The outer revolution is nothing compared to the inner. The outer revolution proves only a reform; it never proves to be really a revolution because man remains the same. You just go on changing the structures around him. The prison is changed, but the prisoner remains the same and is still imprisoned – maybe in a more comfortable prison, more convenient, with television sets and football grounds and facilities which are available to free people, but still he is in prison. There is no freedom.
Inner revolution brings freedom, and the only way to make oneself go through inner revolution is meditation. Meditation simply means learning to forget all that you have learned. It is a process of deconditioning, a process of dehypnosis. Society has burdened everybody with thousands of „thoughts. Meditation simply helps you to come out of that world of thoughts, into a state of silence. It is a process of cleaning your slate completely, it is emptying all that has been forced and stuffed inside you.
Once you are empty, spacious, silent, clean, the revolution has happened, the sun has risen; then you live in its light. And to live in the light of your inner sun is to live rightly. In fact, that is the only way to live.
Osho
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