Growing Your Own Consciousness
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Social rules seem to be a basic need for human beings. Yet no society has ever helped man to realize himself. Can you please explain what kind of relationship exists between individuals and society, and how they can help each other to evolve?
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Social rules seem to be a basic need for human beings. Yet no society has ever helped man to realize himself. Can you please explain what kind of relationship exists between individuals and society, and how they can help each other to evolve?
Osho continues:
"If man really becomes man – not only in name but in reality…
"Very few people have realized that up to now; for example, for men like Socrates, Zarathustra, Bodhidharma, there is no need of any rules. They are alert enough not to do any harm to anybody. There is no need for any laws, for any constitutions. If the whole society evolves to be authentically human, there will be love but there will not be law.
"The problem is that man needed rules, laws, governments, courts, armies, police force, because he lost his natural behavior of being an animal and he has not gained another natural status again. He is just in between. He is nowhere. He is a chaos. To control that chaos all these things are needed.
"The problem becomes more complex, because these forces which were evolved – religions, states, courts – to control man became so powerful. They had to be given power; otherwise how would they control? So we fell into a slavery on our own. Once they became powerful…now they don't want to drop their vested interests. They don't want man to evolve.
"You are asking me how man and the society, the individual and the society can evolve. You do not understand the problem at all. If the individual evolves, society dissolves. The society exists only because the individual is not allowed to evolve. All these powers have for centuries been controlling man, and enjoying their power, their prestige. They are not ready to let man evolve, to let man grow to a point where they become useless.
"There are many situations which will help you to understand. It happened in China, twenty-five centuries ago…
"Lao Tzu became very famous, a wise man, and he was without any doubt one of the wisest men ever. The emperor of China asked him very humbly to become his chief of the supreme court, because nobody could guide the country's laws better than him. He tried to persuade the emperor, 'I am not the right man,' but the emperor was insisting.
"Lao Tzu said, 'If you don't listen to me…Just one day in the court and you will be convinced that I am not the right man – because the system is wrong."
"Very few people have realized that up to now; for example, for men like Socrates, Zarathustra, Bodhidharma, there is no need of any rules. They are alert enough not to do any harm to anybody. There is no need for any laws, for any constitutions. If the whole society evolves to be authentically human, there will be love but there will not be law.
"The problem is that man needed rules, laws, governments, courts, armies, police force, because he lost his natural behavior of being an animal and he has not gained another natural status again. He is just in between. He is nowhere. He is a chaos. To control that chaos all these things are needed.
"The problem becomes more complex, because these forces which were evolved – religions, states, courts – to control man became so powerful. They had to be given power; otherwise how would they control? So we fell into a slavery on our own. Once they became powerful…now they don't want to drop their vested interests. They don't want man to evolve.
"You are asking me how man and the society, the individual and the society can evolve. You do not understand the problem at all. If the individual evolves, society dissolves. The society exists only because the individual is not allowed to evolve. All these powers have for centuries been controlling man, and enjoying their power, their prestige. They are not ready to let man evolve, to let man grow to a point where they become useless.
"There are many situations which will help you to understand. It happened in China, twenty-five centuries ago…
"Lao Tzu became very famous, a wise man, and he was without any doubt one of the wisest men ever. The emperor of China asked him very humbly to become his chief of the supreme court, because nobody could guide the country's laws better than him. He tried to persuade the emperor, 'I am not the right man,' but the emperor was insisting.
"Lao Tzu said, 'If you don't listen to me…Just one day in the court and you will be convinced that I am not the right man – because the system is wrong."
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| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 106 mins |
| File Size | 25.09 MB |
| Type | personne parle |
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