OSHO: Morning Contempl. 11-30
Wolfgang Doelz
It wants you to surrender your intelligence to the crowd.
The crowd wants you to conform.
That's the root cause of people's intelligence being destroyed.
And when intelligence is destroyed
you cannot know what bliss is.
Every child is born with intelligence
and almost every child is poisoned.
Before he can even understand what he has brought with him
he is paralyzed, crippled under beautiful names -
they may call it baptism, circumcision;
they are utterly foolish ideas.
He will become conditioned
and all kinds of things will be forced upon him.
By the time he is a grown-up man
he has lost all his intelligence on the way somewhere,
he has become stupid.
And he is going to remain miserable.
The religions exploit your misery.
They say,
"You are miserable because you don't believe in god,
because you have sinned in your past lives,
because you are not virtuous.
If you are miserable then confess,
if you are miserable then pray,
if you are miserable then come to church regularly."
And these things have a certain appeal
because people want to get rid of misery
so they are ready to follow any idea.
But a stupid person cannot understand
what he is doing, why he is doing it, where he is going.
The first thing that is needed is a release of his imprisoned intelligence,
then bliss is very simple; it is a by-product.
Once you know your intelligence
you immediately start feeling a showering of bliss.
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Osho (formerly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh):
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