Why doesn't meditation spread across the whole country if it brings peace to life?

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…

Osho, Sitting quietly, an innocent heart had this thought: we did not come here; someone brought us. Who lit this tiny lamp of love, taking pity on the darkness of a desolate heart? But the lamp does not seem to be burning.

I told him, “Go elsewhere, then, because I cannot do the impossible. No one can make you peaceful until you understand that the mechanisms of unrest must stop. Wherever unrest arises, you must withdraw your hand. For peace, you do not have to do anything—simply withdraw from unrest, and peace appears. Peace is the absence of unrest. There is nothing to do directly for peace.” You have tied vast aspirations to darkness; remove them, and the lamp will burn. The lamp is eager to burn—eager every moment—because a lamp is made to burn. It came with the possibility of flame and is crying. I see tears dripping from your lamp: “When will you light me? Will you send me away unlit yet again?” For many lives you have dismissed it so. Birth happened, but not life. Life does not come automatically with birth. Birth is only a possibility. Life must…

First, they have created a great hurry in people -- that's why the West is in so much of a hurry. The roots go deep into the religions that have dominated the western mind. If there is only one life, only this life and then you will be in the grave, who knows for how long... who knows when the last Judgement Day will come? For almost an eternity you will be in the grave, so make as much as you can make of your small life -- it is not much. If you are going to live sixty years, twenty years will be wasted in sleep. Of the remaining forty years, for twenty years you will be working as a clerk or as a teacher or as a D.T. collector or as an engineer. There are thousands of kinds of stupid professions in which one can waste one's life.

Osho, how can I meditate while there is so much suffering, poverty, and wretchedness in the world? In such a situation, isn’t meditation pure selfishness? Even if I were to meet God, instead of asking for my own peace I would rather ask for punishment for those because of whom there is exploitation, suffering, and injustice in the world.

As you wish! If one doesn’t want to meditate, any excuse will do. If you don’t want to meditate you can convince yourself by any logic that meditation is wrong. But you haven’t even yet understood what meditation is. Nor have you understood that all this suffering, pain, and turmoil in the world is precisely because there is no meditation. A suffering person spreads suffering. Even if he wanted to give something else, he couldn’t. You can only give what you have. If you don’t have it, how will you give it? The unhappy give unhappiness; the fulfilled give fulfillment. If you want joy in the world, inner peace and inner awareness are essential conditions. Don’t stumble over the word “meditation.” It simply means you begin to sink into the juice of your own being. When you are full of inner nectar, it flows through your actions. Then whatever you…

A certain wall surrounds everybody, a subtle, very invisible wall, so you are not even aware that the wall is there. It is a very transparent wall. You can see through it and it hangs around you. So you can move and you can think that you are free but you are not free. You are not imprisoned in a prison made of stones and bricks, you are imprisoned in a prison made of thoughts, concepts, theologies, philosophies. It is a very invisible thing and one has to get rid of it. When the whole sky is yours with all its stars, then the whole existence is yours. That's exactly the teaching of all the masters -- Jesus, Buddha, Zarathustra. There is no difference, there cannot be. If truth is one, how can the teachings of those who have awakened to truth be different?