sex, love, and death?-Part 1

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It is really very significant an existential question. In these three fears

humanity has lived for thousands of years. They are not personal, they are

collective. They come from the collective unconscious.

 

The fear of going crazy is in everyone, for the simple reason, because their

intelligence has not been allowed to develop. Intelligence is dangerous to the

vested interest. So for thousands of years they have been cutting the very roots

of intelligence.

 

In Japan they have a certain tree, which is thought to be a great art, but it is

simply murder. The trees are four hundred, five hundred years old and six inches

high. Generations of gardeners have taken care of them. The technique is the

trees are put in a pot without any bottom. So they go on cutting their roots.

They don't allow their roots to go into the earth. And when you don't allow the

roots to go deeper, the tree simply grows old, it never grows up. It is a

strange phenomenon to see that tree. It looks ancient, but it has only grown

old, old, old, but it has never grown up. It has never blossomed, it has never

given any fruits.

 

And that is exactly the situation of man. His roots are cut. Man lives almost

uprooted. He has to be made uprooted, so that he can become dependent on the

society, on the culture, on the religion, on the state, on the parents, on

everybody. He has to depend. He himself has no roots. The moment he becomes

aware that he has no roots, he feels he is going crazy, he is going insane. He

is losing every support, he is falling into a dark ditch... because the

knowledge is borrowed, it is not his own. The respectability is borrowed. He

himself has no respect for his own being. His whole personality is borrowed from

some source ¯ the university, the church, the state. He himself has nothing of

his own.

 

Just think of a man who lives in a grand palace with everything conceivable for

his luxuries. And one day suddenly you make him aware that the palace does not

belong to him, neither this luxuries belong to him. They belong to somebody else

who is coming and you will be thrown out. He will go crazy.

 

So in deep therapy you will come across this point and the person has to face it

and allow it. Go crazy. Allow in the therapy the situation that the person can

go crazy. Ones he goes crazy, he will drop the fear. Now he knows what craziness

is. The fear is always of the unknown. Let him go crazy and he will soon calm

down, because there is no real base to his fear. It is a fear projected by the

society.

 

The parents say if you don't follow us, if you disobey, you will be condemned.

The Jewish God says in Talmud "I am a very jealous God, very angry God. Remember

that I am not nice, I am not your uncle." And all the religions have been doing

it.

 

So just go off the way, which is followed by, the mob and they will declare you

crazy. So everybody goes on clinging to the crowd, remaining part of a religion,

a church, a party, a nation, a race. He's afraid to be alone, and that's what

you are doing when you bring him to his own depths. All that crowd, all those

connections, disappear. He's left alone and there is nobody else on whom he has

always depended.

 

He has not of his own intelligence ¯ that is the problem. Unless he starts

growing his own intelligence, he will always remain afraid of being crazy. Not

only that, the society can make him crazy any moment. If the society wants to

make him crazy, if that is in their favor, they will make him crazy.

 

In Soviet Union it happens almost everyday. I am taking the example of Soviet

Union because they do it more scientifically, methodologically. It happens

everywhere all over the world, but their methods are very primitive. For

example, in India if a person behaves in a way, which is not approved, he is

made an outcast. He cannot get any support from anyone in the town. People will

not even speak to him. His own family will close the doors upon his face. The

man is bound to go crazy. You are driving him crazy.

 

But in Soviet Russia they do it more methodologically and they have done it to

such people who were Nobel prize winners, who had intelligence, but an

intelligence, which was always under control, under the obedience of the state.

And just a single disobedience... because they got the Nobel prize, and Russian

government did not want them to have it, because it comes from a capitalist

world, and to the government of Russia it seems like a bribery. This is how they

purchase people, and these are the people who have all the secrets of science.

They don't want to be world known, they don't want to be in contact with other

scientists, they don't allow them to accept Nobel prize. But if the person

insists, then the result is he is put into a hospital.

 

He goes on saying that, "I am perfectly healthy; why I am being put in the

hospital?" They say, "Because the doctors feel you are going to be sick. The

early symptoms are there, you may not be aware." And they go on injecting the

person, he knows nothing of, and within fifteen days he is mad. They have made

him through their chemicals mad. And when he is perfectly mad, then they produce

him in the court that this man is insane, that he should be removed from his

job, and that he should be sent into a mental asylum. And then nobody ever hears

what happened to those people.

 

This is doing it scientifically. But every society has been doing it, and the

fear has entered into to very deep realms of unconsciousness. And the work of

therapy is to make the person free of that fear. If he is free of that fear, he

is free of society, free of culture, free of religion, free of God, heaven,

hell, and all nonsense. All that nonsense is significant because of this fear,

and to make that nonsense significant the fear has been created. It is the

ugliest crime one can think of. It is being done to every child around the world

every moment, and the people who are doing have no bad intentions. They think

they are doing something for the best of the child. They have been conditioned

by their parents. They are transferring the same conditioning to their children.

 

But basically the whole humanity stands on the verge of madness. In deep therapy

the fear grips suddenly, because the person is losing all the props, supports;

the crowd is disappearing farther and farther away; he is being left alone. And

suddenly there is darkness and there is fear. He has never been trained,

disciplined for being alone and that is the function of meditation. No therapy

is complete without meditation, because only meditation can give him his lost

roots, his strength of being an individual. There is nothing to fear. But the

conditioning is that you have to be afraid on each moment, each step.

 

The whole humanity lives in a paranoia. This humanity could have lived in

paradise; it is living in hell. So help the person to understand that this is

nothing to be worried, there is nothing to be afraid. It is a created fear.

Every child is born fearless. He can play with the snakes with no fear. He has

no idea of fear or death or anything. Meditation brings the person back to his

childhood. He is reborn.

Osho: The Last Testament

 

 

 

 

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