The unintelligent masses believe their own conditionnings is wisdom

OBVIOUSLY NO RELIGION HAS CONDEMNED KAHLIL GIBRAN. If he had been more sincere and honest, then he himself would have known what pain is. He has received only praise for his beautiful poetic sayings, but behind that praise there is some weakness; something of the coward is still lurking in the darkness of his soul.

    If he had said, "YOUR RELIGION, YOUR PHILOSOPHY, YOUR POLITICAL IDEOLOGY, YOUR NATIONALITY, YOUR RACE -- THESE ARE ALL CONSTITUENTS OF YOUR IMPRISONMENT," then, instead of having international respect and honor, he would have been condemned by all the religions, by all the nations, by all the races -- which means by almost the whole world. I have been passing through that pain for my whole life, so when I say it, I say it out of my own experience.

    JUST MAKE A SINGLE STATEMENT against those who are benefitted by reducing the whole humanity into slaves, and all the powerful ones are going to be against you.

    AND THE MASSES ARE BLIND, the masses are not intelligent, the masses are poor; they are not going to listen to me -- because what I can give to them? I can give to them understanding -- but they cannot eat understanding, they cannot live by understanding. And their own conditioning is all that they have been taught -- that it is wisdom.

    IT IS NOT ONLY THE POWERFUL ONES BUT THOSE WHO ARE BEING EXPLOITED, whose power has been taken away by the powerful ones -- otherwise from where will they get the power? -- they are also going to follow them.

    The powerful ones are the shepherds, AND THEY HAVE REDUCED THE WHOLE HUMANITY TO A CROWD OF SHEEP.

    IT IS ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE that those who could have raised humanity and its consciousness to such beauty, wisdom and joy have never been heard -- although they were shouting from the housetops. Every effort has been made that EITHER THEY SHOULD BE FORCED TO REMAIN SILENT, OR THEY SHOULD BE CRUCIFIED. Those who had not the courage -- seeing the whole thing -- have remained silent.

    BUT IN REMAINING SILENT, you are also participating in the suffering the whole humanity is going through.

    ONLY VERY FEW PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN -- and they have been poisoned, crucified, killed, assassinated. YOU HAVE BEEN KILLING YOUR FRIENDS. You have been killing those who have loved you so much that they were ready to sacrifice their life, but not to remain silent. And you have followed your enemies, who are sucking your blood every moment.

OSHO
The Messiah
Vol 2, Ch #4: Breaking the shell of the past
pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium