THE SO-CALLED EDUCATION that goes on in the world prepares you only to earn bread. Jesus says, Man cannot live by bread alone. But thats what your universities have been doing-they prepare you to earn bread. In a better way, in an easier way, in a more comfortable way, with less effort, with less hardship-but all that they do is prepare you to earn your bread and butter. It is a very, very primitive kind of education: it does not prepare you for life. Hence you see so many robots walking around. They are perfect as clerks, as stationmasters, as tax collectors. They are perfect, they are skillful, but if you look deep down in them they are just beggars and nothing else. They have not even tasted one bite of life. They have not known what life is, what love is, what light is. They have not known anything of God, they have not tasted anything of existence, they dont know how to sing and how to dance and how to celebrate. They dont know the grammar of life; they are utterly stupid. Yes, they earn-they earn more than others, they are very skillful and they go on rising higher and higher on the ladder of success-but deep down they remain empty, poor. EDUCATION IS TO GIVE YOU inner richness. It is not just to make you more informed; that is a very primitive idea of education. I call it primitive because it is rooted in fear, rooted in that If I am not well educated I will not be able to survive. I call it primitive because deep down it is very violent: it teaches you competition, it makes you ambitious. It is nothing but a preparation for a cut-throat, competitive world where everybody is the enemy of everybody else. Hence the world has become a madhouse. Love cannot happen. How can love happen in such a violent, ambitious, competitive world where everybody is at each others throat? This is very primitive because it is based in the fear that If I am not well educated, well protected, highly informed, I may not be able to survive in the struggle of life. It takes life only as a struggle. OSHO : The Art of Dying, Chapter 3
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:19:58 +0000
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