Osho gives his definition of a rebel:

Rebellion is not something that you have to do; it is an approach, an attitude. The attitude is that you will respect yourself as an individual and you will respect everybody else in the same way. Nobody is lower than you, nobody is higher than you, remember. It is very easy to accept the idea that nobody is higher than you. But that is not rebellion, that is jealousy. Communism is not rebellion, it is jealousy.
Rebellion is when you accept that nobody is higher than you, nobody is lower than you. In fact, the categories of lower and higher are inapplicable. Each individual is so unique that it is not possible to compare two persons. So how can you put somebody higher and somebody lower?—they are so different and so unique.
Communism is not rebellion. That's why I continuously try to make the distinction between the words revolution and rebellion….
Every revolution dies into another orthodoxy.
It has been always so.
That's why I am not for revolution:
I am for rebellion.
Rebellion is individual.
But when many rebels are there and they want to live together, respecting each other's individuality, each other's freedom, each other's uniqueness—that's the meaning of a commune. It is not a society. It is not an establishment. It is not an organization in the old sense.
A commune is a communion of individuals who have all rebelled against all kinds of stupidities, superstitions. That is their meeting point. But that does not mean that they create an alternative society, another establishment. Then it would only be revolution.
Try to understand the difference clearly. If they don't create any establishment, and start living intelligently together, howsoever difficult it is—it is going to be a little difficult; otherwise why have people chosen to make organizations and establishments?—because it is less difficult….
I am an anarchist.
I basically believe in the individual.
I don't believe in the society at all.
I don't believe in civilization, in culture. I simply believe in the individual.
I don't believe in the state, I don't believe in the government. I don't want any government in the world, any state in the world.
I simply want intelligent people to live harmoniously out of their intelligence. And if they cannot live out of intelligence, it is better to die than to become robots, to become machines, to be nagged and to be imprisoned in all kinds of slavery. It is better to be finished. We should live intelligently, and our order will come out of our intelligence, not vice versa.
That's what has been tried before; enforce order so that people can function intelligently. Now, that is absolutely stupid. Once you enforce order you destroy intelligence, you destroy even the possibility of it ever growing. There is no need….
Man has been a calamity, a curse to existence.
Rebellion means making man a blessing to existence, not a curse.
It is a risky step, but there is no gain without any risk. And this is such a tremendous change, almost a discontinuity with the past—not any modified form of the past society, just a totally fresh and new society.
There is no paradox. Here you have to be a rebel, but your rebellion does not mean that you have to go against something which is intelligent, intelligible. You rebel against any stupidity. Any idiocy that happens in the commune, you rebel against it. That is your responsibility, to be on guard that no stupidity, no superstition, starts getting its roots within you. Be alert.
But rebellion does not mean that you have to be unnecessarily destructive just to prove that you are a rebel; otherwise, somebody may think that you look very orthodox: two days have passed and you have not rebelled even once! Rebellion is not something that you have to do every day. It is not some kind of exercise, like going for a morning walk.
Rebellion is your attitude of looking at things, of watching things; what is happening in you and what is happening around you. No rust should be allowed to settle. Your sword of intelligence should remain shining, that's all. And everybody is keeping his own sword shining, nobody else is keeping your sword shining. Here, nobody is his brother's keeper.
You have to be on your own so orthodoxy cannot enter….
In my commune you have to remain rebels.
Of course you won't have enough chances to use your rebellion—that's the whole purpose of the commune. You have used your rebellion, your chance to rebel against the orthodoxy; now we will not give you any chances. And you should remain alert that no chances are given that you have to rebel against anything.
In a commune of rebels, every rebel is a guardian, a guard, of the rebellious spirit.
And remember, I am using the words rebellious spirit.
It is not a question of action. Action is needed only when something goes against the spirit.
So whenever anything in the commune goes against the rebellious spirit, destroy it, rebel against!
And you are not going against the commune:
You are saving the commune, the commune of the rebels.
You are saving the rebellious spirit. misery29

