So on the 'instinctive' level politics is just "might is right". The law of jungle... Please discriminate between:
'instinctive level' and 'intuition level'. Intuition level are intelligent people.
So on the instinctive level politics is just: "might is right".
Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mussolini, Bonaparte, Alexander, Tamerlane... All these people are more like wolves than human beings.
If we want a real humanity in the world, we should cross out these people's names completely. We should forget that these people have existed. They were just nightmares. But strangely, the whole of history is full of all these people... Like Bush and Blaire. Do you know what is history?
Just cuttings from newspapers of yesterday and ancient times. If you go on helping somebody, no newspaper is going to publish the story, you go on killing somebody and all the newspaper are full of it. And what is your history about except these people who have been a nuisance, who have left wounds on human consciousness? This you call history? Another words... You have only this garbage in your mind. So on the ...'Intuitive level' there is no politics at all... There is no fight at all, at the intuitive level.
Not a desire to prove oneself superior... No longer a personal quarrel... And truth is nobody's property. There is no question of enmity... It is an art of practical politics. Remember! It is not a question of personal enmity. If it is personal, you are already primed to be defeated because it is based in ego.
"You are bound to fall to the lower level".
In the political art... It is not the person, it is the art that proves the winner. Being a politicians not even a single moment should you remember yourself and your victory, because that will be the moment of your defeat.
Nobody can understand except one who has understood the whole tradition of non-egoistic rival... Then nobody wins.
There is no fight at all at the intuitive level.
The politician on the 'instinct level' is just a wild animal. He does not believe in anything except being victorious. Whatever means are needed to be victorious, he will use... The end justifies all his means, however ugly there are:
"Means don't matter: What matter is the end, if you succeed, whatever you have done is right, if you fail, whatever you have done is wrong."
But still, somewhere in the name of 'Truth'... A little politics is lurking behind the scenes. Otherwise, what is the need even to challenge? What is the point of going around the whole country...If you know the truth, people will choose you and will come to you... Whoever was thirsty will come to you.
"Politicians with stupid mind thinks only in terms of possessions. The man of insight thinks of utility".
The insight should come from the intuitive person. But the insight can only be understood by the intelligent... Not intellectual. And the intelligent can help the politicians of instinct, for whom the only desire is power.
This I call...'Meritocracy', because the ultimate merit dominates and influences the lower rung and helps them to rise above their level. It has no vested interest, and because it has no vested interest, it is free and its insight is clear.
It will be very difficult for the intuitive person to explain anything to the.. 'Instinctive' person because they are so far apart, belonging to two different dimensions without any bridge. In the middle, the intellectual can be of immense help.
The universities, the colleges, the school, should not only teach Political Science... It is such a stupid idea to teach Political Science!.. Teach Political Science but also teach Political Art, because Science is of no use, you have to teach Practical Politics.
And those professors in the universities should prepare politicians, give them certain qualities. Then the people who are ruling now all over the world will be nowhere at all.
Then you will find rulers well trained, cultured, knowing the Art and Science of Politics and always ready to go to the professors, to the scholars. And slowly it may be possible that they can approach the highest level of meritocracy... The intuitive people.
If this is possible, then we will have, for the first time, something that is really human... Giving dignity to humanity, integrity to individuals.
The first time you will have some real democracy, in the world. What exists now all over the world as democracy is not democracy... It is 'mobocracy' or 'hypocrisy'.
From Empty Hands
Labis, Johor
Tel: 016-6020321
25 OGOS 2009
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REMINDER TO ALL POLITICIANS OF THE COUNTRY!
WHEN THE FOUNDATION UNDER YOUR FEET IS SHAKY, HOW CAN YOU EXPECT TO BUILD UP THE MANSION OF LIFE?
Monday, August 24, 2009
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANY ANIMAL TURNING INTO A POLITICIAN?
Remember! We are fulfilling our egos in every way possible - gross or subtle, direct or indirect.
Down the centuries, in three thousand years, there have been thousand wars. No, no animal is so ignoble, animal have a natural nobility. But man is very cunning.
Does mankind is the most noble? Why is mankind the most noble? If we look at human history, mankind seems to be the most ignoble. Look at the animals; they have not been so violent, so murderous; they have not been so insane. Have you ever seen any animal turning into a politician?...Trying to become the head of the country or a premier? They are not insane, they live naturally, they die naturally, animals in the wild never go mad. Sometimes they go mad when they are forced to live in a zoo.
Yes, they kill, but they kill only when they want to eat. Man kills, for no reason. A man goes to the wild and kills a tiger and he says "This is play. This is game. I was hunting." Have you ever heard of any tiger hunting? They never hunt. When a tiger is hungry, of course he kills, and that's a natural way for him.
When animals are hungry they kill, but they don't kill as game. They don't kill for fun, they are not interested in killing in itself. Of course they are interested in food, nothing is wrong in it; man kills for no reason. Animals don't kill for ideologies, they don't say, "I am a Communist and you are Capitalist. I will kill you." They don't say, "I am a Fascist and you are a Communist, so I will kill you." They don't have any ideologies, and they don't kill because they are Hindus, Mohammedans and Christians.
