Osho: I am not a leader
Wolfgang Doelz
Frage:
What are the responsibilities and limits of a leader?
And what are the responsibilities and duties of those who are ruled?
Osho:
You must be crazy.
I am not a leader.
A lover can never be a leader.
All the leaders are loveless;
their whole being is directed to one goal - to be on the top,
and whatever means are needed they will use to reach the end.
They don't care about good means, they only care about their end.
A leader is a political phenomenon,
and all politicians - without any exception -
suffer from an inferiority complex.
And the people who suffer from an inferiority complex
are bound to get into politics, into leadership,
so that they can prove to themselves and to the world
that they are not inferior, they are superior.
But whatever power you can attain,
it cannot destroy your inferiority.
It has nothing to do with your inferiority;
it is a projection to cover it up.
Inferiority disappears only in deep meditative silence.
Then you know such a uniqueness
that you don't want to be anybody else other than who you are.
Just to be yourself is such a bliss.
Who wants to be a leader?
You are asking, "What are the responsibilities of a leader?"
Ask the leaders.
I am not a leader,
so of course I don't have any experience
of the responsibilities of a leader.
I know *love*, and I know the *response* of love.
And you are not the ruled.
Here in this community nobody is a ruler and nobody is ruled.
That's the whole point of creating this commune
and other communes around the world,
where people can live as individuals
without being divided into classes of the rulers and the ruled.
[...]
Remember, here there is no leader, no led, no ruler, no ruled.
Even the people who are presidents of the foundation, commune,
investment corporation and other corporate bodies,
are not different friom you.
They don't have any more special powers than you have.
And they are not rulers.
They are servants of the commune.
They have put themselves in a humbler position -
because they have the capacity, generosity, love for the commune -
that they are ready to be servants of the commune.
To serve out of love is beautiful.
To rule is ugly,
and I want my people to be the most beautiful people about everything.
Beauty has many dimensions.
I want my people to be beautiful in all dimensions:
graceful, humble, humane, loving, trusting, responsible individuals,
intelligent, meditative..
But not rulers and ruled.
So I don't know,
because I have never been a ruler
and I have never been one who is ruled.
I have never accepted anybody above me - not even God -
and I have never accepted anybody below me - not even the devil.
To me, both are friends.
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Osho: From Bondage to Freedom, 19. September 1985
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