WRONG. You are

falling from one trap into another.

 

NO TWO MEN ARE EQUAL; hence the ideal of equality is nonsense.

And if you decide to be equal then you have to accept a dictatorship

of the proletariat. That means you have to lose your freedom. First

the church took away your freedom, then God took away your freedom.

NOW COMMUNISM REPLACES YOUR CHURCH, AND IT WILL TAKE AWAY YOUR

FREEDOM. And without freedom you cannot rejoice. You live in fear,

not in joy.

 

If we can clean the basement of the human mind's unconscious...

and that's what my work is... It can be cleaned away. THE TERRORISM

IS NOT IN THE BOMBS IN YOUR HANDS; THE TERRORISM IS IN YOUR

UNCONSCIOUS. Otherwise, this state of affairs is going to grow more

bitter. And it seems all kinds of blind people have bombs in their

hands and are throwing them at random.

 

The third world war would have released people for ten or fifteen

years. But the third world war cannot happen because if it happens it

won't relieve people, it will only destroy people. So individual

violence will increase -- it is increasing. And all your governments

and all your religions will go on perpetuating the old strategies

without understanding the new situation.

 

The new situation is that EVERY HUMAN BEING needs to go through

therapies, needs to understand his unconscious intentions, NEEDS TO

GO THROUGH MEDITATIONS so that he can calm down, become cool -- and

look towards the world with a new perspective of silence.

 

OSHO

 

Beyond Psychology

Ch #18: Terrorism is in your unconscious

am in Uruguay 1986

 

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