Osho, what is your message to humanity on this new year’s day?
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. In the past we were not able to create real human beings , but humanoids. A humanoid is one who looks like a human being but is utterly crippled, paralysed. He has not been allowed...