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satyadeva commented on the post, The Myth of the Positive, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 6 months ago
Roman, I’m not denying the place and value of the creative imagination, I’m not that stupid. In fact, literature was my main subject from age 16, I first enjoyed Lawrence as a teenager and Shakespeare was very […]
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frank commented on the post, The Myth of the Positive, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 6 months ago
Interest, I will say, is one of the two basic clearly “positive” emotions, along with joy.
It is amazing and interesting that this fact has passed unnoticed .
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Parmartha commented on the post, The Myth of the Positive, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 6 months ago
Thanks for your reply, Vartan, have not been here for a few days.
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satyadeva commented on the post, The Myth of the Positive, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 6 months ago
Because they’re pretty well all – except joy? – in a way ‘automatic’, unconscious, ‘robotic’ reactions, Frank. We might like to think otherwise, because that’s what we tend to identify our ‘selves’ with.
Put it […]
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frank commented on the post, I don’t feel it has it been fully appreciated by the general sannyasin community just how difficult it must have been for those very close to Osho., on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 6 months ago
“I am not a democrat. I am a dictator. That is why so many Germans come to me.”
Osho…’Notes of a Madman’.The last time I was at the Resort, in the 90s,I was queuing in the Welcome Centre. There was a dispute […]
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frank commented on the post, The Myth of the Positive, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 6 months ago
SD.
To equate emotion with sentimentality is wildly inaccurate.
The basic emotions…
Joy, interest, anguish, fear, distress, shame, disgust, dismell –
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satyadeva commented on the post, The Myth of the Positive, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 6 months ago
I guess the answer’s in your second-last paragraph, Shantam, ie they’re simply trying to prevent people succumbing to sentimentality.
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satyadeva commented on the post, The Myth of the Positive, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 6 months ago
Sounds as if Osho was making a distinction there between feeling (sensitivity) and emotion (sentimentality).
The one being a pure phenomenon, grounded in the depth of the present, the other being of the past, […]
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Lokesh commented on the post, I don’t feel it has it been fully appreciated by the general sannyasin community just how difficult it must have been for those very close to Osho., on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 6 months ago
I find the parallel drawn between Hitler and Osho to be really stretching it a bit. Vartan, I think enough has been said in the way of comparing Hitler with our beloved Osho. It is simply ridiculous. Hitler was a […]
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shantam commented on the post, The Myth of the Positive, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 6 months ago
Resort management is appreciated by Lokesh.
I hope all these gentlemen will get the invitation from some Management university: “How to kill the brand and still claim success.”
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Lokesh commented on the post, The Myth of the Positive, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 6 months ago
Shantam says, ‘All those Osho songs are not allowed any more.’
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shantam commented on the post, The Myth of the Positive, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 6 months ago
Have the People devoid of sentimentality touched this filtered and refined state of Senstivity?
Just remembered Mahatma Gandhi’s favourate Bhajan, “Vaishnav Jan to Tinhi Kahiye…jo peer Parayi jaane Reh”. Roughly […] -
satyadeva commented on the post, The Myth of the Positive, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 6 months ago
If that were the case, Roman, there would probably be vast numbers of ‘enlightened’ people in the world.
In the world of the human psyche, that aspect of reality, it has its place, sure. Useful tool too, […]
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satyadeva commented on the post, The Myth of the Positive, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 6 months ago
Perhaps you should re-read my post, Roman? I made it clear, didn’t I, ‘different strokes…’ etc?
For one thing, BL was a real man, addressing real issues for the people of his time – us. Not a product of […]
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Lokesh commented on the post, The Myth of the Positive, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 6 months ago
Sentimentality means to me that someone indulging in it has an unhealthy attachment to their personal emotional memories and the past events that they relate to.
Here is an appropriate Osho quote:
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Sw. Bodhi Vartan wrote a new post, I don’t feel it has it been fully appreciated by the general sannyasin community just how difficult it must have been for those very close to Osho. , on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 6 months ago
I remember Him saying that those close to the fire were burning up. There were people that had to dispose of his faeces, so that it wasn’t collected and made into relics. In the godman paradigm some saw too-much […]
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satyadeva commented on the post, The Myth of the Positive, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 6 months ago
Well, Roman, I was struck by an absurdity I preceived, I guess…Broadly akin to a ‘Private Eye’ spoof article ending in something like; ‘EJ Thribb is 75′….
Ok, ‘whatever turns you on’, or ‘whatever works for […]
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satyadeva commented on the post, The Myth of the Positive, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 6 months ago
How about writing an article on Jimmy Savile for SN then, Frank – you do appear to be extremely interested in the man? Chance to ‘get it all out’, as it were….
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satyadeva commented on the post, The Myth of the Positive, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 6 months ago
The Lawyers’ll be after you shortly, mark my words, sir!
(Not sure re the Taliban, but if I were you I’d think about hiring a bodyguard, mate….)
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satyadeva commented on the post, The Myth of the Positive, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 6 months ago
Agreed, Lokesh, an extraordinary work (from his ‘Gnostic Period’, y’know).
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