https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJkn4-2hK_FAqrq1dP7JeL7_4wfodZIZA

And about the misuse of the kids, I don’t think it has to be a valley of tears. All of us have to find our own path to joy, peace and celebration, and for many that involves some therapy. Perhaps it is swings and roundabouts, and there is no way to miss acquiring a few dings on your way out of childhood?

Maybe it’s time to ask yourself, what made you happy (or unhappy) today?

Then I like to share with the Sangha what I’ve absorbed, what becomes part of my consciousness.
Even if it’s a passage from Osho that I remember, it doesn’t mean it won’t come to me with a new light, with nuances I hadn’t seen before.

In the interview with Harari (linked above), he also talks about an information diet, that is, calibrating the amount of information to ingest based on each person’s capacity to assimilate, that is, process it.

Now, I ask you, has your television broken?
Do you think you’ve assimilated everything Osho expressed in words?
Is there nothing in his words that resonates with you anymore?
Or maybe you’re a bit of a bulimic with a need to vomit every now and then?

Wake Up call for today Now?
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1792rRnco7/

Klaus S. is the boss of the globalist powerhouse (WEF, the club of multinationals), where they decide how ordinary people like us should live, what we should eat and what we should own to live happily.

Y. Harari seems to have applied the things he learned through meditation; for him, rejecting reality is suffering, so in a context of assholes who want to manipulate billions of humans, he provides the correct anthropological framework: humans are hackable (causing widespread erections in Silicon Valley).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3OlzK0rc48

These kinds of things lifting and feeling more creative, joyous, buoyant… those seem to be signs of things moving in a good direction.

I agree with you, connection and relationship are also important, but they just need to be present, they don’t need to increase.

https://youtu.be/Q5OPW8TEALY

This doesn’t prevent the phenomenon of spiritual tourism by some egocentric people.

As much as we are “complex beings with multiple aspects in our lives” (Lokesh), there are still some things that bring us back to universal traits of our humanity, made up mostly of…human relationships.

Can we contradict our human nature? Of course we can, I speak from experience. If so, would this be a desirable outcome? Perhaps at some point it was right this way, taking care of myself without being watchful enough, neglecting the needs of others.

The sensitivity needed to heal myself, once the process was complete — that is, once I had experienced how joyful and celebratory life can be — remained with me, but no longer directed solely at myself, accepting the risk that that state of joy could be swept away, sucked away by the first glance of a human being pervaded by tragedy or dramatic despair.

This is why it seems to me that my joy is connected to the transcendent nature of human beings who, however, choose not to transcend the pain of others, applying selective sensitivity and watchfulness.

Yes, joy seems to me to be a good criterion for orienting myself.

Once again, upon further investigation, Osho confirms himself as the Master of Masters, Yahooo!

It sounds simple, yet I do not wholly agree that these are the only criteria that indicate you are moving in a positive direction. We are complex beings with multiple aspects in our lives. Perhaps, quite importantly, is the state of our relationships with the people around us. Simply being blissful and so forth might not cut the mustard in that department, and human qualities like trust, communication and affection are needed, not just feeling blissed out and being a watcher. Of course, those elements might promote such qualities as trust, etc., but not always. In the past, Sannyasins earned a reputation for being selfish and aloof, and being up themselves socially, a sure indication of an imbalance at play.

Buddha said, “Be a light unto yourself” and that’s exactly our task, showing ourselves the way forward. I still find Osho’s take on things occasionally illuminating, like the quote, “If you move on any path, any methodology and it brings joy to you, more sensitivity, more watchfulness and gives a feeling of immense well-being – this is the only criterion that you are going on the right path.” Those reminders help me not to get stuck in habitually picking at mental scabs and revisiting past wounds.

Sexual repression is still inherent in worldwide attitudes to nakedness and ‘covering up your shame’. In India you have naked sadhus but all video of them strategically leaves genitals covered…it is very possible that primitive mankind’s sexual style was much more like the Bonobo ape, who have a big orgy when they find a ripe banana tree. Growing up in the commune definitely left you with your share of sexual traumas, and didn’t automatically take you to a ‘natural sexuality’, whatever Osho said.

‘From Sex to Superconsciousness’ was a winning ticket for Osho in the guru stakes. Hardly surprising in a sexually repressed country like India. That said, many westerners had/have to come to terms with their own sexuality. Elvis the Pelvis got the show on the road, the hippies introduced the concept of free love, but the revolution was a long way from over. I found Osho very helpful with his take on sexuality…up to a point.

It seems for many that ageing will bring some sort of solution, or should I say dissolution, to the idea of transcending sex. All you have to do is act naturally.