Comments on: Some Reflections on Spiritual Teachers In The Modern World, by Frank

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 09:09:32 +0000

According to a story I was told recently, Osho was driving along the road and ZZ Top came on the radio. He asked his passenger, “Is this jazz music?” It turns out he liked ZZ Top. His favourite song by the band was ‘Burgerman’, even though he was a vegetarian he was by all accounts a burgerman. Perhaps he could relate to the lyrics. I also put a link to the fun Youtube vid, so you can check out the top babes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJP8wVoTufg

My charcoal’s getting red hot,
put your order in my hand.
Won’t you let me show you what I got
sizzlin in the pan.

Any way you want it baby,
I am your burger man.

If you need good hot grillin’,
try my burger stand.
If you need a slice of thrillin’,
I’m the baddest in the land.

Any way you want it baby,
I am your burger man.

Spoken: Did you want double meat?
How ’bout some fries on the side?

Once you try my burger baby,
you’ll grow a new thyroid gland.
I said just eat my burger, baby,
make you smart as Charlie Chan.

You see the hot sauce can’t be beat.
Sit back and open wide.

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:44:29 +0000

I don’t understand you, Veet. Who are “them” to whom you say you referred my quote (which quote?).
And what are you asking me exactly?

By: teema

teema — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 01:36:14 +0000

“Am I too judgmental and should I just relax into the advaitic vision that it is all just one part of God getting blasted, raping, beating, abusing and kicking the crap out of another part of God as a kind of big BDSM leela?”

I laughed. Thank you, SD.

MOD:
Frank wrote this, Teema.

SHANTI: “Teema” = Tim. A guy.

By: satchit

satchit — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 20:29:21 +0000

Veet, a Sangha is a gathering of disciples of a master.
I doubt that everybody would call himself a disciple of Osho here.

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 20:00:23 +0000

Yes, Veet, but Osho recommended being “a joke unto oneself” – I wonder whether you’ve ever tried that particular ‘meditation’, somehow I doubt you have.

By: veet

veet — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 18:54:42 +0000

Of course, Satchit, it is subjective to define oneself as a sannyasin or not, less subjective is the definition of a Sangha.

Words and concepts have their objectivity to the extent that they are functional to communication, the less ambiguous or ambivalent the meaning of words the easier communication is.

Language is a convention, you are free to choose a language that only you speak but it would not have many applications unless you want to teach it to someone who wants to learn it.

Satyadeva reproaches me for a lack of sense of humour, which is probably true, it is difficult to translate it with the algorithms of Google Translate artificial intelligence, the Italian sense of humour into English and vice versa, considering, above all, that making people laugh seems to be one of the most difficult arts.

By: swamishanti

swamishanti — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 15:57:15 +0000

Yes, that sounds like Frank’s stance on sannyas and Osho.

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 15:53:43 +0000

Veet, you’re believing what it suits you to believe. Although the general tone wasn’t complimentary to sannyasins, it didn’t refer to them as a collective being “cocksuckers”, nor did it suggest that they are “devout believers in the enlightenment of a sexual predator.” It was deleted as I felt it was crudely disrespectful to Osho, inappropriate for this forum.

By: veet

veet — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 15:35:22 +0000

@SD 29 November, 2024 at 1:18 am

The frank joke you told me you deleted a few days ago…I don’t remember the joke exactly, but the gist was that sannyasins are cocksuckers, devout believers in the enlightenment of a sexual predator.

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 13:29:43 +0000

Better hire a detective to sort this out, you two. Don’t forget that Frank says he’s been travelling the world for a year or two, and that SD spends a lot of time in France. Mmmm, you might just be on to something….