baul -xiv-

Undoing that...

which has been done by the society, is true religion.

Undoing all nonsense that has been done by your well-wishers. They may be thinking that they are helping you, and they may not be knowingly destroying you; they may themselves be victims of theír parents and theír society.

I'm not saying anything against them. Great compássion is needed for them. Gurdjieff used to say to his disciples, that a man only becomes religious when he is able to forgive his parents...

Forgive?

Yes, that's how it is.

It is very difficult. The moment you become aware, it is very difficult, almost impossible to forgive your parents. Because they have done so many things to you. Unknowingly of course, behaving unconsciously of course, but still they have done.

They have destroyed your love, and they have handed you dead logic. They have destroyed your intelligence, and they have given you, as a substitute, intellect. They have destroyed your life, and aliveness, and they have given you a fixed pattern to live, a plan to live by.

They have destroyed your direction.

And have given you a destination.

They have destroyed your celebration.

And they have made you commodities in the marketplace.

It is very very difficult to forgive them...

hénce, all the old traditions say: 'respect your parents!'... It is difficult to forgive them, it is very very difficult to respect them. But if you understand, you will forgive them.

You will say the same as Jesus said on the cross: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

Yes, exactly those are the words.

And everybody is on the cross.

And the cross is not prepared by your enemies.

But by your parents, by your society...

And everybody is crucified.


~osho~
the beloved vol.1
(1977) - ch.9