Freedom means the ability to say "yes" when you need to "yes", to say "no" when you need to "no", and sometimes to remain silent when you do not need anything - to be silent, not to say anything. When all these ingredients are available, that is freedom.

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Foreword. Three Dimensions of Freedom

Freedom is a three-dimensional phenomenon. Its first dimension is physical. You can be physically enslaved, and for thousands of years a person has been sold in the market like any other commodity. Slavery existed all over the world. Human rights were not accorded to slaves; they were not accepted as human beings, they were not fully considered human. And some people are still not treated like people. India has sudras, untouchable. It is believed that even touching them makes a person unclean; one who touches must immediately take a bath. Even touching not the person himself, but his shadow - washing is required even then. A large part of India still lives in slavery; there are still parts of the country where people cannot receive education and have access only to those professions that were defined by tradition five thousand years ago.

Throughout the world, the body of a woman is not considered equal to that of a man. She is not as free as a man. In China, for many centuries, a husband had the right to kill his wife, with impunity, because the wife was his property. Just like you can break a chair or burn your house - because this is your chair, this is your home - and this was your wife. Chinese law did not provide for punishment for a husband who killed his wife because she was considered to be soulless. She was only a reproductive mechanism, a factory for the production of children.

So there is physical bondage. And there is physical freedom - your body is not chained, does not belong to the lowest category, and as far as the body is concerned, there is equality. But even today, such freedom does not exist everywhere. Slavery is becoming less and less, but it has not completely disappeared yet.

Freedom of the body means that there is no separation between blacks and whites, there is no separation between man and woman, there is no separation when it comes to the body. Nobody is clean, nobody is dirty; all bodies are the same.

This is the very foundation of freedom.

Then, the second dimension is psychological freedom. Very few individuals in the world are psychologically free ... because if you are a Muslim you are not psychologically free; if you are a Hindu, you are not free psychologically.

Our whole way of raising children is aimed at making them slaves - slaves of political ideologies, social ideologies, religious ideologies. We do not give children the slightest chance to think for themselves, to seek their own vision. We forcibly cast their minds into prepared forms. We stuff their minds with junk - things that we ourselves have not experienced. Parents teach their children that there is God, without knowing anything about God themselves. They tell the children that there is heaven and hell, without knowing anything about heaven and hell.

You teach children things you don't know yourself. You are simply conditioning their minds because your own minds were conditioned by your parents. Thus, the disease continues to be transmitted from one generation to the next.

Psychological freedom will be possible when children are allowed to grow, when children are helped to grow to greater intelligence, to greater intelligence, to greater consciousness, to greater vigilance. No belief will be instilled in them. They will not be taught any kind of faith, but will be encouraged in every way to seek the truth. And they will be reminded from the start: “Your own truth, your own find will set you free; nothing else will do that for you. "

Truth cannot be borrowed. It cannot be learned from books. Nobody can tell you about it. You yourself will have to sharpen your mind so that you can look into existence and find it. If the child is left open, receptive, alert, and encouraged to seek, he will have psychological freedom. And with psychological freedom comes great responsibility. You don't need to teach your child responsibility; it comes as a shadow of psychological freedom. And he will be grateful to you. Usually, however, every child is angry with his parents, because they destroyed him: they destroyed his freedom, conditioned his mind. Before he even asked questions, his mind was filled with answers, each of which was fake - because it was not based on the parents' own experiences.

The whole world lives in psychological slavery.

And the third dimension of freedom is ultimate freedom - consisting in the knowledge that you are not the body, in the knowledge that you are not the mind, in the knowledge that you are only pure consciousness. Such knowledge comes through meditation. It separates you from the body, it separates you from the mind, and in the end you are only present as pure consciousness, as pure awareness. This is spiritual freedom.

There are three basic dimensions of individual freedom.

The collective has no soul, the collective has no mind. The collective does not even have a body; there is only a name. It's just a word. The collective has no need for freedom. When all individuals are free, the collective will also be free. But we are very impressed by the words, so impressive that we forget that there is nothing material in words. Collective, society, community, religion, church - all these are words. There is nothing real behind them.

It reminds me of one little story. In the fairy tale "Alice Through the Looking Glass", Alice finds herself in the king's palace. And the king asks her:

- Did you not meet a messenger on the way, heading for me?

