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Part VIII : Osho invites scientists to set up a World Academy
Just the other day I saw a petition of American scientists who
had made the first nuclear weapons plant in America—the
pioneers of nuclear weapons. Fifty scientists have signed a petition
to the president and to the Supreme Court saying that, "We
are trembling with fear at what we have done. And we have already
so many nuclear weapons on both sides that they are enough to
destroy all life on the earth within ten minutes."
Those fifty scientists who have been making nuclear war possible
have visualized the situation that is happening. The same is happening
in Russia: the scientists are becoming aware that what they are
creating is a mass scale, worldwide, suicide. It is so absurd
and meaningless.
Those fifty scientists have mentioned one thing which I have
been telling again and again: that up to now, all our efforts
to find some antidote for nuclear weapons have failed. And we
don't think that we will be able to find anything that destroys
the power of nuclear weapons—no counter energy is available.
It is because of this fact that they have put the petition—because
now it is simply destruction; there is no way of protecting anybody.
I am tremendously happy that nuclear weapons have come to a point
where fighting becomes useless, war becomes utterly stupid. last129
My appeal is to the intelligent people of the world, to the young
people of the world.
These fifty scientists should join hands with the Russian scientists
and should declare that they are not going to produce any more
nuclear weapons.
I want that there should be a world academy of scientists. I can
give them the place in my commune. We have enough space.
Have you let them know?
Yes. And that's what you have to do. Make them aware that I am
inviting them.
If all the scientists of the world refuse to cooperate with the
politicians…and this is the time to refuse. And if all the
scientists of the world can refuse and all the poets and all the
painters and all the people who are not political, but creative,
the masses can be convinced. last203
We can give our land—the whole land to the world academy—and
my sannyasins can serve in every other way to the world academy.
They will need cleaners, they will need food, they will need doctors,
they will need restaurant, disco—everything they will need—and
we will give our land free. There is no question of it, because
it is going into the service of humanity.
I would like this place to become the capital for the whole
world. I am ready to offer it…and my people will help them.
And we have a university for meditation which will be available
to all the scientists, which can change their minds, can make
them more calm, more quiet, more serene. And out of that calmness,
serenity, destruction is impossible. They cannot serve death;
they can only serve love, life, laughter. And they can see my
people, that they are living so joyfully, so ecstatically—this
is infectious. We will make them dance!
And all the scientists need to dance, to play music, to sing,
because then they cannot create destructive things. Their music,
their dance, their song, will be preventive, will be a transformation
of their being. And if they can meditate also, we are opening
a totally new era in scientific investigation.
This can be done by UNO; American government can help UNO. Take
over all war material. Somebody has to take the initiative and
somebody has to take the risk!
It is a dream…but it can become a reality. And a time has
come: if you don't make it a reality, then either dream or death—you
have to chose. It is better to choose the dream and give it a
try.
The world needs one government. Leagues of Nations proved impotent,
UNO is proving impotent, for the simple reason because they don't
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I believe in bioengineering. I want science to create a better
man in every way, but the problem is that all the governments
are forcing the scientists to create more and more destructive
weapons. They are forcing them into the service of death.
I would like all the scientists to be in the service of life.
Then bioengineering certainly can create far superior men, healthier,
more talented. In fact, we can fill the whole earth with geniuses;
there is no reason why not. We have all the basic things in our
hands. We can make man live at least three hundred years very
easily without getting old, without having cancer, without having
AIDS. This is all that your old past has given as a heritage.
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My conception of giving scientific birth to a child is that,
conscious, alert, knowingly, we are bringing a visitor to the
earth. We know who he is, what he is and what he is to become
finally; how long he will live, how much intelligence he will
have. We are discarding all possibilities of blind children, deaf
children, dumb children, retarded in any way—physically,
psychologically—and you are feeling fear? Don't be stupid.
The scientific birth of a child is not animalistic. You are transcending
the animal by giving birth to a child scientifically. It is fascinating,
the greatest, most fascinating thing around. We can manage it,
it is already a scientific reality. We can manage healthier people,
who will live as long as we want, and we can give them as much
intelligence as is needed for their work….
