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Humanity : I have only seen human beings. Humanity is just an abstraction.

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Society is only a word -- and a very dangerous word. And man is very very efficient at inventing dangerous words. For example, 'humanity'. Now, I have never seen humanity; I have only seen human beings. Humanity is just an abstraction. But there are people who love humanity. You cannot hug humanity, you cannot kiss humanity. But that becomes a very very subtle camouflage. In the name of humanity you can go on hating human beings -- because you love humanity; there is no need to love human beings because you love humanity.

 

And if the need arises, you can sacrifice all human beings for your love of humanity. That has been done again and again: people love nations, and people kill people in the name of 'the nation'. In the name of 'motherland', 'fatherland' -- stupid words -- but in the name of 'motherland' thousands of people can be killed very easily.

 

The real is sacrificed on the altar of the abstract. This is your whole history. In the name of God, in the name of religion, in the name of love, in the name of peace, in the name of democracy, in the name of communism -- ALL abstractions -- we go on butchering real human beings.

 

These words are dangerous words. Drop these words; love human beings. If you have to sacrifice the motherland, sacrifice it -- it is nothing. If you have to sacrifice religion, sacrifice it -- it is nothing. If you have to sacrifice humanity, kill it without a single thought -- because there is no humanity and you will not be killing anything. But love the real: avoid the abstract. It is the abstract that has been the greatest calamity.

 

-Osho, "Philosophia Perennis, Vol 2, #8, Q1“

 

 

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Osho Dictionary

A Spiritual Dictionary for the Here and Now

List of Articles
No. Category Subject
46 H Habits : You can do your prayer every day unconsciously; then your prayer is a sin.
45 H Halfheartedness : lukewarm is their life. They never achieve anything
44 H Happiness : Don't miss any opportunity to be happy.
43 H Happiness : Happiness is the function of your consciousness when it is awake
42 H Happiness : Just the stuff you are made of.
41 H Happiness : No outside causes of happiness or unhappiness
40 H Happiness : Pleasure is animal, happiness is human, bliss is divine.
39 H Harmony : Only man can believe that he is separate.
38 H Hasidism : Osho on Hasidism
37 H Hate : Don't do anything. Just be aware of it.
36 H Headiness : The head is very dictatorial. It goes on taking energy from everywhere
35 H Healing : Healing almost becomes an experience of prayer, an experience of God, of love, of the whole.
34 H Healing : Love is the most healing force in the world
33 H Health : Health means the body is whole, nothing is missing.
32 H Health : If the body is not felt you are healthy, if the body is felt you are unhealty
31 H Health : Respect, don't neglect, your body.
30 H Health : The four pillars of inner health
29 H Hearing : You hear only that which you listen for.
28 H Heart : It cannot give you the truth.
27 H Heart : Move from the head to the heart
26 H Heart : My whole effort is to free the energy from your head
25 H Heaven & Hell : Not geographical, they are psychological, they are your psychology.
24 H Heaven : Neither heaven exists nor hell exists; they are just in your psychology.
23 H Helplessness : Helplessness will help your ego to drop.
22 H Here Now : Enlightenment is attained in a single monent.
21 H Herenow : no-mind is herenow.
20 H History : History is nothing but the record of the repetitious human stupidity.
19 H Hobby : Means to keep escaping from yourself
18 H Home : The home is somewhere inwards, very deep in the innermost core of your being
17 H Home : This whole existence is home
16 H Hope : Hope is a disguised form of desire.
15 H Hugging : Hugging is a very sensuous, physical experience of tremendous importance.
14 H Hugging : Only a gesture of love, of warmth, of caring
13 H Human Nature : Every man’s destiny is to become a buddha.
12 H Human Rights : Equality is a myth.
11 H Humanity : Humanity is a word, an abstraction;
» H Humanity : I have only seen human beings. Humanity is just an abstraction.
9 H Humbleness : Humbleness is nothing but the ego standing upside down.
8 H Humor : Man is the only animal who has the sense of humor.
7 H Humour : Seriousness is a state of disease; humor is health.
6 H Hurriedness : Some deep worry is inside that creates hurry
5 H Hurry : The moment your mind stops, time also stops.
4 H Hypertension : Too much focused on rationality and Forgotten your feelings.
3 H Hypnosis : Hypnosis is all around. Education uses it, politics uses it
2 H Hypocrisy : It exists by pretending to be that which it is not.
1 H Hypocrite : One who says one thing and does another
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