Zorba the Buddha
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   Jan. 1979
Pune, India

    My message is simple. My message is a new
    man, homo novus.

    The old concept of man was of either/or;
    materialist or spiritualist, moral or immoral,
    sinner or saint. It was based on division, split. It
    created a schizophrenic humanity. The whole
    past of humanity has been sick, unhealthy,
    insane. In three thousand years, five thousand
    wars have been fought. This is just utterly mad;
    it is unbelievable. It is stupid, unintelligent,
    inhuman.

    Once you divide man in two, you create misery
    and hell for him. He can never be healthy and
    can never be whole, the other half that has
    been denied will go on taking revenge. It will go
    on finding ways and means to overcome the
    part that you have imposed upon yourself. You
    will become a battle-ground, a civil war. That's
    what has been the case in the past...

                                                     – Osho
                                      Zorba the Buddha, ch. 1
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