And out of the inferiority complex you start to become superior - you become a prime minister, you become a president or something. That inner nothingness has nothing to do with inferiority complex, it is your interpretation that creates the inferiority complex. Of course, you can never succeed in it because that inner nothingness is your very nature, it cannot be denied. Politics is an effort to deny your inner nothingness. Politics is a denial of your inner nothingness, religion is rejoicing in it. Deep down you feel that you are nobody, deep down you are afraid of your nothingness. One goes on groping to find some source of power so that one can feel, ‘I am somebody.’ Politics comes out of an inferiority complex. ‘Yes, sir,’ said the young dog-seller, ‘but these puppies ain’t - they’ve got their eyes open.’ ‘Say,’ he said, ‘didn’t you tell me that those pups that I bought from you last week were political pups?’ The first man who purchased the other two dogs happened to overhear this. A man walked up to him and asked, ‘My little lad, what kind of puppies are these you have?’ ‘Well, then,’ said the man, ‘I’ll take these two.’Ī week later at the same place there was a religious gathering and the same boy showed up to sell the remaining two dogs. Finally, a man approached the boy and asked jokingly, ‘Are these political pups, sonny?’ Jesus is religious - that’s why he was crucified by the politicians - but Christians are not religious, they are very, very political.Ī large political meeting was attended by a small boy trying to sell four young puppy dogs. Whenever a religion becomes too organized, whenever religion becomes all establishment, whenever religion has a vested interest in the society, in this particular society, in the STATUS QUO, then it is no longer religion.Ī Buddha is religious, Buddhism is not religious. But the religions that you see around you - Hinduism, Mohamedanism, Christianity, Jainism, Buddhist are all political. So religion as such is anti-political or non-political. A religious person has to be without any ego whatsoever.
To be religious one has to drop the ego, and when you drop the ego, politics is dropped. And if you drop ambition politics disappears. These two thugs cannot go together because to be religious one has to drop ambition. And how can a political person be religious? He can pretend that he is religious but he cannot be religious. How can a religious person be political? He can pretend that he is religious but he cannot be religious. What is politics? Politics is ambition, politics is ego, politics is aggression, politics is violence, politics is an ego-trip. Any religion, any religion worth calling a religion, is bound to be against politics because the very phenomenon of religion is non-political. Zen is so much against politics that it does not say anything about it, but it is against it.
It is a way of relationship - you are related to your enemy too, sometimes even more than you are related to your friend. When you are very much against, you are very, very related. Then somehow you will remain in some way related to it. If you are against it, it will affect you. It is so much against politics that it cannot even be against it. Zen is so much against politics that it never talks about it.
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