I recognise that English is not your first language, which makes it more difficult for you. Have you ever considered using a translation app., from your native language (German?) to English? I have no idea if they are successful or not. Why not try it out?

In addition, you are deeply subjective and sensitive in your thinking. The points you offer are occasionally so personal and unique that your meaning is not always easy to understand.

Can you attempt to re-read what you have written? Try and imagine whether the reader who is reading what you have written for the first time will understand. You might wish to use simpler language or try and be more direct and less subjective.

It is an art to write and some are better than others. But the points you make are always heartfelt and they are valuable. I appreciate your desire to share, living alone as you do. We all wish to be ‘heard’.

Instead of writing more statements like, “the way you are addressing me in these lines in the third-person, ‘de-personalized as a contributor’, so to say, is a way it´s often done here with people whom one has decided to be more a mental vegetable or in a coma, just to chit-chat with buddies about them, not with them”, which is also pretty vague, as I see it.

There is nothing contemptable in asking someone to explain what they mean, but so over-sensitive are you that you take it ss such.

Erudite, Prem, but still misses.
Don’t forget the question in examining the answer.
The question was to Osho (in the early 70s):

“One friend has asked, why I have refused to allow my feet to be touched?”

Osho did not answer every question put to him by any means. I can attest to that! So, at the time, when he was getting rid of the Hindus, Sikhs and Jains, clearly this was a significant question!

In addition, worth noting that all the early biographies say that Osho was rebellious, and never touched anyone’s feet, and never really had gurus at all. Just two or three people who he respected and sat with.

Worth noting both these points, Prem, before you rush to judgement.

Frankly, I doubt whether anyone here gives a toss whether people bow down or not. Certainly not me. But I do object to those who would make it sort of a compulsory part of the ‘new Sannyas religion’ evident in Nepal and Delhi, and therefore acting as disguised bullies of whatever they deign to be the new Sannyas movement.

Lokesh,
the way you are addressing me in these lines in the third-person, ‘de-personalized as a contributor’, so to say, is a way it´s often done here with people whom one has decided to be more a mental vegetable or in a coma, just to chit-chat with buddies about them, not with them. Showing contempt.

If you get ready to relate to the human female being I am, we can exchange.

Otherwise, that just sheds some light, just some, on the point I was trying to make.

Madhu

In conjunction with remarks such as “Osho being an Indian hurts the pride of all western sannyasins”, or another of his gems: “no western sannyasin has ever handled a potato”, and more.

I hope that helps your holier-than-thouness.

Keep your chuddies on or risk impalement.

Not really. In relation to bowing down to authoritarian figures the situation has remained unchanged for centuries and has nothing to do with ´Information Technical Age´. It has to do with our ability to judge what is healthy for us, good for for us, the right thing to do etc.

Madhu judges that, “Never to be such easy to judge upon from a keyboard. Somewhere.” I have not the faintest idea what this implies. Perhaps Madhu would care to enlighten us.