Arpana
@arpana active 3 weeks, 2 days ago-
Arpana commented on the post, The Hidden Price of Mindfulness, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 1 month ago
Not Satyadeva or Sheela. Just you.
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Arpana commented on the post, The Hidden Price of Mindfulness, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 1 month ago
A little, well maybe a lot of, ‘If everybody’s doing it (meditation) how can I feel special?’ at play here.
The remark recently questioning why Osho gave sannyas to anybody. Hard to believe we are special because […]
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Arpana commented on the post, Beyond Enlightenment, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 1 month ago
A series of 3, Shanti:
Osho Upanishad. Beyond Enlightemment and Sermons in Stones.One book really. A cross between discourse and darshan diary. (The audience was small. Same as the discourses given in Uruguay and Nepal).
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Arpana commented on the post, Beyond Enlightenment, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 1 month ago
Dynamic, or after-dynamic, is amazing indeed.
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Arpana commented on the post, Beyond Enlightenment, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 1 month ago
If you think about it, everyone comes to Sannyas from a culture of being trained by threats of punishment, promise of reward, and ‘Enlightenment’ is the ultimate reward for making an effort and doing well.
A […]
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Arpana commented on the post, Beyond Enlightenment, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 1 month ago
Flippin ‘eck, Frank.
Is there anything you haven’t had a go at? -
Arpana commented on the post, Beyond Enlightenment, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 1 month ago
Frank,
Don’t you mean “a couple of pints of barley wine” or “to try my luck with the new barmaid”? -
Arpana commented on the post, Beyond Enlightenment, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 2 months ago
I recall Osho remarking that Meditation in the early days of Zen was the bullock-cart of the practice, and his approach, because of psychotherapy and his methods, the Rolls Royce (well, he would say that, wouldn’t […]
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Arpana commented on the post, Beyond Enlightenment, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 2 months ago
The only possible response to both paragraphs is hmm!!
Plus…
1st parag:
Interesting notion. I see where you’re kicking the ball. -
Arpana commented on the post, Beyond Enlightenmnet, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 2 months ago
I have occasionally wondered, Frank, if enlightenment happens when we know it’s only an idea.
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Arpana commented on the post, Laxmi and the ealy days in Poona, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 2 months ago
“Inner accounting”.
Great phrase. Wow. -
Arpana commented on the post, Laxmi and the ealy days in Poona, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 2 months ago
Here, I can’t understand the self-aggrandising rubbish spouted by Shantam. There are many times when I feel scorn for Shantam for really standing for nothing more than his own ridiculous sense of self-importance. […]
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Arpana commented on the post, Beyond Enlightenmnet, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 2 months ago
I remember reading this and wondering if he said this because he was surrounded by hordes who believed they were enlightened, so he just, apparently, raised the bar, as a way of telling them they weren’t.
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Arpana commented on the post, Laxmi and the ealy days in Poona, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 2 months ago
I don’t disagree with you, but in fact I function from the opposite of having a sense of entitlement, the other side of the coin if you will. At some level I have to work very hard to believe I should have […]
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Arpana commented on the post, Laxmi and the ealy days in Poona, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 2 months ago
Shantam,
If you see others as an extension to yourself…Narcissists often see others as a way to fulfil their own needs and reach their own goals – rather than other people with their own feelings and needs. […]
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Arpana commented on the post, Laxmi and the ealy days in Poona, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 2 months ago
I read ‘The Mustard Seed’ in the early 80s. This section had a huge impact on me then, as I was going through a really painful sense of feeling torn between pre-Sannyas me and Sannyas me, but the principle comes […]
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Arpana commented on the post, Laxmi and the ealy days in Poona, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 2 months ago
Shantam the sick, if you have some brain and sensitivity, copy this quotation and hang it in your kitchen:
“A person who demeans his own master’s disciples is almost like a person who molests children.”
Because […]
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Arpana commented on the post, Laxmi and the ealy days in Poona, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 2 months ago
Shantam says.
‘This is what makes my gratitude for Osho and it matters not whether He has left the body or died.’Why on earth are you grateful to Osho? You have got nothing from your time with Osho. The most […]
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Arpana commented on the post, The Old Place in Jabalpur, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 2 months ago
If people like Shantam had understood Osho, I don’t think there was a need to go on jumping like a frog from this to that – calling himself superior.
Moreover, Shantam, do you have any sense of propriety? There […]
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Arpana posted a new activity comment 8 years, 2 months ago
In reply to: frank posted an update in the group Caravanserai take the test http://play.bbc.co.uk/play/pen/gxlj24bk5l ViewI only got one wrong Francis.
What was your score.? - Load More