This thing called mind, that influences your emotions, behaviors and emotions, is not a thing of your own; it’s not a thing in your service. It is a by-product of you being conditioned by the society and your biological impulses. And it’s not in the society’s best interest to give you a mind that’s blank, it doesn’t give you questions, it gives you ready-made answers that you must paste on the sheet of your mind.
It’s not a coincidence that your mind is shaped in accordance to the society you are born in. All your beliefs, ideologies, preferences, likes and dislikes, worldviews - where do they come from? Do they come from the deepest places of your being? Do you believe in whatever you believe in because you chose to believe it? Are they not forced down your throats by the society you are a part of?
Born in a Christian family, your mind is cultivated in a way that it works to protect the Church. Your beliefs come from the Christian culture and you won’t hear anything that offends your Christian beliefs. In fact, you’ll find logics to support your illogical beliefs and your will dedicate all of your life to the service of the Church. Now the Church doesn’t need to build fences around for its protection, because every child is being taught by its family, relatives, teachers to protect the Church with the fence of his life.
If the same fellow was born in a Muslim or Hindu or Sikh society, he would have totally different beliefs. He won’t care much if the Church starts losing its grip over the people, but he would care a great deal if an individual starts freeing itself from the clutches of society that he is now a part of.
Every society is different, have different set of beliefs, but fundamentally they are all the same - they all work to enslave the individual. It looks like that someone is Christian, someone is Muslim or Hindu or Communist but all of them are merely the robots moving their arms and legs according to the coding they received.
“No society wants you to become wise. It is against the investment of all societies. If people are wise, they cannot be exploited; if they are intelligent, they cannot be subjugated, they cannot be forced in a mechanical life to live like robots, they will assert their individuality, they will have the fragrance of rebellion around them, they would like to live in freedom.
Freedom comes with wisdom and no society wants people to be free…. no society would like people to use their own intelligence, because the moment they start using their own intelligence, they become dangerous - dangerous to the establishment, dangerous to the people who are in power, dangerous to all kinds of oppression, exploitation, dangerous to the Churches, dangerous to the States.”
— Osho. (link)
Every society is a war on individuality - it doesn’t matter if it’s Christian or Hindu or Muslim or Sikh or Communist or Capitalist or Fascist. It wants every person to be a clone of the other, it wants everyone to remain in a state of ignorance because only then can rebellion be prevented. A child is born individual but sooner or later, his individuality gets corrupted by the society. Because we are civilized people, on the surface we say that every person is free to make his own choices but if you try to understand what that means with a little awareness, you’d see that that implies on the surface level only.
When someone expresses his individuality at a deeper level, the society gets together to resurrect, poison, behead him. On the surface level, we want ourselves and the others to be like Jesus and Socrates but deeply we are inclined toward making sure that nobody becomes like them because we are unaware of the agent sitting inside.
Therefore, I say that the real revolution isn’t when you overthrow a certain form of society to establish the other one, it’s when the agent of all the societies sitting inside is overthrown. And by overthrow, I mean you stop being a slave of all the previously held beliefs - the beliefs that are so deeply wired into your thinking that they often go unnoticed. Those are the beliefs that keep you enslaved and gives society all the power over you.
You start transforming yourself from a mechanical robot into a human being with its own individuality and that starts happening when you stop resisting the flow of the light of awareness toward the agent, when you start seeing that the agent is not you, that’s when the rebellion starts.
Pull yourself out of the society and when I say this, I do not mean that leave the society and escape into the woods. That won’t help in any way. An ideologist in the woods isn’t a revolution, for he is as attached to the mind as someone living in society. The only revolution is someone who kicks the agent out, meaning someone who has freed himself from the bondages of the mind, and when there is no society’s agent, there is no enslavement to the society.
Mind has been a great tool for humanity. When used well, it can prove to be the greatest boon for humanity - it pulled us out of jungles and made great discoveries and inventions - but when used wrongly, it can also prove to be a cause of a lot of suffering and pain for humanity - we have thought ourselves into a situation where we are hurtling toward extinction either via climate catastrophe or the nuclear unfolding.
The real fight against society is a fight against yourself - against the patterns you hold, against the ideologies you have been taught, against the mind that keeps you away from Truth. Let’s first recognize that society’s code is deeply programmed into our mind and then start decoding ourselves, for as long as we do not realize our enslavement, there won’t be any fight to be free.
If my writings seem to have a point, if you think that this work should be supported, then you can do so by either becoming a free subscriber or a paid one foe 5$ per month only.
Or if you like to make a one-time payment only, then you can do so on Patreon or Kofi or Kofi.
Consider sharing it far and wide:
Join me on Twitter and Instagram: