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A crash course in changing the world.
A new kind of man
BELOVED OSHO,
ONE OF THE TITLES OF THE MASTER’S PRESS IS A ”HISTORY OF THE FUTURE”. IT IS A
BOOK THAT PUTS TOGETHER ALL THE VIEWS OF THE KNOWN PROPHECIES ABOUT OUR
FUTURE, AND TRIES TO SHOW WHAT OUR WORLD WILL BE LIKE IN TWO HUNDRED YEARS.
SINCE YOUR VIEWS OF THE HUMAN RACE AND THIS PLANET ARE VERY SPECIFIC, WE
WOULD LOVE TO INCLUDE YOUR VIEWS OF WHAT MAN WILL GO THROUGH AND OF HOW
HE WILL GO THROUGH IT.
Veet Niten, the first thing to be remembered about my attitude about the future is that all predictions
are guesswork. The future remains always unknown and takes strange turns which no one would
have ever conceived.
Moreover, my approach to life is to not be bothered with past and future. The past is no more, the
future is not yet – all that we have got in our hands is this moment. The past is dead and the future
is unborn.
Keeping this approach in mind, I would like to say a few words. First, there is every possibility that
there will be no future as far as life is concerned. We are coming closer to a dead-end street. It is
sad to recognize the fact, but it is good to recognize it, because then there is the possibility of taking
a different turn. As things are moving today, the logical conclusion is a global suicide.
There is only one hope: that life does not follow logic, that it is irrational. If it was rational,
mathematical and logical, then you could not give more than twenty years to life on this earth.
The reasons are five:
First, the nuclear weapons are piling up every day. Right now, only five countries are nuclear powers.
Within twenty years, twenty-five more countries will have joined the nuclear club. Thirty countries
will have nuclear weapons. Already we have so much nuclear power that the wh*** earth can be
destroyed seven times. And this will show you the insanity of man. Now what is the point of piling
up more and more nuclear weapons?
Everybody is not a Jesus Christ, and everybody is not going to be resurrected again and again and
again – seven times. The truth is, even Jesus himself was never resurrected, because in the first
place he never died.
Just the other day the prime minister of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev, said, ”It is not possible to
calculate how much destructive energy is already available.” Just one submarine – and there are
thousands of submarines moving underwater carrying nuclear weapons – just one submarine is
equal to hundreds of second world wars. So the first problem is nuclear weapons.
The second problem is the immense rate of population growth. By the end of this century we will
have seven billion people on the earth. And the earth is so heavily exploited that it cannot support
that much population. Fifty percent of the population has to die simply of hunger. And just think, if
fifty percent of the people die, what will be the situation of the living ones? There will be nobody
even to carry their corpses to the graveyard; they will be rotting in your streets, in your neighborhood,
even in your own house. The wh*** world will have become a vast graveyard, stinking of death.
No effort is being made by the politicians to prevent the population growth. On the contrary, a few
rich countries of the West, for example Germany – where people are intelligent and can see that
more population means more death, more population means more poverty, more population means
more disease – have stopped producing children. And the politicians of those countries are giving
incentives to produce more children because their population is decreasing.
They are not worried about the wh*** world. Their wh*** worry is... for example, Germany is losing
three thousand people every day and thirty thousand immigrants are entering into Germany. The
politician is not worried about the world, he is worried about his power, his country. If this goes on
for twenty years – that their population goes on decreasing and immigrants go on coming more and
more – the immigrants will be in the majority, they will be the rulers. So before it becomes a problem,
the Germans have to start producing as many children as poor countries are doing. And the same
is the situation of a few other Western countries.
The third problem is the disease AIDS, which is spreading like wildfire. And there seems to be no
possibility, at least in the coming twenty years, of finding a cure for it. Scientists are more or less
certain that there is no cure.
But no country is making celibacy a crime, and celibacy is the cause of the disease AIDS. It is the
monks, the soldiers, the students, who are living separately from women, who become h***sexuals
– and h***sexuality has created the disease. But h***sexuality is only a symptom; the real
problem is celibacy, brahmacharya.