And the little girl replies:

- Nobody met me.

And the king thinks that "Nobody" is someone, and he asks:

- But why then has Nobody got here yet?

The little girl says:

- Sir, nobody means nobody!

And the king says:

- Do not be silly! I understand: Nobody is Nobody, but he should have arrived before you. Nobody seems to walk slower than you.

And Alice says:

- This is absolutely wrong! Nobody walks faster than me!

And so this dialogue continues. Throughout the entire dialogue, “nobody” becomes someone, and it is impossible for Alice to convince the king that “nobody” is nobody.

Collective, society - all these are just words. What really exists is individuality; otherwise a problem arises. What is Freedom for a Rotary Club? What is freedom for the Lions Club? All these are just names.

The team is a very dangerous idea. In the name of the collective, individuality, living reality, is always sacrificed. I am absolutely against it.

Nations sacrifice individuality in the name of the nation; and "nation" is just a word. The lines you drew on the map are nowhere to be found on the ground. This is just your game. But fighting over these lines that you drew on the map, millions of people died - real people die for unreal lines. And you make them heroes, national heroes!

The idea of ​​a collective must be completely destroyed; otherwise, in one way or another, we will continue to sacrifice individuality. We sacrificed individuality in the name of religion in religious wars. A Muslim dying in a religious war knows that paradise is guaranteed to him. The priest told him: “If you die for Islam, paradise is reliably guaranteed to you, with all the pleasures that you can only imagine and of which you could only dream. And the person you killed will also go to heaven, because he was killed by a Muslim. It's a privilege for him, so you shouldn't feel guilty for killing a person. " Christians had crusades - jihads, religious wars, and they killed thousands of people, burned human beings alive. For what? For the sake of a kind of collectivity - for the sake of Christianity, for the sake of Buddhism, for the sake of Hinduism, for the sake of communism, for the sake of fascism; anything will do. Any word that represents a kind of collectivity is enough to sacrifice individuality for it.

Collectivity does not even have a reason to exist: individuality is enough. And if individuals have freedom, if they are psychologically free, spiritually free, then, naturally, the collective will also be spiritually free.

The team is made up of individuals, not the other way around. It has been said that individuality is only part of the collective; it is not true. Individuality is not part of the collective; collective is only a symbolic word meaning a collection of individuals. They are not part of anything; they remain independent. They remain organically independent; they do not become part of the collective.

If we really want to see the world free, we will have to understand that in the name of collectivity there have been so many massive atrocities that it’s time to stop. All collective names must lose the luster given to them in the past. Individuals should be of the greatest value.

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Liberty from something - not true freedom. The freedom to do what you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is for a person to be himself.

It's not about getting freedom from something. This freedom will not be freedom, because it is still given to you; she has a reason. What you felt addicted to is still present in your freedom. You owe it. Without this, you would not be free.

The freedom to do what you want to do is also not freedom, because the desire, the desire to "do" something arises from the mind - and the mind is your bondage.

True freedom comes from choiceless awareness, but when there is choiceless awareness, freedom does not depend on things or doing anything. The freedom that follows choiceless awareness is simply the freedom to be yourself. And you are already you, you are born with this; therefore freedom does not depend on anything. Nobody can give it to you, nobody can take it away from you. The sword can cut off your head, but it cannot cut off your freedom, your being.

This is another way of saying that you are centered, rooted in your natural, existential being. It has nothing to do with anything external.

Freedom from things depends on something external. The freedom to do something also depends on the outside. The freedom to be extremely pure does not have to depend on anything outside of you.

You are born free. The only trouble is that conditioning made you forget about it. The threads remain in someone else's hands. If you are a Christian, you remain a puppet. Your threads are in the hands of a God who does not exist, and therefore, just to give you the feeling that God exists, you need prophets, messiahs, representing God.

They represent no one, they are just selfish people - but even the ego wants to reduce you to a puppet. They will tell you what to do, give you the Ten Commandments. They will give you personality - and each of you will be Christian, Jew, Hindu, Muslim. They will give you so-called knowledge. And naturally, under the heavy burden that has been placed on you since childhood — under the weight of the Himalayas on your shoulders — under everything hidden and suppressed, your natural being remains. If you can get rid of all conditioning, if you can not consider yourself a Communist, Fascist, Christian or Muslim ...

