From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 22. THE COMMUNE: THE DISTILLATION OF REBELLIOUS SPIRITS
In just coming to know who you are, all your fears, phobias, and mind problems simply disappear,
evaporate, because they were part of the personality.
All your inner conflicts are no more there.
There is only harmony and a silence which is so profound that there is no way to imagine it.
And to see one’s original being is to see all that is worth seeing, because from there the door opens
towards existence.
So I am teaching you everything that will help you to melt.
I teach you love, not marriage.
I teach you friendship, or even better, friendliness.
I teach you melting with the commune.
The commune is not the family. You are born in a family.... You have to understand a little bit about
the family. The family is a very strange institution, and one of the most poisonous institutions. The
parents think they own you. The mother thinks she has given birth to you, the father thinks he has
given birth to you: you are his blood.
It was a continual problem in my childhood with my parents. I would object whenever they would
mention or indicate indirectly that I belonged to them. I said, ”That’s absolutely wrong. Forget the
idea of possessing me. Yes, I have come through you, but just because of that you don’t become my
possessor; I am not your possession. A child comes through you: you are a passage. If passages
started possessing, then any road you pass by will call to you,’Where are you going? I possess you,
I have brought you here.’”
My parents would say, ”You can say anything you want to say to us, but such things, not in front of
others. If anybody hears that you are telling your father,’You are just a road’....”
I said, ”But I have to say these things because you provoke me; the whole fault lies in you. You start
– of course unconsciously, but you start thinking that you possess me.” He wanted me to become
a scientist, and I told him, ”You should leave it to me. I am now mature enough to decide in what
direction to go. And I am thankful that you have brought me up to this point; but now, leave me alone.
And this I am not saying out of any ungratefulness; I am grateful that you have made me capable of
choosing my path. But one day I have to tell you:’Now, leave me alone.’ It is shocking, it hurts, but
what to do? You are the cause because you have raised the expectation that this is what you would
like.”
He was rarely angry with me, but on that point he was very angry; and he was right in everybody’s
eyes. The whole family was in agreement with him. The neighborhood was in agreement with him,
”What is the point in going to an arts college and studying philosophy? You will be good for nothing.”
In India many universities have closed their philosophy departments, and other universities which
still have a philosophy department only get girls as their students. I myself was with two girls –
From Ignorance to Innocence 313 Osho