Mahatma Gandhi has written a book, CELIBACY IS LIFE. Now somebody has to write a book,
CELIBACY IS DEATH. And every country is trying to hide the facts: how many h***sexuals they
have, how many people are suffering from AIDS – because no one, no country, wants to be exposed
to the world as h***sexual. But you can see that every day people are dying from AIDS, all over
the world. And AIDS takes time to ripen – it can take years – and then for death, at least two more
years. If so many people are dying, millions around the world must be practicing h***sexuality.
But it seems nobody has the guts to say that celibacy should be made a crime, and that those
who are h***sexuals should not be punished, but trained again to become heterosexuals. Every
college, every school, every hospital, every institution that is concerned with human welfare should
teach h***sexuals, uncondition their mind from h***sexuality and turn it to the natural way, the
well-trodden way of heterosexuality.
All the religions are suffering from it, because they all teach celibacy. But no religion is ready
to accept it, and whenever you don’t accept an enemy you are giving more power to the enemy.
Recognize it, so that you can find ways to fight with the enemy.
The fourth great problem that man is going to face in the coming twenty years is a collapse of the
ecology. We are unaware of how we are destroying our own sources of life in different ways. Life
needs an ecological balance, and that balance is being disturbed.
For example, around the earth is a layer of air. And just on the top of that layer is the ozone layer,
which is a protective seal for the earth. But we have made h***s in it by sending rockets to the moon
and to Mars, which was absolutely unnecessary. You cannot manage the earth and you are starting
to manage the wh*** universe.
The rockets, going out and coming in, have made h***s and those h***s are now turning out to be
one of the most dangerous things – because the sun sends rays and all of the rays are not life-giving.
That layer, the ozone layer, was returning those rays which would bring destruction and disease to
the earth, and was allowing only life-giving rays. But we have made h***s, not only with rockets, but
by other means also, and now all those destructive rays are entering the atmosphere. Our atomic
explosions have destroyed that layer; and there are many gases which scientists are producing –
those gases have also created h***s. Now the wh*** protective seal is no longer protective.
And it is not that the ecology is being disturbed from one direction alone. It is being destroyed by
multi-dimensional methods. For example, because of the acc**ulation of carbon dioxide and manmade
chemicals, the heat of the atmosphere has risen as it has never risen before. For the first
time there is a possibility that the ice on both the poles, north and south, has started melting. It has
never melted before. If all the ice from the north and south poles melts, then all the oceans will rise
by four feet. Cities which are ports, like Bombay, New York, or London, will be filled with water. But
four feet... perhaps we can manage somehow.
The Himalayan ice has never melted, it has been eternally there. If the heat of the atmosphere
rises a little more, then the Himalayan ice will start melting, and that is the greatest danger. And the
heat is rising because nobody is listening, nobody is caring about anything. What happens to future
humanity is nobody’s concern – they are concerned with their power, their politics.
Atomic experiments continue, nuclear experiments continue. And it is a really horrible picture if the
wh*** Himalaya melts; all the seas of the world will rise by forty feet. Perhaps four feet... somehow
we can protect ourselves by creating walls or something, but forty feet higher.... The oceans will
drown all your big cities, all your wealth, because they are all near the ocean.
A forty-foot rising of the oceans has immense implications. All the rivers will start moving backwards,
because the oceans will not absorb them. The land will be flooded with water, and a flood will happen
exactly like the one we read about in the OLD TESTAMENT, which happened in Noah’s time, when
all life and everything got drowned. It has been, up to now, only a story; but the coming twenty years
will see it happen as a fact. And there is nobody, and no way.... In that small story it was possible to
create an ark, because sooner or later the floods would subside. But this is not a flood that is going
to subside.
And the most dangerous thing is the fifth, which is man himself, with all his discriminations between
black and white, between East and West, and a new discrimination has suddenly arisen between
North and South. Humanity is divided by religions, by nations, by color, by race. and they are at
each other’s throats.
