Zen Is a Revolution

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From:Rinzai: Master of the Irrational

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"Maneesha, there are a few essential things which make Zen absolutely different from any religion, any sect, any kind of discipline, teaching. The most important of these essentials is that Zen is a revolution. All..."
Zen Is a Revolution
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"Maneesha, there are a few essential things which make Zen absolutely different from any religion, any sect, any kind of discipline, teaching. The most important of these essentials is that Zen is a revolution. All..."

Osho continues:
"Neither have they come to know the truth, nor have their forefathers. They just go on teaching old words to the small children, who are absolutely in a helpless situation.

"The children cannot prevent them. Firstly, they are dependent on the parents for food, for clothing – for their whole livelihood. And secondly, they do not know what is being done to them. Taking them to the temples, to the mosques, to the churches, to the synagogues…they feel happy. They don't know that they are being enslaved in a very subtle way. They rejoice because all their parents, their neighborhood, their society rejoices. They don't even question what is being put into their minds. They had come with a clean slate, but every moment something is being written on the clean slate.

"The universities are slaves, the colleges are slaves – because they depend for their existence on the government money. So the politicians dominate….

"Just now, because Ronald Reagan is against Charles Darwin's theory of evolution…Being a fundamentalist, fascist Christian, he can only see that the world was created – that is the Christian standpoint – that the world was created in its wholeness, there is no question of evolution. But Charles Darwin's tremendous inquiries show that there is evolution; the world was not created as complete, it is always incomplete and evolving. It is none of the business of any government to prevent new ideas from being placed before the students.

"Now Ronald Reagan is trying to ban Charles Darwin from America. His book on evolution has been banned from the libraries, from the universities. Now even to use his name is a crime.

"Galileo for the first time wrote in his book that the old idea of the sun moving around the earth is only supposition; it is not the truth, it only appears so. The truth is just the contrary: the earth moves around the sun.

"Now, it was against the statements of the Bible, and the Bible is the word of God, and God can never commit a mistake. What to say about God – even the pope is infallible, and he is a very faraway relative to God; he does not commit, cannot commit any mistake."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 116 mins
File Size 28.95 MB
Type Individual Talks