“If we do something over and over again, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over again, it becomes normal. If only boys are made class monitor, then at some point we will all think, even if unconsciously, that the class monitor has to be a boy. If we keep seeing only men as heads of corporations, it starts to seem ‘natural’ that only men should be heads of corporations”
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To love embrace the void and spirit within you
“A culture that is dead to love can only be resurrected by spiritual awakening. On the surface it appears that our nation has gone so far down the road of secular individualism, worshiping the twin gods of money and power, that there seems to be no place for spiritual life.”
Meet the time as it seeks us.
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“(...) it doesn’t necessarily take very long to get to know the beaten tracks through the big, dark forest. Some people have fine, straight paths and street lamps and road signs. They seem to tell you everything. But that’s where you should be careful you don’t take anything for granted. Because you don’t find the forest’s animals on illuminated paths, you find them in the bushes and the scrub.”
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Maybe there were a few exceptions but in general it seems clear enough that causation involves a degree of regularity, counterfactual dependence, or energy transference. The problem seems to be that for each theory there are one or two cases that don’t fit the pattern. But should we infer from this that all the theories are wrong? Could it be instead that we are expecting too much of a single theory?
There is an assumption that causation is just one thing and that it is our business to discover its essence. Might we challenge this assumption? We sometimes use a single word to classify many different things. Consider the example of being a mammal. There are many different things that we call mammals: a whale, a human, a cow. The differences between a whale and a human are significant. A non-mammal fish resembles a whale more than does a mammalian human. Perhaps causation similarly permits a wide diversity of particular instances that have different features. This is what the pluralist says.
Buddha is very illogical and he is illogical because his insistence not to go against reality is absolute. His emphasis is this: that whatsoever reality reveals we have to listen to it. We are not here to impose our own ideologies on it. Who are we?
If this is the fact, then something is wrong in our logic, in our language, in our very way of thinking. We have to change that rather than avoiding reality, escaping reality. So he seems to be the most absurd thinker in the world, because this is one of the most absurd statements – that you don’t exist but you are reborn.
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Osho