THE CROWD CONSISTS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALL GONE ASTRAY. Once in a while a courageous person comes out of the crowd and starts searching a path of his own. It needs daring, it needs courage, it needs intelligence. It needs trust in yourself, and also a deep understanding that you will be condemned by the crowd.
THE CROWD NEVER LIKES PEOPLE TO BE INDIVIDUALS. Individuals irritate the crowd very much. The crowd wants you just to be a part of the crowd: a Hindu, a Mohammedan, a Christian. The moment you declare that, "I am myself; neither a Hindu nor a Christian nor a Buddhist, and I am going to search on my own the truth of my being," all the crowds around you will become antagonistic.
There is a deep psychology behind it. Your standing aloof and alone and moving in the direction of the unknown -- without any companion, without any guide -- irritates the mind of the crowd, because YOU ARE SHOWING THEM THAT THEY ARE COWARDS CLINGING TO EACH OTHER LIKE SHEEP, not moving like lions.
BUT THE TRUTH IS NOT FOR THE SHEEP. The sheep is not courageous enough to allow truth to reveal its mysteries and its glories to the mind of a sheep. The glories are so immense, so boundless, the mysteries are so infinite, that ONLY THE HEART OF THE LION CAN REJOICE, can dance, can sing.
YES, THERE ARE MOMENTS WHEN EVEN THE HEART OF THE LION TREMBLES, feels fear, because the path is so alone. And it goes on becoming narrower. As you are reaching higher and the path is becoming narrower, naturally, to look by the side... your whole being goes into a trembling. Just a single wrong step and you will be finished. On both the sides are such depths...
But strangely enough, ALTHOUGH THE PATH IS OF THE RAZOR'S EDGE, NOBODY HAS FALLEN FROM IT. Everybody has felt the fear, but existence supports those who are in search of truth. Its support is unconditional.
EXISTENCE DOES NOT SUPPORT THOSE WHO ARE NOTHING BUT LIVING LIES. They may have great power, but their own power will destroy them. Many civilizations have existed on the earth and they destroyed themselves by their own power. We are not the first civilization in the world. Atlantis drowned -- perhaps the people of Atlantis had reached a far higher civilization than we have.
In India we have the story of Mahabharata, the great Indian war that happened five thousand years before. In minute detail, the story describes weapons which can only be nuclear. The civilization had certainly reached to the same point where we are. BUT POWER IN THE HANDS OF IGNORANT, RETARDED CROWDS IS SELF-DESTRUCTIVE.
Crowds upon crowds have come and disappeared, but not a single individual seeker has ever fallen from those heights....
OSHO
Om Mani Padme Hum
Ch #25: Nowhere to fall to
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I know some people in Colon. I knew Meera the painter too in Poona. Are you that Meera? Thank you for the lovely pic. Love and light to you today and everyday.
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Today I buy a book from Osho : showering without clouds ( the enligten life from Sahajo. I enjoyed to read it, I am going to bring in my ruck-sac in Perou, it's going to be my beds book for my journey. I whish you love and peace around you.
thanks you for the texte is helpful for us to find this beautiful thoughts.
all my love and peace to you here and now.
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