智慧就是在自发性中蓬勃生长，在纪律约束中窒息而亡；越约束孩子他就越愚蠢，越有智慧的孩子就越叛逆
每一个小孩生来都是聪明的，没有一个小孩生来就是傻瓜。要成为一个傻瓜人需要受教育。
要把人变成傻瓜，学校、学院和大学是需要的，那是一项伟大的成就。
傻瓜是不自然的，必须得学习，必须得赚到。变蠢之前必须付出巨大的努力，佛佗或老子或椰酥是逃离了社会的人，社会没有把他们变成傻瓜。他们似乎非常稀有，因为整个社会都变成了傻瓜，否则他们会成为标准。聪明、智慧是自然的——就像呼吸一样自然，就像健康一样自然。
观察一个小孩，任何一个，黑的，白的，印度的，中国的，德国的——是的，哪怕是德国的！观察任何一个小孩。
所有的小孩都是智慧的，所有的小孩都很美。你见过丑陋的小孩吗？完全不可能。你见过愚蠢的小孩吗？他们有着无比的智慧。
但社会开始把孩子弄成残废，因为社会不能容忍太多智慧。太多的智慧是危险的。一个聪明的小孩就是一个危险的人，社会立刻就会束缚他，从第一天开始。孩子甚至不被允许靠自己自主地呼吸——从医生拍他屁股的那一刻，社会就开始了。孩子甚至不被允许靠自己呼吸，你应该等，不需要去拍孩子。
去妇产医院观察。当一个小孩降生，医生会提着他的腿把他倒挂，拍他的屁股帮助他呼吸。就好像自然不足以帮助他，需要你帮忙一样。没有人去拍动物——它们也在呼吸，完美的呼吸。不需要医生，不需要护士，不需要接生婆。
等待！但社会等不了，几秒钟之内社会就会进入，社会必须拍小孩。现在，那些学会拍孩子的人说那第一拍是一个震动，因为小孩太过纤弱。九个月里他都活在一个非常安全的环境里——那一拍就像一个巨大的震动，随着那个震动他的生命开始了。
甚至还有更为残忍的人。犹太人会施行割礼——割除生殖器官的包皮，一个巨大的震动。你已经开始实施暴力了，你已经开始残害孩子了。社会已经上路了。
每一件事都必须立即强加在孩子身上，现在母亲被告知，什么时候喂奶什么时候停止——每隔三小时。就好像每个孩子都是一台福特轿车，就像清一色生产线上的轿车一样。每一个小孩都是一个个体，他们的需求是不一样的。有的在两个小时之内就饿了，有的五小时后还不饿。平均成三小时是危险的。有的小孩还不饿但母亲会强迫他进食，因为三个小时到了。有的已经饿的在哭了母亲还要等再看看时钟，因为三个小时还没到怎么能喂呢？
这些微妙的手段是为了摧毁孩子纤细的智慧，纤弱的生命。那么他就必须被训练去适应每一件事，从如厕训练到上帝，他必须接受一切训练。他的自发性是不被允许的，而智慧就是在自发性当中蓬勃生长，在纪律约束中窒息而亡。越是约束孩子，他就越愚蠢，越有智慧的孩子就越叛逆。叛逆与智慧是同义词，愚蠢与纪律是同义词。如果你成功地规范孩子使他服从你，顺从你的意志，你就成功地扼杀了他的智慧。
你们所有的学校、学院、大学都在教导无意义的东西，因为所有的教导都背离感受。
没有哪个地方曾教导过敏感性。事实上，敏感性必须被摧毁。允许一个小孩敏感且智慧是危险的，因为如果孩子一直保持着敏感，那么社会就无法迫使他终其一生都去做那些愚蠢的事。
比如，有的人一辈子都是一个小职员，就只会堆积文件，这需要非同一般的迟钝，不敏锐。如果你有一定的敏感度，你就会想打破这种无聊的状况，去田野，去森林。你可能想成为一名园丁，一个庄园主或者一个渔夫、木匠、雕塑家、诗人——但你不会想要成为一个办公室职员。为了什么去当个小职员？太阳如此明亮，花朵盛放，鸟儿在歌唱，而你只是在做着职员的活！那是不可能的。社会必须扼杀你的智慧，你的敏感度，这样就可以让你做任何工作。当你变得鲁钝就能轻易地把你推到任何方向，那么一个人就会坚持不懈地做任何荒谬的职业。如果你一辈子都在做一件荒谬的事，很自然，渐渐地，你会失去变得智慧的所有可能性。
有些人被送去参军，一个有智慧的人会去参军吗？为了什么去杀人或者被人杀？生命是用来活的，不是用来杀和被杀的。生命是用来享受的，那是一个神圣的礼物。但成百上千万的人进了军队，随时准备去屠杀或被人屠杀。他们的整个一生——从早到晚——都浪费在游街、擦枪、听从那些愚蠢的命令上：向左转，向右转。用全部生命去做这些事！甚至没有一个片刻思考过自己在干什么——用自己的生命在干什么。这就是生命的意义吗？生命注定如此吗？
如果你唱歌跳舞那也许是有意义的，但向左转向右转，每天都在齐步走，只是在为死亡做准备……生命怎么能只是为死亡做准备呢？
残忍，暴力，麻木不仁，只有这样才能把成百上千万的人变成奴隶。你以为你是自由人吗？奴役只是更老练、更精微了，仅此而已。奴役依然存在，迄今为止还没有哪个社会是一个自由的社会，所有的社会都是奴隶社会。
是的，有一件事是确定的：奴役改变了形式。起初是非常明显的，现在则非常微妙。但是记住，微妙的奴役远比明显的奴役更加危险——因为明显的奴役你可以反抗，它是如此地显而易见，就在表面。但如果奴役非常地微妙，你甚至意识不到。如果你是一个回教徒、印度教徒、基督徒、耆那教徒，你就是一个奴隶。你的头脑被制约成一个印度徒、回教徒、基督徒，你变成那些徒。
而你从来没有想过这些。为什么你应该是一个基督徒？为什么你应该是一个回教徒？你不是作为一个基督徒、回教徒来到世上的，你生来是一个纯净的意识。
为什么要有这些界限？是谁把这个界限强加于你？你以一个纯粹的人类出生问世——是谁使你成为一个印度人或者中国人？你是奴隶。如果你是印度人或者英国人，你就是一个奴隶。奴役是非常微妙的。
如果你在做着别人想让你做的事，却从来不做自己一直想做的，你就是一个奴隶。你一直爱着一个人却不去爱，你继续和一个你不爱的人睡觉，你继续生活在一种破坏性强、可怕、地狱般的关系中，但你继续。
