Successful criminals and cowardly politicians
Question 1
BELOVED OSHO,
HOW COME YOU SPEAK ABOUT POLITICAL LEADERS AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN THE
SAME TONE – IS THERE NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM?
Fundamentally there is no difference at all. Superficially of course there are differences.
The basic desire to be a leader arises in people who are suffering from an inferiority complex. It does
not matter whether they move into the political world or into the religious world; the will-to-power is
an absolute indication that the man feels himself inferior to others and he wants to prove to the world
that it is not so.
It is not only a question of proving to the world; through the world he wants to prove it to himself too,
that he is not inferior to anybody. The only way mind can manage it is to make everybody inferior to
you.
Mind is not your intelligence.
It may sound strange but this is a truth, that mind is not your intelligence. Mind can be intellectual,
which is a very poor substitute for intelligence. Intellectuality is mechanical. You can become a great
scholar, a great professor, a great philosopher – just playing with words which are all borrowed,
arranging and rearranging thoughts, none of which are your own.
The intellect is absolutely bankrupt.
It has nothing of its own, all is borrowed.
And that’s the difference between intelligence and intellect.
Intelligence has an eyesight of its own, a capacity to see into things, into problems.
Intelligence is your born quality.
It cannot be learned, it cannot be nurtured. Everybody is born with intelligence, but the society is in
favor of intellect, because the intellectual person is not a real individual, he is phony. He has nothing
of his own; he is a beggar, and beggars are not supposed to be emperors, are not supposed to be
masters. They are destined to remain slaves.
So your so-called greatest scholars are continuously proving their slavery to the establishment.
None of them is a rebel. They are hankering for the prizes and awards the establishment can
bestow upon them: respectability, honor. They are all desiring to be Nobel laureates, but to get
the Nobel prize you have to sell your soul. You have to accept a thousand and one things that no
intelligent person can accept.
You have to support the status quo, the people who are in power, who have the money. You are
just a puppet to them. Yes, it is a very mutual conspiracy: they give you the Nobel prize, they give
you honorary doctorates, they make you world famous; in return you support their exploitation, their
oppression, and whatever nonsense they are doing. You have to become a protecting wall.
And of course the world is going to listen to you because you are a Nobel prize winner, honored by
Oxford, by Cambridge, by Harvard. The ordinary people, the common masses are bound to listen
to you.
If you are supporting the society then naturally there is nothing wrong with the society; there is no
need to change it. The problems are not created by the society but by the ”anti-social” elements.
And who are the anti-social elements? All the rebels are anti-social elements. It is these people
who provoke the masses, steal their souls, make them aware that they also are human beings, not
cattle. These are anti-social elements; they have to be destroyed.
Either they have to be purchased in some way ... give them a Nobel prize, and purchase them; give
them honorary doctorates and purchase them. If they refuse to be purchased then society has all
the ways to condemn them.
Their books will not be published by the great publishers, because those great publications are
owned by the vested interests. Their names will disappear from the newspapers, from the
magazines, from the media. They will live almost as if they are not, as if they don’t exist.
This is a far superior way to destroy somebody than crucifying. At least when you crucify a person
you give him immense publicity. Two thousand years have passed: Jesus is still hanging on the
cross. He has become almost an eternal advertisement. Wherever you go you will see the cross –
on the graveyard, on the churches, on the vehicles of the Red Cross Society.
Now this is free publicity for two thousand years! Isabel, you should learn something! Not a single
cent has been wasted. Jesus was certainly a Jew, not only by birth but by his very spirit. He
managed his own crucifixion, and created publicity which goes on increasing.
It is a very essential thing to understand, that the establishment first tries to persuade you, to bribe
you. When it fails in purchasing and bribing you, then it comes into its true color: then it starts
destroying you. And it has learned through the centuries that poisoning a Socrates is not good. You
killed the man, but you made him immortal; you imprinted his message on the very soul of humanity.
You proved foolish – it was not the right way.
Crucifying Jesus was not the way to destroy him. You have saved him.
Now the modern status quo, establishment, vested interests, are far more clever. If Jesus comes
back he should not be afraid that he is going to be crucified again. No, this time it is going to be
worse: he will be ignored. To be crucified does not take your dignity, but to be ignored .... Nobody
bothers about you, nobody pays any attention, nobody is for or against you. This is real humiliation
that is being done.
But intellectuals are not capable of resisting; they don’t have the guts, they can’t have, because all
that they have is borrowed. They are easily purchasable, cheap. But they become a very significant
protective wall around the establishment. People look towards them with respect. People think that
if a Nobel prize winner is saying something it must be right – as if by winning the Nobel prize one
attains to enlightenment, nirvana!
