The Individual Versus the Society

TrackThe Path of the Mystic

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"Thoughts are always subversive.
"Only people who do not think are not subversive. Thinking is a crime. Jesus is crucified, Socrates is poisoned, Gautam Buddha is stoned. These people have not harmed anybody. They were..."
"Thoughts are always subversive.
"Only people who do not think are not subversive. Thinking is a crime. Jesus is crucified, Socrates is poisoned, Gautam Buddha is stoned. These people have not harmed anybody. They were..."

Osho continues:
"Machines are very respectable people.

"I am not a machine. And there is no way of thinking, other than being subversive. Thinking means you doubt; thinking means you are not ready to accept what is being told to you. You want to decide on your own. Thinking means to be rational, to be logical; and humanity up to now has been superstitious.

"When Galileo found that the earth moves around the sun, the pope called him to his court and asked him to change that sentence in his book because it goes against Christianity. The Bible says the sun goes around the earth, and it is everybody's experience too: it looks like the sun rises in the morning, goes around, and sets by the evening. We don't feel that the earth goes around the sun. So what is stated in the Bible is simply common knowledge, not something scientific.

"The pope said, 'You have to change that statement because the Bible is a holy book, written by God: he cannot commit a mistake.'

"Galileo is one of the people I love. I love him for his genius, for his thinking, and I love him for his sense of humor. He said, 'There is no problem. I will change the sentence, but your honor, remember that my changing the sentence will not change the fact: the earth will still go round the sun. You can kill me, you can burn my book, but nothing will change the course of the earth. It will still continue going around the sun.'

"Now Galileo is subversive. He is not listening to the authorities; he is not even listening to the Holy Bible. He is only ready to listen to something rational, scientific, something which can be proved by evidence.

"Yes, I am subversive. And only the subversive people are responsible for all the progress of the world. Whatever you have – all civilization, all scientific growth, all technology – is the contribution of subversive people. It is not the contribution of the superstitious.

"So I am happy to declare that I am subversive, absolutely subversive.

"To belong to that category is a great honor. Jesus Christ belongs to it, Socrates belongs to it, Galileo belongs to it, Gautam Buddha belongs to it."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 117 mins
File Size 27.53 MB
Type 個々の講話