From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 29. POSITIVE THINKING: PHILOSOPHY FOR PHONIES
is inaugurating it, cutting a ribbon with the scissors, and people are clapping all around. And it is
a miracle! If you go just one furlong ahead, there is no road – and the road was going to be one
hundred miles in length. It is non-existent.
Great miracles! But take it positively, and don’t complain against anybody, otherwise everybody will
be caught: the leader who inaugurated the road will be caught and asked, ”What road have you
inaugurated? Where is it?”
The minister who gave the contract must have been bribed. The contractor must have taken the
major portion of the money that was going to make the bridge, and everything else is fictitious.
Engineers have been paid, workers have been paid; for years the work goes on, and reports go on
coming into the files that the work is going well, and the road is coming along, and it will be ready
even before the time set for it.
It can be ready any day; the way it is going it can be ready any day. And then the great leader comes
to inaugurate it, and people are clapping because they believe in positive philosophy. They know the
road goes only one furlong, but still they are clapping because a great leader has come, and they
have all been given money to clap Praise the leader, wave flags to welcome him. And these pictures
will be the proof. All these people have to be punished.
And Mother Teresa says to those poor people, ”Don’t complain.” Whom is she going to save? The
criminals?
Yes, I use the word ”criminals”, because I don’t know anything worse than that. Sinners I cannot call
them, because I don’t believe in sin. But they are criminals. If it is the carelessness of one person
who did not lock the plant correctly, and it kills two thousand people....
And this is a government report of two thousand people killed. Whenever there is a government
report, particularly from India, multiply it by five and you will be almost right. If they say two thousand
people have died, that means at least ten thousand people have died. If they say one hundred
thousand people have been seriously injured, don’t believe their numbers – at least five hundred
thousand people must have been injured. Who is going to count? The government officials reduce it
as much as possible so that there is no negativity in people, and positive philosophy goes on living.
And then they call in these people like Mother Teresa who say, ”Don’t complain.” Why?
Then what about Adolf Hitler’s gas chambers? Take it positively – and yes, if you want to take it
positively, it can be argued in a very positive way: those millions of Jews that evaporated in the
chambers, the gas chambers of Adolf Hitler.... Now think positively. If they had lived they may have
been poor. They may have suffered any kind of disease, tuberculosis. cancer. And they were all
Jews, so you can understand they would have suffered from AIDS, because Jews are the oldest
homosexuals in the world. And it is not that I am saying it, I am simply quoting the Old Testament.
Even God could not take it positively! He had to destroy two cities, Gomorrah and Sodom, in the
Old Testament. It is not written by me. God had to destroy both the cities completely! Why? Sodom
became so famous that now we have the word ”sodomy” because of Sodom. People were making
love to animals – that’s what sodomy is. Now sodomy means making love to animals, but it comes
from the name of the city, Sodom. People were making love to all kinds of animals.
From Ignorance to Innocence 433 Osho