Comments on: Towards a Real Samadhi

By: Arpana

Arpana — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:21:12 +0000

Serious question, Frank.
Do you see yourself as amoral, or highly moral?

(I would imagine your pretty principled actually, in your ongoing direct dealings with people, despite your belief that it’s OK to take the piss out of anything or anybody that moves, if you can get away with it. Lol).

By: frank

frank — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:37:09 +0000

Tania,
Sorry, a case of mistaken identity then…

It was just that an image formed in my mind from somewhere of an innocent young woman who got drawn into the bizarre world of an obscure, wacko, self-styled radical 70s criminal cult with pretensions of changing the world through amoral means!!!

Dunno where that came from!

By: Tan

Tan — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 01:33:02 +0000

Frank, my dear, not me, not at all. I would be laughing and just holding a gun, totally naked, if I may say so. Anyway, thanks for the guess! XXX

By: frank

frank — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 18:18:34 +0000

Whoah!
I knew I had heard that name somewhere!

Symbionese Liberation Army!

Wicked!

By: Tan

Tan — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:45:50 +0000

Prem Martyn, my dear, you are too complicated to me. Maybe because my English is not that good. I am originally from the Dolomites and my Italian is not that good as well.

I’ve asked because when I saw this photo in Sannyasnews, I thought I had understood what Osho meant by publishing it. Later on, reading Sam’s ‘Life of Osho’, he says something totally different…So, maybe I got it all wrong. I am curious, just that…

Anyway, many thanks for your input, really appreciated that. XXX

By: Kavita

Kavita — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 02:21:59 +0000

Parmartha, you are aware 100%, but I live in Pune, I was born & brought up in Bombay (1967-1992), but surely these days it feels my heart is there, as these days one of my dear friends, Chris, is in Mumbai right now.

By: swami anand anubodh

swami anand anubodh — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:29:22 +0000

For all:

A little thought experiment…

Would you really go to Osho and say: “Bhagwan, when you are dead I am going to worship that chair you are sitting in”?

By: swami anand anubodh

swami anand anubodh — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:15:14 +0000

Bodhi H,

In my experience, Osho was not here to fulfil people’s needs.

By: Parmartha

Parmartha — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:54:03 +0000

Heeren,
As far as I can see, SN pundits are not of one voice about Arun.
Also, one of the main critics of Arun on SN is Kavita, who is Indian and lives in Mumbai, as far as I am aware.

In the past, the SN collective has published articles by Arun, and even at his request put into decent English a few of his memoirs.

I myself only have a judgement about the recent politicising around and with Modi, who is clearly a Hindu nationalist without any idea of what contribution Osho made to spirituality. Given most streetwise sannyasins who know the sub-continent take this to be self-evident, one wonders as to the motivation of why Arun is networking in this way.

By: Kavita

Kavita — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:17:01 +0000

Bodhi Heeren, your first para is totally a generalised statement, what you say about Arun & SN pundits. I beg to differ on this as, except for Shantam, no one is persistent for any kind of open sentimentality. I don’t know where you saw any commonality between any of the SN pundits & Sw.Arun?