Hazrat Mohammed’s Koran

It seems to us at SN that now the whole world is potentially the victim of the fundamentalist side of Islam.  A cloud over consciousness, but Osho never considered Islam worth commenting on at any length when he was alive, (though he did comment on the Sufis, but seemed to think they were  just hiding within the folds of Islam, and had very little to do with it ).

In addressing this we came across this small comment on the Koran and Mohammed by Osho,  which has great insight.

“The Koran is not a book to be read but a book to be sung. If you read it you will miss it. If you sing it, you may, God willing,  perhaps find it.

The Koran was not written by a scholar or a philosopher. Mohammed was absolutely illiterate, he could not even sign his own name, but he was possessed by the spirit of God. Because of his innocence he was chosen and started the song, and that song is the Koran.

I don’t understand Arabic, but I understand the Koran because I can understand the rhythm and the beauty of the rhythm, of the Arabic sounds. Who cares about the meaning! When you see a flower do you ask, “What does it mean?” The flower is enough. When you see a flame, do you ask, “What does it mean?” A flame is enough. Its beauty is its meaning. Its very meaninglessness, if rhythmic, is meaningful.

So is the Koran, and I am thankful that I am allowed by God – and remember, there is no God, this is only an expression. Nobody is allowing me. Inshallah, thank God I am allowed to end this series with the Koran, the most beautiful, the most meaningless, the most significant but yet the most illogical book in the whole history of humanity.”

Osho, Books I Have Loved, Series 3, Session 5

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54 Responses to Hazrat Mohammed’s Koran

  1. madhu dagmar frantzen says:

    To the topic:
    Recently, an Egyptian Muslim wrote a book about Mohammed as the human being He was. As a very skilled historican and a lover of truth also, in course of his writing he got threats of murder and a Fatwa as well, but he still is in very good shape up to now.
    I loved to listen to him and his book in a longer broadcasted interview, and may he live long, to contribute to Humankind.
    A mature man, being concerned about all the violence being caused by misunderstanding up to total ignorance.

    If you happen to be blissfully NOT being confronted day-to-day with all kinds of madness, which go into action easily and in permanence, I can say there is a need to share and to commune.

    And, dear Sannyasnews org-team, I knew, before I joined this chat, some of the regulars have quite a hangover with the ´Big Ma´s issues, which, at Pune 2 times, as we call it, was already an anachronism. Whoever was there, like me, knows it. And who was on the Ranch (like me), also knew by own experience that not only males suffered by that issue. So, if the whole gender stuff could be shared in a more mature way, I would very much appreciate that.

    Maybe this response comes through – who knows?

    My only tonight’s prayer is for more Awareness; and I am deeply sad how many lives the lack of the latter does cost. Any day.

    Madhu

    • frank says:

      Madhu,
      In your somewhat obsessive-sounding and badly-written posts, which feature large amounts of complaints of others’ `unawareness`,`total ignorance`, and people urinating, vomiting, murdering, raping, threatening, stealing, hacking your mail, violence, contempt etc. etc. and doing all sorts of things against you in the cyberhood and elsewhere, maybe you are a candidate to consider the words of Freddie N?

      “He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.”

  2. Kavita says:

    Osho, like most of the mystics, had this unique way of expressing graciously & beautifully his angst.

    Who else could say it better? “So is the Koran, and I am thankful that I am allowed by God – and remember, there is no God, this is only an expression. Nobody is allowing me. Inshallah, thank God I am allowed to end this series with the Koran, the most beautiful, the most meaningless, the most significant but yet the most illogical book in the whole history of humanity.” !

    • madhu dagmar frantzen says:

      “Osho, like most of the mystics, had this unique way of expressing graciously & beautifully his angst.” (Kavita)

      You didn´t meet Him personally, or did you, Kavita?

      So, would you mind to explain, what you mean by these, your above lines?

      Madhu

      • Kavita says:

        Madhu, yes I didn’t meet him, so what?

        Did you you meet him personally?

        • madhu dagmar frantzen says:

          Yes, I did, Kavita, and I just say it because of your description, I quoted then from your response which I won´t repeat then here again.

          As well, I might not know a bit about those embodied living Presences, you might have had meetings on you way.

          However, I mentioned this, or respond at all this way, because in other corners you give the impression here as a woman of a knowing ´who is who´ and ´when´ and ´what´, ´with whom´, or with ´whom not´, according to Osho´s family and related other community ashram stuff.

