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Culture & Politics » soc.culture.china » test Re: Families Are Out of Date
| test Re: Families Are Out of Date [message #225094] |
Fr, 14 Juli 2006 13:04 |
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dd wrote:
> NEW FORMS OF collectivities will have to come into being. I would not like
> to call them a "society," just to avoid the confusion between the words. I
> call the new collectivity a "commune." The word is significant. It means:
> where people are not only living together, but where people are in deep
> communion.
>
> To live together is one thing -- we are doing it. Every city, every
> town, thousands of people are living together -- but what togetherness is
> there? People don't know even their neighbors. They live in the same
> skyscraper, thousands of people, and they never come to know that they are
> living in the same house. It is not togetherness, because there is no
> communion. It is simply a crowd, not a community. So I would like to repl=
ace
> the word "society" with the word "commune."
>
> Society has existed on certain basic principles. You will have to
> remove them; otherwise the society will not disappear. The first and the
> most important unit of the society has been the family. If the family
> remains the way it is, then the society cannot disappear, then religions
> cannot disappear. Then we cannot create one world, one humanity.
>
> The family is the root cause of millions of diseases; it is the bas=
ic
> brick that nations are made of, races are made of, religious organizations
> are made of.
>
> And the family has destroyed the blissfulness of men and women of t=
he
> whole of mankind.
>
> Today in the West every third marriage ends in divorce with all the
> horrible legal battles over kids and possessions. A majority of all viole=
nt
> crimes and murders in the world happen within the family between family
> members.
>
> The basic structure of the family is of possessiveness: the husband
> possesses the wife and they both possess the children; and the moment you
> possess a human being you have taken away his dignity, his freedom, his v=
ery
> humanity. You have taken away all that is beautiful and you have given him
> only handcuffs; perhaps made of gold -- beautiful cages in place of his
> wings -- but those golden cages cannot give him the sky and the freedom of
> the sky.
>
> The family tries to disconnect you from the whole society, just as =
the
> nation divides you from other nations; it is the same strategy of divisio=
n=2E
>
> Once the family is gone, much of psychological disease will be gone;
> much of political insanity will be gone.
>
> So the first thing is, a model commune will not have families.
>
> The implication is clear: it will not have marriages.
>
> Love, for the first time, should be given the respect that has been
> its due for centuries. Love should be the only law between two human bein=
gs.
> If they decide to live together, only joy should be their binding force. =
And
> remember, like everything real, love also changes. Only unreal things,
> plastic things, remain permanent.
>
> Marriage is permanent, but it gains permanence by killing love.
>
> It is on the grave of love that marriage makes its house. Naturally=
it
> brings only agony, anguish, suffering, slavery and a total destruction of
> man's spirituality.
>
> A model commune will be a communion, a gathering of free spirits.
>
> Children should belong to the commune, not to the parents. Parents
> have done enough harm; they cannot be allowed to corrupt their children
> anymore -- although their intentions are all good. But what to do with th=
eir
> good intentions? The results are all ugly.
>
> They teach their children to be competitive, and competition brings
> jealousy. They teach their children to become somebody in the world, to
> "make a name" for themselves. That makes life a struggle, not a rejoicing
> but a continuous fight -- so destructive that it takes away all your joy,
> all your juice, all your flowers, leaving behind only skeletons fighting =
for
> power, for money, for position. Life becomes a battlefield.
>
> The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as ambitious
> beings, they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving to their
> children as a heritage, their unfulfilled desires, their incomplete
> ambitions. This way diseases go on from one generation to another.
>
> We have to protect children from the past.
>
> The only way is for them to belong to a commune. Children should not
> live with their parents but in communal hostels so the parents cannot poi=
son
> their minds. Parents can meet them and spend weekends with them, but
> basically they will grow independently. And the commune should take care
> that there is no question of any religious or political ideology or
> nationality, race, caste -- all these things which divide. This is the on=
ly
> way to create a break with the past. It will help tremendously if children
> can see things in a different light.
>
> And having one father and one mother is psychologically dangerous
> because if the child is a boy, he starts imitating the father; if the chi=
ld
> is a girl, she starts imitating the mother -- and great psychological
> problems arise.
>
> Father and mother should recede, and uncles and aunts should take
> their place. There should be so many uncles and so many aunts...perhaps t=
he
> mother should be the chief aunt and the father should be the chief uncle,
> but not more than that.
>
> It is good that the family is disappearing.
>
> If the children are in the hands of the commune -- I have experimen=
ted
> with it and found it immensely successful -- the children are far more
> happy, because they are far more free. No conditioning is stamped on them.
> They mature earlier, because nobody is trying to make them dependent, so
> they become independent. Nobody is trying to go out of their way to help
> them, so they have to learn how to help themselves. This brings maturity,
> clarity, a certain strength.
>
> And with the family disappearing, nations will disappear, because t=
he
> family is the unit of the nation.
>
> So I am tremendously happy whenever I see the family disappearing,
> because I know behind it will go the nation. With it will go the so-called
> religions, because it is the family which imposes religion, nationality, =
and
> all kinds of things on you. Once the family is gone, who is going to force
> Christianity on you, Hinduism on you?
>
> Right now everybody is forced to be according to the ideas of other=
s=2E
>
> That causes misery and great anguish, and takes all joy and gladness
> from life. Everybody should be himself and contribute to life according to
> his way, by creating music, or by creating paintings, or by writing poetr=
y,
> or by producing better fruit, better crops, making better roads. Everyone
> should be allowed to have his own potential fulfilled.
>
> A model commune will give dignity to every individual.
>
> A model commune will create as much intelligence as possible, and w=
ill
> allow people to grow intelligently, to search and seek for their truth,
> because that is how one becomes more intelligent.
>
> By searching and seeking, intelligence is sharpened like a sword.
>
> Man has lived in unintelligence because all the religions of the wo=
rld
> have emphasized only one thing: belief. And belief is poison to
> intelligence.
>
> They have emphasized only one thing: faith. And faith is against all
> growth.
>
> The new man I conceive will not have any belief system and will not
> have any faith.
>
> He will be a seeker, a searcher, an enquirer; his life will be a li=
fe
> of tremendous discovery, discoveries in the outside world and discoveries=
in
> the inside too.
>
> I want every human being to be a discoverer: a Galileo, a Copernicu=
s,
> a Columbus in the outside world; and a Gautam Buddha, a Zarathustra, a
> Chuang Tzu in the inside world. My whole effort is concentrated on one
> thing: to create the new man as "Zorba the Buddha."
>
> In a model commune everybody will have both qualities, the qualities
> of the Zorba and the qualities of the Buddha -- tremendously interested in
> the outside world, and in the same way in love with the inner search. The
> day you are both together you have become the new man, and the new man is
> going to be the savior of humanity.
>
> A commune should be a gathering of seekers, of lovers, of friends, =
of
> creative people in all dimensions of life. We can produce a paradise here,
> on the earth.
>
>
>
>
> Copyright =A9 2006 Osho International Foundation
> http://www.osho.com/Main.cfm?Area=3DMagazine&Language=3D English
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