Man kills for any excuse, for any excuse what so ever. And for what? For abstract doctrines, principles - and nobody is ready to live for those doctrines and everybody is ready to kills others for those same doctrines. But if somebody insults the Quran or Bible? He will say, "It is very difficult." He is not interested in living it, nobody is interested in living it. But if it comes to killing then everybody much interested.
People begin to slaughter one another, and they go on slaughtering for thousand of years. It seems to them at the time that they hate one another; or perhaps that they have to slaughter each other for some exalted purpose; or that they must defend somebody or something and that it is very noble thing to do; or something else of the same kind. They fail to realize to what an extent they are mere pawns in the game. They think they signify something, they think they can decide to this or that...
People are afraid of one another and what are they suffering from? First of all from an extraordinary opinion of themselves.
Dear readers!
The world of politics is basically of the instinctive level. It belongs to the law of the jungle; might is right. And the people who get interested in politics are the most mediocre... Please remember!
Politics needs no other qualification except one: That is, a deep feeling of inferiority. Politics can be reduced almost into a mathematical maxim:
'Politic means will to power'.
Will to power expresses itself in many ways. So you have to understand by 'politics' not only that is known by the name. Wherever somebody is trying a power number; it is politics. It does not matter whether it relates whether to the state, the government, and matter like that...
To me, the word politics is much more comprehensive than is generally understood.
It is simple to be a politician. One not only concerned with government, the state and connected affairs... Any power trip makes you a politician... Such as:
The husband trying to be superior to the wife... It is politics.
The wife trying to be superior to the husband... Because the wife simply cannot accept the idea. Even though for millions of years she has been conditioned. She finds ways to sabotage it.
Every husband is henpecked, there is no other category of husband. But why? Why has this ugly situation arisen?..
Because... There is a male form of politics... There is a female form of politics... Both are trying to be on top of each other in every other area, for example in university.
The lecturer wants to be the reader, the reader wants to be the professor, the professor wants to be the dean, the dean wants to be the vice-chancellor... A constant struggle for power. At least one would think it should not be so in education. But nobody is interested in education... Everybody is interested in power.
In religion it is the same:
Everybody is on a ladder trying to climb higher, and others are pulling him down by the legs. Those who are higher are trying to push him so that he cannot rise up to their level.
And the same is being done to those who are on a lower rung of the ladder, some are pulling on their legs, others are kicking and hitting them to keep them down as low as possible.
The whole ladder, if you see it just as an observer... Is a circus. This is happening all around... Everywhere. So to me, politics means an effort:
To prove yourself superior... But why?
Because you feel, deep down, inferior. And please remember!
The man of instinct is bound to feel inferior... He is inferior. It is not an 'inferiority complex', it is a fact, a reality... He is inferior. Please bear in mind:
To live the life of instinct is to live at the lowest possible level of life.
If you understand the struggle, the fight for being superior, you drop out of the fighting... You simple say, "I am myself, neither superior nor inferior." If you just stand by the side and watch the whole show, you have entered into the second world... The world of intelligence and consciousness.
It is only a question of understanding the whole rotten situation in which everybody is caught. You have just to give a little patient observation to the whole situation:
What is happening? And even if I reach to the highest rung of the ladder, what is the point? You are just hung up in the sky looking like a fool... There is nowhere else to go. Of course, You cannot come down because people will start joking about you: "Where are you going? What happened? Are you defeated? You cannot come down and you cannot go anywhere else because there is no step higher. So you are hung up in the sky pretending that you have arrived, that you have found the goal of life. And you know that you have not found anything."
You have simply been a fool and your whole life is wasted. Now there is no way to go up, and if you go down, then everybody is going to laugh. So...
Anybody who becomes a president of a country... A leader of any associations, institutions... etc:
"His only prayer is that he should die at his post".
Because lower you cannot go... That is insulting... Humiliating and there is no way to go higher. You are stuck only death can release you from the dilemma.
Man is trying... continuously trying in every possible way to be somebody higher, special, superior.. But this is all politics.
An according to me... The intelligent people have something more important to do. The intelligent people cannot waste itself in struggling... With third class, ugly politics, dirty politics. An intelligent person is not going to be distracted by such a desert, which leads nowhere, not even to an oasis.
To be continued
Down the centuries, in three thousand years, there have been thousand wars. No, no animal is so ignoble, animal have a natural nobility. But man is very cunning.
Does mankind is the most noble? Why is mankind the most noble? If we look at human history, mankind seems to be the most ignoble. Look at the animals; they have not been so violent, so murderous; they have not been so insane. Have you ever seen any animal turning into a politician?...Trying to become the head of the country or a premier? They are not insane, they live naturally, they die naturally, animals in the wild never go mad. Sometimes they go mad when they are forced to live in a zoo.
