Deprogramming the World – Empty the Mind and Reclaim Blissfulness

Osho,
You say you are trying to deprogram the whole world. Specifically, what do you recommend for America?
“The process of deprogramming is the same; whom you are deprogramming does not matter.
“He may be American, he may be German, he may be Hindu.
“It is just like cleaning the room.
“What kind of furniture the room has, what kind of pictures are hanging in the room, doesn’t matter.
“You are simply to remove everything from the room and create a space.

And it is a total deprogramming, so there is no question of choice, that something good has to be saved….

“But as I see things, whatever good is there is joined with something bad. They are together. You cannot separate them.
“For example, if you want to remove prostitution you will have to remove marriage. Without removing marriage there is no way to remove prostitution.
“That’s why for thousands of years every country, every religion has tried that prostitution should be removed.
“But they could not succeed, for the simple reason that they could not see an intrinsic connection between marriage and prostitution.
“If you really want to remove prostitution, you have to remove marriage.
“And that is the case with everything.
“So if it was something that American society has, something good which can be saved, German society has something else good which can be saved…
“Every society is an organic whole.
“A woman may be beautiful because she has a beautiful nose, but you cannot save the nose and throw the woman out. It is an intrinsic part of the woman.
“You will have to accept that the nose will also go with the woman.

There may be a few things which appear good, but they are good only in appearance, because they are part of a bigger whole which is not good.

“So it is not a question that in deprogramming America anything special is needed. The same process will be applicable to every society, everywhere.
“You will be throwing different things out of human life, but the throwing is the same. And the problems of throwing things will be the same.
“This always will be the problem, that there is something good connected with the bad. It can exist only with the bad part. If you throw the bad part, the good part simply disappears.
“There is something good in marriage but you cannot save it. It is intrinsically joined with the whole fabric of marriage.

So we have to be aware that many good things will have to be thrown out.

“But it is not going to be a loss, because once man is deprogrammed, he is now free to grow according to his nature.
“Now he will not be American, he will not be Christian, he will not be Catholic, but just a human being, as he was born.

Deprogramming brings him back his second birth.

“When he was born he was neither American nor Christian nor Catholic. He had no name.
“He was just a potentiality to grow – which has been destroyed by people, society, religion. They have been molding people for their own interests.
“And our whole program is never to mold a person, because every molding of the person is destructive to his individuality. It is going to be against his nature. And then he will never be blissful.
“Against nature there is no joy. Against nature there is no ecstasy. Against nature there is except misery, suffering, agony, nothing else.
“One has to follow his own instinct.
“They have to be understood, these two words: instinct and intuition.

Instinct is unconscious nature and intuition is conscious nature.

“First your instinct has to be freed from all the fetters of principles, dogmas, right and wrong, morality and immorality.
“Instinct, completely natural, has tremendous beauty. That is the beauty you see in the animals. A deer just jumping, running, has a certain beauty which man has lost.
“His jumping and running has a grace that comes from instinct. He is not jumping and running, it is nature jumping and running through him. He is just instrumental. This is the first step towards ultimate freedom, that your instinct should be allowed all growth possible.
“And alongside, you should continue to meditate, because meditation is not a program.

Meditation is just a method of becoming aware of what is happening to you.

“No disturbance, no judgment, just watching what is happening in you.

If you go on watching your instincts and their growth, a moment comes when your instincts start changing into intuition.

“The word is very significant.
“We are given tuition everywhere. That tuition is to repress your intuition.
“In the schools, in the colleges, in the universities, you are given tuition. It means something from the outside being forced upon you, and intuition means something coming from your innermost core.
“If you are unconscious, then it will remain instinct.

If you are conscious, then instinct plus awareness is equal to intuition.

“Then for the first time you have found your master within yourself.
“Intuition is your master, your real university. And now you don’t need any scripture, you don’t need any guide. Your inner light is enough to lead you to the ultimate goal of enlightenment.
“So deprogramming is absolutely necessary.

That simply means cleaning the person of the past and bringing him back to his innocence of childhood.