To avoid these five dangers, which man has never faced before, seems to be almost impossible
– unless a miracle happens. But miracles happen only in stories, not in real life. And the most
disturbing factor is that the intelligentsia of the world, the politicians of the world, the philosophers of
the world are ignoring all these facts.
It happens in times of danger, that the only way to protect your peace of mind is to ignore the danger.
This is called the ”ostrich logic.” The ostrich lives in the desert, a beautiful animal with a long neck,
very colorful. Whenever the ostrich sees its enemies, other animals who can kill it, it has a strange
logic – but very human. It simply digs a h*** in the sand of the desert and puts its head inside the
h***, because then it cannot see the enemy. And its logic is: if you cannot see the enemy, the enemy
does not exist.
People are concerned about trivia, very stupid things, when great dangers are ahead. I hope that
some sanity comes to humanity and life can be saved, but we will have to encounter all these five
factors very carefully.
The world should have one government, there should not be any nations anymore. That way we
can avoid any possibility of war.
The world should have only one kind of religiousness. Not one religion, just one kind of religiousness
– a gratitude to existence, a loving heart, a meditative awareness. The most essential part of religion
should be saved, and Christianity and Hinduism and Buddhism and Jainism and Mohammedanism
all should disappear from the earth.
They are no longer needed; they have done enough harm. But now the harm is so much that they
cannot be tolerated.
What is the need for nations? The wh*** earth is one.
Problems can be very easily solved if there is only one functional world government. Politicians will
not like the idea because then they cannot go on bragging as presidents and prime ministers and
cabinet ministers and parliamentarians do. If there is only one world government – and that too
has to be functional, just like the post office or railway trains – somebody has to arrange things, so
somebody should arrange things. And whoever is most capable technically, scientifically to tackle
the problem, should manage it – but not because of votes.
It is a strange situation that the most important things – your prime ministers, your presidents, your
education ministers – are chosen by votes, votes of people who are absolutely ignorant of what they
are doing. So there are education ministers who know nothing about education; there are prime
ministers who have nothing to do with all these vast problems and don’t even have the intelligence
to tackle them.
You don’t choose doctors, you don’t choose surgeons: ”It is a democracy, we will choose the
surgeon; whoever gets the most votes will become the surgeon.” Then instead of surgery there
would be butchery, and that is exactly what is happening.
Merit should be decisive, not the power of votes. And the meritorious should be invited because the
meritorious are not the ones who are going to beg for votes. A man of merit has a certain dignity.
Politicians don’t have any dignity. They are beggars.
Although all the religions have been preaching celibacy, nobody raises the question: Is celibacy
natural? Is it humanly possible to be celibate? Can any scientist, or any medical expert, or any
psychologist support the idea of celibacy? Nobody is going to say a single word against celibacy –
that it is bringing all kinds of sexual perversions into humanity. Perhaps AIDS is only a beginning;
even more dangerous diseases may be coming up.
And last I mention man. Man is not contemporary; he lives a thousand years back – and everything
else has changed. His anger is the same, his fighting instinct is the same as when he used to have
stone weapons. Now, the same man who used to have stone weapons has nuclear weapons. Man
has not changed, and the technology has given him more and more destructive power.
If there is going to be a world war, it is going to be a push-button war. Nobody will be seen fighting in
the field. Just from the White House, or from the Kremlin, the prime minister or the president simply
pushes a button, and the wh*** world goes into the mouth of death. Nobody is going to win and
nobody is going to defeat... it is such a stupid concept of war. Wars were fought for victory, but now
the war is going to end all of them, friends and enemies, because both are capable of destroying
each other.
It has been calculated that if the Soviet Union attacks America or America attacks the Soviet Union,
which is more possible – in these last few months Ronald Reagan has shown his real face: he is
absolutely stubborn, adamant, is not ready to stop creating more nuclear weapons – but whoever
attacks first, the difference will be only of ten minutes; the other will be able to attack within ten
minutes. So the only thing is, who was ten minutes before and who was ten minutes after – no
question of defeat, no question of victory, because there will be nobody left to write the history.
