WORLD of DUALITY:
Society
Our nature is bliss, but we have fallen asleep,
we are unconscious.
-OSHO
"All the great masters in the world have been saying only one thing down (through) the centuries, "Have your own mind and have your own individuality. Don't be a part of the crowd; don't be a wheel in the whole mechanism of a vast society. Be individual, on your own. Live life with your own eyes; listen to music with your own ears." But we are not doing anything with our own ears, with our own eyes, with our own minds; everything is being taught, and we are following it."
-OSHO
"The more you become a part of society, the less and less you are an individual, the less and less you are spontaneous -- because the very membership in the society will not allow you to be spontaneous. You will have to follow the rules of the game. If you enter a society, you accept to follow those rules that the society is playing, or has decided to play."
-OSHO
"The society needs slaves; it is afraid of free people. The society talks about freedom but never allows anybody to be really free."
-OSHO
"Man lives under a great hypnosis. Man lives under deep conditionings: the society has conditioned you, the state has conditioned you, the priest, the politician, the culture, the religion, the church -- all their investments are there in your deep sleep. They don't want you to be awake. Once humanity is awake, there can be no politician possible. Once humanity is awake, there can be no priest possible. Once humanity is awake, temples, churches, religions, will disappear from the earth. This whole exploitation is possible because man lives in sleep. The exploitation is possible because man is miserable -- only a miserable humanity can be exploited."
-OSHO
"I said you wanna be startin'
somethin'. You
got to be startin' somethin'.
It's too high to get
over. Too low to
get under. You're
stuck in the middle.
And the pain is thunder."
-Michael Jackson,
("Wanna Be Starting
Something")
"Society has exploited the individual in so many ways that it is almost impossible to believe. It has created devices so clever and cunning that it is almost impossible even to detect that they are devices. These devices are to exploit the individual, to destroy his integrity, to take away from him all that he has got – without even creating a suspicion in him, even a doubt about what is being done to him.
Jealousy is one
of those tremendously powerful devices. From the very childhood
every society, every culture, every religion teaches everybody
comparison. And the child is bound to learn it. He is just a tabula
rasa, a blank paper without any writing; so whatsoever the parents,
the teachers, the priests write on him, he starts believing that is
his destiny, it is his fate. Man comes into existence with all the
doors open, all directions available; all the dimensions are for
him to choose. But before he can choose, before he can be, before
he can even feel his being, he is spoiled.
Jealousy is one
of the greatest devices. Look at it very closely: what does it
mean? Jealousy means to live in
comparison.
Somebody is higher than you, somebody is lower than you. You are always somewhere on a middle rung of the ladder. Perhaps the ladder is a circle because nobody finds the end of the ladder. Everybody is stuck somewhere in the middle, everybody is in the middle. The ladder seems to be a round wheel.
The society is very cunning, very clever. It has polished, refined its methods over thousands of years. Why can’t you get out of the circle? – because somebody is below you and that gives you tremendous satisfaction.
Certainly, if you go on in this way – being jealous and competitive of everybody around you – how can you come to yourself? The world is too big, and there are so many people and you are in competition with everybody… and you are."
-OSHO
"You don’t live a life from within; you are imitators. Your whole interest is exhibition: how to show that you are better than others, how to show that you are richer than others, how to show that you are more intelligent than others. In fact, it is only the unintelligent person who ever compares himself with others. The really intelligent never compares, because each individual is unique and comparison is impossible."
-OSHO
"Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears. Each is unique and incomparable. You are just yourself: nobody has ever been like you, and nobody will ever be like you. And you need not be like anybody else, either. God creates only originals; he does not believe in carbon copies."
-OSHO
"Society gives the feeling to every person that he is worthless. It is a political strategy. Once a person gets the idea that he is worthless, he cannot choose a path of his own, he will follow the crowd."
-OSHO
The Wiz is a 1978 musical film by Sidney Lumet
"No society wants you to become wise: it is against the investment of all societies. If people are wise they cannot be exploited. If they are intelligent they cannot be subjugated, they cannot be forced into a mechanical life, to live like robots. They will assert themselves -- they will assert their individuality. They will have the fragrance of rebellion around them; they will want to live in freedom.
Freedom comes with wisdom, intrinsically -- they are inseparable -- and no society wants people to be free. The communist society, the fascist society, the capitalist society, the Hindu, the Mohammedan, the Christian -- no society likes people to use their own intelligence because the moment they start using their intelligence they become dangerous, dangerous to the establishment, dangerous to the people who are in power, dangerous to the "haves"; dangerous to all kinds of oppression, exploitation, suppression; dangerous to the churches, dangerous to the states, dangerous to the nations."
-OSHO
"And Jesus was crucified, not because whatsoever he was saying was wrong -- never have such true words been asserted on this earth -- but he was sacrificed to the society because the way he was talking, the way he was behaving, was dangerous to the structure."
-OSHO
People are always saying, 'They'll take care of it. The government'll -- Don't worry, they'll -- 'They' who? It starts with us. It's us. Or else it'll never be done...
--Michael
Jackson
"You
got school teachers who don't wanna teach. You got grown people who
can't write or read. You got strange diseases but there's no cure.
You got many doctors that aren't so sure."
"We've got more
problems than we'll ever need. You got gang violence and bloodshed
on the street. You got homeless people with no food to eat with no
clothes on their back and no shoes for their
feet."
"We've got drug addiction in the minds of the weak. We've got so
much corruption, police brutality. We've got streetwalkers, walking
into darkness. Tell me what are we doing to try to stop this?
"
-Michael Jackson
"All I wanna say is that they don't really care about
us"
-Michael Jackson
“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
The government assures the people that they are in danger from the invasion of another nation, or from foes in their midst, and that the only way to escape this danger is by the slavish obedience of the people to their government. This fact is seen most prominently during revolutions and dictatorships, but it exists always and everywhere that the power of the government exists. Every government explains its existence, and justifies its deeds of violence, by the argument that if it did not exist the condition of things would be very much worse. After assuring the people of its danger the government subordinates it to control, and when in this condition compels it to attack some other nation. And thus the assurance of the government is corroborated in the eyes of the people, as to the danger of attack from other nations.”
-L.N. Tolstoy.
"Political ideologies, religious ideologies, philosophical ideologies are just facades for murder -- to murder in a justified way."
-OSHO
