--- надополнето: 1 септември 2012 во 13:00 ---
Just watch people....
If you are alert and silent and sane you will be simply surprised what goes on happening
all around.
My whole effort here is to create a commune of people who are completely free from past
conditions, fanatic religions, fascist political ideologies, and who start responding to life
out of silence and peace, awareness, consciousness, not through a mind which has no
eyes. It is blind. It reacts immediately like any mechanism. But it has no eyes to see
directly and deeply into any problem.
Even the greatest people that you know in the world behave very childishly, and they are
creating millions of problems for other people because they have power. The whole
power is in insane hands; not a single powerful man in the world is even interested in
meditation -- and except meditation there is no way out. We are really coming to the
crescendo of the insanity of centuries.
In all of our lifetimes we are going to see the ultimate madness exploding by the time this
century comes to an end -- and it is not long. It is now nineteen eighty-seven; the year
two thousand is less than thirteen years away. In these thirteen years things will go on
becoming more and more insane.
Just the other day I received a letter from Oregon, from a doctor, a dental surgeon, "I am
very ashamed by the way the American government treated you and the commune. You
had brought a new colorfulness to the state of Oregon. Rather than rejoicing in that
colorfulness, they destroyed the whole commune."
Many intelligent people in America feel the same way, but the old problem -- those
intelligent people feel but they remain silent, because they know the majority is
absolutely insane. They are so insane that they destroyed the commune illegally, they
imposed crimes on me of which I have not even dreamt.
They blackmailed me through my attorneys, because they made my attorneys afraid that
if they were going to insist on trial, then my life might be at risk because the American
government would not like to be defeated by a single individual: "You know and we
know that we don't have any evidence, so your victory is certain. But remember, your
victory would mean the assassination of Osho."
It was made so clear by the government attorneys to my attorneys, that they came to me
and said, "We have never seen such a thing happening. It is absolutely insane, absolutely
illegal, criminal. Now they want you to accept any two crimes, the smallest crimes, but
accept that you are guilty of two crimes so that they can save the face of America and
American democracy and American justice. And once you have accepted two crimes then
there will be no trial and you will be freed."
I was very stubborn. I told my attorney, "It is better to fight the case because they don't
have any evidence and they cannot have any evidence."
But the attorney said, "The question is of blackmail. They are threatening us that they
will withdraw the bail and they will put you in jail. And they can go on postponing the
case for ten years, fifteen years, and in these ten or fifteen years they will harass you,
torture you. And we are afraid they may even take your life, because they have made one
thing clear, that the government is not ready to be defeated by a single individual."
With tears in their eyes they begged me, "Don't insist on a fight. We know that you have
not committed any crime, and they know it. And we had not gone to negotiate with them;
they came to us to negotiate."
This is very strange -- that the government should come to the criminal to negotiate... for
what? If I have committed the crime I should be punished. What negotiations? Is it a
business?
But the reason was clear: they knew they could not prove anything against me. And the
Attorney General of America later on accepted -- when I had left America -- that I had
not committed any crime; they didn't have any proof, any evidence, any witness. But you
will not believe that even knowing this, they blackmailed my attorneys. They cried and I
had to accept, because they told me, "It is absolutely futile. It is hitting your head against
the wall for no meaning. It will destroy your whole movement, it will destroy all your
sannyasins, and you will leave millions of people who love you. It is better to accept two
crimes."
I said, "I am not a serious man. I can accept all of their thirty-four crimes. There is no
problem, but don't ask for any proof, because I don't have any evidence either."
They said, "No, nobody is going to ask for evidence."
And what happened? As I accepted two crimes the judge immediately ruled that I am
punished with four hundred thousand dollars -- that is nearabout sixty lakh rupees -- for
two crimes which I have not committed, which they have forced in a blackmail way
threatening my attorneys that my life is at risk, "just to save my life!" But they never
mentioned that once I accepted then sixty lakh rupees will be the fine. They did not
mention that. This was the second trick.
First they blackmailed, "This way there will be no trial and we will release Osho
immediately." But with the judgment the judge came -- four hundred thousand dollars.
My people who were present in the court immediately collected that much money within
ten minutes, because the attorneys were concerned to get me out of America as quickly as
possible. And as I was coming out of the jail, immediately another summons for some
other case that they had created in another court... They were waiting outside the jail to
give me the summons.
As I was coming to the airport I received the news that they had put a bomb under my
chair. They were waiting that if I didn't accept, and I wanted to go with the trial, then they
would just explode the bomb and finish the whole thing, so there would be no person and
no question of any trial.
Now that bomb cannot arrive inside the jail and under my chair without somebody who is
not part of the government, who is not part of the high authorities of the jail... The jail
had no interest in killing me. The idea must have come from Washington -- it must have
come from Ronald Reagan.
These people who are in power are lying, blackmailing -- doing every kind of act that is
inhuman. But perhaps they are doing it in their insanity, in their unconsciousness.
And there is no great movement in the world to counter the forces of violence, madness,
except our movement for meditation.
The responsibility is great on each of you. Not only for your own sake, but for the sake of
preventing the mad powers from destroying this beautiful planet -- this planet which has
produced a Gautam Buddha, a Jesus Christ, a Zarathustra; this planet which has given
birth to a Krishna, to a Mahavira, to a Lao Tzu. And these are just the beginnings of
spring; there are higher possibilities in the future.
If man goes on living on the earth, we will be producing even higher peaks than we have
produced in the past. Those high peaks in the past were produced in spite of all the
hindrances of the society. If the society is supportive, we can create so many beautiful
people around the world that it can turn from a desert into an oasis.
And that's what the dental surgeon reminded me of in his letter: "We miss you; you
turned a desert into an oasis, and we feel ashamed that the American government did
something absolutely wrong. You brought a message which could have saved not only
America but the whole of humanity."
They are missing now because that small commune in Oregon had become suddenly
more important than Washington itself. All the eyes from all over the world were
concentrated on the commune: "What is happening there? Why are people so happy?
Why are people so loving? Why is there no fighting? Why is there no murder? Why is
there no suicide? What has happened to those people? Their jealousies, their conflicts
seem to have disappeared, they have entered, it seems, into a new state of consciousness."
But as far as I am concerned I have no complaint against anybody. My own feeling is it
was good that they destroyed the commune. It helped my people to spread all over the
world. And wherever my one sannyasin is, he will create the right atmosphere. And a few
people are bound to gather around him to create small communes all over the world.
Now I'm not interested in creating a big commune, because any big commune is going to
be destroyed by the power that is any government. It does not matter whether it is the
Indian government or the American government. If I create a big commune again, which
is possible now... The moment you have a power, although your power is of love and
peace and silence, the powerful people in New Delhi will start getting disturbed.
I don't want to repeat history.
Only idiots repeat history.
So my new idea is that we will not create a big commune that unnecessarily comes into
conflict with the powers. We will create small communes all around the earth so nobody
will be worried, because a few people cannot be dangerous to the vested interests, but
those few people can make the whole world afire with love, with peace, with silence,
with blissfulness.
... ајде друже ја отидов да се позанимавам практично малце... а што не кажувам
... па ке мора да иадм на Идол да рецитирам некоја поезија и да бидам сеир за сите...