You were not born a Christian or a Muslim; you were born with a pure, innocent consciousness. To be again in this purity, in this innocence, in this consciousness - that is what I call freedom.

Freedom is the culminating experience of life. There is nothing higher. And in freedom many flowers will bloom in you.

Love is the flowering of your freedom. Compassion is another blossom of your freedom.

Everything that is valuable in life blooms in you in an innocent, natural state of being.

Therefore, do not associate freedom with independence. Independence is, of course, independence from something from someone. Do not associate freedom with what you want to do, because this is your mind, not you. Wanting to do something, striving to do something, you remain in the shackles of your own desire and aspiration. In the freedom I'm talking about, you just there is- in complete silence, serenity, beauty, bliss.

Understanding the roots of slavery

To be totally free, a person needs to be totally aware, because our fetters are rooted in our unconsciousness; they don't come outside. Nobody can make you not free. You can be destroyed, but your freedom cannot be taken away from you. Unless you give it yourself. With the deepest analysis, it is your unwillingness to be free that always makes you not free. It is your desire to remain dependent, to throw off the responsibility of being yourself that makes you not free.

The moment you take responsibility for yourself ... And remember: this path is not strewn with rose flowers alone, roses also have thorns; not everything is sweet on this path, there are also moments of bitterness. Sweetness is always balanced by bitterness, they always remain in equal proportion. Roses are balanced by thorns, days by nights, summers by winters. Life maintains a balance between polar opposites. Thus, a person who is ready to accept the responsibility of being himself, with all the beauties, with all the bitterness, with all the joys and agony, can be free. Only such a person can be free ...

Live it in all the agony and all the ecstasy; both are yours. And always remember: ecstasy cannot live without agony, life cannot exist without death, and joy cannot exist without sorrow. This is the nature of things - nothing can be changed about it. It is nature itself, the Tao of things.

Accept the responsibility of being yourself, as you are, with everything that is good and bad in it, with everything that is beautiful and not beautiful in it. In this acceptance, there is going beyond the limits, and the person becomes free.

Society and Individual Freedom. Interview

Social rules seem to be a basic need for human beings. Yet not a single society has yet helped a person to realize himself. Would you be kind enough to explain what kind of relationship exists between individuals and society, and how they can help each other evolve?

This is a very complex and fundamental question. In all existence, only man needs rules. No other animal needs rules.

The first thing to understand is that there is something artificial about the rules. The reason man needs rules is because he has ceased to be an animal, but has not yet become a human being; he remains on the eve. This is where the need for all the rules comes from. If he were an animal, there would be no need. Animals live well without any rules, constitutions, laws, courts. If a person truly becomes a human being - and not only in name but in reality - he will not need any rules.

Very few people have understood this until now. For example, for people like Socrates, Zarathustra, Bodhidharma, there was no need for any rules. They are alert enough not to harm anyone. They didn't need laws or constitutions. If all of humanity develops to the point where it is truly human, there will be love in it, but there will be no laws.

The problem is that a person needs rules, laws, governments, courts, armies, police forces, because he has lost the natural behavior of the animal, but has not yet reached a new natural status. He stays in between. He is neither there nor there; he's in chaos. To control this chaos, laws are needed.

The problem becomes even more complex because the forces involved in controlling a person - religions, states, courts - have gained so much power. They needed to be given power; how else could they control people? And thus we found ourselves in a kind of voluntary slavery. Now that our institutions have gained power, the development of humanity is not in their interests. They do not want man to evolve.

You are asking how man and society, individuality and society can evolve. You don't understand this problem at all. If individuality evolves, society dissipates. Society exists only because individuals are not allowed to evolve. The social apparatus has been controlling a person for centuries and enjoying its own power and prestige. He is not ready to allow man to evolve, to allow man to grow to the point where he and his institutions become useless. There are many situations to help you figure this out.

It happened in China, twenty-five centuries ago ...

Lao Tzu was famous for his wisdom, and he was without doubt the wisest man who ever lived. The emperor of China very modestly asked him to preside over his supreme court, because no one could take into account the laws of the country better than him. Lao Tzu tried to dissuade the emperor: "I am not suitable for this," but the emperor insisted.

Lao Tzu said:

- If you do not listen to me ... One day in court will be enough for you to be convinced that I am not fit for this, because I am wrong myself system... Out of modesty, I did not tell you the truth. Either I can exist, or - your law, order and society. But ... let's try.

