OSHO: Survival of the Conscious
Wolfgang Doelz
Please comment on the statement: "Survival of the fittest".
OSHO:
"Survival of the fittest" appears to be true,
but only to the superficial eye,
because man is not the strongest animal on the earth.
Why he has survived, and destroyed other animals,
is not his fitness, his strength, his power,
but his *intelligence*.
So I would like to change it to
*survival of the conscious*.
Now we are facing a world crisis.
If man does not prove conscious enough,
then he is going to disappear from the earth.
He proved more conscious than the animals;
*now he has to prove more intelligent and conscious than the politicians.*
*These are the real animals now.*
And if man can prove himself more conscious, more alert, more aware,
then many things can disappear immediately.
For example, the *nations* are all artificial.
The earth is one.
All the boundaries of the nations are fake; they are only on the map.
If man is more alert and more aware,
the first thing to be done is to dissolve all the nations.
*Let the world be one.*
*One world* is the only guarantee,
that there is not going to be any more war.
If man is conscious and aware,
he can see that the essential *religion* is *one*.
Only rituals differ, and rituals are meaningless.
*Drop the rituals and save the essential religion.*
Then Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism; Jainism, Taoism -
all will come to the same point:
the enquiry of your interiority, the inward journey.
If we can let the boundaries of nations disappear
and the boundaries of religion disappear,
if the world can be *one world*
and religion can be without any adjective - just a quality, *religiousness* -
we will have survived the greatest danger that is facing us.
A divided humanity - in religions, in nations -
is going to destroy itself.
We need an undivided, *one* humanity.
Anything that divides has to be dropped;
it is against our survival.
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OSHO: Socrates poisoned again after 25 Centuries, #6
February 22, 1986, Morning
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