What I am saying about scientific birth makes you go beyond slavery,
blindness, darkness. It makes you in a certain way more spiritual,
because you are no longer concerned that you semen, your wife's
egg, are absolutely needed for your child. You give your requirements;
you adopt the child. And you can ask experts what will be the
best for the child. Would you not like your child to be a unique
genius?
For futile attachments, you are satisfied with a crippled child.
And giving birth to a crippled child, a blind child, are you doing
any favor to the child? He will never forgive you! You are responsible.
And he will have to live a life which is not life a all.
My vision gives total freedom to you, and of course, great responsibility.
Right now you are producing children without any responsibility.
You have means available to determine what color the child should
be, what kind of face—Greek, Roman? You can create children
who will look like sculptures, utterly beautiful, with genius
in some dimension of life, living a life of love, intelligent
enough to discard all the priests and all the politicians. They
will not become followers of a leader, they will be enough unto
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I have said many times that I am against democracy because democracy
is nothing but a mobocracy. I am in favor of a higher system,
which I call a meritocracy—people of merit. And I call that
system, meritocracy. person25
How can the idea of meritocracy be practically realized?
My suggestion is that only a person who is at least a matriculate
should be able to vote. His age does not matter. And as I explain
to you the whole thing, it will become easier. For the local government,
matriculation will be the qualification for the voters. And graduation
from a university, at least a bachelor's degree, should be a necessary
qualification for anybody running for election, for the candidates.
A master's degree should be a minimum qualification for the one
who is running for mayor.
For the state elections, graduation with a bachelor's degree should
be the minimum qualification for the voters. A master's degree
in science, the arts, commerce, should be the necessary degree
for the candidates. For the ministers an M.A. first class should
be the minimum necessary qualification; more will be, of course,
more appreciated. And anybody trying to become a minister will
have to know something about the subject. His qualification should
correspond to the subject matter that he is going to deal with
in his ministership….
So if somebody is going to be an education minister, then his
qualifications should make him capable of being an education minister.
He should have at least a master's degree in education, first
class; with less than first class nobody should be a minister
on the state level. Yes, if he has better degrees—doctor
of education, Ph.D. in education—that is good, that will
make him more qualified.
The attorney general should have at least the degree doctorate
in law, an LL.D; not less than that, because he is going to defend
the law of the state, the rights of the citizens. He should have
the best degree possible so he knows everything about it.
The governor should have the best of all the degrees possible
for him: M.A. first class, Ph.D.—his subject for Ph.D. should
be on political science—and at least one honorary degree,
a D.Litt. or LL.D.
For the federal government, a master's degree will be the voter's
minimum qualification. A first class master's degree and Ph.D.
should be the minimum for the candidates running for election.
And the ministers should all have the highest degrees in the subjects
for which they are going to be ministers. If it is education then
the highest degrees available in the country; if it is going to
be health, then the highest degrees available in the country.
The president should have at least two Ph.D.s and one honorary
D.Litt. or LL.D.; and the same for the vice-president because
he can become president any day.
In this way mobocracy is destroyed. Then just because you are
twenty-one it does not mean you are capable of choosing the government.
Choosing the government should be a very skillful, intelligent
job. Just by being twenty-one you may be able to reproduce children—it
needs no skill, even animals are doing perfectly well. It needs
no education, biology sends you well prepared. But to choose the
government, to choose people who are going to have all the powers
over you and everybody and who are going to decide the destiny
of the country and the world…the way we have been choosing
them is simply idiotic….
Every state should call a convention of all the inteligentsia
who are part of the universities or not part of the universities—writers,
novelists, all dimensions of talents—and they should choose
a delegation for the national convention. So from all the states
a national convention meets and goes into details of how the meritocracy
can work.
From the national candidates there can be an international convention
of all the universities of the world and the intelligentsia. This
would be the first of its kind because never has the whole intelligentsia
of the world come together to decide the fate of humanity.
