On Basic Human Rights

Osho thrusts his sword into the heart of the matter of what we collectively call “Human Rights.”

One of the struggles we face as human beings is how to cope with, how to bring light to, how to dissolve the roots of the perverse and incomprehensible horrors — physical, psychological, spiritual — that we seem capable of inflicting on one another. What are the roots of wars, of torture, of murder and hatred and our all-too-easy dehumanization of the “other”?

He quotes the language of the Univers...