你是一个奴隶，不是一个自由的人。
一个自由的人会唤回自己的智慧，唤回他的敏感性。对我来说，那就是桑雅士：唤回你的智慧和敏感性，再度变得感性、鲜活，再度变得智慧，再次变成孩子。
Every child is born clever. No child is ever born idiotic. To become an idiot one needs to be educated.
To convert people to idiocy, schools and colleges and universities are needed. It is a great achievement.
Idiocy is not natural; it has to be learned, it has to be earned. Great effort has to be made before you can become stupid. A Buddha or a Lao Tzu or a Jesus are people who somehow escaped from society, who somehow managed it that society did not change them into stupid people. They look rare because the whole society has become stupid otherwise they would be the norm. It be natural to be clever, intelligent — as natural as breathing, as natural as health.
Watch a child, any child, black, white, Indian, Chinese, German — yes, even German! Watch any child.
All children are intelligent and all children are beautiful. Have you ever seen an ugly child? The phenomenon does not exist at all. Have you ever seen a stupid child? Their intelligence is tremendous.
But society starts to cripple the child because society cannot allow that much intelligence. That much intelligence is dangerous. An intelligent child is a dangerous person. Society immediately jumps upon the child, from the very first day. The child is not even allowed the freedom to breathe on his own — the doctor slaps him on his bottom and society has started. The child is not even allowed to breath on his own. You should wait. There is no need to slap the child.
Go and watch in a maternity home. When the child is born, the doctor will take the child by his legs, hold him upside down and slap him on the bottom to help him breathe. It is as if nature is not enough so your help is needed. Nobody slaps the animals — yet they are breathing, breathing beautifully. No doctor is needed, no nurse is needed, no mid-wife is needed.
Wait! But society cannot wait. Within seconds society enters. Society has to slap the child. And now people who have been studying the phenomenon of slapping the child say that the first slap comes as a shock, because the child is very delicate. For nine months he has lived in a very protected environment — that slap is like a great shock. With a shock his life starts.