On the very first day, a thief was brought to court, who stole almost half of the treasures from the richest man in the capital. Lao Tzu listened to the case and said that both the thief and this rich man should go to prison for six months.

The rich man exclaimed:

- What are you saying? They stole me, they robbed me - what kind of justice is it if you send me to prison for the same term as the thief?

“I am undoubtedly unfair to the thief,” Lao Tzu said. - The need to send you to prison is much greater, because you collected so much money for yourself, took money from so many people ... the rights of thousands of people are violated, and you collect and collect money. For what? Your very greed breeds these thieves. You are responsible. The first was your crime.

Lao Tzu's logic is absolutely clear. If there are too many poor people and very few rich people, the thieves cannot be stopped, the theft cannot be stopped. The only way to stop it is to arrange society in such a way that everyone has enough to satisfy their needs, and no one has unnecessary savings - just out of greed.

The rich man said:

“Before you send me to prison, I want to see the emperor, because your decision is not in accordance with the constitution; it does not comply with the law of that country.

Lao Tzu replied:

- The constitution and the law of this country are to blame. I am not responsible for this. Go and see the emperor.

A rich man came to the emperor:

- Listen, this person should be removed from his post immediately; he's dangerous. Today I can go to jail, tomorrow you will be in jail. If you want to be saved, this person must be expelled; he poses a tremendous danger. And he's very rational. What he says is correct; I can understand that - but he will destroy us!

The emperor understood everything perfectly. “If the criminal is this rich man, then the biggest criminal in this country is me. Lao Tzu will send me to prison without hesitation. "

Lao Tzu was relieved of his post.

“I tried to tell you before,” Lao Tzu said, “you wasted my time. I told you I’m not fit for this. The reality is that your society, your law, your constitution are wrong. To run this wrong system, you need the wrong people.

The problem is that the forces we created to keep a person from falling into chaos have now gained so much power that they do not want to leave you the freedom to grow - because if you are able to grow, you can become an individual, alert, aware and conscious. , all these forces will not be needed. The people of power structures will lose their jobs, and together with their work they will lose prestige, power, the position of a leader, priest, pope - all this will be taken away. So those who were needed at first to protect humanity turned into its enemies.

My approach is not to fight these people because they have power, they have armies, they have money, they have everything. You cannot fight them; fight and you will be destroyed. The only way out of this chaos is to silently begin to grow in your own consciousness, and this cannot be prevented by any force. In fact, no one can even know what is going on within you.

I offer you the alchemy of inner transformation. Change your inner being. And the moment you yourself are changed, completely transformed, suddenly you see that you are free from imprisonment, that you are no longer a slave. You were a slave because you were in chaos.

It happened during the Russian revolution ...

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Foreword. Three Dimensions of Freedom

Freedom is a three-dimensional phenomenon. Its first dimension is physical. You can be physically enslaved, and for thousands of years a person has been sold in the market like any other commodity. Slavery existed all over the world. Human rights were not accorded to slaves; they were not accepted as human beings, they were not fully considered human. And some people are still not treated like people. There are sudras in India, untouchable. It is believed that even touching them makes a person unclean; one who touches must immediately take a bath. Even touching not the person himself, but his shadow - washing is required even then. A large part of India still lives in slavery; there are still parts of the country where people cannot receive education and have access only to those professions that were defined by tradition five thousand years ago.

Throughout the world, the body of a woman is not considered equal to that of a man. She is not as free as a man. In China, for many centuries, a husband had the right to kill his wife, with impunity, because the wife was his property. Just like you can break a chair or burn your house - because this is your chair, this is your home - and this was your wife. Chinese law did not provide for punishment for a husband who killed his wife because she was considered to be soulless. She was only a reproductive mechanism, a factory for the production of children.

So there is physical bondage. And there is physical freedom - your body is not chained, does not belong to the lowest category, and as far as the body is concerned, there is equality. But even today, such freedom does not exist everywhere. Slavery is becoming less and less, but it has not completely disappeared yet.

Freedom of the body means that there is no separation between blacks and whites, there is no separation between man and woman, there is no separation when it comes to the body. Nobody is clean, nobody is dirty; all bodies are the same.

From Osho's book, Liberty. Courage to be yourself.