          As ´Frank´ rightly stated it, my posts are badly written, I wouldn´t say that I don´t care about such a comment.
          In times of the possibility of meeting personally, nobody complained, not even English natives.

          So sometimes here it might serve another purpose?

          Madhu

          • Kavita says:

            Madhu, I don’t owe you or anyone any explanation whatsoever, but still it’s only by chance that I happen to know some of his close old folk & a few family members (probably due to my ashram days/to being an Indian) with whom I still happen to have some kind of connection and I enjoy it whenever it happens effortlessly.

            • Kavita says:

              P.S: Btw, what is that other purpose?

              • madhu dagmar frantzen says:

                The purpose I could realise/feel sometimes (not always), Kavita is to degrade a contribution plus the individual responding. And that met indeed some very old stuff of ´encounter practices’ from early phases in our Sannyas-caravanserai (besides the UK address).

                Madhu

                P.S:
                And sorry you didn´t respond to my question about the lines you made; maybe you don´t like it (my question)?
                But I would be genuinely interested to read what you meant. For example, when you speak of ´angst´ of a ´mystic´.

                • Kavita says:

                  Yes, you are right, I didn’t like your question & the tone of it; & because when there is unnecessary effort I prefer to leave it at that.

                  Anyway, you have answered it yourself “angst of a mystic”. If you still don’t get it look for it in the English dictionary!

  3. prem martyn says:

    You can contact Sw Videha to see where he holds his Sufi-Zen camps. It is a eulogy to all that Ma Zahira sponsored and which he maintains now.

    I remember the quote of Osho, and have known of this aspect of the book. Whilst with Ma Zahira, we practised invoking the 99 names. An exercise we did was to chant and then to feel/intuit the quality of the name to notice its vibrational attribute. I remember that it seemed bizarre and yet part of the structure of sound that certain qualities were intrinsic to certain sounds, especially when they permeated a contemplative disposition to them.

    One of the most underused resources we have is the human voice. I try to go to Renaissance concerts for the joy and sublime power of choral polyphony. The Renaissance Singers are a spectacular group who perform only a few times a year. If you want to enjoy them in London, then do go on Halloween 31st Oct to a lovely (Inigo Jones designed) church in central London full of atmosphere and the simplicity of the power of the devoted voice. You will be repaid many-fold.

    http://www.renaissancesingers.com/

    • prem martyn says:

      For further reading on sacred geometry and sound as part of the broader subject of insight into patterns of invocation then I can here mention the book of Dr. Lawrence Blair, a close friend of Ma Shunyo, who himself wrote an early book/treatise on it called ‘Rhythms of Vision’.

      A Blair Brothers documentary which Ringo Starr financed, ‘Ring of Fire’, is on You tube and documents the then disappearing world of tribal Indonesia and the Islands.

  4. madhu dagmar frantzen says:

    Dear Moderators,
    Was it you who strongly and strictly shortened my response and clean the latest shock report of an amok runner in US out of the lines? Or was is some ‘editing’ by an anonymous?
    I would need to know that as in former times, if it is/was you, to edit and shorten a response one could see a remark in the end to let one know.

    Madhu

    MOD: REMINDER, MADHU, SN POLICY IS TO AVOID OFF-TOPIC CONTRIBUTIONS

  5. shantam prem says:

    I think there are few more paragraphs spoken by Osho over the title of this string during his whole public speaking career spanning more than three decades.

  6. Parmartha says:

    Madhu says:
    “And, dear Sannyasnews org-team, I knew, before I joined this chat, some of the regulars have quite a hangover with the ´Big Ma´s issues, which, at Pune 2 times, as we call it, was already an anachronism. Whoever was there, like me, knows it. And who was on the Ranch (like me), also knew by own experience that not only males suffered by that issue. So, if the whole gender stuff could be shared in a more mature way, I would very much appreciate that.”

    Not on topic again, Madhu, but I concur that women as well as men “suffered” from the Ma’s totalitarianism. Of course, we all had the option to leave, but many of us did not, and that also needs to be worked into any final equation of comment. One wry comment from those days itself, was that only homosexuals were left untrammelled on the Ranch.

    Certainly, back on topic, Islam treats women terribly, and it is a very great tragedy that such a religion has brought the 8th century into the present day. I myself think that why Osho commented so little on Islam was that when he was alive Islam just carried on in its various backwaters which always seemed quiet to me and did not get into military or cyber power.

