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CHAPTER 3. THE NUCLEAR FAMILY – THE IMMINENT MELTDOWN
checked, and if the poison was found the case would have been absolutely correct. But after six
months, now there is no way to know if your wife poisoned you, you poisoned yourself, whether you
were poisoned at all or you simply dreamed about it. At least as far as we are concerned, we never
do anything in such a way. If we had poisoned you, then you would not have been able to come out
of the grave to give the evidence. It is enough proof that we have not poisoned you.
And this senator, Don Quixote, he was saying before our sannyasins, to the commissioners, how
they could manage to destroy the commune, the city. He was giving instructions to these people –
in front of our sannyasins – about how they could do it and get around the law; how they could cut
out agencies from the city, and how they could make our life impossible so that we have to leave.
This is democracy! These are democratic people! These are the people who are looking after
people’s needs.
This is the democracy that has been described as ”for the people, of the people, by the people.”
I don’t know who these people are – certainly we are not the people.
One more question....
Question 2
OSHO,
SINCE EACH OF US IS BORN ALONE AND DIES ALONE, AND ALONENESS IS THE STATE OF
OUR BEING, WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF THE COMMUNE?
THE function of the commune is exactly that: to make you aware of your absolute aloneness.
The family does not allow you that. The family gives you the fallacy that you have a mother, you
have a father, you have a husband, you have a brother, you have a sister – that you are not alone.
The society gives you the idea that you are a member of the rotary club, the lions club; that you
belong to this church, to that temple, to this congregation or that congregation – that you are not
alone. The society provides you with all kinds of crowds to mingle with. You are republican, you are
democrat, you are liberal – but you are not alone, all the republicans are with you.
The function of the commune basically is to destroy all these fictions.
Nobody is with you.
You are alone, and you have to understand that this aloneness is so precious that you should not
lose it.
It does not mean that you cannot relate. It only means that you don’t believe in relationships. Try to
see the distinction between the two.
From Ignorance to Innocence 38 Osho