Morning Contemplation 11-21
Wolfgang Doelz
you have to rebel against many things that create misery ...
but society wants you to be miserable.
There are reasons why the society is interested in your being miserable:
a miserable person is manageable;
a miserable person is always in such a low state of energy
that he can be enslaved.
Misery functions almost like a spiritual castration.
It is a very subtle strategy:
from the beginning the child is slowly spiritually castrated,
is made spiritually impotent.
He is forced to be obedient to all kinds of stupidities.
Things are imposed on him, and he is helpless; he depends on his parents.
He knows that he cannot exist without their support
so he has to compromise.
And slowly slowly, he completely forgets that he has compromised too much.
By the time he is able to stand on his own feet
he has completely forgotten what freedom is,
what the beauty of being intelligent is -
he has become a slave.
Hitherto this society ...
and when I say "this society" I mean all the societies of the world,
they have all done one thing,
they have destroyed the spirit of man.
My effort here is to make you alive once more,
to call you forth from the grave.
My sannyasins have to be rebellious, intelligent,
only then can they be blissful.
Risk everything to be blissful,
because nothing is more precious than bliss.
Let that be the only goal in life;
everything else is secondary, insignificant.
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