https://redondowriter.typepad.com/sacredordinary/2008/09/progoffs-intersections-roads-taken-and-not-taken-in-a-nutshell.html

Anyway, I admit, where would one be if this sannyas trip never happened is an interesting but also very speculative question.

It’s very simple, old chap: If you claim “most” of any set of people are “confused” then you simply have to provide proof. Otherwise, it’s nothing but sheer speculation, your word against anyone else’s who chooses to disagree, with or without enough evidence. Driven by, I suspect in your case, wish fulfilment, ie imagining you’re far from the only one feeling that way, which alleviates that lost, lonely feeling.

That would seem to be part of your confusion: confusing imagination and reality without bothering to check the facts. And imagining this produces “some order and penetrating insights” when all it does is provide you with more wishy-washy delusion with which to comfort yourself. (My advice: Stay away from the Brexit ‘debate’, it’ll confuse you even more!).

Insights about life cannot be presented as academic papers of facts and figures.

Just for a rough survey, how many sannyasnews bloggers have stable relations? How many have created families?

MOD:
Shantam, as it’s your idea, I suggest that you write an introduction to such a discussion, detailing the issues you want to be aired.

However, what do you think “most of the people calling themselves sannyasins are confused about”? Haven’t Osho’s teachings, meditations, therapies, communal situations and, er, ‘devices’, plus his very presence (not to mention the ongoing process of life itself) been enough to clarify the key existential and psycho-spiritual issues for his people? And how about you – are you yourself one of this ‘unhappy’ breed?!

Come on, Shantam, open up and spill the beans: What exactly has gone wrong? (N.B: No answer highlighting the Pune ashram will be acceptable. Thank You).