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Does Evolution Naturally Lead to Freedom?

OSHO International
10 min readMar 6, 2023

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Osho,
What is the connection between evolution, freedom, and consciousness?

“Sartre says man is condemned to be free — condemned to be free. The whole of nature is at ease because there is no freedom. Freedom is a great burden.

“That’s why we don’t even like freedom; however we may talk about it, no one likes freedom, everyone fears freedom. Freedom is a dangerous thing. In nature there is no freedom. That’s why there is so much silence. You can never say to a dog, ‘You are an imperfect dog.’ Every dog is perfect.

“You can say to a man, ‘You are not a perfect man.’ It is meaningful, but to say to a dog, ‘You are not a perfect dog,’ is absurd. Every dog is perfect because a dog is not free to be. He is goaded by evolution; he is made, he is not a self-creator.

“A rose is a rose. However beautiful, it is not free, it is just a slave. Look at a rose: beautiful, but just a slave, goaded. There is no freedom to flower or not to flower. There is no problem, there is no choice: a flower is to flower. The flower cannot say, ‘I don’t like flowering,’ or, ‘I refuse.’ It has no say, no freedom.

“That’s why nature is so silent, a slave. It cannot err, it cannot go wrong. And if you cannot go wrong, if you are always right, and if your ‘right’ is not in your…

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