The quote above is not solution-oriented, a complete failure of source perception…and just about sums up why, on balance, meditation in a cubicle on Mount Athos or some resort swimming pool might just be the only solution…

I reckon the journalist was looking for somewhere different to chill out whilst covering his main report:’Indian prime ministers and how off-beat, funky and just plain crazeeee they really are and how they love to hang out being nice dudes when not namasteing in bookshops’.

To switch from the last thread to this one deserves the word “bizarre” for me too, very much so.
I read the report from Mr. Karnikowksy in Osho News days (?) ago. Maybe he is a ‘Guardian’ journalist, but his tongue is one like from these ‘Silicon Valley’ Californian workplaces where work and entertainment, including all that the wellness-industry has meanwhile to offer in these work-places for the second life make-up (fake-up) like the first.

I have not been in Pune since 1990 – so I don´t know.

But what I felt reading and feel re-reading his lines, I know –
and if this kind of stuff should be having had the intention of some advertising (inviting) flavour, it didn´t reach me at all.

So sorry,

Madhu

PS:
And I am not at all against beauty and luxury, even if I can´t afford it.

It’s something else here that is missing: aliveness, a heart of a happening.

I remember faintly that this journalist then headed off soon to some other place,
so misunderstandable the whole thing.

So sorry….