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What is the relationship between violence and social justice?

True freedom from violence arises not from the institutions of justice, but from the inner transformation of individuals who realize that absolute nonviolence is a spiritual journey.

— Osho
According to Osho, social justice inevitably institutionalizes violence: courts, states, and movements deem retaliatory force 'just,' so societal nonviolence remains relative and mixed with coercion. Absolute nonviolence is a spiritual, individual realization, not a workable social policy. Hence justice systems perpetuate cycles of sanctioned violence, while true freedom from violence arises only through inner transformation of individuals.

Society calls some force “justice,” so it keeps using violence, while only a person’s inner awakening can be truly nonviolent.

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