But rebellion has never been tried.
Revolution is a collective effort to overthrow the government.
Rebellion is individual.
It overthrows nobody; it simply dissolves the individual's hypocrisy.
The rebel drops his facade.
He is not against any regime, against any society. He is not bothered by all that nonsense. Those who are interested in that, let them do their work. The rebel is simply very self-oriented.
I have been condemned by many sources around the world because I teach people selfishness. Yes, I teach selfishness. It is not a condemnation, this is my whole philosophy. I teach you to be selfish because unselfishness has been taught for thousands of years and it has not helped anybody.
I teach you to be just self-oriented.
Drop all the rubbish that is in you.
Clean yourself and start living as if you are the first and the last man in the world. The first, so that you don't have to carry the burden of the past, because there is no past. And the last, so that you need not worry about the future, about what will happen to your children. They will take care of themselves.
You think of yourself and live intensely at the innermost core of your being.
That's what rebellion is:
Let things be as they are.
But you are not a thing, you are a being:
Change yourself, transform yourself
Become a new man.

You have said that if there are only two hundred enlightened people in the world a third world war is not possible. Can You explain what You mean, how these two hundred people would make a difference among the billions of unconscious people?
Certainly. They will make tremendous difference. When the whole room is dark, just a small candle makes so much difference. In such a big room a small candle, lighted…the whole darkness disappears.
An enlightened person is a tremendous light—very subtle but for miles around him many people's lives will be touched. And if two hundred people are enlightened, which has never happened in history….
Two hundred enlightened people can create just the opposite situation. If they are together in a certain arrangement, they can create life rays which will protect people from death rays, which even may help somebody who has died through a death ray to come alive again. But those two hundred enlightened people have to be in a certain communication. Then they can create a circle around the world.
My own idea is that we can create two hundred enlightened people amongst our sannyasins. They are already connected and they are not alone, they are supported by the commune. Their energy can be enhanced, multiplied, by other sannyasins who may not be enlightened but are in search of it, on the way.
I mean what I have said. And if we can make a net of life rays around the earth, it can prevent even nuclear weapons from being destructive. But that is a totally different science and never experimented upon. But a few glimpses have happened in the past, and there is no harm in experimenting with it. Anyway, there is no other hope.
Our communes have to be ready for it. And they should not think of trivia, of small fights, egos. They should understand their responsibility is so great as it has never been of any human being before. And I hope that we will be able to do something. There is still time, and my people are working hard. Now it is a question whether we can manage within the time or not.
But I have a certainty that we have almost created a Noah's Ark of consciousness for the coming flood of death to the whole of humanity.

Henry David Thoreau

«Jamais la loi n'a rendu les hommes plus justes d'une seule once, mais, en raison du respect qu'ils lui portent.»
[ Henry David Thoreau ] - Résistance au gouvernement civil 

«Deux personnes sont nécessaires pour dire la vérité, une pour parler et l'autre pour écouter.»
[ Henry David Thoreau ] 

Voici un poème que j'adore et qui n'est pas assez connu je trouve:

" Je ne t'aime pas comme rose de sel, ni topaze
Ni comme flèche d’oeillets propageant le feu:
Je t’aime comme l’on aime certaines choses obscures,
De façon secrète, entre l’ombre et l’âme.

Je t’aime comme la plante qui ne fleurit pas
Et porte en soi, cachée, la lumière de ces fleurs,
Et grâce à ton amour dans mon corps vit l’arôme
Obscur et concentré montant de la terre.

Je t’aime sans savoir comment, ni quand, ni d’où,
Je t’aime directement sans problèmes ni orgueil:
Je t’aime ainsi car je ne sais aimer autrement,

Si ce n’est de cette façon sans être ni toi ni moi,
Aussi près que ta main sur ma poitrine est la mienne,
Aussi près que tes yeux se ferment sur mon rêve. "

Pablo Neruda 

Objectif -L'unité : réunir les chercheurs d' éveil pour nous faire grandir ensemble :)


conférence : entre science et tradition

L'allégorie de la caverne

L'allégorie de la caverne est une allégorie très célèbre exposée par Platon dans le Livre VII de La République. Elle met en scène des hommes enchaînés et immobilisés dans une demeure souterraine qui tournent le dos à l'entrée et ne voient que leurs ombres et celles projetées d'objets au loin derrière eux. Elle expose en termes imagés la pénible accession des hommes à la connaissance de la réalité, ainsi que la non moins difficile transmission de cette connaissance.

