DIPLOMACY IS A BEAUTIFUL NAME for all kinds of cunningness.
It is a beautiful label for all that is ugly.
It is an effort to cover human violence, human stupidity, human cunningness, behind a beautiful word.
Diplomacy is simply an effort to dominate.
It may be between persons, it may be between religions, it may be between countries -- it does not matter.
Even husbands and wives are in a diplomatic relationship, parents and children are in a diplomatic relationship.
It is not only in politics, it is in our whole life.
When you see somebody and you feel, "Now my whole day is wasted; seeing this bastard early in the morning is a perfect indication that something wrong is going to happen, some calamity is going to happen to me," but you say to the man, "Hello! How are you? Glad to see you!" -- that is diplomacy.
Diplomacy has entered into our blood.
When you don't love your wife and pretend that you love her, it is diplomacy.
When without any love you hug your children, just because it has to be done, because Dale Carnegie says so: HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE....
Dale Carnegie is the prophet of the modern age. Dale Carnegie's book, HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE, has sold next only to the Bible. It seems to be
even more important than the Bible, because the Bible is being distributed free by the Christian missionaries and Dale Carnegie's book you have to purchase.
even more important than the Bible, because the Bible is being distributed free by the Christian missionaries and Dale Carnegie's book you have to purchase.
And what he teaches is simply diplomacy.
He says that even if you don't mean it, at least a few times in the day remind your wife how much you love her.
That's enough, because people don't bother about love; people live in words. If you say, "I love you," that's enough. If you go on repeating, "I love you," that becomes a proof that you really love.
This is a very ugly state of affairs. Humanity has fallen so low that Dale Carnegie becomes the prophet.
Diplomacy is not only political, not any more -- it has entered into every arena of life.
Diplomacy is not only political, not any more -- it has entered into every arena of life.
OshO
Be Still and Know
Chapter title: You Are Ancient Pilgrims
4 September 1979 am in Buddha Hall
Be Still and Know
Chapter title: You Are Ancient Pilgrims
4 September 1979 am in Buddha Hall
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