It is a good idea, Veet Niten, to write the history now, because after twenty years perhaps there will
be nobody to write history. You have a very beautiful idea, the history of the future. We have always
been writing the history of the past; nobody has written the history of the future. But this is the right
time to write it, because after twenty years there will be nobody to write it, and nobody to print it, and
nobody to read it.
If you raise questions which are so dangerous, people will be annoyed with you. I have turned the
wh*** world into my enemy for the simple reason that I go on pulling the necks of the ostriches out
of the sand, and tell them that it does not matter whether you see the enemy or not. It is better to
see, because by seeing you may have some way to escape, but putting your head into the sand
you are absolutely defenseless. But the shuturmurg, this ostrich, feels very happy when his head is
underneath the sand. If you pull his neck out he becomes angry, because again he has to see the
enemy. Nobody wants to see the enemy. If we are fully aware of all the enemies....
Nuclear weapons have to be drowned in the Pacific Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean has to be banned
for a few years to any kind of traffic. The Pacific Ocean is five miles deep; the name is also very
significant, it means ”peaceful”. All the nuclear weapons, whoever possesses them, should go into
the Pacific.
Celibacy should be a severe crime all over the world. All the monks and nuns should be allowed
to marry each other, and it should not be thought that marriage or a love-relationship is against
spirituality.
But people are so idiotic. Just the other day I came to know that the bishop of London, who ranks
third in the hierarchy of the Church of England – the Archbishop of Canterbury is the first, he is
the third, just one man is in between – has threatened the Church of England that if women are
accepted as priests, then he will create a division in the Church of England. He will separate, with
all those who are against women’s initiation into becoming priests, bishops, cardinals.
People are concerned with such stupid problems. My feeling is that this is a way of avoiding the real
problems. This is the ostrich’s logic. For forty years continuously, there is a district in Maharashtra,
Belgaum, where they have been fighting about whether Belgaum should be in Maharashtra, or it
should be in Karnataka, another state on the border of Maharashtra. And they have been killing
each other; riots have been happening, arson has been happening.
Strange people. What does it matter whether Belgaum is in Karnataka or in Maharashtra? And if
you want to decide, let the Belgaum people decide it – they can vote on where they want to go.
Under impartial observers this can be decided within two hours. For forty years they have been
killing each other – and the problem remains where it was when the British left India. And I cannot
conceive at all that, whether Belgaum is in Karnataka or in Maharashtra... what difference does it
make? Maharashtra and Gujarat were fighting for Bombay. Gujaratis and Maharashtrians had been
killing each other because... where should Bombay go, in Gujarat or in Maharashtra? Bombay will
remain where it is.
I remember a beautiful story: When India was partitioned into India and Pakistan, on the border
there was a madhouse. Obviously nobody was interested in that madhouse – thousands of mad
people – but it had to be somewhere. The superintendent of the madhouse called a meeting of all
the mad people and asked ,”You raise your hands whether you want to go to India or you want to go
to Pakistan.” They said, ”We want to live here. We don’t want to go anywhere.”
The superintendent tried hard, ”You will not be going anywhere, you will remain here.” But the
madmen could not understand. ”If we will remain here then what’s the problem? Then why are
you asking, ‘Who wants to go to India and who wants to go to Pakistan?’ We are all friends and we
want to remain here.”
The superintendent could not explain to them the idea that their madhouse would belong to India,
or it would belong to Pakistan. They said, ”It does not matter. What is the problem? Why are you so
worried?”
Finally it was decided that these people were not going to understand anything, so it was better
to divide the madhouse into two parts. A wall was raised in the middle, and half the madhouse
remained in India and half the madhouse became part of Pakistan.
I have heard that still the mad people climb on the wall from both sides and laugh at the wh*** matter,
saying, ”We are where we used to be. What happened to that ‘going to India,’ ‘going to Pakistan’?
Nobody has gone anywhere, and unnecessarily they have created this wall!” Small things go on
keeping the human mind involved, so it cannot tackle the real problems.
