Does a peaceful person experience anger towards others or society?

Osho, ever since I first heard you, this question has been on my mind: just as a disturbed person has anger—for himself—does a peaceful person also have anger—for others, for society?

Yes, yes—there will indeed be anger. Even a truly peaceful man has anger; he has his war, his struggle. But not for himself—that is the only difference. The disturbed person fights too, but he fights for himself. The peaceful person will fight for others; he too will be filled with anger, but there is no anger left in him for himself. His anger no longer has any inner, private cause. So I say: the individual should be peaceful, and there should be a revolution in society. I hold that only a peaceful person can bring revolution, because how will a disturbed person bring it? What is most needed to bring revolution is a quiet, steady mind—and that he does not have. But up to now it has happened that the peaceful person has not brought revolution. The reason was that his peace was dead; it was not alive. A man…

"please explain how it is possible that one can be spiritually transformed by being total in actions that are of anger, hatred and violence."

In any situation, the volcano may erupt. It is erupting every day. Someone kills someone, and just a day before he was as normal as you. No one ever suspected that he was going to be a murderer. No one suspects about you, and you have so many thoughts in your mind to murder. You have thought, you have planned it many times. The idea to murder someone else or yourself has come to you. It has happened to you if you are not absolutely idiotic. Psychologists say that an intelligent man is bound to think of suicide at least ten times in his life -- at least ten times! -- and ten thousand times you think to murder someone. You never do it, that is another thing. But you can do it; the possibility is always there. Make your anger a total act in meditation, and then see what…

A friend has asked: What relationship can there be, and how, between peace and revolution? What relationship can there be, and how, between compassion and revolution? These two seem opposed. Another friend has asked the same.

Life, continuously, depends on opposition. But we never manage to accept this opposition; hence great difficulty. We say, we accept birth, but we do not accept death. This is sheer madness. Life stands on the opposition of birth and death. Life depends precisely on their polarity. We say, birth is blissful and death is painful. We accept birth; we do not want death. Then we are speaking madness. The day we can accept birth and death together, the flavor of life will be entirely different. If we accept peace and revolution together, life will be something else again. Within, there will be a point where no change is; and without, the ever-turning wheel of change, change, and change. Within, a pin where nothing changes. The divine abides where there is no change. The world abides where there is constant change. And that which is the divine—ever still, silent, mute, where…

It seems that because of society and its different sections, our daily needs—first: clothes, food, water, the running of everyday affairs, the extra pressure of daily news and demands—have to be produced by straining the mind. When we go out to produce these things, anger seems inevitable. If our worldly day-to-day necessities could be met without getting angry, does any section or arrangement exist by which we could cover them in that way?

What do you know of the body yet? You have seen it only from outside. You know only the outer surface. You have not yet seen the body as if sitting within it. You have seen from outside, like a man standing outside a house looks at it—and another sits inside the house and looks. You have not yet sat within and seen the body. Enter a little deeper into observation, and you will look from within. Then you will see: inside is a mass of light, and outside is an encasing shell. It will be clear. You have not yet seen the mind. As you go within, you will see the mind: light inside, and around it the flies of thought buzzing; beyond that, the shell of skin and bone. Observation will lead you gradually inward, into the interior. And then only that remains experienced which has been observing—the…

A friend has asked: Osho, if meditation brings peace to life, then why does it not spread across the whole country?

We teach children: anger is bad, anger is a sin, don’t be angry. The result is not that they stop being angry—that cannot happen. The anger only remains incomplete, never allowed to run its full course; they never fully experience the pain of anger; they never pass through its fire. And then the question of non-anger does not arise; the search for peace does not begin. One who has not even been truly unpeaceful—how can he become peaceful? One who lacks even the capacity to be fully unpeaceful—how will he have the capacity to be peaceful? These things may sound upside-down, but I tell you: only the one who can be thoroughly unpeaceful can truly set out on the path to peace. One who, by getting angry, lives anger through and through—who is pierced by all its thorns, who is singed in its flames—one who drinks anger to the dregs…