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I think Johnny Jordaan is great, he just oozes gezelligheid (wonderful untranslatable word meaning something like coziness by a fireplace with friends having a good time).

As far as I understand – after reading comments regarding sexual acts with children and what should have been done about it – the role Bhagwan/Osho wanted to play was not one of a manager of commune affairs.

But […]

Lokesh, you are the better storyteller than me.

And you live an excited life on your hippy-island.

My life is very ordinary.

Reading Osho books is for me long time gone.

I just remembered from your […]

Johnny Jordaan, of course. You know the dead guy who has a bronze sculpture of his noggin in Amsterdam’s Elandsgracht. There’s a flower box in my window…la la la and all that shit.

Musical interlude — heeere’s Johnny!

https://youtu.be/nsEBq0iGqN8

Now would you mean Johnnie Jordan or Johnny Jordaan?

I have a decent but sadly undeveloped singing voice, I meant to get some singing lessons a few years ago but then the pandemic struck and singing was out.

Satchit, if I wished to impress anything upon you it would be that you would be more interesting if you tried speaking from your own life, instead of repeating stuff you have read in books.

As an example, instead […]

And that misjudgment of Sheela wasn’t a small issue, look what happened because of it.

Why expect anyone, even an enlightened person, ‘one with Life’ etc. to be any sort of reliable expert on or be automatically […]

Loco, do you really think you can impress
me with your little provocations?

Now you even try parroting the parrot.
This is really far out!

Things are simple, you reveal what you want to reveal.
I reveal what I […]

“What happenings?”

The examples I listed, of course.

“He said enlightenment does not mean that he knows that his room is bugged.

So I guess enlightenment does also not mean that he knows that Sheela was the […]

I doubt Satchit comes from a Catholic background. His background is more rooted in having read a few Osho books and spiritual books. Everything he says, more or less, sounds like he is parroting something he has […]

What happenings you mean, SD?

There are so many happenings happen.

He said enlightenment does not mean that he knows that his room is bugged.

So I guess enlightenment does also not mean that he knows that […]

So, in your terms, Satchit, what you call “the real self” is incapable of making a mistake, in any area of life?

How then do you explain the “happenings” (your term again) I’ve mentioned?

By saying it’s our […]

That’s not true. SD, only he would be worthy of trust.

Because he has lost his separated self.
And his real self would be the same as your real self.

I would say the real self makes choices for him, the ego has […]

NP, do you sing Johnny Jordan songs in your sleep?

I know that it requires guts, Lokesh.

And I know that you did not have these guts.

Otherwise you would have been enlightened long ago, bro.

PS:
I suggest you reread my text.
I did not pretend being enlightened.

Frank, your compassion knows no bounds.

@Lokesh

I lived in England so long I like ‘Monty Python’ more than André van Duin! And you’re right, I do have a beard…bit of a love-hate relationship…occasionally I shave it off, only to grow it again.

But Satchit, you don’t appear to have really considered the implications of your view of the experience of ‘an enlightened one’. I don’t think it’s necessarily always quite how you say it is.

Does an enlightened […]

I think you guys are being too hard on Satchit here.

I`m sure that he must have had some pretty deep and devastating experiences of emptiness in his life.

Like when FC Bayern lost to that mickey mouse Spanish […]