Comments on: Osho and his pursuit of the book Tertium Organon

By: Arpana

Arpana — Mon, 12 May 2014 15:34:12 +0000

Osho has said so much, and I am convinced we only notice what interests us in his discourses, strikes a chord at any given time. (Which is why we can have such a personal message, for want of a better phrase, from him).

I’ve no particular memory of him mentioning either of them, and he has, in discourses I have read over the years, but my interest in Gurdjieff has only developed since you mentioned that book by Fritz Peters, which I found very rewarding.

By: Chinmayo

Chinmayo — Mon, 12 May 2014 15:24:51 +0000

I stand corrected then, Arpana!

Parmartha, unfortunately I have never been to Hamburg, nor have I lived in any of the Osho communes, so it has to have been someone else!

By: Arpana

Arpana — Mon, 12 May 2014 15:13:56 +0000

I’ve looked more closely at the quotes, and I reckon there is an entire compilation book on Gurdjieff and Ouspensky available, if someones got the patience to go through everything.

By: sannyasnews

sannyasnews — Mon, 12 May 2014 15:08:23 +0000

Thanks, Arps, for the extracts. We were a little wrong on that one.
One likes the way Osho tells the story of Ouspensky’s acceptance by Gurdjieff as a disciple, in the second extract. very much. It has the ring of truth about it.

By: Arpana

Arpana — Sun, 11 May 2014 21:57:58 +0000

http://txs.io/btR

By: Arpana

Arpana — Sun, 11 May 2014 20:27:36 +0000

Appears to be mostly small references, but I’ll post a few eventually. (I’m watching a very long film on Blu Ray at the moment )

By: Parmartha

Parmartha — Sun, 11 May 2014 20:20:33 +0000

Okay, Arps. You must have a database that shows that?

I must admit, like Chinmayo I can’t remember him talking about Ouspensky directly. Maybe when he was talking about Gurdjieff?

Maybe give us a reference? Thanks.

By: Arpana

Arpana — Sun, 11 May 2014 15:34:27 +0000

Osho mentions Ouspensky over 300 hundred times
in his discourses.

By: Parmartha

Parmartha — Sun, 11 May 2014 13:27:12 +0000

Chinmayo,
You are, I think, right, the only real reference is from ‘Books I have Loved’ (Pages 23/24), which were not initially public talks but given in 1981/2 to four disciples around the dental chair, but which Osho later insisted were published. Swami Bhed mentions the story in his book in some detail, retelling it, as I understood it, from Jain friends or relatives of Osho.

Chinmayo, I have a feeling we may have known each other – was it in the Hamburg commune in the mid- eighties? Anyway, thanks for your positive comments.

Mr P

By: Chinmayo

Chinmayo — Sun, 11 May 2014 07:17:28 +0000

Thank you, Parmartha, for this article, very interesting! I don’t think I have ever heard Osho refer to Mr O in the hundreds of hours I have listened to him speak.

I coincidentally happened to look at the back of this same book on my bookshelf earlier this morning. It’s been there for some years now but I haven’t read it yet, as I decided that I should read Mr G’s books first. Well, having finished the ‘Beelzebub Tales…’ earlier this year there’s two more to go.

Nice to see Mr G mentioned in the recent articles here. I like to come to check this site every now and then for the nice informative articles and…often entertaining commentary.

Mr C