Why Does Terrorism Happen? - OSHO
Terrorism Is in Your Unconscious
“Everything is deeply related with everything else that happens.
“The
event of terrorism is certainly related with what is happening in the
society. The society is falling apart. Its old order, discipline,
morality, religion, everything has been found to be wrongly based. It
has lost its power over people's conscience.
“Terrorism has many undercurrents. One is
that because of nuclear weapons, the nations are pouring their energy
into that field, thinking that the old weapons are out of date. They are
out of date, but individuals can start using them. And you cannot use
nuclear weapons against individuals – that would be simply stupid. One
individual terrorist throws a bomb – it does not justify that a nuclear
missile should be sent.
“Now,
a terrorist has a strange power, even over the greatest powers. He can
throw bombs at the White House without any fear, because what you have
is too big and you cannot throw it at him. And these are the weapons
sold by you! But the phenomenon was not conceived of, because human
psychology is not understood.
“And
man is basically a hunter; he is not by nature vegetarian. First he
became a hunter, and for thousands of years he was just a meat-eater,
and cannibalism was prevalent everywhere. To eat human beings caught
from the opposing tribe you were fighting with was perfectly ethical.
All that is carried in the unconscious of humanity.
“Religions
have imposed things on man very superficially; his unconscious is not
in agreement. Every man is living in a disagreement with himself. So
whenever he can find a chance – for a beautiful cause; freedom,
democracy, socialism – any beautiful word can become an umbrella to hide
his ugly unconscious, which simply wants to destroy and enjoys
destruction.
“The first
are the religions – their values should be removed so that man can smile
again, can laugh again, can rejoice again, can be natural again.
‘Second,
what communism is saying has to be put clearly before the people – that
it is psychologically wrong. You are falling from one trap into
another. No two men are equal; hence the idea of equality is nonsense.
And if you decide to be equal then you have to accept a dictatorship of
the proletariat. That means you have to lose your freedom.
“And without freedom you cannot rejoice.
“You
live in fear, not in joy. If we can clean the basement of the human
mind's unconscious... and that's what my work is. It can be cleaned
away.
“The terrorism is not in the bombs, in your hands; the terrorism is in your unconscious.
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