[…] man has created his own artificial world around him. Animals are naked – that’s why we don’t want to be nude. And if somebody is nude suddenly he hits our civilization totally, he cuts the very roots. That’s why there is so much antagonism against naked people, all over the world.
If you go and move naked in the street, you are not hurting anybody, you are not doing any violence to anybody; you are absolutely innocent. But immediately the police will come, the whole surroundings will become agitated. You will be caught […] and put into jail. But you have not done anything at all! A crime happens when you do something. You have not been doing anything, simply walking naked! But why does the society get so angry? The society is not so angry even against a murderer. This is strange. But a naked man, and society is absolutely angry.
It is because murder is still human. No animal murders. They kill for eating […] So it is human, the society can accept it. But nudity the society cannot accept, because suddenly the naked man makes you aware that you are all animals. Howsoever hidden behind clothes, the animal is there, the nude, the naked animal is there, the naked ape is there.
You are against the nude man not because he is nude but because he makes you aware of your nudity.
[Osho, Sex Matters, p125]
Category Archives: quotes
Quote: Fantasy
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope … and that enables you to laugh at all of life’s realities.
[Theodor S Geisel (Dr Seuss)]
Chemistry is …
I moved to London in 1973 to study Chemistry at University College, London. Here, if nothing else, I learnt that at degree level, Chemistry is Physics, Physics is Maths and Maths is impossible.
[Martin Dixon, Chairman of Subterranea Britannica]
I can tell Martin that it doesn’t change at post-grad level either! Except possibly to add that Maths is Computing.
Quote of the Day
Today’s Quotation of the Day:
It seems that the Republican Party in the United States has made an audacious bid to retain power by running Mr Burns and Marge Simpson as candidates for president and vice-president.
[John Doyle, TV critic, in his 2 September 2008 column]
Well it cracked me up, anyway.
Zen Mischievous Moments #144
Yesterday we were briefly in Rochester and stopped to have afternoon tea (well, tea and cake, not the full works with cucumber sandwiches, scones and jam, vicars, etc.) in the cathedral tea shop. I ordered a coffee for Noreen and a large pot of tea for me only to be told:
I can’t do you a large pot of tea, but I can do you a pot of tea for two.
Duh?!
Zen Mischievous Moments #145
Misty over at Momentary lapses of insanity has come up with some absolute gems of proofreading errors, all of which are perfectly OK according to Microdaft’s spellchecker. Her list includes these classics:
Mrs X lived in a charming country cottage, almost completely covered in hysteria.
Paul was overjoyed at the opportunity to be reunited with his long lost brothel.
Her train of thought was cuddled to say the least.
A large croup had gathered by the monument.
They managed to get themselves the lead prat in the play.
Alice somehow managed to get her knickers in a twit.
The farmer won the prize with his fine new bollocks.
Poof reader required, contact …
Another Quote
Another wonderful quote from a correspondent just now on the BBC News Channel, vis-á-vis some political tribulation or other:
[The Labour Party] conference will be an extremely febrile week.
Quote of the Day
I heard this on today’s BBC Lunchtime News from Rt Hon. Keith Vaz MP:
There is an economic tsunami coming over the Atlantic.
An interestingly picturesque, if apposite, way of expressing the current economic difficulties.
Democracy in Action
This is today’s Quotation of the Day entry:
If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy, we will seek them out and kill them! We must be tougher than hell! This Vietnam stuff, this is not even close. It is a mind-set. We can’t send that message. It’s an excuse to prepare us for withdrawal.
There is a series of moments and this is one of them. Our will is being tested, but we are resolute. We have a better way. Stay strong! Stay the course! Kill them! Be confident! Prevail! We are going to wipe them out! We are not blinking!
[George W Bush, during a 2004 videoconference with national security and military officials. Quoted in Lt Gen Ricardo S Sanchez’s memoir, Wiser in Battle: A Soldier’s Story an at www.mydd.com/story/2008/6/2/114955/1042]
I was going to say this is scary, but it isn’t; it is obscene (and that’s a word I don’t often use). What price democracy and Christian tolerance now? Anyone still like to argue that Dubya isn’t dangerous and bigoted?
Thought for the Day
Wu-Wei is the Taoist expression for the power of positive not-doing. It is the action in non-action, the knowing in not-knowing, the something in nothing, the doing in not-doing. Wu-Wei is following the way of the water, the way of the wind. It is the not absence of action, but it is the absence of trying. Wind is never still, but it has no intention. Water ever seeks its own level, but not on purpose.
[from www.foolquest.com/zen.htm]