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Why do people, especially academics and politicians, struggle to understand direct and compassionate teachings?

Education often serves tradition, dissecting the dead rather than embracing the living; true compassion is a rebellion against the order that seeks to contain it.

— Osho
According to Osho, academics—and institutional power—resist direct, compassionate teachings because education serves tradition, not life. It faces backward, dissecting what’s safely dead, turning living fire into postmortem doctrine. The present is rebellious; compassion is subversive. Thus scholars analyze saints only after they’re gone, while institutions defend order and miss the living pulse.

They’re trained to protect old ideas and study what’s dead, so they can’t feel the bold kindness that’s alive right now.

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