Résumé

 Dans une demeure souterraine, en forme de caverne, des hommes sont enchaînés. Ne nous ressemblent-ils pas ? Ils n'ont jamais vu directement la lumière du jour, dont ils ne connaissent que le faible rayonnement qui parvient à pénétrer jusqu'à eux. Des choses et d'eux-mêmes, ils ne connaissent que les ombres projetées sur les murs de leur caverne par un feu allumé derrière eux. Des sons, ils ne connaissent que les échos.

Que l'un d'entre eux soit libéré de force de ses chaînes et soit accompagné vers la sortie, il sera d'abord cruellement ébloui par une lumière qu'il n'a pas l'habitude de supporter. Il souffrira de tous les changements. Il résistera et ne parviendra pas à percevoir ce que l'on veut lui montrer. Alors, Ne voudra-t-il pas revenir à sa situation antérieure ? S'il persiste, il s'accoutumera. Il pourra voir le monde dans sa réalité. Prenant conscience de sa condition antérieure, ce n'est qu'en se faisant violence qu'il retournera auprès de ses semblables. Mais ceux-ci, incapables d'imaginer ce qui lui est arrivé, le recevront très mal et refuseront de le croire : ne le tueront-ils pas ?

Un premier décryptage

La caverne symbolise le monde intelligible où les hommes vivent et pensent accéder à la vérité par leurs sens. Mais cette vie ne serait qu'illusion. Le philosophe vient en témoigner par une interrogation permanente (à laquelle Platon se livre tout au long de l'œuvre), ce qui lui permet d'accéder à l'acquisition des connaissances associées au monde des idées comme le prisonnier de la caverne accède à la réalité qui nous est habituelle. Mais lorsqu'il s'évertue à partager son expérience à ses contemporains, il se heurte à leur incompréhension conjuguée à l'hostilité des personnes bousculées dans le confort (illusoire) de leurs habitudes.


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"Citadelle" Antoine de Saint Exupery

"si ton amour n'a point l espoir d etre recu, tu dois le taire. il peut couver en toi s il est en silence. Car il crée une direction dans le monde et toute direction t augmente"

"si ton amour n est point recu et qu il devient vaine supplication, tu dois le taire. car il ne faut point confondre l amour avec l esclavage du coeur."

"si ton amour se heurte à l absolu des choses comme d avoir a franchir l impénétrable mur de l exil, alors remercie Dieu. Car il est une veilleuse allumée pour toi dans le monde"

"alors s il est amour vers toi et amour en retour de ta part, tu marcheras dans la lumiere"

"et si ton amour est recu et si des bras s ouvrent pour toi, alors prie Dieu qu il sauve cet amour car je crains pour les coeurs comblé "

Imagine

Imaginez qu'il n'y a aucun Paradis,

C'est facile si vous essayez,

Aucun enfer en dessous de nous,

Au dessus de nous seulement le ciel,

Imaginez tous les gens,

Vivant pour aujourd'hui...

Imaginez qu'il n'y a aucun pays,

Ce n'est pas dur à faire,

Aucune cause pour laquelle tuer ou mourir,

Aucune religion non plus,

Imaginez tous les gens,

Vivant leurs vies dans la paix...

Vous pouvez dire que je suis un rêveur,

Mais je ne suis pas le seul,

J'espère qu'un jour vous nous rejoindrez,

Et que le monde vivra uni

Imaginez aucunes possessions,

Je me demande si vous le pouvez,

Aucun besoin d'avidité ou de faim,

Une fraternité humaine,

Imaginez tous les gens,

Partageant tout le monde..