Ideology Is The Root Cause Of All Violence
Real prayer has nothing to do with words, formalities. Real prayer is neither Hindu, Muslim nor retain. How can silence be Hindu or slim? Silence is silence. Words can be nude and words can be Muslim; hence rds. create conflict and violence in the rld. It is not that people are fighting realities-they are fighting for words. Thousands of wars have been fought. for any real thing, but just for mere rds. For example, one believes in the ran and the other believes in the Gita hat's enough to kill millions of people. d both are words; neither is a reality Have you seen people killing each er for a rose flower or for the moon or the sun? These are realities. But they kill even inthe name of the moon. If embody claims, "The moon is our d," then he has imposed a word, God, the moon. And then somebody says, out are a fool. The moon is not the 1 God, the real God is the sun. “And quarrelling starts, and fights happen. Words have been the cause of all wars-religious or political wars. Ideology is the root cause of all violence. And now there are people who try to bring peace to the world, and again they create another ideology. The name that Prophet Muhammad gave to his religion is Islam. Islam means peace. But the ideology isn't bringing peace... Who else can claim more peaceful attitude towards life than Jesus? But Christianity, the ideology that was created around Jesus, has been a calamity All ideologies are bound to bring war, even ideologies based in peace and for peace. Then how can peace come? Peace can come only if we understand the stupidity of all ideologies and drop them. If we simply start livin without any ideology, there will be peace. But when you say, "This is our ideology; that we will not believe in any ideology," then you are making an ideology out of thata lso. Then those who won't believe and who won't agree with you will start fighting with you. I am not saying to you that you have to make this an ideology, or that no ideology is needed. I am simply saying try to understand what has happened through ideologies, words, theories, philosophies. Just see the point, and seeing it, let it drop. Don't make a new ideology against ideologies. Just see the point-drop it, let it drop,be finished with it. Live without any theories of how to live. Live without any 'shoulds' and 'oughts'. Every fact sooner or later becomes an 'ought' and then it becomes dangerous. Every truth sooner or later becomes an ideology and then it is harmful and poisonous Can’t we live without any ideology? Have you seen any Catholic tree or communist peacock? If the whole of existence can live without ideology, why not man? And the moment a man lives with ideology he is prayerful. Then his whiffed is prayer, then, he is religious. Than who has an ideology is political; ideologies are political. The religious person lives without any ideology He simply lives moment moment, responding to reality-not through words, not through discipline not through certain attitudes, conclusions. No, he simply responds to whatever is the case and whatsoever is righted moment, not according to some ide The moment one drops words and ideologies, suddenly one becomes very very aware. And that awareness is pra(Abridged from Unio Mystical, courtesy Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com)
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Ideology Is The Root Cause Of All Violence
Real prayer has nothing to do with words, formalities. Real prayer is neither Hindu, Muslim nor retain. How can silence be Hindu or slim? Silence is silence. Words can be nude and words can be Muslim; hence rds. create conflict and violence in the rld. It is not that people are fighting realities-they are fighting for words. Thousands of wars have been fought. for any real thing, but just for mere rds. For example, one believes in the ran and the other believes in the Gita hat's enough to kill millions of people. d both are words; neither is a reality Have you seen people killing each er for a rose flower or for the moon or the sun? These are realities. But they kill even inthe name of the moon. If embody claims, "The moon is our d," then he has imposed a word, God, the moon. And then somebody says, out are a fool. The moon is not the 1 God, the real God is the sun. “And quarrelling starts, and fights happen. Words have been the cause of all wars-religious or political wars. Ideology is the root cause of all violence. And now there are people who try to bring peace to the world, and again they create another ideology. The name that Prophet Muhammad gave to his religion is Islam. Islam means peace. But the ideology isn't bringing peace... Who else can claim more peaceful attitude towards life than Jesus? But Christianity, the ideology that was created around Jesus, has been a calamity All ideologies are bound to bring war, even ideologies based in peace and for peace. Then how can peace come? Peace can come only if we understand the stupidity of all ideologies and drop them. If we simply start livin without any ideology, there will be peace. But when you say, "This is our ideology; that we will not believe in any ideology," then you are making an ideology out of thata lso. Then those who won't believe and who won't agree with you will start fighting with you. I am not saying to you that you have to make this an ideology, or that no ideology is needed. I am simply saying try to understand what has happened through ideologies, words, theories, philosophies. Just see the point, and seeing it, let it drop. Don't make a new ideology against ideologies. Just see the point-drop it, let it drop,be finished with it. Live without any theories of how to live. Live without any 'shoulds' and 'oughts'. Every fact sooner or later becomes an 'ought' and then it becomes dangerous. Every truth sooner or later becomes an ideology and then it is harmful and poisonous Can’t we live without any ideology? Have you seen any Catholic tree or communist peacock? If the whole of existence can live without ideology, why not man? And the moment a man lives with ideology he is prayerful. Then his whiffed is prayer, then, he is religious. Than who has an ideology is political; ideologies are political. The religious person lives without any ideology He simply lives moment moment, responding to reality-not through words, not through discipline not through certain attitudes, conclusions. No, he simply responds to whatever is the case and whatsoever is righted moment, not according to some ide The moment one drops words and ideologies, suddenly one becomes very very aware. And that awareness is pra(Abridged from Unio Mystical, courtesy Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com)
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are MN Kundu and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: MN Kundu and Speaking Tree,Times of India