OSHO Morning Contempl. 12-11

[Wolfgang Doelz]

The child comes with pure silence. The slate is empty.
It has a grace, a beauty, the music of silence.
But we start stuffing each child with religious ideology, political ideology.
We start poisoning each child with ambition.
We create desires in him,
we create competition in him,
we create imitativeness in him.
We tell him,
"Look, you have to be this,
you have to be the president or the prime minister of the country,
you have to be the richest man."

Every parent wants his child to be the greatest.
Each parent is living his unfulfilled desires through his children.
He has not been able to fulfill his desires.
Nobody has ever been able to fulfill their desires
because desire as such is unfulfillable.
Nothing can be done about it; it is not in the nature of things,
it is not the law of life.

Each child comes into the world healthy and whole
and we immediately start wounding him.

Up to now humanity has existed in a very wrong way.
Something basically, fundamentally, is wrong.
Our whole education is ambitious, it is political;
our religions are political.
Maybe they are politics of the beyond, but they are politics.
You have to reach heaven,
you have to be a great achiever there in the other world too.

Nobody says to be just empty of all content -
but in that emptiness, in that nothingness, flowers the ultimate.

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Osho (formerly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh):
A Must for Morning Contemplation
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