Also, given we have about 5000 Osho discourses available, pretty much all our reading, listening, watching is to a greater or lesser degree the creating of personal compilations.

Every Osho book I’ve ever read, only parts of it speak to me, another person, other parts speak to them, so we end up with these personal compilations of his words.

I think if the OIF Mismanagement really kept true to the spirit of Osho’s wish that his movement should not degenerate into some kind of religion/cult, then they would allow everything to go out of print. What’s past is past…time to move on.

And while they’re at it, they should knock out the videos from the Evening Meeting as well.

No more ‘Last Testaments’, please!

Are you saying that your chance of ‘Enlightenment’ has been decreased because Osho’s words have been edited?

“A girl among the congregation became pregnant. Her severe father bullied her for the name of the lover, and in the end, thinking that if she said so she might escape punishment, she told him: “It is that Zen Master
Hakuin.”

The father said no more, but when the time came and the child was born he at once took it to him and threw the baby down. “It seems that this is your child.” And he piled on every insult and sneer at the disgrace of the affair.

The Zen Master only said: “OH, IS THAT SO?” and took the baby up
into his arms. Thereafter, during rainy days and stormy nights he would go out to beg milk from the neighbouring houses. Wherever he went he took the baby, wrapped in the sleeve of his ragged robe.

Now he, who had been regarded as a living Buddha, worshipped as a Shakyamuni, had fallen indeed. Many of the disciples who had flocked to him turned against him and left him. The Master still said not a word.

Meantime the mother found she could not bear the agony of separation from her child and, further, began to be afraid of the consequences in the next life of what she had done. She confessed the name of the real father of the child. Her own father, rigid in his conception of virtue, became almost mad with fear. He rushed to Hakuin and prostrated himself, begging over and over again for forgiveness.

The Zen Master this time too said only: “OH, IS THAT SO?” and gave him the child back.”

— Osho, Zen: The Path of Paradox, Vol 3, Chapter #5

Yes,Dhanyam,we know how that ended up…
with the Sunniasins locked in combat with the Oshi`ites!

Have a lovely Jihad!