  7. samarpan says:

    “It seems to us at SN that now the whole world is potentially the victim of the fundamentalist side of Islam.”

    I heard that two non-Islamic nuclear powers are now dropping bombs on Syria. The threat of a WWIII comes from a potential conflict between protestant Christian and orthodox Christian nations, not from Islam. Large-scale bombing, invasion, and occupying of Islamic countries, plus drone bombing in seven Islamic countries, has been done by the USA, a ‘Christian’ country.

    Personally, I do not feel the threat of nuclear conflict comes from Islam. It comes from nuclear ‘Christian’ nations. If I want to sing the Qu’ran, I sing the Qu’ran 2:256: “There is no compulsion in religion.”

    • frank says:

      Samarpan,
      So-called Christian countries have their (our) hands covered in blood, of course.

      On the other hand, it`s very sweet to say:
      “If I want to sing the Qu’ran, I sing the Qu’ran 2:256: “There is no compulsion in religion.” ”
      But have you tried to have your singsong in Raqqa, Mecca, Jerusalem, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria ,Mali, Yemen, Somalia, etc.

      How did that go?

    • satyadeva says:

      And if the extremist nutters ever get hold of a nuclear weapon?

      Sorry, Samarpan, that’d very soon be ‘Lights Out’ for us all.

    • Parmartha says:

      Not so worried about nuclear war myself. That would be it.

      But this endless conventional war making most of the Middle East a dry copy of the first world war…and these countries are totally destroyed with nowhere for people to make a half-decent life. Hence the enormous number of refugees coming to Europe. But this latter is really dangerous. Islam and western values just don’t mix, but now the whole balance of the population in Europe is being dislocated.

      Secular tyrants are so much better than Islamic ones. Putin is perfectly right to support one. If those Islamists take power in Syria it would be absolutely terrible for the ordinairy man.

      The Arab Spring was just a myth, a face to cover different varieties of Islamic fundamentalism hiding in the cloaks of a few brave democrats, now long gone.

  8. shantam prem says:

    One super-rich man was caught in a sexual molestation case. There was a clear-cut case against him. Concerned woman was standing with her testimony.

    One of the defence attorneys has the strategy. He ordered hundreds of second-hand books about women´s rights and their liberation and put them on the library shelf of his client. Before the jury, he produced the photo of the library and the logic, “Man who has read such literature his whole life cannot be the person to molest any woman!”

    In 21st century it is a crime against truth to tell,what kind of golden words are written in this or that or that faraway book or that author spoke this or that. When walk is not like talk it is porn!

  9. frank says:

    The most obvious thing about Islam is not really anything to do with what the Koran means or sounds like sung, it is that Muslims, on average, are in dire need of a good bit of rumpy pumpy!

    Don`t forget in Egypt, only 2 years ago, clerics put forward legislation for allowing husbands to have sex with their dead wives. Altho` in a rare attack of equality, the Mullahs did say that women would have the same rights (the nuts and bolts of which I leave to the imagination of the world`s most twisted cringe-comedy writers).

    The western airplanes should be dropping copies of Wilhelm Reich`s ‘The invasion of compulsory sex-morality’ instead of bombs.
    Or maybe a 21st century Arabic re-working of ‘The Sexual Revolution’ by Mustapha Shagg.

    • prem martyn says:

      Look, it’s very simple, so for one last time please listen at the back. To repeat, for those who were not in school the last time we covered this topic.

      Marxism was the organising political/ social construct that, by inversion, helped capitalism to manage large numbers of industrialised rote workers even, eventually, through its prodigal offspring, socialism. Out of which was also born State Capital and Fascism, within which corporate capital organises its legal or sublimated fascism/disappropriation of the means of production (though the de-democratising power of industrial law and privilege). See the latest in TPP laws.
      Shell has however withdrawn from oil in the Arctic, so occassionally we can breathe a sigh of relief.

      It is the industrialised version of Church tithing, which by royal and clerical assent, defined the land and its products against the peasantry. When the governing British class noticed how disenfranchised the average family was, following the 1st world war, there began a period of expropriation of Ducal/Aristocratic rights and the beginning of the suburban sprawl with access to low state mortgages in the building of new housing.This employed and re-directed the attention of the proletariat.

