Comments on: Sri Nabuji describes his Contact with Osho

By: Arpana

Arpana — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 14:00:01 +0000

You and me both. Most of this year.
Health and an intractable neighbour problem. (I don’t want to move. Don’t want to fight, and don’t want to put up with it).

By: shantam prem

shantam prem — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:58:44 +0000

I love this self esteem/arrogance.
Without this there is no surrender to greatness possible.

By: lokesh

lokesh — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:28:11 +0000

The nature of understanding.

By: Fresch

Fresch — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:08:00 +0000

When I was at Osho’s death celebration I could still swear he was making Namaste in the middle of the fire. My friends (old sannyasins) told me it’s all over. I was like no way, he is doing ‘Namaste’ and I’ve just come.

By: Fresch

Fresch — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:02:21 +0000

Arpana, that is kind of true. I’ve been in the valley for a while, groping in the dark: what next, making some steps, that still feel like sidesteps or back steps.

However, engineers taught this to me (pls do not undervalue engineers, look at their brains in brain scans in meditation, total zen):
When you close down a failed project, open champagne, gather all learning from it and when you succeed, have a beer. a

Argh, now that I think about it, I still have not had that champagne….

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:01:48 +0000

Mmmmm, let me see…mmmm, yes, well, it’s not really coming through just yet…er, one more try…mmm, no, sometimes it’s like this, sorry…Nothing for it but to go into a deep trance for an hour or so and simply ‘trust’ the angels tell me something…Will get back to you if I find anything, ok?

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:53:08 +0000

“A few letters in front of his name and playing the sitar don’t make him an authority on the ins and outs of what the Ranch was about.”

Of course not, but nevertheless it’s at least ‘interesting’ that someone from a very different background, perhaps even a rather conservative tradition (at least, in its present form), speaks so positively about the Oregon “Experiment to Provoke God” and about Osho himself.

After all, he wasn’t there just for the weekend, he stuck it out for 8 months. So, fair play to the lad (as the football pundits might say).

By: shantam prem

shantam prem — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:47:47 +0000

Fresch, I was not criticising the person but the trend.

And I firmly believe, billions of people born after Osho´s demise have all the rights to look for their spiritual mentor and therefore market is wide open for new people to create their own Ponzi schemes.

This belief that true master is a sure shot visa to the divine realms is the classic Ponzi schemes.

In my personal case, my reverence for Osho is not because of his oratory skills but the way He gave us all the space to create our own stories. His ashram was the landmark destination for contemporary seekers. Story tellers were many before and after too.

By: Fresch

Fresch — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:35:22 +0000

Lokesh’s post to Madhu:
“Perhaps ‘following your feelings’ isn’t always quite the infallible mantra it was once promoted to be -
Especially if one feels negative.”

What did I not understand?

By: Arpana

Arpana — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:31:31 +0000

“But we might do well to remember that history rarely runs in a straight line; it is littered with false starts and dead ends. Sometimes the best path forward lies in taking a few steps back, or sideways.”

— Alex Wright, author of ‘Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age’, writes in ‘The Atlantic’ about the history of computing.
- See more at: http://oupacademic.tumblr.com/post/87748513116/atlantic-cataloging-the-world#sthash.RH4BqXly.dpuf