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expert, not a worm expert!'
This stuffed knowledge does not make people wise, it simply hides their ignorance. This is not education, it simply represses their ignorance. Real education will help the child to be more intelligent.
But even the teachers and the professors don't like the intelligent children because they create trouble. They ask questions Which are embarrassing, they ask questions for Which the professors don't have answers. And they are not courageous enough to say, 'I don't know the answer.' And that is a sure sign of an ignorant man: one who has not the courage to say, 'I don't know the answer.' Everybody tries to pretend that he is omniscient, that he knows all that is worth knowing. So it is also in their favour to keep people unintelligent.
Sean Maire came into the garage, walked up to the parking place and, squatting down, went through the motions of driving a car.
'Horan,' said a shocked customer, 'why don't you tell the man he hasn't a car?'
'Is it mad you take me for? Sure, he pays me a pound to wash it every time he comes in!'
When there is a vested interest, when the person is getting one pound to wash a car Which is not there at all, why should he say it? It will be against his own interest.
The professors, the teachers, the priests are all joined together in a conspiracy against the poor child. And of course, these people are powerful, they can destroy the child: they can programme the child in such a way that he will remain unintelligent his whole life.
Zen is not for unintelligent people. You have to put aside all the programming that has been done on you. And you are capable of doing it, you just need guts. You have to rebel -- if you really want to live, you have to rebel. You have to rebel against all kinds of superstitions, against all kinds of stupidities. You have to rebel against your parents, against your society, against your church. Unless you do that you will not know anything of the ecstasy that this life contains.
This life is tremendously beautiful, Samadhi. But only those who live it can know it; there is no other way.
You ask me: OSHO, DO YOU REALLY
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