Comments on: A Proper Fuss about Yoga ?

By: Kavita

Kavita — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 06:43:28 +0000

I couldn’t help myself from conveying to you my gratitude for reminding about the above mentioned series ,

By: Parmartha

Parmartha — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 20:16:30 +0000

Thanks Madhu.
The UK census form, which is compulsory to fill in for every citzen, has a box where one says what ones’ religion is. 3,500 people in 2001 filled in Taoist!

By: madhu dagmar frantzen

madhu dagmar frantzen — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 18:11:38 +0000

Seriously, Parmartha,

how is it possible , to count people, who live in the DAO, and to statistcally bring a number (for any country) ?
I simply don´t get it from my glimpse of understanding, of what that means.
Please, enlighten me about the UK census.

Madhu

By: Parmartha

Parmartha — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 17:26:54 +0000

In the 2001 UK census there were recorded to be 3,500 Taoists in England and Wales. Not a lot of us are there?

By: prem martyn

prem martyn — Sun, 05 Jul 2015 02:19:12 +0000

Thanks for the tip PM . I really like the way our elliptical conversations here on the last post has lead to you proposing these lectures.. thanks to Frank and Kavita too for the Tao ..and perhaps even myself for the Tao of Pooh.

By: prem martyn

prem martyn — Sun, 05 Jul 2015 01:36:57 +0000

Am downloading now that hot tip. Ta PM

By: Kavita

Kavita — Sun, 05 Jul 2015 01:05:44 +0000

These three are doing their best perhaps in their own capacity & all these present leader’s ( including the ones not mentioned ) all put together can’t be in the same league as Osho or J.Krishnamurty and I guess they themselves shall agree on this , because in the first place these two were not leaders of any kind .

By: Parmartha

Parmartha — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 21:40:19 +0000

Whilst Osho spoke on Patanjali within months of reaching Poona, what I found refreshing in 1974/5 when some of us were turning up in Poona, were not the lectures on Patanjali or Zen. After all, a number of us, believe it or not, were acquainted with those traditions back in good old London town.
What no-one seemed to have been acquainted with was Taoism and the Three Treasures series of June, 1975 lectures were mind blowing.
As Kavita says somewhere, the thought of just hanging out, and allowing oneself to flow with the river was new, and offered many of us a chance to experiment with those notions, which were unknown to many in the west at that time, and proved riveting.

By: Shantam I SIngh

Shantam I SIngh — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 12:29:44 +0000

Billions of books are now published, the way there are billion of songs. Some percentage must be timeless classics. Many Osho books come in this category.
Matter of fact though is human beings need a living leader on the stage, equally as wise as Osho or J krishnamurti.
Second and third rung leaders will also do – if they are part of the same staircase.

But after Osho there is a vacuum in the leadership position.
But now one yoga teacher Baba Ramdev has risen like a rocket on the cut throat competitive world of Yoga, meditation and related accessories.

What will be the future no one knows, Ramdev, Jaggi Vasudev and Sri Sri Ravinshankar ?