| null post Re: Preparing People for Power [message #225128] |
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dd wrote:
> THE PEOPLE WHO are going to be powerful need to be prepared.
>
> Right now, up to now, for thousands of years you have never prepared
> anybody. If somebody is going to be a boxer you don't just push him into =
the
> ring and say: "Start!" He has to learn. If somebody is going to be a
> swordsman, it will take him years. Otherwise he won't even know how to ho=
ld
> the sword -- using it and fighting with it will be impossible. First he w=
ill
> have to find out how to take it out from its sheath, how to hold it. It
> needs training. You don't just give a guitar to somebody who has never se=
en
> the instrument before and expect him to be an Amadeus Mozart or a Ravi
> Shankar.
>
> Now this is your fault.
>
> These people who are in power, have you trained them? Has anybody e=
ver
> thought that the people who will be holding so much power need certain
> qualities so that they don't misuse power? It is not their fault.
>
> So I propose two institutes in every university. One institute is f=
or
> deprogramming. Anybody who gets a graduation certificate will first have =
to
> get a clearance certificate from the deprogramming institute -- which mea=
ns
> it has deprogrammed you as a Christian, as a Hindu, as a German, as an
> American, as a communist, as a Mohammedan, as a Jew, or whatever trademar=
ks
> you had. It has taken out all the rubbish, because this has been our
> trouble.
>
> And when you have believed a certain thing for fifty or sixty years,
> and I suddenly say that it is nonsense, you will get upset, you will resi=
st,
> because that means for sixty years you have been a stupid guy. But if you
> have guts and intelligence, there is still time to get out of the rut.
>
> My religiousness is nothing but the science of deprogramming.
>
> And remember, don't get mixed up with the "deprogramming" that exis=
ts
> in California -- they are re-programmers! Someone was escaping from
> Christianity; they bring him back to Christianity -- and you call it
> deprogramming?
>
> Deprogramming means you are simply left without a program, without
> religion, race, caste, nationality...you are left alone to be yourself --=
to
> be an individual.
>
> And four years is enough time. Deprogramming does not take that much
> time; just a few hours a month for four years and you will be deprogramme=
d=2E
> And you will not get any certificate from the educational institute unless
> you are cleared by the deprogramming institute that: "This man doesn't ca=
rry
> any label anymore; he is now simply a human being."
>
> The second institute will be an institute for meditation, because j=
ust
> deprogramming is not enough. Deprogramming takes rubbish from you -- and =
it
> is difficult to be empty; you will start gathering rubbish again. You can=
not
> manage by yourself to learn how to live joyfully with your emptiness, but
> that is the whole art of meditation.
>
> So this institute will give you a simple meditation. There is no ne=
ed
> for any complexity; universities, the intelligentsia, tend to make things
> complex. A simple method of just watching your breath is enough, but every
> day for one hour you have to go to the institute.
>
> You just sit silently and witness your mind-process, while keeping
> your attention on the breath.
>
> Nothing needs to be done. Just be a witness, an observer, a watcher,
> looking at the traffic of the mind -- thoughts passing by, desires,
> memories, dreams, fantasies. Simply stand aloof, cool, with no condemnati=
on,
> no evaluations. Once you get the knack of it, it is the most simple thing=
in
> the world.
>
> About meditation -- a few essential things to be remembered: The fi=
rst
> is a relaxed state -- no fight, no control, no concentration. The second =
is
> watchfulness -- witness whatever is going on inside of you. And the third
> is, don't have any judgment or evaluation about it. Just be a watcher.
>
> The body changes, the mind changes, the emotions change -- only the
> witness remains the same.
>
> As you practice witnessing, you will notice that the clouds of
> thoughts and emotions will slowly slowly start to disperse and the vast b=
lue
> sky of your inner being will appear -- you will have a taste of going bey=
ond
> the body-mind-heart complex. Once you have experienced this state you have
> tasted meditation; and meditation is peace, meditation is joy -- meditati=
on
> is fulfillment.
>
> So on the one hand the deprogramming institute cleanses you, empties
> you, makes you a vacuum; and on the other hand the meditation institute g=
oes
> on helping you to enjoy your nothingness, your emptiness, your inner
> vacuum -- its cleanliness, its freshness. And as you start enjoying it, y=
ou
> start feeling that it is not empty at all, it is full of joy. It looked
> empty at first because you were accustomed to having so much rubbish in i=
t,
> and that rubbish has been removed so you say it looks empty.
