Peace

Sober Up.

This monk is right. This must be part of your alertness – that you should not be fooled by others. The whole society exists on exploitation, exploiting the other. Everybody is exploiting. And this exploitation is not only in the market, it is in the temple, in the church, in the synagogue. It is everywhere… because the priest is also a businessman, and the pope is a super-businessman. Because you need peace, you ask for peace, so there are people who say, “Come to us, we will give you peace.” You ask for bliss, and there are people who are ready to sell bliss to you. If people like Maharishi Mahesh Yogi succeed in the West, they don’t succeed in the East. Nobody listens to them in India. Nobody is bothered. ...

From Osho's, A Bird on the Wing, Chapter #11.