It is a political game. It is all politics.
Question 1
BELOVED OSHO,
HOW COME YOU SPEAK ABOUT POLITICAL LEADERS AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN THE
SAME TONE – IS THERE NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM?
Fundamentally there is no difference at all. Superficially of course there are differences.
The basic desire to be a leader arises in people who are suffering from an inferiority complex. It does
not matter whether they move into the political world or into the religious world; the will-to-power is
an absolute indication that the man feels himself inferior to others and he wants to prove to the world
that it is not so.
It is not only a question of proving to the world; through the world he wants to prove it to himself too,
that he is not inferior to anybody. The only way mind can manage it is to make everybody inferior to
you.
Mind is not your intelligence.
It may sound strange but this is a truth, that mind is not your intelligence. Mind can be intellectual,
which is a very poor substitute for intelligence. Intellectuality is mechanical. You can become a great
scholar, a great professor, a great philosopher – just playing with words which are all borrowed,
arranging and rearranging thoughts, none of which are your own.
The intellect is absolutely bankrupt.
It has nothing of its own, all is borrowed.
And that’s the difference between intelligence and intellect.
Intelligence has an eyesight of its own, a capacity to see into things, into problems.
Intelligence is your born quality.
It cannot be learned, it cannot be nurtured. Everybody is born with intelligence, but the society is in
favor of intellect, because the intellectual person is not a real individual, he is phony. He has nothing
of his own; he is a beggar, and beggars are not supposed to be emperors, are not supposed to be
masters. They are destined to remain slaves.
So your so-called greatest scholars are continuously proving their slavery to the establishment.
None of them is a rebel. They are hankering for the prizes and awards the establishment can
bestow upon them: respectability, honor. They are all desiring to be Nobel laureates, but to get
the Nobel prize you have to sell your soul. You have to accept a thousand and one things that no
intelligent person can accept.
You have to support the status quo, the people who are in power, who have the money. You are
just a puppet to them. Yes, it is a very mutual conspiracy: they give you the Nobel prize, they give
you honorary doctorates, they make you world famous; in return you support their exploitation, their
oppression, and whatever nonsense they are doing. You have to become a protecting wall.
And of course the world is going to listen to you because you are a Nobel prize winner, honored by
Oxford, by Cambridge, by Harvard. The ordinary people, the common masses are bound to listen
to you.
If you are supporting the society then naturally there is nothing wrong with the society; there is no
need to change it. The problems are not created by the society but by the ”anti-social” elements.
And who are the anti-social elements? All the rebels are anti-social elements. It is these people
who provoke the masses, steal their souls, make them aware that they also are human beings, not
cattle. These are anti-social elements; they have to be destroyed.
Either they have to be purchased in some way ... give them a Nobel prize, and purchase them; give
them honorary doctorates and purchase them. If they refuse to be purchased then society has all
the ways to condemn them.
Their books will not be published by the great publishers, because those great publications are
owned by the vested interests. Their names will disappear from the newspapers, from the
magazines, from the media. They will live almost as if they are not, as if they don’t exist.
This is a far superior way to destroy somebody than crucifying. At least when you crucify a person
you give him immense publicity. Two thousand years have passed: Jesus is still hanging on the
cross. He has become almost an eternal advertisement. Wherever you go you will see the cross –
on the graveyard, on the churches, on the vehicles of the Red Cross Society.
Now this is free publicity for two thousand years! Isabel, you should learn something! Not a single
cent has been wasted. Jesus was certainly a Jew, not only by birth but by his very spirit. He
managed his own crucifixion, and created publicity which goes on increasing.
It is a very essential thing to understand, that the establishment first tries to persuade you, to bribe
you. When it fails in purchasing and bribing you, then it comes into its true color: then it starts
destroying you. And it has learned through the centuries that poisoning a Socrates is not good. You
killed the man, but you made him immortal; you imprinted his message on the very soul of humanity.
You proved foolish – it was not the right way.
Crucifying Jesus was not the way to destroy him. You have saved him.
Now the modern status quo, establishment, vested interests, are far more clever. If Jesus comes
back he should not be afraid that he is going to be crucified again. No, this time it is going to be
worse: he will be ignored. To be crucified does not take your dignity, but to be ignored .... Nobody
bothers about you, nobody pays any attention, nobody is for or against you. This is real humiliation
that is being done.
But intellectuals are not capable of resisting; they don’t have the guts, they can’t have, because all
that they have is borrowed. They are easily purchasable, cheap. But they become a very significant
protective wall around the establishment. People look towards them with respect. People think that
if a Nobel prize winner is saying something it must be right – as if by winning the Nobel prize one
attains to enlightenment, nirvana!
It is a political game. It is all politics.
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