They should write the first constitution of the world. It will
not be American, it will not be Indian, it will not be Chinese—it
is going to be simply the constitution of the whole of humanity.
There is no need for different kinds of laws. There is no need
all human beings need the same kind of laws.
And a world constitution will be a declaration that nations are
no longer significant. They can exist as functional units but
they are no longer independent powers….
Once we decide that the voting power is not the birthright of
every human being but is a right which you have to earn….
It is so simple a thing. You don't elect a doctor, that just anybody
can stand, it is a birthright, and people can vote. Two persons
fighting to be the doctor or to be the surgeon? What is wrong
in it? The people choose for themselves: for the people, by the
people, of the people. They choose one person, a surgeon, because
he speaks better, he looks good on the television and he makes
great promises.
But he is not even a butcher!—and he is going to become
a surgeon. He is not even a butcher. Even a butcher would have
been better; at least he would have known how to cut, and finish
you. This man…but you don't choose a surgeon by election.
How can you choose a president by election? How can you choose
a governor by election? You are giving so much power to power—hungry
people; with your own hands you are telling them to hang you!
This is not democracy. In the name of democracy these people have
been exploiting the masses.
Just to make a distinction I am calling my system meritocracy.
But merit for what? The merit is to serve and share. And once
you have decided to shift the power from the politicians to the
intelligentsia, everything is possible—everything becomes
simple.
Then I want every university to have two compulsory institutions,
because that is the way I would like the people who are going
to be powerful to be prepared….
I propose two institutes in every university. One institute is
for deprogramming. Anybody who gets a graduation certificate will
first have to get a clearance certificate from the deprogramming
institute—which means it has deprogrammed you as a Christian,
as a Hindu, as a Mohammedan, as a Jew…because this has been
our trouble.
And four years is enough time. Deprogramming does not take that
much time; just a few hours a month for four years and you will
be deprogrammed. And you will not get any certificate from the
educational institute unless you are cleared by the deprogramming
institute that "this man is now simply a human being. He
is no longer a Christian, no longer a Hindu, no longer a Mohammedan,
no longer a Jew."…
A second institute is needed in every university which will be
giving you a simple meditation. There is no need for any complexity.
Universities, intelligentsia tend to be complex, tend to make
things complex. A simple method of just watching your breath is
enough. But every day for one hour you have to go to the institute.
Unless the meditation institute gives you its degree, the university
is not going to give you its degree.
The university's degree will come only when a clearance certificate
from the deprogramming institute and a graduation certificate
from the meditation university have been granted….
What I am proposing is the right way to change the whole structure,
so that one day meritocracy can merge into democracy—because
sooner or later everybody can be educated. I am not preventing
anybody; I am simply saying that right now give the power of governing
only to those who are entitled to it and prepared for it. Meanwhile,
go on preparing other people….
I am not asking much, just a ten-year preparation. And if the
whole government is meditative, deprogrammed, unprejudiced—just
visualize it—then bureaucracy disappears, hierarchy disappears;
then things that take years can be finished within seconds. misery08
I propose the dictatorship of the enlightened ones. Nobody has
proposed it up to now. And sometimes out of my crazy mind….
This idea I have carried my whole life—dictatorship of the
enlightened ones, because if it is of enlightened ones it cannot
be dictatorship. It is a contradiction in terms. The enlightened
person cannot be a dictator like Joseph Stalin or Adolf Hitler.
Yes, the enlightened person can dictate to you, but out of his
love, not out of his power—he has no power—out of
his insight, because he has eyes to see and to feel the potential
of people.
His dictates can only be thought of as suggestions, advice, guidelines.
Only in the dictatorship of the enlightened ones is there a possibility
of a real, authentic democracy and also the real flowering of
commune-ism:
Equality by distributing riches, not poverty; destroying poverty
from the very roots, and raising everybody upwards to be rich.
My commune-ism is a higher state of capitalism.
Marx's communism is against capitalism:
My commune-ism is capable of absorbing capitalism into it, using
it as a tool, as a stepping-stone. person30
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