OSHO: The Rule of a Barbarous Society

OSHO International Foundation - http://www.osho.com

Osho is asked to comment on the death penalty. This is a ten minute excerpt from a longer talk:
"The death penalty is a degrading proof of ... all man's inhumanity to man. It shows that man is still living in the barbarous age. Civilization still remains an idea -- it has not become a reality."

This video is available for translation as part of the
OSHO TALKS Video Translation Project.
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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• osho
• death
• penalty
• meditation
• society
• revenge
• cruel
• punishment

[psihedelic007]

I attended 3 years ago a great course of human rights and I have noticed that nothing changed because politicians maintain their narrow mentalities!...open mindedness is still faraway,unfortunately!long live Osho!!:D

[soulvagabond]

Osho, You Are D Man!

[MrLimbomo]

@bichode7cabecas ... then.. we are a society of blinds...living in deep darkness...

[IndyCarDriver]

when I read the title I actually thought it was about Osho's opinion on Neoliberal world...Neoliberalism and barbarism to me are great synonyms and If Osho was alive, I'd ask him what's his opinion on the World we see today, fully delivered to an obscure entity called market...the decadent society that will evolve from it, will it either cling on Aristotelian thought, marxist thought or decisively to the eastern transcendentalism? Only Osho could answer us.

[schlumbucket]

Death penalty isn't just revenge, it has a 100% success rate of preventing repeat crimes by the same individuals. This IS a primitive, barbarous society. A pedophile doesn't just rape a little boy once. They do it again & again until you kill them or until you lock them up & throw away the key. Most effective thing to do now is just kill them. The greatest sin against humanity is not the execution of these criminals, but allowing them free to claim further victims.

[sreeshankarlal]

The problem with death penality is it reduces competition. We should not arrest criminals but live with them, this will help us improve our abilities and become stronger and not be a victim of an attack or theft.

[Dalveerpanwar08]

death panalty is realy sick brain thought

[bichode7cabecas]

eye for an eye makes it right

[ThaWinBlog]

It's incredible that people cannot see how idiotic that is, the notion of killing someone simply in the same way the person killed someone. It's strange that we go on to become the murderer. It's bizarre.

[Takiado]

@tedoymisojos if one is happy... they cannot have the need to make harm. This is why we must open our own eyes... Look within yourself for the answers.

[metaknowledge2010]

@tedoymisojos - the question my friend is what you would do! don't look elsewhere for solutions. what would I do I hear you ask, this needs much thought because man has murdered ever since he opened his eyes!

[Ajorme]

to kill someone you've completely detached yourself from humanity. it's not an easy thing to do. you've divorced yourself completely from reality. killing in society is a symptom of a serious illness of the collective mind. therefore people should NOT be in jails, rather they should be in a hospital or better yet, in a loving communal environment from the moment of conception. we were not always this way. something traumatic happened to us during our course here and we've never fully recovered.