Yes, they kill, but they kill only when they want to eat. Man kills, for no reason. A man goes to the wild and kills a tiger and he says "This is play. This is game. I was hunting." Have you ever heard of any tiger hunting? They never hunt. When a tiger is hungry, of course he kills, and that's a natural way for him.
When animals are hungry they kill, but they don't kill as game. They don't kill for fun, they are not interested in killing in itself. Of course they are interested in food, nothing is wrong in it; man kills for no reason. Animals don't kill for ideologies, they don't say, "I am a Communist and you are Capitalist. I will kill you." They don't say, "I am a Fascist and you are a Communist, so I will kill you." They don't have any ideologies, and they don't kill because they are Hindus, Mohammedans and Christians.
Man kills for any excuse, for any excuse what so ever. And for what? For abstract doctrines, principles - and nobody is ready to live for those doctrines and everybody is ready to kills others for those same doctrines. But if somebody insults the Quran or Bible? He will say, "It is very difficult." He is not interested in living it, nobody is interested in living it. But if it comes to killing then everybody much interested.
People begin to slaughter one another, and they go on slaughtering for thousand of years. It seems to them at the time that they hate one another; or perhaps that they have to slaughter each other for some exalted purpose; or that they must defend somebody or something and that it is very noble thing to do; or something else of the same kind. They fail to realize to what an extent they are mere pawns in the game. They think they signify something, they think they can decide to this or that...
People are afraid of one another and what are they suffering from? First of all from an extraordinary opinion of themselves.
Dear readers!
The world of politics is basically of the instinctive level. It belongs to the law of the jungle; might is right. And the people who get interested in politics are the most mediocre... Please remember!
Politics needs no other qualification except one: That is, a deep feeling of inferiority. Politics can be reduced almost into a mathematical maxim:
'Politic means will to power'.
Will to power expresses itself in many ways. So you have to understand by 'politics' not only that is known by the name. Wherever somebody is trying a power number; it is politics. It does not matter whether it relates whether to the state, the government, and matter like that...
To me, the word politics is much more comprehensive than is generally understood.
It is simple to be a politician. One not only concerned with government, the state and connected affairs... Any power trip makes you a politician... Such as:
The husband trying to be superior to the wife... It is politics.
The wife trying to be superior to the husband... Because the wife simply cannot accept the idea. Even though for millions of years she has been conditioned. She finds ways to sabotage it.
Every husband is henpecked, there is no other category of husband. But why? Why has this ugly situation arisen?..
Because... There is a male form of politics... There is a female form of politics... Both are trying to be on top of each other in every other area, for example in university.
The lecturer wants to be the reader, the reader wants to be the professor, the professor wants to be the dean, the dean wants to be the vice-chancellor... A constant struggle for power. At least one would think it should not be so in education. But nobody is interested in education... Everybody is interested in power.
In religion it is the same:
Everybody is on a ladder trying to climb higher, and others are pulling him down by the legs. Those who are higher are trying to push him so that he cannot rise up to their level.
And the same is being done to those who are on a lower rung of the ladder, some are pulling on their legs, others are kicking and hitting them to keep them down as low as possible.
The whole ladder, if you see it just as an observer... Is a circus. This is happening all around... Everywhere. So to me, politics means an effort:
To prove yourself superior... But why?
Because you feel, deep down, inferior. And please remember!
The man of instinct is bound to feel inferior... He is inferior. It is not an 'inferiority complex', it is a fact, a reality... He is inferior. Please bear in mind:
To live the life of instinct is to live at the lowest possible level of life.
If you understand the struggle, the fight for being superior, you drop out of the fighting... You simple say, "I am myself, neither superior nor inferior." If you just stand by the side and watch the whole show, you have entered into the second world... The world of intelligence and consciousness.
It is only a question of understanding the whole rotten situation in which everybody is caught. You have just to give a little patient observation to the whole situation:
What is happening? And even if I reach to the highest rung of the ladder, what is the point? You are just hung up in the sky looking like a fool... There is nowhere else to go. Of course, You cannot come down because people will start joking about you: "Where are you going? What happened? Are you defeated? You cannot come down and you cannot go anywhere else because there is no step higher. So you are hung up in the sky pretending that you have arrived, that you have found the goal of life. And you know that you have not found anything."
You have simply been a fool and your whole life is wasted. Now there is no way to go up, and if you go down, then everybody is going to laugh. So...
Anybody who becomes a president of a country... A leader of any associations, institutions... etc:
"His only prayer is that he should die at his post".
Because lower you cannot go... That is insulting... Humiliating and there is no way to go higher. You are stuck only death can release you from the dilemma.
Man is trying... continuously trying in every possible way to be somebody higher, special, superior.. But this is all politics.
An according to me... The intelligent people have something more important to do. The intelligent people cannot waste itself in struggling... With third class, ugly politics, dirty politics. An intelligent person is not going to be distracted by such a desert, which leads nowhere, not even to an oasis.
To be continued
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