One thing has to be absolutely clear about my work: I don't want anybody
to feel guilty about anything. I want humanity to be completely free from guilt.
Now all the religions of the world have done just the opposite: they have made
people feel very, very guilty. They have made all people feel like sinners. That's why
the world is so miserable. The ceremony has lost its music, its dance. Everybody is
so sad and the whole thing has become ugly because everybody is so guilty. If you
eat this, you are guilty; if you drink that, you are guilty. If you make love to this
woman, you are guilty. If you have some revolutionary ideas, you are guilty. If
you have some eccentric sexuality, you are guilty.... a thousand and one traps to
make you guilty! Unless you completely deaden yourself you cannot be respected.
So society respects only dead people, and the alive people are all guilty and sinners.
My whole approach is just the contrary, the diametrically opposite-I would like
you to feel happy. Whatsoever you do, you are excepted!
OSHO - At the Feet of the Master.
I really love this post, I agree that living in guilt is not the right thing to do and one has to accept others. But where is the line between feeling free and happy, and being careless?
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more. Guilt is unecessary. It just breeds obligation and resentment. Whenever I do something I know is wrong, I try not to let guilt eat at me or do or say anything out of obligation. I try to learn my lesson on my own and get up and keep living my life. I never do anything to make up for my wrong doings if I really don't want to.
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