Then there are even more cruel people. Jews will do a circumcision — it is a great shock to cut the foreskin of the genital organs. You have started violence, you have started butchering the child. Society is on the way.
And immediately everything has to be forced on the child. Now the mother is told when to breast-feed the child and when not to breast-feed the child — after three hours. As if every child is a Ford car, just like every other Ford car. Each child is an individual. His needs are different. One child will find that he is hungry within two hours, another child will find that he is not hungry after five hours. This average of three hours is dangerous. One child will not be hungry but the mother will force him to feed because three hours are over and another child will be hungry and crying and weeping but the mother will wait and look at the clock and because three hours are not over yet how can she feed him?
These are subtle tricks to destroy the delicate intelligence, the delicate life of the child. Then he has to be trained about everything. From toilet training to God, he has to be trained about everything. He is not allowed any spontaneity. And intelligence thrives in spontaneity, intelligence dies in discipline. The more disciplined the child, the more stupid he will be; the more intelligent the child, the more rebellious he will be. Rebelliousness and intelligence are synonymous; stupidity and discipline are synonymous. If you have succeeded in ordering the child to obey you and in making him conform to your ideas, you have succeeded in killing his intelligence.
Your schools, your colleges, your universities, all teach nonsense because they are all against sense.
Nowhere is sensitivity taught nowhere. In fact, sensitivity has to be destroyed. It is dangerous to allow the child to be sensitive and intelligent because, if the child remains sensitive, then society will not be able to force the child to do foolish things throughout his life.
For example: a person goes on being a clerk his whole life, just piling up files. To do such a thing you need to be very insensitive. If you have a certain sensitivity you will want to break out of this nonsense, you will want to go into the fields, into the forest. You may want to become a gardener, you may want to become a farmer, or a fisherman, or a carpenter, or a sculptor, or a poet — but you will not want to become aclerk in an office. For what should one want to be a clerk? The sun is so bright and the flowers have bloomed and the birds are singing and you are just doing a clerical job! It will not be possible. Society has to kill your intelligence, your sensitivity, so that you can be put into any job. When you are dull it is easy to force you into any direction. Then a person can keep on doing any nonsense job. And when you do a nonsense thing for your whole life, naturally, by and by, you lose all possibilities of being intelligent.
A person can be sent into the army. If people were intelligent who would go into the army? For what would they kill others and be killed? Life is to live, not to be killed and not to kill. Life is to enjoy; it is a divine gift. But millions of people are in the army, just getting ready to be butchered or to butcher. And their whole life — from morning to evening — is spent parading, polishing their rifles, following some foolishman’s orders: left turn, right turn. Doing this their whole life! And not even for a single moment do they think about what they are doing — what they are doing with their life. Is life meant for this? Is this the destiny of life?
If you are singing and dancing maybe it is meaningful, but turning left and right, doing the same march every day, just preparing for death…. How can life be just a preparation for death?
Brutality, violence, insensitivity is taught only then can millions of people be turned into slaves. You think you are free people? Slavery has just become more sophisticated, that’s all. Slavery still exists. No society up to now has ever been a free society. All societies have been slave societies.
Yes, one thing is certain: slavery changes its forms. First it was very gross, now it is very subtle. And remember, subtle slavery is far more dangerous than gross slavery — because you can rebel against gross slavery, it is so apparent, so obvious, but when the slavery is very subtle then you are not even aware of it. If you are a Mohammedan, if you are a Hindu, if you are a Christian, if you are a Jaina, you are a slave. Yourmind has been conditioned to be a Hindu, to be a Mohammedan, to be a Christian, and you have become that.
And you have never thought about it. Why should you be a Christian? Why should you be a Mohammedan? You were not born as a Christian, as a Mohammedan, you were born as pure consciousness.
Why these limitations? Who has forced these limitations on you? You were born as a pure human being — who has made you an Indian and who has made you Chinese? You are slaves. If you are Indian or English, you are a slave. Slavery is very subtle.
And if you are doing things which others want you to do and you never do the thing that you always wanted to do, you are a slave. You go on loving a person you don’t love, you go on sleeping with a person you don’t love, you go on living in a relationship which is simply destructive, horrible, a hell, but you go on.
You are a slave, you are not a free man.
A free man is one who claims back his intelligence, who claims back his sensitivity. To me, that is what sannyas is: to claim back your intelligence, to claim back your sensitivity, to become again sensuous, alive, to become again intelligent, to become again a child.
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