I have told you there are five real problems which are going to destroy humanity. Solutions are very
easy, but it is a big madhouse; nobody seems to understand.
All nuclear weapons into the Pacific.
The wh*** idea of celibacy has to be condemned as a crime, and the h***sexuals have to be
trained – they have become perverted – for heterosexuality.
But you will be surprised... the parliament of Holland prevented my entry into Holland, like many
other countries. When the question was asked, the minister concerned answered, ”Osho has been
prevented from coming into Holland: first, he is a dangerous man, he corrupts people’s minds;
second, in one of his statements he has appreciated Adolf Hitler.” Out of context... I had made one
statement, in which I had said that Adolf Hitler was a greater saint than Mahatma Gandhi. He never
produced a single child, he was always going to bed early and getting up early in the morning, he
was not using any kind of alcoholic beverage, and – you will be surprised – he was a vegetarian.
So I was simply joking, that if saintliness consists of these things then Adolf Hitler has defeated
Mahatma Gandhi very easily. Mahatma Gandhi took the vow of celibacy after he had created four
children. At that age one naturally wants to get rid of sex, because it is simply tiring. The American
Medical Association has exposed that there are millions of people in America alone – to say nothing
about the wh*** world – who have a migraine whenever they make love. They are doing great
research into why they have a migraine after making love – after making love they should have a
good sleep.
But to show you an example of conditioning: the scientists and the medical people who are doing
the research into why the migraine happens are finding all kinds of causes, except the real cause.
The real cause is Christianity, because sex has been condemned; so their minds are divided – half
of their mind is against sex and half of their mind wants to go the natural way. This creates the
tension.
I am not a medical man, I am not a scientist, but I can say with absolute authority that it is the
condemnation of sex that is creating the migraine. Because the researchers are all Christians, they
will find out many things, but they will not look at a simple psychological fact that no aboriginal ever
has a migraine after making love. All these millions of people are Christian, and most of them are
very pious and religious people. It is their religion that is creating the migraine because it is creating
a split. And a migraine is nothing but a split in the head – one part wants to go, one part pulls back –
naturally a migraine will be the result. All condemnation of sex and all appreciation of celibacy should
be absolutely stopped; otherwise we cannot get rid of AIDS. It is going to spread – it is spreading.
It is a simple fact that the earth is undivided. What is the need for so many nations, except that
they fulfill so many people’s ego trips? There is no other need. Why should Germany be afraid of
immigrants, and give incentives to Germans to produce more children, when the earth is dying from
overpopulation? If there was one world government we could shift population from one place to
another place. Wherever the population starts decreasing, it should be replaced by the increasing
population from other nations.
Once we accept that the world is one, then there is no need to destroy, every year, billions of dollars’
worth of food in America, in Europe. They have to destroy it, and people in the East are dying. In
Ethiopia one thousand people were dying every day, and at that very time in Europe they wasted two
billion dollars in carrying their foodstuffs to be drowned in the ocean. If the world is one, and some
countries are producing more and some countries have become barren, the food can be distributed
very easily.
If religions disappear from the world, then many idiotic things will disappear with them. They are
against birth control, although they know perfectly well that Jesus is the only begotten son of God
– God created only one son in the wh*** of eternity. He must be practicing birth control; otherwise
why only one son? – at least one daughter as well. But the religions are against birth control, they
are against abortion, without any feeling for the danger of overpopulation – that the world will kill
itself.
That death will be very cruel because it does not come immediately; when a person dies because
of hunger, it takes months of torture and suffering. A healthy man can live without food for three
months; then he will die, because the healthy man has a reservoir of energy in his body, which is for
emergency purposes. But even the poorest man, the sickest man, will take a few days, a few weeks
to die. Those few weeks of hunger are going to be absolute hell.
But religions are concerned with creating more children because more children means more power
– power in two ways: more votes, and more fodder for your cannons in war.
For twenty to thirty years absolute birth control should be practiced. It is not a question of democracy,
because it is a choice between life and death. If the wh*** world is going to die, what are you going
to do with your democracy? Democracy will be the rule then – for the graves, of the graves, by the
graves – because people will have disappeared.