“And it doesn’t matter whom you are deprogramming.
“Of course, you will have to throw different things.
“If you are deprogramming an Indian, then certainly you cannot throw a TV because there is no TV. If you are deprogramming an American, the TV has to be thrown. Five or six hours he is glued to his TV each day; it is taking up the major part of his life.
“This is something that has to be understood. Humanity has been reduced almost into the state of a spectator.
“You watch television six hours per day.

That means six hours you are not living, you are simply seeing other people live, other people playing: a football match, a boxing competition, and you are simply spectator.

“Then there is the movie – the same; again you are a spectator. Then there are real matches, and millions of people go mad; and the Olympics – and you are just reduced to a spectator. Eighteen persons are playing the game and one hundred thousand people are simply spectators.
“And if you observe in life, everywhere man has been reduced from being active, participant, into a spectator.
“Now, this kind of life cannot bring you joy.

You are not living, you are avoiding living.

“It is better to compose your own music. It may not be great, it does not matter.
“You may not become a famous musician; that does not matter either. What matters is that you were composing it yourself.
“You were not a spectator; you were a participant, you were a creator.

And if people are deprogrammed, all their energy will move towards creativity.

“You go into the church, you listen to the sermon and that is your religion. You have a Holy Bible and you read the Bible, a few pages every day, and that is your religion.
“You never live religion, nor does your priest live religion – reading the Holy Bible does not mean living religion. You are again reading something as a spectator.

A deprogrammed person stops being a spectator. He becomes creative on his own.

“The value is not what he creates, the value is that he creates. Joy comes out of creation. Making any small thing – just making food for someone you love – is immense joy.
“But in America you need not do it. Everything is available, packaged. The whole creativity is in how to open the can. If you know how to open the can, you are a great cook.
“And this is happening in every sphere of life. People are being deceived.
“Certainly it is easier to open the can, and it is easier for the vested interests who are selling those cans; but you forget completely that there was a joy in cooking, in making something delicious for someone you love, your friends, children, parents. All that is missing.

A deprogrammed person will have to start his life completely from scratch.

“So our function is not to bother with what is cluttering his mind.
“American, German, Hindu, Mohammedan does not matter; whatever, we have to throw it out of his mind without any discrimination.
“The whole mind has to be emptied of all good, bad, whatever he has.
“Of course, the poor man will have different things in his mind, the rich man will have different things; but when both minds are cleaned they are equal.

They both have only emptiness, innocence, silence.

“Empty the Christian, empty the Hindu, empty the Buddhist, and you will not find three kinds of emptinesses.
“Emptiness is only of one kind.

So deprogramming is a process which is going to be similar for everybody in the world.

“And the process is very simple.
“We just have to make people aware that, “You are miserable, you are suffering, your life is a pain, an agony. You don’t find any meaning in it. You are in despair. Still you go on, you continue on the same lines which are causes of all this despair.”
“Nobody wants to be miserable.
“We just have to make him aware that even though he does not want to, he remains miserable because he is attached to something which is the cause of his misery – the Catholic church, the Hindu religion – which he thinks is something spiritual, which he thinks is going to give him blissfulness.
“All they are giving him is misery, but he does not connect them.

The function of the sannyasins is to make the connection clear.

“Once the connection is clear, nobody wants to be miserable.
“And if it is the church who is making him miserable, then along with his misery he will throw the church, too.
“Once he breathes in pure air, once he is out of the Christian atmosphere, he will be surprised that the misery has disappeared, that there is some dance in his feet, some song in his heart.
“One experience will make him go for the whole process, to empty his mind of all conditioning.

As he goes on unconditioning himself, his misery goes on disappearing, and at a certain point the pendulum changes.

“Instead of misery he starts feeling glimpses of joy, and new windows start opening.
“Your work is done once you have given the man a clear vision of what causes his misery.
“He can never get out of misery itself. He has to remove the cause.
“And if he removes the cause, blissfulness is not something that comes from anywhere, it is just his very nature.
“Let the misery go, throw its cause away, and you will find yourself full of blissfulness for no reason at all.

Bliss has no cause. It is our very nature.

“All that is needed is emptiness so that our nature can have a space to grow, blossom, spread fragrance.”
END
Excerpted and abridged from Osho, The Last Testament, Vol. 2, Talk #23 – Religion Is Just Rubbish
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