Freedom is a three-dimensional phenomenon.

Its first dimension is physical. You can be physically enslaved, and for thousands of years a person has been sold in the market like any other commodity. Slavery existed all over the world. Slaves were not given human rights, they were not accepted as human beings, they were not fully considered human. A large part of India still lives in slavery; there are still parts of the country where people cannot receive education and have access only to those professions that were defined by tradition five thousand years ago.

Throughout the world, the body of a woman is not considered equal to that of a man. She is not as free as a man. In China, for many centuries, a husband had the right to kill his wife, with impunity, because the wife was his property. Just like you can break a chair or burn your house - because this is your chair, this is your home - and this was your wife. Chinese law did not provide for punishment for a husband who killed his wife because she was considered to be soulless. She was only a reproductive mechanism, a factory for the production of children.

So there is physical bondage. And there is physical freedom - your body is not chained, does not belong to the lower category, and as far as the body is concerned, there is equality. But even today, such freedom does not exist everywhere. Slavery is becoming less and less, but has not completely disappeared yet.

Freedom of the body means that there is no separation between blacks and whites, there is no separation when it comes to the body. Nobody is clean, nobody is dirty, all bodies are the same.

This is the very foundation of freedom.

The second dimension is psychological freedom. Our whole way of raising children is aimed at making them slaves - slaves of political ideologies, social ideologies, religious ideologies. We do not give children the slightest chance to think for themselves, to seek their own vision. We forcibly cast their minds into prepared forms. We stuff their minds with junk - things that we ourselves have not experienced. Parents teach their children that there is God, without knowing anything about God themselves.

You teach children things you don't know yourself. You are simply conditioning their minds because your own minds were conditioned by your parents. Thus, the disease continues to be passed from one generation to the next.

Psychological freedom will be possible when children are allowed to grow, when children are helped to grow to greater intelligence, to greater intelligence, to greater consciousness, to greater vigilance. They will not be taught any kind of faith, but will be encouraged in every way to seek the truth. And they will be reminded from the start: "Your own truth, your own find will set you free; nothing else will do that for you."

Truth cannot be borrowed. It cannot be learned from books. Nobody can tell you. You yourself will have to sharpen your mind so that you can look into existence and find it. If the child is left open, receptive, alert, and encouraged to seek, he will have psychological freedom. And with psychological freedom comes great responsibility.

You don't need to teach your child responsibility; it comes as a shadow of psychological freedom. And he will be grateful to you. Usually, however, every child is angry with his parents, because they destroyed him: destroyed his freedom, conditioned his mind. Before he even asked questions, his mind was filled with answers, each of which was a fake - because it was not based on the parents' own experiences.

The whole world lives in psychological slavery.

The third dimension of freedom is ultimate freedom - consisting in the knowledge that you are not the body, in the knowledge that you are not the mind, in the knowledge that you are only pure consciousness. Such knowledge comes through meditation. It separates you from the body, it separates you from the mind, and in the end you are only present as pure consciousness, as pure awareness. This is spiritual freedom.

There are three basic dimensions of individual freedom.

True freedom comes from choiceless awareness, but when there is choiceless awareness, freedom does not depend on things or anyone to do anything. The freedom that follows choiceless awareness is simply to be yourself. And you - you are already born with this; therefore freedom does not depend on anything. Nobody can give it to you, nobody can take it away from you. The sword can cut off your head, but it cannot cut off your freedom, your being.

Freedom is the culminating experience of life. There is nothing higher. And in freedom, flowers will bloom in you.

Love is the flowering of your freedom. Compassion is another blossom of your freedom.

Everything that is valuable in life blooms in you in an innocent state of being.

Therefore, do not associate freedom with independence. Independence is, naturally, independence from something, from someone. Do not associate freedom with what you want to do, because this is your mind, not you. Wanting to do something, striving to do something, you remain in the shackles of your own desire and aspiration. In freedom, which, I say, you simply are - in complete silence, serenity, beauty, bliss.

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Name: Freedom - Courage to be yourself.

For millennia, humanity has dreamed of freedom and fought for it, creating absurdities and sacrificing countless human lives.
This book is for those who want to find true freedom: the freedom to be yourself. It is compiled from conversations in which, with compassion and humor, Osho reveals the secrets of this journey and leads the reader to the awakening of the soul.

