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03DECEMBER 2008
CURTAIN UP
Can Wefor HOPE CHANGE ?
In his campaign to get elected as
the President of the United States,
Barrack Hussein Obama used two
keywords – HOPE and CHANGE.
Osho has said that 'hope' is four-letter
word that should be banished. Why?
Because he wants everyone to face the
reality and become fully responsible
for him or herself that leaves us with
his big mantra 'change'. This one
word was flashed for all his campaign
ads, backdrops, banners, posters and
badges. He spent millions of dollars to promote this one
word – change.
Now 'change' can mean whatever anyone wants it to
be, especially in the current financial turmoil and
political, indeed, violent, disorder. Since most people
are disgusted with American foreign policy-invasion
and wars, domestic policies boosting to rich into the
super rich, squeezing the middle class and the workers-
change seems to be the answer to all these problems.
From the findings of mind-control programmes of
governments and the military, the Obama wave of
change is the most blatant, mass mind control
campaign in recent history. One researcher commented,
“At its core the plan has been to make Obama the focus
of everything you hope for, believe in and want to
change. This is why it has been crucial for him not to
specify and detail what is meant by his 'hope, 'change'
and 'believe'. However, in the context of the Obama
mind-game they mean whatever you decide they mean
or want them to mean. The idea is for you to project all
that you stand for onto him and so he becomes the
symbol of you and how you see the world.”
Thus, Obama, with his big smile, has convinced
everyone with this message, 'I am whatever you want
me to be, for I am just a projection of you.” This is his
greatest achievement. As someone belonging to the
establishment – remember, he is already a Senator – he
has projected himself as a rebel. Since
his election, his refrain is that the
road ahead is long and hard. So
change can take a back seat.
The ultimate rebel, Osho, has a
totally different, indeed unique,
insight on change. Basically, Osho
exhorts everyone to bring a change
inside and then the external change
will follow by itself. Were all
Americans happy when their
economy was booming a few months
ago? Were they pleased with their image abroad?
Changing the economy for a turnaround or the foreign
policies for a liberal path will not solve all their
problems.
Osho says, "If you go to change the whole world and
THEN you think you will change yourself, you will
never be able to; you will never be able to come back
home. Start where you are. You are part of this ugly
world: by changing yourself you are changing the
world. What are you? A part of this ugly world. Why
try to change the neighbour? He may not like it, he may
not want it, and he may not be interested. If you have
become aware that the world needs a great change,
then YOU are the closest world to yourself: start from
there.”
Jean Paul Sartre has made a valuable statement,
“The other is hell.” Everyone rushes to agree with him
for the finger points away from oneself. Osho turns the
finger around to point at you, for the only change that
is meaningful. He says,” The heaven is inside you.”
So change yourself to realise it and change the
world. If you don't rely on Obama to change the world,
then you have some hope.
- Swami Anand Kul Bhushan