| Re: Meditation - the Way to Change [message #225119] |
Fr, 14 Juli 2006 14:43 |
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dd wrote:
> TRANSFORMING THE STRUCTURE of society looks utopian. Who is going to do i=
t?
> How is it going to happen? How are we going to make it a reality?
>
> It is utopian, but the situation is such that within twelve years
> politicians will bring you to the brink of death. Then you will have to
> choose; and at that time, when you have to choose between death and
> meditation, I think you will choose meditation - you are not going to cho=
ose
> death.
>
> Politicians have brought this great challenge to the whole of
> humanity. In a way we should be thankful to these fools. They have dragged
> the whole of humanity to the point where humanity has to decide: "Now eit=
her
> we can live, or these politicians can remain in power - both are not
> possible."
>
> The politicians are bringing you to that point; they have brought y=
ou
> there already.
>
> So I say that now the universities have to become more bold,
> courageous, united, and they have to gather all the intelligentsia around
> them - which is not difficult, because all over the world I have seen that
> every kind of intelligent person is against these political fools. But he
> cannot do anything alone. What can he do? And he does not see that there =
is
> any alternative.
>
> I wonder why you can't see any alternative when you have so many
> universities of great prestige.
>
> For example, if Oxford can gather courage to refuse, to say that the
> university is not going to give Margaret Thatcher an honorary doctorate, =
why
> shouldn't a university like Oxford - which is prestigious, old enough,
> respected around the world - start calling these conventions? Why shouldn=
't
> Oxford become the center of a new power, the power of the intelligentsia?
>
> I want to include one thing more: exclude the priests, the pope,
> because the religious establishment has always been supportive of the
> political establishment. They are in a deep conspiracy together; they
> support each other. And they support each other in such absurd ways that =
one
> cannot make any sense out of it.
>
> All these bishops and popes have to be excluded; they have nothing =
to
> do with it. We have to exclude them because we are going to deprogram, and
> the deprogramming is one of the most significant things to be done;
> otherwise, the world cannot be saved.
>
> I am not asking much, just an eight-year preparation parallel to yo=
ur
> studies. And if the whole government is meditative, deprogrammed,
> unprejudiced - just visualize it - then bureaucracy disappears, hierarchy
> disappears; then things that take years can be finished within seconds.
>
>
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>
> Copyright =A9 2006 Osho International Foundation
> http://www.osho.com/Main.cfm?Area=3DMagazine&Language=3D English
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