From Reaction to Action. 90
Rebellion, Not Revolution. 98
Obstacles and Steps. Answers on questions. 117
On the one hand, you offer us the ultimate freedom to do whatever we want, and on the other, you say that we must accept responsibility. 118
What to do when there is a need for a safe space, a good climate, in order to grow? Is this another prison ?. 121
When you talk about "rebel", you are talking in a positive sense. Do you change the meaning of the word 9. 124
Sadness mingles with my sense of freedom. What is this sadness 9. 126
Is it possible to look for the path of truth and try to free your country from tyranny? 131

Rebelling against the helpless old people who raised me seems unworthy. 134
Is there really nothing in the fear that arises along with thoughts of freedom but the desire to avoid loneliness and responsibility? 139
How can we help our children grow to their fullest potential without imposing our own ideas on them or interfering with their freedom? 141
Epilogue. True Freedom - Duchovna. 151
About the author. 173
Osho Center for Meditation and Recreation OSHO® Meditation Resort. 174

Freedom is a three-dimensional phenomenon... Its first dimension is physical. You can be physically enslaved, and for thousands of years a person has been sold in the market like any other commodity. Slavery existed all over the world. Human rights were not accorded to slaves; they were not accepted as human beings, they were not fully considered human. And some people are still not treated like people. There are sudras in India, untouchable. It is believed that even touching them makes a person unclean; one who touches must immediately take a bath. Even touching not the person himself, but his shadow - washing is required even then. A large part of India still lives in slavery; there are still parts of the country where people cannot receive education and have access only to those professions that were defined by tradition five thousand years ago.

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Liberty. Courage to be yourself

Freedom means the ability to say "yes" when you need to "yes", to say "no" when you need to "no", and sometimes to remain silent when you do not need anything - to be silent, not to say anything. When all these ingredients are available, that is freedom.

Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself

All photographic and graphic materials used with permission from the Osho International Foundation.

OSHO is a registered trademark and used by permission of the Osho International Foundation. Www.osho.com/trademarks

All rights reserved.

Published by agreement with the Osho International Foundation, Banhofstr / 52, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland, www.osho.com

Foreword. Three Dimensions of Freedom

Freedom is a three-dimensional phenomenon. Its first dimension is physical. You can be physically enslaved, and for thousands of years a person has been sold in the market like any other commodity. Slavery existed all over the world. Human rights were not accorded to slaves; they were not accepted as human beings, they were not fully considered human. And some people are still not treated like people. India has sudras, untouchable. It is believed that even touching them makes a person unclean; one who touches must immediately take a bath. Even touching not the person himself, but his shadow - washing is required even then. A large part of India still lives in slavery; there are still parts of the country where people cannot receive education and have access only to those professions that were defined by tradition five thousand years ago.

Throughout the world, the body of a woman is not considered equal to that of a man. She is not as free as a man. In China, for many centuries, a husband had the right to kill his wife, with impunity, because the wife was his property. Just like you can break a chair or burn your house - because this is your chair, this is your home - and this was your wife. Chinese law did not provide for punishment for a husband who killed his wife because she was considered to be soulless. She was only a reproductive mechanism, a factory for the production of children.

So there is physical bondage. And there is physical freedom - your body is not chained, does not belong to the lowest category, and as far as the body is concerned, there is equality. But even today, such freedom does not exist everywhere. Slavery is becoming less and less, but it has not completely disappeared yet.

Freedom of the body means that there is no separation between blacks and whites, there is no separation between man and woman, there is no separation when it comes to the body. Nobody is clean, nobody is dirty; all bodies are the same.

This is the very foundation of freedom.

Then, the second dimension is psychological freedom. Very few individuals in the world are psychologically free ... because if you are a Muslim you are not psychologically free; if you are a Hindu, you are not free psychologically. Our whole way of raising children is aimed at making them slaves - slaves of political ideologies, social ideologies, religious ideologies. We do not give children the slightest chance to think for themselves, to seek their own vision. We forcibly cast their minds into prepared forms. We stuff their minds with junk - things that we ourselves have not experienced. Parents teach their children that there is God, without knowing anything about God themselves. They tell the children that there is heaven and hell, without knowing anything about heaven and hell.

