I’ve recently picked up a couple of books by the mystic teacher Osho* and have been flicking through them. This is from his volume Intimacy; it seems strangely relevant:
This society is a power-oriented society. This society is still utterly primitive, utterly barbarian. A few people – politicians, priests, professors – are dominating millions. And this society is run in such a way that no child is allowed to have intelligence. It is a sheer accident that once in a while a Buddha arrives on the earth […] Somehow, once in a while a person escapes from the clutches of society. Once in a while a person remains unpoisoned by society. That must be because of some error, some mistake of society. Otherwise society succeeds […] in destroying your trust in yourself. And once that is done, you will never be able to trust anybody.
* Better known to those of us brought up on a diet of 60s/70s culture as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
Interesting. People do not seem to trust others these days. Cynicism rules – which can only be a bad thing. There is still some good in human nature but the media especially don’t focus on it. I am forced to remember ‘if there’s something wrong with society there is something wrong with me’.
…As we browse through Osho’s hundreds of books we undergo a strange transformation,subsequently reducing violence.Happy reading…