Except Love, There Should Be No Law
Talk #23 from Reflections On Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
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Then a lawyer said, But what of our Laws, master?
And he answered:
You delight in laying down laws,
Yet you delight more in breaking them,
Like children playing by the ocean who build sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter.
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Then a lawyer said, But what of our Laws, master?
And he answered:
You delight in laying down laws,
Yet you delight more in breaking them,
Like children playing by the ocean who build sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter.
"
"Your laws are not out of love, out of sincerity, out of silence. Your laws are out of fear. And anything based in fear is ugly. Even though there are laws to protect the weak, the stronger are far more clever, far more cunning. The laws are made by their representatives to protect the weak, but in fact they are used to protect the cunning and the clever, the rich and the powerful, against the poor, against the weak.
"It is a very complicated question. You make the laws and you are going to be the victim of your own laws, because you cannot prevent the strong people from taking over your laws and using them against you.
"While Adolf Hitler was in Germany he was chosen, elected through democratic means, as the chancellor of the country. But once he was the chancellor of the country he himself became the law. And the same laws were turned against the people who had elected him.
"There exists no lawfulness in the world because the basic stone of the foundation is missing. Love does not exist – how can law exist?
"Napoleon Bonaparte is reported to have said, 'I am the law. My word is the law.' Might has always been right in the whole past of humanity, and we are not yet out of the dark ages. Might is still right.
"Might should not be right; right is far superior to might. Might is animal, right is human.
"But why do all these armies exist? Why are people asked not to carry arms? And the police and the government and the army – they can carry disastrous arms, murderous arms, to protect you. And remember: whoever has power, in the name of protection becomes your master. His power destroys your dignity, your humanity, your pride.
"The world needs disarmament – not only the Soviet Union or America; the whole world needs disarmament. If people have been disarmed, for whom are you carrying all these arms? For what purpose? – just to make you more and more powerful, and to make the people more and more weakened. They cannot fight, they cannot even think of fighting, they don't have any means."
"It is a very complicated question. You make the laws and you are going to be the victim of your own laws, because you cannot prevent the strong people from taking over your laws and using them against you.
"While Adolf Hitler was in Germany he was chosen, elected through democratic means, as the chancellor of the country. But once he was the chancellor of the country he himself became the law. And the same laws were turned against the people who had elected him.
"There exists no lawfulness in the world because the basic stone of the foundation is missing. Love does not exist – how can law exist?
"Napoleon Bonaparte is reported to have said, 'I am the law. My word is the law.' Might has always been right in the whole past of humanity, and we are not yet out of the dark ages. Might is still right.
"Might should not be right; right is far superior to might. Might is animal, right is human.
"But why do all these armies exist? Why are people asked not to carry arms? And the police and the government and the army – they can carry disastrous arms, murderous arms, to protect you. And remember: whoever has power, in the name of protection becomes your master. His power destroys your dignity, your humanity, your pride.
"The world needs disarmament – not only the Soviet Union or America; the whole world needs disarmament. If people have been disarmed, for whom are you carrying all these arms? For what purpose? – just to make you more and more powerful, and to make the people more and more weakened. They cannot fight, they cannot even think of fighting, they don't have any means."
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| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 143 mins |
| File Size | 33.98 MB |
| Type | Individual Talks |
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