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What is the relationship between trust in individuals and the principle of trusteeship?

Trust in individuals is vital, yet without transforming the collective machinery, individual goodness is merely absorbed by the social machine, leaving the fundamental structures unchanged.

— Osho
According to Osho, personal trust is essential but insufficient; Gandhi’s trusteeship naively relies on individual goodness while leaving society’s group mechanisms intact. He insists we must both awaken individuals and consciously redesign the collective machinery. Without coordinated, structural change, isolated goodness is absorbed by the ‘social machine’ and nothing fundamental shifts.

Trusting good people isn’t enough; we must also change the rules and systems together.

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