This is not a place of entertainment

This is not a place of entertainment; once he gets in here, he is going for a surgery without knowing. MY WHOLE EFFORT IS TO CUT PEOPLE FROM THE PAST, and the DEAD, and the SHADOWS OF THE DEAD, and to open
them up for the future -- TO CREATE REBELS. I DON'T GIVE ANY BELIEF, I give you only a deep longing and thirst for TRUTH so that you can seek and find it on your own.

Because UNLESS YOU FIND THE TRUTH BY YOUR OWN SELF, all your knowledge is simply a burden, a poison, a force destructive of your intelligence and your very soul. BUT THE WHOLE COUNTRY LIVES WITH THE IDEA that they are the only people in the world who are spiritual and the rest of the world is materialist; AND I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYBODY MORE MATERIALISTIC THAN THE INDIANS.

They CLING TO MONEY as their very soul. They CLING TO EVERYTHING WORLDLY, which their saints go on condemning. They worship the saints, and they hope that in some future life they will also renounce the world. But right now, they are as possessive of things, of properties, of power, as I have not seen around the world in any other people. AND THEY LIVE WITH THIS EGOIST IDEA THAT THIS IS THE ONLY LAND THAT IS SPIRITUAL -- just because you have produced a few mystics. Just because a land produces few scientists does not mean that the whole land has become scientists.

Just because a country produces few great poets does not mean that the whole country has become poetic. The same is true about the mystics: JUST BECAUSE FEW FLOWERS HAVE BLOSSOMED DOWN THE CENTURIES, IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU ARE A GARDEN. YOU ARE A DESERT, UTTERLY DRY AND WITHOUT ANY JUICE. And you are annoyed with me because I AM TRYING TO CREATE SOME OASES, some gardens, some people who have juice, SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY SPIRITUAL -- WITHOUT BEING AGAINST MATERIALISM.

There is no need; one can be spiritual and use all that matter provides. One can use all that which science and technology produce, for one's spiritual growth. BUT THEY WILL NOT LISTEN TO ME.

OSHO
The Rebel
Ch #15: This is not a place of entertainment
am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

posted by Subhuti at RiverIIOsho