All the cultures, all the religions
have been condemning alcohol, opium, hashish, marijuana .... but their condemnation
seems to have no effect.
Humanity goes on taking drugs, and
nobody bothers to ask, if so many wise people are against
it, why are people taking these drugs?
In one country, marijuana may be
illegal, hashish may be illegal, LSD
may be illegal, but alcohol is not.
And alcohol is more dangerous than any
of the other three.
Why isn't alcohol
illegal?
Because Jesus used to
drink it.
Christianity cannot make it illegal,
otherwise Jesus would be proved criminal ... and not ordinary criminal, because he
was even making water into alcohol.
OshO
Actually, oxygen and nitrogen are
basic elements of existence. They can be of much use, but for
reasons the politicians have been
against chemicals of all kinds, all
drugs. The very word drug has become dangerous.
They are so against drugs because
people can come to know themselves, and when people come to know themselves politicians
lose their power over them -and they love their power.
In the Vedas they call it soma, the
essence, and since those ancient days until today, all those who know have recognized,
either directly or indirectly, that chemicals can be of immense service to man. Man is
chemistry, so is existence. All is chemistry. We cannot avoid its influence.
OshO
The governments, the politicians, the
church, the pope, they have all become scared because the new generation is too
involved in drugs.
You will always remain an outsider.
Once you have a glimpse of the non-ego then society cannot dominate you easily.
And if one goes too deep into drugs
then it is possible for the ego to be shattered completely.
Then you will become as if mad. Once
or twice a drug will give you a glimpse; it is just as if a window opens and
closes.
If you persist and you become
addicted to it, the ego may suddenly drop. But this is the problem: the ego
will drop, but the non-ego will not arise.
You will go mad, schizophrenic, split.
Religion works from the other corner, from the other end: it tries to bring up
the non-ego first.
And the more the non-ego comes up, the
more the whole asserts, the more the ego will drop automatically, by and by.
Before the ego drops, the whole has
taken possession. You will not go mad, you will not become abnormal, you will
simply be natural.
You will fall outside society into
nature.
OshO
Here my reasons are different. I am
also against drugs, not because they cut the roots of the religions and the
politicians, but because they destroy your inner growth towards
spirituality.
They prevent you from reaching the
promised land. You remain hanging around the hallucinations, while you are
capable of reaching the real. They give you a toy.
But since drugs are not going to
disappear, I would like every government, every scientific lab, to purify
drugs, to make them healthier without any side effects, which is possible now.
We can create a drug like the one
which Aldous Huxley, in memory of Rig Veda, called soma, which will be without
any bad effects, which will not be addictive, which will be a joy, a happiness,
a dance, a song.
If we cannot make it possible for
everybody to become a Gautam Buddha, we have no right to prevent people from at
least having illusory glimpses of the aesthetic state which Gautam Buddha must
have had.
Perhaps these small experiences will
lead the person to explore more. Sooner or later he is going to be fed up with
the drug, because it will go on repeating the same scene again and again.
Howsoever beautiful a scene is, repetition makes it a boredom. So first purify
the drug from all bad effects.
Second, let people who want to enjoy,
enjoy. They will become bored by it.
And then their only path will be to
seek some method of meditation to find the ultimate bliss.
OshO
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