Core Insight:
According to Osho, the survival of communes hinges less on a society’s affluence and more on their alignment with its power structures. Buddha and Mahavira’s followers endured because they depended on and upheld prevailing morality. His commune, a self-sufficient revolt against church, state, and culture, inevitably attracted annihilation. Any alternative society that refuses dependence and challenges the established order will be crushed, however rich the surrounding society.