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Chapter 3 - Unhitch the Universe
This vision, if it spreads, is bound to create a new man and a new society. A new man can only be an enlightened man.
A new man can only be a buddha.
And if there are just a few buddhas around the world, we can create the wildfire.
It has never been tried, but it is just like ... nobody knew about atomic energy until it was tried at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nobody could imagine that a small atom that you cannot see is carrying so much energy that it can destroy a great city like Nagasaki, with a population of one hundred thousand people, or Hiroshima, an even bigger city. In the whole of history nobody ever dreamt that atoms are carrying so much energy.
Now I am saying to you that if material atoms can explode and destroy so much
... how much more creative a conscious explosion of living beings can be. It can explode millions of people suddenly into a new era of enlightenment.
All their potentialities should become actualities. You will see thousands of poets, you will see thousands of musicians, you will see thousands of sculptors, thousands of scientists who were fast asleep and were just clerks or schoolmasters -- who never knew that their potential is that of a buddha.
We have to create what I call the chain effect, the trigger effect. Now you are all sitting so silently, and I can give just a trigger ...
(THE MASTER MAKES A TICKLING GESTURE TOWARDS AVIRBHAVA WHO
SCREAMS. EVERYBODY LAUGHS.)
Before we do our meditation, a few laughs. And this laughter has a beauty, because it has no cause.
(LAUGHTER CONTINUES.)
I have not told the joke yet!
(MORE HILARIOUS LAUGHTER.)
Have you ever heard such laughter before the joke? Today you have surpassed Sardar Gurudayal Singh. Even he is looking puzzled. Now be quiet, so that I can read the jokes!
Osho - The Miracle 45
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