From Politics to Science “In the future, democracy is not going to last long, because the politician is already ignorant before the scientist; he is already in the hands of the scientist. The future belongs to the scientist, not to the politician. “That means we will have to change the word democracy. I have a...
Raman Maharashi: Unconcerned with the World and Transforming Human Beings Osho, Teachers like Raman Maharshi, Meher Baba, George Gurdjieff, and J. Krishnamurti taught controversial ideas, but it seems people get more offended by you. How does your technique differ from other masters? “We will take each of the masters named in the question separately. “Raman...
“Don’t try to be passive because effort belongs to activity. Nobody can try to be passive. Then what to do? “Be totally active, and then passivity comes. It follows like a shadow, it has to come. Think perfectly and then no-thinking comes. You cannot drop thinking. Nothing can be dropped which is incomplete, only the perfect...
The Silent Revolution “Youth is the best time for inner transformation because youth is the most flexible time. Children are more flexible than young people, but they are not so understanding. They need a little experience. Youth is exactly the middle; you are no longer a child, no longer ignorant of life and its ways...
2017 marked the 100th anniversary of the Silent Parade in New York City, where in a demonstration organized by the NAACP, about 10,000 people gathered on July 28, 1917, to march in silence down Fifth Avenue to Madison Square. The march was a response to the wave of lynching and mob violence against black people across...
In the first part of this article, Osho explains “the fundamental cause of creating so many idiots in the world” and how they “serve a certain purpose.” He explains why he sees, “this whole history of mankind” as a “long, unjustified crime against every human individual” which “has served the vested interests: the people who...
Know Yourself, Change the World “Everybody is born as one single individual, but by the time he is mature enough to participate in life he has become a crowd. But most people are not aware of it. “If you just sit silently and listen to your mind, you will find so many voices. You will...
