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

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.

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.

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

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”?

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.

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.

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.