Comments on: What Enlightenment is NOT

By: simond

simond — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 18:43:28 +0000

Re the catch! My God, you remeembered it as well! That’s extraordinary after all these years. As you say, it was instinctive and with no time for my mind to fear or think.

What has been also fascinating is how I can remember the feeling, the timelessness of that moment, today. It imprinted something in my mind! Odd, eh?

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 10:42:33 +0000

I remember that catch, it was at Parly Hill, wasn’t it? Have you worked out yet how it was done – or even who did that?! Pure, instinctive action, uncontaminated by thought or imagination – a sight to behold, but even better to experience (or should I say, ‘witness’?) – magical!

By: simond

simond — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 22:44:42 +0000

Well Satyadeva , I have much to thank you for. I was not a bowler or a good batsman, but I enjoyed the sun and the company.

One day I caught a blinder of a catch, leaping with an outstretched left hand in the gully.
Time slowed almost to a halt as I took the catch, it was a sublime, almost spiritual experience, which I can almost relive at will.

Strange eh? Your organising helped create such a magical moment for me.
Thanks, again!

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 22:19:03 +0000

Do you recall the guy who organised the matches? That was me!

By: simond

simond — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:08:17 +0000

Yes, you are correct and I did play cricket in the 1980′s, gosh, that makes it a long time ago now!!!

Sorry, but I don’t remember you, such is the fact of old age and memory loss.
But I’m sure you were a great batsman/bowler/fielder!

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 22:10:38 +0000

Simond (formerly Rakkas), do you have a brother, Leelanada? If so, I remember you from the 80′s, eg when you used to play cricket for the ‘Sannyasins-and-fellow-travellers’ (aka The Muswell Hillbillies) team at Parly Hill and Regent’s Park!

By: navina

navina — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:27:10 +0000

This [or similar] question was in fact asked multiple times, usually by Indians who took great offence at the perceived ‘free’ sex. If you look through the discourses you will find his answer to it. I’m too lazy to go find them but this is the main idea I remember, correctly or not:

Osho wanted his people to be non-repressed because he felt it was impossible to be meditative in a repressed state. So if one tries to deny basic energy then you spend all your time thinking about what you deny…kinda like when you go on a diet all you think about is food. If you try to meditate and instead of finding peace your mind is continually busy thinking about sex, then you miss.

If all you see that was different about Osho’s teaching/buddhafield is free sex, IMO it’s kind of sad.

By: simond

simond — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 20:41:41 +0000

Satyadeva,

Thanks for your kind and generous comments!
My Sannyas name was Rakkas.
I do understand your comment about 2 worlds meeting, having been out of Sannyas for many years. You write well about the “misunderstanding” and I enjoy reading many of your thoughtful posts.

Thanks,
Simon

By: Arpana

Arpana — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 12:38:55 +0000

Whine!!

By: shantam prem

shantam prem — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 12:38:18 +0000

This is the post which made me laugh and smile.
Satyadeva at his best.
You are a real gentleman (with a shadow side too), dear one.