Rebellion osho biography book

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Rebellion osho biography book Write a Review. If with Christianity it is possible, then of course Jesus is responsible. Revolutions also fail to yield forward progress because the challengers only present one side of the equation, which is a tearing-down of what's old. Your daughter or your sister may be keeping her love letters in the Bible, because that is the best place: neither your father opens it, nor your mother opens it; nobody ever opens it.

Here's the idea: political revolution gets us nowhere because the new group in power fears that others will revolt in the same way, so therefore the revolutionary party self-protects its own power, inevitably. Osho even criticizes Ghandi’s peaceful revolution in India because despite the highest of intentions the same thing happened even there: the new people in power didn't have anything better to offer, as evidenced by the consequences.

Revolutions also fail to yield forward progress because the challengers only present one side of the equation, which is a tearing-down of what's old. A rough yet strongly stated presentation of the cycles in human history which augments the facts we’re taught in history books, and the more myopic understandings we have of world politics. (I'm curious what he would have said of the American Revolution, however.) Osho gives insight into different political systems from an energetic point of view (that is, trying to observe from the standpoint of higher consciousness what human systems are driving cyclical behaviors) and also concludes that any type of governmental power structure is due to individuals giving away their power to others and therefore becoming self-enslaved to some system.

This destroys sensitivity, creativity, independence of thought. He advocates a utopia of the enlightened, where however pursuing enlightenment _first_ is a mistake advocated by others like Buddha: this is trying to build a temple without its foundations.

Rebellion osho biography book review A Womb for Transformation 9. What is Rebellion. Now you fight the society, so the society throws you in a jail or in chains, or the society tries to crush you, and again you are unhappy. You will find strange things in Bibles.

The foundations are individuals being truly themselves, with independent-mindedness. It is difficult to describe _what_ Osho advocates prescriptively in the material world (other than meditation), because this would feed right into what he believes is the problem itself: people wanting to be told what to believe. The solution is an inner rebellion, through movement towards awakening from unconsciousness.

A simple example (my addition): we can observe the cycles of the Karpman Drama Triangle which describes the roles the ego is always trying to take: victim, persecutor, savior.

Osho Almost immediately the movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success. Revolutions also fail to yield forward progress because the challengers only present one side of the equation, which is a tearing-down of what's old. You can write your name on any Bible just with your finger, because there will be enough dust — no need for any ink or any color. This book is a sizable and pointed collection of lectures on the nature of revolution, including failures and successes, and on analyses of the philosophical constructs behind revolutions of note.

This observation can help in watching what our minds are doing at any given moment. Inner rebellion seems to be an increasing transcendence of unconscious (pre-programmed; conditioned) behaviors through inner work and self-observation.

Osho observes: When there is peace, people are bored; we collectively look for drama and end up creating violence and war because it makes us feel alive.

(Richard Moss also talks about this in _The Black Butterfly_ in a chapter, "Can We Avoid War?") Osho also argues for inner rebellion against blind belief in dogmatic religious teachings, through thoroughly irreverent reflections on the troubles that religions have wrought through such adherence. He calls for rebellion of the individual as movement towards realization of the dream of a true utopia which can’t be imposed from outside, through any system, but rather by enough individuals taking back self-determination through individual awakening yet _within_ society, rather than renouncing it, no matter how absurd and unconscious it may seem.

The book is a collection of talks, so the subject matter isn't well structured; however I appreciated the irreverence and independent-mindedness in my first exposure to the work of this controversial teacher.

I found myself disagreeing at various points, and then later in a section he would connect the dots and I would have to recognize the deeper truth in what he had said.