      Islam has similar problems with a large disenfranchised population across borders, of angry, upset, sometimes violently mentally ill youth and displaced families, which saw the old guard challenged by a collective version of populist revolt, which in turn sponsored Islamic fascism, and in turn supported by the Clerical fascists of the sunni or shiite sects, Iran/ Saudi et al. These are internal economic woes of social privilege, with a mix of clerical madness/power et al.

      Similar in the tensions the industrialised west has faced for 150 years, but with differing tags. Corporate and clerical fascism have historically been allies at the highest levels in history, despite populist sentiment dividing the two.

      When the western mind became so fragmented by its own nihilism and lack of a unifying ethic, psychology was born , via Freud to manage , like the Jewish Marx did, the effects of the worst of alienating capital in the isolation and latent ‘inhibition’ endemic in bourgeois culture and via its educational, anti-feminine authoritarianism. Osho rarely entered the political variants of non-religious conditioning, however politics and its governing edicts are a form of religion.

      I have just come back from an Anarchist book fair in the centre of Mallorca, where all the old titles from the history of the CNT (Anarchist workers Union of Spain) were on show. The only book I enjoyed was a childrens picture book where the children went to school and did nothing but dream of wonderful things and adventures and the school janitor painted walls that disappeared. It all ended marvellously. A great tale, to be sure.

      Be very aware that the emotional construct of a child is bonded to survival. The religion in the West is school and its forms of demagoguery and social obligation, anonymously and stressfully formed, albeit with constant ‘involvement’ and ‘motivation’.

      We are thus obliged to turn to psychology to handle the resulting tensions of the 21st century. Psychology was entirely unnecessary and non-existent in terms of motive prior to the 20th century.Islam has no form of psychology just as the christian church does not offer egoic attainment, unlikethe promise of psychology. Corporate palliative religious identity does not require reflection, indeed it understands it and works double time to prevent it from forming at all.

      So we had Marx and Freud to organise the effects of a mammon Jewish God who had found his way via Christianity into our economic life.

      The Islamic God, however, does not have the keys to the means of production, the clerics have not yet disbursed or ever will, the oil yields upon which some of them sit. Syria had been in a drought ridden 5 year economic meltdown before the war started. Hundreds of thousands had migrated to the overburdened cities in search of work. As when the International Corn laws between Canada the US and Mexico in the 1980s (following Mexicos bankruptcy) forced a million farmers off the land into the waiting arms of the Drug Barons.

      Germany similarly had been forced into poverty-stricken debt repayment by the Versailles agreement. The Tsar had even leased Siberian mineral and forest wealth to the French, before the revolution. Swami Nirvan’s (deceased of Ko Hsuan) grandfather was the Grand Duke and Governor of Siberia, cousin to the Tsar, 4 times great grandson of the general who faced off Napoleon at Borodino. The West has been around and around these issues, dontcha know?

      The hit shits the fan from a variety of directions. Let’s not get stuck with amateur interpretations of what a desperate populace can do or invent via a repressed libido. Are drones the product of virtual sex? Nuclear War, yes, but all in time…when the water weather patterns start to hit bigtime, maybe the Bush family, who owns the land atop Paraguay’s land acquifer, the size of Ireland, will come to help everyone out.

      Overt or hidden, the script is the same and run by the same types over and again. Osho knew that and said it over and over again to face them off with. We should be pleased that his Anarchism left a merry, empowering voice, replete with the words ‘commune’ and ‘sort it out amongst yourselves’.

      The target is not the bogeymen, however we describe them, it is those of our own clans, whom we must interact with ideologically every day. The ab-dabs are really not part of our heritage and so we must focus on what is much more relevant. If that means personal development, fine, but let it have a context. Work, sex and power relationships should be identified without recourse to distractions like the proletarian lumpen mass of Islam, which has no economic significance whatsoever over our lives.

      However, state anti-terror laws directly affect the mentality in which the state apportions authority, again to itself and its classes of control. Language has power of its content which reduces everyone to consumerist ‘angst’ for a lifetime of survival on the most bounteous planet in the universe.

      If we drive a car is more significant in real terms. If we live in a high-rise ghetto is relevant, but not if we don’t. Then we can only guess at what people endure to get by. Sometimes they even turn to religion, like a law unto themselves.

      Surprised?

      And yes, I am glad Holland has banned kosher and halal killing of animals. They can’t just get away with wanton murder, so we must not apologise ever for being atheist humanists, but rejoice in what got us here too. Vive la difference.