You teach children things you don't know yourself. You are simply conditioning their minds because your own minds were conditioned by your parents. Thus, the disease continues to be transmitted from one generation to the next.

Psychological freedom will be possible when children are allowed to grow, when children are helped to grow to greater intelligence, to greater intelligence, to greater consciousness, to greater vigilance. No belief will be instilled in them. They will not be taught any kind of faith, but will be encouraged in every way to seek the truth. And they will be reminded from the start: “Your own truth, your own find will set you free; nothing else will do that for you. "

Truth cannot be borrowed. It cannot be learned from books. Nobody can tell you about it. You yourself will have to sharpen your mind so that you can look into existence and find it. If the child is left open, receptive, alert, and encouraged to seek, he will have psychological freedom. And with psychological freedom comes great responsibility. You don't need to teach your child responsibility; it comes as a shadow of psychological freedom. And he will be grateful to you. Usually, however, every child is angry with his parents, because they destroyed him: they destroyed his freedom, conditioned his mind. Before he even asked questions, his mind was filled with answers, each of which was fake - because it was not based on the parents' own experiences.

The whole world lives in psychological slavery.

And the third dimension of freedom is ultimate freedom - consisting in the knowledge that you are not the body, in the knowledge that you are not the mind, in the knowledge that you are only pure consciousness. Such knowledge comes through meditation. It separates you from the body, it separates you from the mind, and in the end you are only present as pure consciousness, as pure awareness. This is spiritual freedom.

There are three basic dimensions of individual freedom.

The collective has no soul, the collective has no mind. The collective does not even have a body; there is only a name. It's just a word. The collective has no need for freedom. When all individuals are free, the collective will also be free. But we are very impressed by the words, so impressive that we forget that there is nothing material in words. Collective, society, community, religion, church - all these are words. There is nothing real behind them.

It reminds me of one little story. In the fairy tale "Alice Through the Looking Glass", Alice finds herself in the king's palace. And the king asks her:

- Did you not meet a messenger on the way, heading for me?

And the little girl replies:

- Nobody met me.

And the king thinks that "Nobody" is someone, and he asks:

- But why then has Nobody got here yet?

The little girl says:

- Sir, nobody means nobody!

And the king says:

- Do not be silly! I understand: Nobody is Nobody, but he should have arrived before you. Nobody seems to walk slower than you.

And Alice says:

- This is absolutely wrong! Nobody walks faster than me!

And so this dialogue continues. Throughout the entire dialogue, “nobody” becomes someone, and it is impossible for Alice to convince the king that “nobody” is nobody.

Collective, society - all these are just words. What really exists is individuality; otherwise a problem arises. What is Freedom for a Rotary Club? What is freedom for the Lions Club? All these are just names.

The team is a very dangerous idea. In the name of the collective, individuality, living reality, is always sacrificed. I am absolutely against it.

Nations sacrifice individuality in the name of the nation; and "nation" is just a word. The lines you drew on the map are nowhere to be found on the ground. This is just your game. But fighting over these lines that you drew on the map, millions of people have died - real people die for unreal lines. And you make them heroes, national heroes!

The idea of ​​a collective must be completely destroyed; otherwise, in one way or another, we will continue to sacrifice individuality. We sacrificed individuality in the name of religion in religious wars. A Muslim dying in a religious war knows that paradise is guaranteed to him. The priest told him: “If you die for Islam, paradise is reliably guaranteed to you, with all the pleasures that you can only imagine and of which you could only dream. And the person you killed will also go to heaven, because he was killed by a Muslim. It's a privilege for him, so you shouldn't feel guilty for killing a person. " Christians had crusades - jihads, religious wars, and they killed thousands of people, burned human beings alive. For what? For the sake of a kind of collectivity - for the sake of Christianity, for the sake of Buddhism, for the sake of Hinduism, for the sake of communism, for the sake of fascism; anything will do. Any word that represents a kind of collectivity is enough to sacrifice individuality for it.

Collectivity does not even have a reason to exist: individuality is enough. And if individuals have freedom, if they are psychologically free, spiritually free, then, naturally, the collective will also be spiritually free.

The team is made up of individuals, not the other way around. It has been said that individuality is only part of the collective; it is not true. Individuality is not part of the collective; collective is only a symbolic word meaning a collection of individuals. They are not part of anything; they remain independent. They remain organically independent; they do not become part of the collective.