Instead of two people supporting and helping each other grow, it often became a pact of dependency and constriction. Instead of becoming a sacred bond, it became a diabolical contract. Osho believed that marriage has potential in a sacred and religious sense, but that the attempt to carry that over into practical life has mostly failed.Īccording to his view, people who were not spiritually advanced enough started marriage and turned it into something horrific. 3) Osho said marriage is usually hell instead of the heaven it should beĪnother one of the important things Osho said about marriage and children was that the reality of family life failed to live up to its ideals. Therefore, he envisioned a kind of free-living commune except under his control, where children were raised without really caring who their parents were and where their values (or lack of values) were instilled by him or people like him. “I’m against marriage from the very beginning, because that means cutting down your freedom.” He wants freedom, and marriage would get in the way of that. People may point out the very limited freedom he gave members of his cult and note the hypocrisy, but it’s clear that at least for his own life Osho means what he says. Osho believed that freedom was the “ultimate value” and thus saw marriage and the traditional raising of children in a nuclear family as a negative thing. The biggest motivation behind the things Osho said about marriage and children was his belief in personal liberty above all else. He never married and consistently said it was just a form of self-sabotage wherein you tie yourself down by getting “legally attached” in a way that lowers your spiritual potential. He considered it to be self-limiting and restrictive. What Osho said about marriage and children 1) ‘I’m against marriage from the very beginning’ Here’s what Osho said about the crucial subject of marriage and family. He was eventually deported for taking part in an unsuccessful assassination plot on a high-ranking state official and trying to poison the local community with salmonella to swing the outcome of an election.īut Osho’s teachings and philosophies continue to live on and influence many people, including those who choose to overlook his controversial sexual and moral behavior because they find value in his insights.
Originally from India, Osho went on to found a community in rural Oregon called Rajneeshpuram. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, or Osho, was an internationally famous guru and cult leader who started a new spiritual movement.
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