      • simond says:

        Very simple? Prem Martyn,
        I’m afraid you lost me after the first paragraph…!

        • Ashok says:

          Perhaps a re-reading of the paragraph in the thread article, which begins “I don’t understand Arabic…”, will put everything in context for you, Mr Simond.

          If not, just consider that Prem Martyn, might in fact be practising his own unique meditation style

  10. Parmartha says:

    I always think that this rumination by Osho lacks a bit of full insight into fundamentalist Islam.
    After all, these extreme fundalmentalists hate music, the Taliban particularly.
    So no sung Koran could be heard in Kabul when they were in power.

    • swamishanti says:

      I think that the Taliban did/do allow the singing of the Koran actually, but they persecuted the Sufis and banned all forms of other music.

      • Parmartha says:

        Knowledgeable chap, Shanti, that you are!

        Yes, I just checked, the Taliban for reasons I don’t know banned musical instruments, but not the human voice!

        There is somewhere a terrible statement from some Islamic text that those who listen to musical instruments will have molten lead poured in their ears…my God…in fact, God have mercy on them.

        Anyone want to speculate as to why they hate music so much?

        • prem martyn says:

          You’ve never taken a taxi from Melilla (Spanish Morocco ) to Ceuta then ?

          No, pleeeese, I pay extra – just switch it offfffff!!

        • satyadeva says:

          Well, off the top of me head…

          Fear of pleasure…fear of feeling…fear of the female…in essence, fear of losing control.

        • frank says:

          They allow the human voice because of the muezzins` call to prayer from the mosque, isn`t it?

          I suspect that Samarpan busking in Raqqa with his mala and a tie-dye shirt on, singing an acapella version of:
          “There is no compulsion in religion
          and I`m feelin` groovy”
          wouldn`t go down too well.

          • frank says:

            SD,
            “off the top of my head” is an expression I tend to avoid in conversations with militant Islamists.

          • swamishanti says:

            The Taliban originated from the madrassers, or religous schools, of Pakistan.

            Once I saw a tv programme about the Pakistani Taliban and I saw that there was some kind of spiritual intensity there, in the madrassers, with lots of religous singing and chanting.

            The problem is the extreme Sunni ideology that they get taught in these schools.

            • prem martyn says:

              SS, ‘Mad’ is the operative prefix. Don’t even bother with the rest. Intensity????? Angry, violated poor sods. Get real, SS – or should I say how wonderful the Queen’s own Parachuters are on parade with their smart uniforms…so very smart and such a treat for the flag-waving children.

              Ahhh, the Western Democracies…sniff…I really would enjoy a pint now at the Fatso and Turd local public house with your average ‘bloke’…(it doesn’t convince you, does it, SS? And nor do you).

              • swamishanti says:

                Martyn, you can find “spiritual intensity” in all of these religous groups,the ‘scripture bashing’ groups”, the Taliban, the Hare-Krishnas, the Catholic Church, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, but the trouble with the Islamic fanatics is, that Mohammed himself sanctioned violence, and ordered the beheading of people, during his lifetime, which has left the world with a dangerous form of violent religous extremism.

                • satyadeva says:

                  “spiritual intensity”? Is that what it is? Intense, yes – “spiritual”, no.

                  Maybe, after all, it would be better if the whole wretched lot of these deluded fools, however sincere, and their half-baked rubbish, were blasted off the face of the Earth…

                  Unfortunately though, with everyone else….

                • prem martyn says:

                  SS,
                  Yes, extremism terrible really, self-opinionated billion dollar-chested warmongerers who go around starting fights and then blaming it on someone else. I know of just that mindset, it’s called distortion. But you can face it down by giving it right back.

                  However, if nations do that you get idiots in charge of your destiny. I prefer a straight fight, starting with catharsis. It’s very healthy and can be done with consenting partners. But it requires ground rules for the benefit to accrue:
                  1) Enjoy it
                  2) There is no winning
                  3) Get your rocks off often
                  4) Insult the other’s mother.

                  It usually works to speed things up.

              • shantam prem says:

                I think other than woman´s anatomy, everything else around is imperfect in the mind of Martyn.

                • prem martyn says:

                  SS,
                  If you have a sword of awareness you must cut both ways…The tree that is being barked up provides shade for all the demons in the western closet too. But by continuous barking up it, in relativistic preference, you won’t achieve anything. In fact, quite the opposite: you will not establish motive or choice or destination at all.