>
> It is just like a room full of furniture: you have always seen it f=
ull
> of furniture; then one day you come and all the furniture is removed and =
you
> say: "The room looks empty." The room is not empty, the room is simply
> clean. The room is roomy for the first time. It was cluttered before,
> burdened, full of rubbish; now it is pure space.
>
> You have to learn meditation to enjoy your emptiness.
>
> And that is one of the greatest days in life -- when a person starts
> enjoying emptiness, aloneness, nothingness, because then you will be able=
to
> live your whole life meditatively.
>
> And by living meditatively I mean to be loving, to be alert, to be a
> witness. Whatever you are doing, do it with joy and totality -- do it as =
if
> this is the greatest thing in the world in this moment. When you do anyth=
ing
> with such intensity, with such love, with such respect, you will be
> transformed by it.
>
> Unless something transforms you, it is not meditation.
>
> But all the religions have been doing prayers in the name of
> meditation, prayers which are nothing but complaints and desires. They wi=
ll
> not take you to your innermost being or into some higher state of
> consciousness -- you will remain the same person.
>
> And in the name of meditation there are hundreds of so-called teach=
ers
> who go on exploiting people. Their teachings are of disciplining the mind=
by
> practicing concentration. But concentration is a mind phenomenon, it makes
> the mind even stronger -- and meditation, in short, is nothing but creati=
ng
> a gap between you and your mind.
>
> For example, Transcendental Meditation has become representative of
> all so-called meditations: you concentrate on some word, a holy word, and
> you repeat it as fast as you can -- without gaps in between. This creates=
a
> deliberate kind of sleep and gives you relaxation from thinking. It is an
> enjoyable exercise and coming out of it you will feel refreshed. I am not
> against it -- but please don't call it meditation and don't call it
> transcendental; those are wrong words for it. It is hypnotic auto-suggest=
ion
> and nothing more.
>
> Meditation will make you a new being, a new man, a new consciousness
> which knows no fear, no seriousness, no greed, no hate -- nothing of those
> dark emotions and sentiments which are ugly, sick, nauseating; meditation
> knows only that which uplifts you, which goes on uplifting you.
>
> Then nobody can reprogram you, nobody in the whole world.
>
> Unless the meditation institute gives you its degree, the university
> is not going to give you a degree.
>
> The university's degree will come only when a clearance certificate
> from the deprogramming institute and a graduation certificate from the
> meditation university have been granted. It will depend on you -- you can
> graduate in one year, you can graduate in two years, you can graduate in
> three years, four years. But four years is too much. Any imbecile, if he
> just sits for one hour every day, doing nothing, for four years, is bound=
to
> find what Buddha or Lao Tzu have found, what I have found.
>
> It is not a question of intelligence, talent, genius. It is only a
> question of patience.
>
> So from the university meditation institute you get a degree, a
> bachelor of meditation; then you get a bachelor of arts or commerce or
> science, not before it. And in the same way it continues. You get a maste=
r's
> degree in meditation, M.M., and again you will be required to continue wi=
th
> the deprogramming institute for two years, because you can't be left alone
> so easily.
>
> These processes go on simultaneously -- deprogramming and meditatio=
n=2E
> One institute goes on cleaning you, emptying you; the other goes on filli=
ng
> you -- not with some thing, but with some quality: blissfulness, lovingne=
ss,
> compassion, a tremendous feeling of worth for no reason at all. Just that
> you are living, breathing, is enough proof that existence thinks you wort=
hy
> of living, that existence thinks you worthy of being here.
>
> You are indispensable to existence.
>
> So if a person continues to study in the university, then he contin=
ues
> to go to the meditation institute for one hour every day, and before he g=
ets
> his M.A., he gets his M.M. -- that is, master of meditation. These are
> clearance certificates for your M.A. degree. And I want this to continue.=
If
> you are going to do your Ph.D. then you do four years of deprogramming and
> four years of meditation. Those are compulsory to the very end, so when y=
ou
> come out of the university you are not only an intelligent person,
> well-informed, you are also a meditator -- relaxed, joyful, silent,
> peaceful, observant, watchful, intuitive. And you are no longer a Christi=
an,
> no longer a Hindu, no longer an American, no longer a Russian. All that h=
as
> been completely burned; nothing is left of it.
>
> This is the only way: to replace the politicians by the
> intelligentsia.
>
> But as the intelligentsia is now, it won't be of much help, because
> they are still in the grip of power politics.
>
> That's why I make these two conditions. If you get a Ph.D.,
> simultaneously you will be getting a doctor's degree in meditation. So wh=
ile
> you are being educated you are in a very silent and subtle way being
> prepared to be in power, in such a way that power cannot corrupt you, that
> you cannot misuse it.
>
>
>
>
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