The rebel is one who lives according to his own light, moves
according to his own intelligence. He creates his path by walking on it, he
does not follow the crowd on the superhighway.
His life is dangerous – but a life that is not dangerous is not
life at all. He accepts the challenge of the unknown. He does not meet the
unknown that is coming in the future, prepared by the past. That creates the
whole anguish of humanity; the past prepares you, and the future is never going
to be the past. Your yesterday is never going to be your tomorrow.
But up to now this is how man has lived: your yesterdays prepare
you for your tomorrows. The very preparation becomes a hindrance. You cannot
breathe freely, you cannot love freely, you cannot dance freely – the past has
crippled you in every possible way.
The rebel simply says good-bye to the past.
It is a constant process; hence, to be a rebel means to be
continuously in rebellion – because each moment is going to become past; every
day is going to become past. It is not that the past is already in the
graveyard – you are moving through it every moment. Hence, the rebel has to
learn a new art: the art of dying to each moment that has passed, so that he
can live freely in the new moment that has come.
A rebel is a continuous process of rebellion; he is not static.
And that is where I make a distinction between the revolutionary and the
rebel.
The revolutionary is also conditioned by the past. He may not be
conditioned by Jesus Christ or Gautam Buddha, but he is conditioned by Karl
Marx or Mao Zedong or Joseph Stalin or Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini... it
does not matter who conditions him. The revolutionary has his own holy bible – Das
Kapital; his holy land – the Soviet Union; his own mecca – in the Kremlin...
and just like any other religious person, he is not living according to his own
consciousness. He is living according to a conscience created by others.
Hence, the revolutionary is nothing but a reactionary. He may be
against a certain society, but he is always for another society. He may be
against one culture, but he is immediately ready for another culture. He only
goes on moving from one prison into another prison – from Christianity to
communism; from one religion to another religion – from Hinduism to
Christianity. He changes his prisons.
The rebel simply moves out of the past and never allows the past
to dominate him. It is a constant, continuous process. The whole life of the
rebel is a fire that burns. To the very last breath he is fresh, he is young.
He will not respond to any situation according to his past experience; he will
respond to every situation according to his present consciousness.
They have destroyed humanity completely, enslaved human beings,
chained their souls; so on the surface it seems that you are free, but deep
inside you, religions have created a certain conscience which goes on
dominating you.
It is almost like one great scientist, Delgado.... He has found
that in the human brain there are seven hundred centers. Those centers are
connected with your whole body, the whole system. There is a center for your
sex, there is a center for your intelligence, and for everything in your life.
If at a particular center an electrode is implanted in the brain, a very
strange phenomenon happens. He displayed it for the first time in Spain.
He put an electrode in the brain of the strongest bull – a
remote control was in his pocket – and he stood in a field, waved a red flag,
and the bull rushed madly towards him.
That was the most dangerous bull in the whole of Spain, and
thousands of people had gathered to see. They were looking at the phenomenon...
their breathing stopped – their eyes were not blinking.... The bull was
approaching closer and closer, and they were afraid that Delgado was going to
be dead within a second. But he had in his pocket this small remote
controller.... Just when the bull was one foot away, he pushed a button in his
pocket – nobody saw it – and the bull stopped as if suddenly frozen, like a
statue.
Since then, Delgado has experimented on many animals, and on man
too; and his conclusion is that what he is doing with electrodes, religions
have been doing by conditioning. From its very childhood you condition a child;
you go on repeating, repeating a certain idea which becomes settled near his
center of intelligence, and it goes on goading the center to do something or
not to do something.
Delgado's experiment can prove dangerous to humanity. It can be
used by the politicians. Just when the child is born, in the hospitals, a small
electrode needs to be pushed into his skull near the intelligence center, and a
central controlling system will take care that nobody becomes a revolutionary,
nobody becomes a rebel.
You will be surprised to know that inside your skull there is no
sensitivity, so you will never be aware whether you have something implanted in
your head or not. And a remote controller can manage... from Moscow even the
whole Soviet Union can be managed. Religions have been doing the same in a
crude manner.
A rebel is one who throws away the whole past because he wants
to live his own life according to his own longings, according to his own nature
– not according to some Gautam Buddha, or according to some Jesus Christ, or
Moses. OSHO
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