Comments on: Meeta’s Darshan: An early Osho Zen stick

By: jay. c. pennie

jay. c. pennie — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:39:22 +0000

shantam- you use the strangest comparisons i’ve ever come across.
almost like a mini Tourette’s Syndrome, New Age style.

By: shantam

shantam — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:13:39 +0000

Chetna, may be for many enlighteneds, involvement in the muddy world is not a need any more. In mythology they live in the forest in small huts and chop their daily woods, fetch their water and live in harmony with all around surroundings.
Those who are little enterprising, gather few disciples around them, who do all the dirty work in return of darshan and a pep talk. Surely, it is a mutually benefited relation. Just remembered the Neo Jesus in Siberia!
But as i know, Osho was offering a different set of spiritual game. Around one third of His talks are about the World, its problems and His radical solutions, and surely for these things, Osho went into the soup many times, in His home country as well as liberal west.
Being the eye witness and participant In His circus, i feel an inner obligation to protest when i see, Osho is being projected as some zen Master or some Advaita master.Seems like disicples have learnt not to burn the fingers after seeing the end result of their master. Luke warm spirituality with some dance, some music hurts no one´s comfort zone.
And i wonder quite often, if these Zen masters were so great, where they have disappeared in our time.When one reads about Japan, it is all about Tayota, Sony and Cousins!
Who knows children of these Zen masters went to America to do MBA!

By: Chetna

Chetna — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:11:16 +0000

Shantam, apparently enlightment is when the world is not a problem to be solved!

By: roman

roman — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:23:59 +0000

Frank, I’d keep writing poetry. Words fail me! Around Osho one fell into the unfathonable abyss of silence. You’ve expressed it.

By: roman

roman — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:14:49 +0000

J.C
I guess I suffer from a poverty of language and my words can’t match up with the world. I’ll try not to use ‘brilliant’ again. Jesus Christ, it won’t be easy!

I was seduced by Osho because of his sense of humour. I do like Swiftian humour, or Alice in Wonderland type stuff. Duchamp’s great and perhaps the rolls royces were dada? National Lampoon is brilliant, shit I’ve failed again.

J.C. I’ll always fail with language.

‘No matter, Try again. Fail again. Fail better’
Samuel Beckett

By: frank

frank — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:53:24 +0000

talking poetry.
wasnt the only non-mystical poet that osho quoted
roger mcgough?
he read out the whole of his “at lunchtime”in one discourse-
the one about the passengers on a town bus who all made love to each other because they thought the world was going to end at lunchtime.
great stuff.
and an incitement for a sexcult if ever there was one!!

By: frank

frank — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:46:18 +0000

roman,
by coincidence,i was having a clearout of some old books a few days ago and i tried to get rid of my copy of “the essential rumi”,but my partner wouldnt have it and ended up reading me “whoever brought me here will have to take me home”
so i still have it.
i do write the odd poem.
here`s one that i`ve put up here before.

he completely outstripped mahavira
stood patanjali on his head
turned more of a profit than mohamed
nailed crackpot jesus` comeback plans.
his women made krishnas gopis look like a rugby team
threw the complaining buddha out of his jacuzzi
talked the hind legs off zarathustra
told hotei a few he hadnt heard
turned the zen bull up to eleven
gave rama some flying lessons,too.

managed to provoke god
and just about everyone else…

quite somebody
for a nobody
this fellow
osho

By: jay. c. pennie

jay. c. pennie — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:20:04 +0000

Roman- i notice that there are lots of “brilliant” people in your realm – poets, writers, sannyasins. what constitutes “brilliant” for you? wouldn’t the writers of National Lampoon be brilliant with their comical expressions of the world? just wondering.

By: rajni

rajni — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:26:21 +0000

Thanks Arpana – and remember, you are not alone…the inn operates 24/7 and the light is always burning

By: shantam

shantam — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:20:20 +0000

How so ever we say, sannyas is an individual journey, yet it has it own collective mind. For example, no other group will ask such silly questions, ” Is Dalai Lama Enlightened? How come Anna Hazare gets so much adoration, Is he enlightened? Obama, Sarakozy, Markel and similars cannot solve the complex problems facing our world because none of them is enlightend.
and when anybody says, “yes, i am enlightened. ten others will say, how come?..You have not even tasted the Satori yet…”