                  I’m thinking Ostriches – just do a little Chomskying or Monbiotism, not a lot, just a little, and I promise the reverse gear, self-justifying, Eton, Christopher Hitchens/Blair type disease will be removed in a trice.

                  But if you don’t go there, then I will not push or shove my way into trying to cure historical Alzheimers. Just take this last tablet with a pinch of salt: How many Indians did the humanist Americans slaughter? Was it 19 million? Etc. etc. etc. etc. Yep, Osho was into mentioning that about the Ranch land too, just as a reminder of the other Indians.

                  Conscious analysis is not centred in cultural attachments or privilege. That’s called being cozy and self-satisfied. So, Islamists are mad. Do we ask daddy to protect us from the hordes ad infinitum? The war without end? What a state of mind that is, that we feel obliged to live in the last ten years.

                  I said as much once, at full voice, at Bag Control in Bristol Airport. I shouted, “Have the Germans won the War?” to a stunned hall of bag-opening passengers, when I was challenged by a teenager over bagging my toothpaste in a plastic bag for a pound. Purleeees.

    • samarpan says:

      “I always think that this rumination by Osho lacks a bit of full insight into fundamentalist Islam.” (Parmartha)

      As a child I once hit a hornet’s nest. From that time onward I possessed great insight into hornets…and gave hornets a wide berth.

  11. shantam prem says:

    Parmartha,
    To understand why Islamists don´t like music, you have to understand first why clergy of your 20th century master has banned, prohibited, deleted certain kind of music in the territory under their control.

    Everybody has their own kind of logic, quite often perverted by nature.

  12. shantam prem says:

    Will it ever be possible to read a similar comment by one of the Middle East migrants to Europe, “System built by our religion, our leaders, our priests has destroyed us.”?

    Almost all of them will go on believing, “Allah is great and it is because of Allah we have reached in the land of hard working people who are stupid enough not to appreciate our Book.”

    Impartial reality is, in the competition between Allah and God, God has given the better blueprint to live on the Earth.

    • prem martyn says:

      Shantam,
      You are comparing. It is not about comparing, is it? It is about truthfulness, knowing the address then being pragmatic. But you have to be willing, whatever monsters are in your way. Because it’s about knowingly doing what you do.

      Simond,
      Please write to my fellow vegetarian and leader of the Labour party, or his Vegan Agriculture Minister (brilliant move, Jezza) for an update. Write them a synthesis of what you understand and I’m sure they’ll fill in the gaps for you. It generally starts with Fairtrade coffee and ends with people telling other people, “I told you so, but you thought we’d never get there, but we did.”

      Anyone say “communes”?

      • swamishanti says:

        Martyn,
        I can see that you`ve got a great ‘sannyas head’, but spare a thought for the poor Afghanis who have had to go through years of war, beginning with the Soviet invasion in the eighties (the Mujahideen fought them off, at that time sponsored and funded by the CIA) and then the civil war, which ended up with the Taliban being in control.
        And then bombed senseless by the Americans, invaded, evacuated, and now the civil war continues.
        http://www.otoons.com/politics/images/alqaeda.swf

        • prem martyn says:

          Yess, SS, I forget how many people have referred to me as eloquent. It happens all the time in conversation, not just in teaching or writing. But it’s just the way my thoughts run.

          I’m also loquacious and love it too. Bawdy. Foppish even. I love the Baroque era. I’m very fond of how the sound of language reveals its meaning as much as the words used.

          I was simply deconstructing the presumptions on offer. I have been reminding here constantly of the consequences of indulging lazy antagonisms born of fears. I appreciate the humour.

          This is my Osho. I share him/me/it/us constantly in good company.

          Cheers.

  13. swamishanti says:

    Personally I like to hear the sound of the muezzins singing from the mosque, and Arabic and Urdu are both particularly beautiful languages.

    I think I agree with Osho that “the Koran is a book to be listened to, but not to be read.”

    • frank says:

      “The Koran is a book to be listened to, but not to be read.”

      And then the voice of a small child at the back of the crowd called out:
      “How can it be listened to if someone is not reading it?”

      Osho was clearly damning with faint praise and throwing in a couple of “inshallahs” to sound convincing.

      Books not to be read?
      My arse!
      Whatever next?

      Instruments not to be played?
      Air not to be breathed?
      Food not to be eaten?

      And inevitably…
      Lives not to be lived?!

      Osho was clearly damning with faint praise.

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