Once you create a philosophy, an opinion,you are already on the warpath. If there is ideology, there is going to be fight. This is the predicament: there are people who want the world to be without wars, but they have ideologies and their ideologies create wars
The first step toward a healthy life is to accept one’s state of unhealthiness. If mankind was only just beginning to be haunted by terrorism, things would be very easy. But mankind has always been haunted by terrorism,hence the matter is very complex. The forms of terrorism have changed – this insanity has been taking on newer and newer colours, newer and newer forms – but in the whole history of mankind, except for a few people who can be counted on the fingers of two hands, all the remaining people have been sick in one way or another. These sicknesses are as old as man himself, and that is why whenever someone has tried to eliminate these sicknesses, these insanities, insane humanity has eliminated the very man himself.
The people who poisoned Socrates and who put Jesus on the cross are proof of it. What Socrates was saying was providing the right diagnosis in order to make man healthy again, but the crowd does not want to accept that it is insane.And any man who wants to become healthy has first to accept this much: that he is not healthy.This is where the difficulty comes in.
There are thousands of madhouses in the world, but there is not a single madman ready to accept that he is mad. Every madman tries to prove that the whole world may be mad,but he is not.
The people in whose lives an inner revolution has taken place, who have become transformed, are that very handful of people who have accepted that they were insane, that they were sick, that they were restless.
The first step toward a healthy life is to accept one’s state of unhealthiness.
But if someone says to you that you are beautiful, it feels very good, and if someone says that you are not beautiful, it feels very bad. If someone says to you that you are right, it feels good, it reassures, it consoles. And if someone exposes your wounds to you, that man seems like the enemy.
The causes of man’s unhealthiness are very clearcut. First of all, man has made unnaturalness the goal of life instead of the natural. Our eyes are focused on the unnatural, instead of the natural.
The more unnatural a man becomes, the more we respect him: he is a sadhu, a saint, a great soul, a siddha. Our respect inspires him to become even more unnatural, and our respect becomes a thirst within us to follow him also, to follow in his footsteps, because we see that the whole world is giving this man respect: I may be wrong, but the whole world cannot be wrong.
But how did this happen? “Once you create a philosophy, an opinion, you are already on the warpath. If there is ideology, there is going to be fight.
This is the predicament: there are people who want the world to be without wars, but they have ideologies and their ideologies create wars.
What’s really frightening is I just can’t see an end to this chaos. 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.
our respect inspires him to become even more unnatural, and our respect becomes a thirst within us to follow him also, to follow in his footsteps,because we see that the whole world is giving this man respect: I may be wrong, but the whole world cannot be wrong.
“Terrorism simply symbolises 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.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.
Isn’t there a light at the end of this tunnel?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. But how is meditation going to stop a suicide bomber?
The terrorism is not in the bombs in your hands; the terrorism is in your unconscious.
So ideology goes out the window as meditation leads to love? “... if people start meditating,if people start loving their bodies, loving their minds, and out of love peacefully transcending towards a state of no-mind, they will not belong to any stupid ideology.
By osho