Religions carry superstitions of all kinds which are hindering your intelligence, your vision, your
possibility of creating a new man in the world.
One thing is certain – the old humanity is going to die. If we can make the people of the world
understand, then a new kind of man can survive.
He will be a citizen of the world – no nations.
He will be religious – but no religion.
He will be scientific – but not destructive; his wh*** science will be devoted to creation.
He will be pious, compassionate, loving – but not celibate; that is a kind of lunacy. A celibate is a
lunatic.
The new man will stop all kinds of experiments which are increasing the heat of the atmosphere
around the earth, because the priority is life, not your experiments. The new man will not send
rockets to create h***s from which death-rays can enter into our atmosphere; there is no need at
all. And if the need arises, then you should also be prepared to close those h***s – the moment the
rocket goes out, the h*** is closed; the moment the rocket comes in, the h*** is closed.
That is the only way to avoid the seas bringing the old story of the flood in which everything was
destroyed... and now even Noah’s Ark will not help, because the flood will never recede.
A new man without any burden of the past, more meditative, more silent, more loving... all the
universities, rather than wasting their time on superficial subjects, should devote time to creating
more consciousness in man. But football seems to be more important. It is one of the most idiotic
games... and millions of people go mad when there is a football match.
I know one of my friends – he is a professor – he takes leave when there is a football match. If he
cannot go to the match itself, then he sits in front of his television set. I was staying with him, he
lives in Amritsar. Television came first to Pakistan, because Pakistan is an ally of America; it came to
India almost twenty years afterwards. But Amritsar is only fifteen miles away from Pakistan, so they
were enjoying Pakistani programs on television, even when in India there was no television. I was
staying with that friend, and I got fed up sitting in the room, because seeing a football match... it is
so idiotic – millions of people are going mad, as if something very crucial is involved. And because
the team that he was identified with was defeated, he threw his television set on the floor, he was so
angry.
I said, ”You must be an idiot! That I knew from the very beginning, but what is the crime of the poor
television set?”
He said, ”I became so enraged. It is absolutely unjust.”
But I said, ”It may be unjust or just, the television set is not concerned in it.”
He said, ”It is not a question of the television set. I was so angry, I wanted to destroy something.”
In a Californian university, for one year they have been studying... that whenever there is a boxing
match – which is the ugliest thing you can conceive of, people hitting on each other’s noses....
Boxing proves Charles Darwin is right: man has come from animals and still has animal instincts in
him. The report of the California university is very significant: whenever there is a boxing match,
crime rates go fourteen percent higher immediately, and they remain at that level for at least one
week – fourteen percent higher.
Just seeing people hitting each other, their own animal becomes alive – more murders, more rape,
more suicides. It takes seven days for them to calm down, back to their normal criminality. Still,
boxing is not banned. The same happens with football matches.
You will be surprised to know that American researchers have found that the crime rate is always
on the increase. But a new phenomenon has started, and that is small children committing crimes,
which has never happened before – thirteen-year-old boys, twelve-year-old boys trying to rape girls;
ten-year-old boys, nine-year-old boys murdering, assassinating; seven-year-olds, eight-year-olds
taking drugs – and in millions. Now drugs are not thought to be for adult people, but for primary
school children.
But nobody seems to be concerned about why this is happening. It can be prevented. People use
drugs because without drugs they are so much in anguish and anxiety drugs calm down their minds
for a few hours. But again the problems are back. Unless meditation becomes an absolute in every
educational institution, drugs cannot be prohibited. You can prohibit... they go underground. Man
has to be taught some other ways of becoming calm and quiet and blissful, then there is no need for
all these things.
A fourteen-year-old boy committing rape simply shows that you have to change your attitudes about
sex. Boys and girls should be raised in hostels together; they should be allowed to make love with no
inhibition. Up to a certain age there is no problem, because the girls are not going to get pregnant,
so it is simply a game, a joyful game they can enjoy. But rape is a crime – and you are responsible
for it.
