Anger

Osho, ever since I first heard you, this question has been on my mind: just as a disturbed person has anger—for himself—does a peaceful person also have anger—for others, for society?

Yes, yes—there will indeed be anger. Even a truly peaceful man has anger; he has his war, his struggle. But not for himself—that is the only difference. The disturbed person fights too, but he fights for himself. The peaceful person will fight for others; he too will be filled with anger, but there is no anger left in him for himself. His anger no longer has any inner, private cause. So I say: the individual should be peaceful, and there should be a revolution in society. I hold that only a peaceful person can bring revolution, because how will a disturbed person bring it? What is most needed to bring revolution is a quiet, steady mind—and that he does not have. But up to now it has happened that the peaceful person has not brought revolution. The reason was that his peace was dead; it was not alive. A man…

Anger comes in a second—then how can we suppress it in a second?

No, no—I am not talking about suppression. I am not saying suppression. (The audio recording of the question is not clear.) Find solitude—close the door somewhere, sit quietly—and watch whatever arises. Just watch; do not do anything. It will arise for a moment—watch exactly that. No worry. You are mistaken in thinking anger arises for only a moment; its surge lingers for a long time. The flare-up may be a moment, but its trailing line of smoke can go on and on. No worry if you cannot see it in its full youth; even if it appears in its old age, there is no harm. Even if only its final streak is visible, there is no harm. Begin the experiment of seeing. As the practice of seeing grows dense, one day it will be caught right at its birth. For now, it will be like this—that you will see its…

According to last night's technique, when anger, violence, sex, etc., arises, one should consider it and then suddenly quit it. But when one does it, one sometimes feels sick and uneasy. What are the reasons for these negative feelings?

Only one reason: your consideration is not total. Everyone wants to quit anger without understanding it; everyone wants to quit sex without understanding it. And there is no revolution without understanding. You will create more problems and you will create more misery for yourself. Do not think of renouncing anything, just think of how to understand it: understanding, not renunciation. There is no need of thinking to quit anything. The only need is to understand it in its totality. If you have understood it in its totality, the transformation will follow. If it is good for you, if it is good for your being, it will grow. If it is bad for you, it will drop. So the real thing is not quitting, it is understanding. Why do you think about renouncing anger? Why? Because you have been taught that anger is bad. But have YOU understood it as bad?…

Beloved Osho, I am angry with my parents for the first time. They are simple people, and I say to myself that it is not their fault that they have no understanding of Osho. But my anger is so much in conflict with my love that it hurts. I am so angry writing this that I can't even formulate the question. Can you help please?

Animals are not creating anything, they are simply producing carbon copies. And now science has come to a point where they have discovered that carbon copies can really be produced! It is a very dangerous idea. If we make banks -- and sooner or later we are going to make them; once an idea is there it is going to become a reality. And scientifically it is proved that it is one hundred percent possible... there is no problem. We can have banks in the hospitals for both the male sperms and female eggs. And we can create exactly the same two sperms and exactly the same two eggs, so two children are born which are exactly the same. One child will be released into the world; the other will grow in a fridge, unconscious, but all his parts will be exactly the same as the other person. And if…