Why are religious leaders and ideologies being challenged?
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"Life is in a constant state of creative destruction, where the obsolete must yield to the birth of a new consciousness that embraces greater life, freedom, and intelligence."
According to Osho, religious leaders and rigid ideologies are being challenged because life is undergoing a creative destruction: a new consciousness seeks birth, and the obsolete womb of dogma must give way. What seems like 'destruction' to the old is actually birth to the new. The issue isn’t destruction versus creation, but whether change leads to greater life, freedom, and intelligence.
Old religious rules are like a womb: they feel broken when a baby is born, but that ‘break’ is needed so new life and understanding can grow.
Why this matters practically
- Helps you drop dead habits and beliefs that block growth.
- Guides you to judge change by its outcome—does it expand life, freedom, awareness?
- Reduces fear of upheaval by seeing crises as birth pains of something better.
- Guides you to judge change by its outcome—does it expand life, freedom, awareness?
- Reduces fear of upheaval by seeing crises as birth pains of something better.
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