By the time the girls are of the age that they can become pregnant, the pill should be available in
every institution. And now there are pills available for men also; either the girl can take it or the boy
can take it. In the past it used to happen sometimes that you had not taken the pill, and suddenly
you met your lover – and man always thinks, ”This is not going to happen to ME....” But now they
have found a new pill which can be taken after love-making. It is more secure.
Things should be thought about in a scientific way, not in a superstitious way; then there is a
possibility of man’s future. In many countries now they are declaring h***sexuality a crime – that will
make h***sexuality go underground. This I call unintelligent. They should create special campuses
for h***sexuals, with absolute respect for their dignity. They can move to a special campus. Near
every big city beautiful campuses should be available, where h***sexuals can move, so that the
disease does not spread among the general public. And among h***sexuals there are many who
are suffering from AIDS, so there should be a special section in the h***sexual campus for the
AIDS people.
No disrespect should be shown to them, but compassion. They are victims of religious ideologies.
And there are doctors who are h***sexuals, there are doctors who are suffering from AIDS. These
doctors should be moved to those campuses. We can prevent the rest of humanity from being
affected, and without destroying the dignity of the h***sexuals or the people who are suffering from
AIDS. It is so simple, and they will not be a burden on society. They can work, they can produce,
they can do whatsoever they are skilled in; but they should remain in their own monastery. I call it a
monastery, h***sexual monasteries.
If we take a serious step against all these five dangers that are facing humanity, Veet Niten, there is
a possibility of a new man, of a better man, of a natural man, of a healthier man, of a more religious
man in the future... a world without wars, without nations, without religions... a world peaceful,
loving... a world in search of truth, of bliss, of ecstasy.
But if these five problems are not solved immediately, there is no future possible.
You should start writing your book, A HISTORY OF THE FUTURE, as quickly as possible, because
most probably there is not going to be any future.
CHAPTER 2. THE NEW MAN: A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD
The Razor’s Edge - Osho
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Comment by Samiran Roy on May 7, 2010 at 2:11pm
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Some of his theories are a bit 'edgy'
"A fourteen-year-old boy committing rape simply shows that you have to change your attitudes about
sex. Boys and girls should be raised in hostels together; they should be allowed to make love with no
inhibition. Up to a certain age there is no problem, because the girls are not going to get pregnant,
so it is simply a game, a joyful game they can enjoy. But rape is a crime – and you are responsible
for it."
The result:
http://www.thatvideosite.com/video/school_dances_sure_have_changed
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Comment by Turil Cronburg on May 7, 2010 at 2:20pm
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Is this something you're writing? Or have written? It's interesting and challenging! It definitely starts to get at some of the more deep issues that tend to be glossed over and never really dealt with in much of the world.
I will add that I don't see a need to "make" anyone do anything, as evolution tends to be very efficient at allowing the most resilient, adaptable individuals to pass on the most valuable parts of themselves into the future, while allowing the less resilient and adaptable individuals to live out their lives usually with at least a modic** of respect. (We still think dinosaurs are pretty damned cool even if they did turn out to be totally useless at living on this planet.)
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Turil, its from a book The Razor’s Edge by Osho.The Razor's Edge.pdf
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Also, evolution happens differently for humans.
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I didn't know who Osho was. I guessed it was you, since you were posting it.
And I agree that evolution is different for all individuals (at the level of an individual like me and at the level of individual species), but in general, it's the law of nature. Humans may indeed adapt very differently than, say, cockroaches, but the unending force of entropy will always (as far as I can tell, at least) be there weeding out the less creative forces in some way.
And, thanks for that video. It's both funny, wonderful, challenging, and disturbing all at the same time. We humans do like to make some things far more complicated and overly serious than they need to be sometimes, in an effort to keep people safe. But safety at the expense of freedom is always a danger. Kids do love to explore their bodies, and look to adults to be their role models, so it's not at all surprising (and usually quite healthy) for kids to play at sexual stuff. Figuring out how to help them stay healthy while being free to be themselves is not an easy task.
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