Revolt, Rebel, Survive!
here is a good one from Osho:
Understand the difference between culture and religion. Religion is your inner nature and culture is what you have been taught by others.
No matter how carefully someone teaches, anything learned from others will not liberate you, it will enslave you.
So when I say religion is rebellion, revolt, I mean rebellion against tradition, rebellion against conditioning, rebellion against spiritual slavery.
This is for me such a powerful passage. It comes from Osho’s commentary on the Ashtavakra Gita (The Heart of Awareness).
One sticky point is that Religion is now such a loaded word, such a terrible connotation. Why is that?
In my view, this is because the religions that we see ARE, as Osho says, “traditions”. They barely even manage to point in the general direction towards “our inner nature”… They are cultural, societal, and dare i say economic devices.
All i can recommend in the face of this truth is to follow each impulse that comes your way all the way from its source, deep to its landing place within you. And REVOLT.
It may be your only chance to survive…
