Rebellion, Revolution, and Religiousness

By Osho

Rebellion is individual action; it has nothing to do with the crowd. Rebellion has nothing to do with politics, power, violence. Rebellion has something to do with changing your consciousness, your silence, your being. It is a spiritual metamorphosis. And each individual passing through a rebellion is not fighting with anybody else, but is fighting only with his own darkness. Swords are not needed, bombs are not needed; what is needed is more alertness, more meditativeness, more love, more prayerfulness, more gratitude. Surrounded by all these qualities you are born anew." -- Osho

"Certainly, my rebellion is based on yes yes to existence, yes to nature, yes to yourself. Whatever the religions may be saying and whatever the ancient traditions may be saying, they are all saying no no to yourself, no to nature, no to existence; they are life-negative.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561841919
• ISBN13: 9781561841912
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: New Falcon Publications
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A WISE CONTRIBUTION TO POLITICAL VISION

This book contributes widely to the construction of a vital awareness of what a "militant" should be in our contemporary society. Osho praises the power of rebellion through meditation and despises all traditional ways of violent materalistic revolutionary schemes. Good food for thought.

Changing the outside from within

"It is easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission." "Delay is the strongest form of denial." There is so much that we don't know about ourselves. The powers that be, political, economic or religious, would like to keep it that way. They don't want us to know that we can be totally responsible for ourselves, thereby making ourselves totally free of them. After all, there are governments, churches, courts, etc... because at some point in history we allowed these institutions to form so we wouldn't have to worry about certain things like making our own decisions. To find out what "good" is, we don't need to think for ourselves - we can just ask our local religious or political representative. No thought necessary. It's time to change things around a bit. It has become crystal clear that living in a social collective has its disadvantages. Mediocrity is praised, while often, genius is attacked as evil by disassociation. If you're not part of the herd, you're not to be trusted. Fighting with the established powers is futile. Revolution only succeeds in putting the revolutionaries into the very seat of corruptible power their enemies occupied previously. What is needed is not a change of leaders, but rather a change in mode of existence. The change must start from within each individual. Each individual is a single unit in the mass that forms the social collective, so to have a truly successful "revolution" the change must start from within the single units. Through meditation we can hope to change ourselves, which on a grand scale will change the world. This self-change or self-revolution is what Osho means by "rebellion." Rebellions are not tied to any particular group of people, or system of belief. Rebellions are wholly the concern of the individual. There is no need for bloody, violent revolutions once we see that they only lead to the same twisted human relations that existed beforehand. Rebellion has never been tried on a mass scale; considering that the death toll will equal zero, what do we have to lose? For thought-provoking treatment of similar topics, in addition to this and other books by Osho, I strongly recommend reading Christopher Hyatt, Robert Anton Wilson, and many other authors who can be found [...](a very interesting publishing company).

osho is good

this book is good. osho says revolutoins fail. So, he says, rebel. Change inside. Then after you change inside you will be better equipped to change the world outside. good book, read it.

A perfect book for the seeker with a political past

For those of you who have been wobbling between political movements and spiritual search, this is a wonderful book. It sorts out the virtues and shortcomings of socialism and anarchism, it smashes christianitys self-destructive demands of serving others, and it gives you guidelines, not for a future utopia, but for a constant ongoing inner rebellion, a change that might change the world