Comments on: Beyond Marx and Religion ?

By: aditya

aditya — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:58:20 +0000

only an enlighted person can be fearless

By: jay. c. pennie

jay. c. pennie — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:28:03 +0000

nighty night and pleasant dreams

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:04:42 +0000

Well, JC, that comes as a great relief to hear that. I must confess I was worried shitless that I might have been excluded from the chosen few. Now that I really know that I am one I can sleep in peace. His blessings…

By: jaycpennie

jaycpennie — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:26:33 +0000

Lokesh: it really got out of hand when osho announced at the ranch, in late 1984, during a taped discourse, there was this group called “the chosen few”. What a commotion that created, mostly with the insecure Ma’s… The main complaint from these spoiled cry babies was, “Why am I not on that list”?, also, “Who are the chosen few”? Bunch of self centered 10 year old girls! Well, lo and behold not too many months later, Osho decided enough was enough and said that all of us were the chosen few!!! I believe he even mentioned the whining from so many sannyasins, who thought they should be on that list. Man, most people, even spiritual seekers just can’t think for themselves.

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:56:41 +0000

Ah, yes, the chosen few, that was a good one and right out of the How to be a Successful Guru Handbook. And we all fell for it, although I never could quite agree that Mother Theresa was one of the bad guys. Still don´t.

By: jay. c. pennie

jay. c. pennie — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:17:13 +0000

Frank- don’t you reward yourself at the end of each day for your “hard” work? doesn’t trashing other people for their “inferiority” suffice? You should start a gossip circle, you can then feed each others egos, kinda like what sannyasins did/do.

By: jay. c. pennie

jay. c. pennie — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:12:28 +0000

that trip still exists with sannyasins- the “elitist”, “I’m better than nonsannyasins”, Then again every group, or tribe feels that way towards other people outside their group- Osho just created another tribe, another club. This attitude is inherit to the human”tribe”- blame mother earth or the great cosmos, but then again if the tibetan buddhist view of exist holds true, we have no one to blame but ourselves, for we supposedly chose our incarnations… now this is one dumb way of existing– now who started this game anyway?

By: jay. c. pennie

jay. c. pennie — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:05:02 +0000

The second generation sannyasins are even bigger failures than the first- for instance, has anything gotten better since the first gen of sannyasins- in a worldly perspective of course. answer- No!! things has gotten worse and even in an accelerated way. All of these meditations the “second geners” are doing- where’s the result? If it were working it definitely would have rubbed off on the general population, even by now. Yeah we screwed things up but at least we got as far a building these damn communes and ashrams and gave it a good effort, but without using common sense it ends as failure regardless, something most current clowns in red still lack.. just reading Arupana’s ridiculous statements proves my point. Still blinded by the “walking on water” characters. the “holier than thou” pretenders. a very delusional and dangerous path to take.

By: jay. c. pennie

jay. c. pennie — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:54:06 +0000

You say sheela is a convicted criminal- so was Osho!!! And he caught a break- BIG TIME!!!

By: jay. c. pennie

jay. c. pennie — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:52:56 +0000

Quite contrare Alok, When you got accepted onto the ranch, the old man knew who you were and where you came from. Same with work assignments, osho knew where you were posted, and what general tasks you had to perform; NOBODY and i mean nobody got to live on the ranch without his knowledge and blessing. Just as your sannyas name came directly from osho not sheela, teertha, or arup. The whole sannyas application process ended up in Osho’s hands. It may be difficult for you to accept but that was how things operated. One exception on the ranch- no one could control “visitors” who drove on the public road to rajneeshpuram. the downtown square was public domain as well as the public road that ran through the ranch, anyone could venture there if they so wanted to. That more than anythin, i think annoyed Sheela and her thugs more than anything, the inability to control who paid visits to rajneeshpuram and antelope.