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frank commented on the post, Maharishi/Osho, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 7 months ago
Cause and effect generally needs narrative attached.
People have so many stories of how practices/religions/gurus/therapies “saved their life”, or even how getting away from them “saved their life”, but very few […]
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frank commented on the post, Maharishi/Osho, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 7 months ago
Here`s the “evidence”:
These effects were all confirmed both through the personal experiences of hundreds of thousands of TM practitioners, and through research of the highest quality (see TM research: […]
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frank commented on the post, Maharishi/Osho, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 7 months ago
To the mods…
I actually imagined JC proclaiming “I am going about my father’s business” and then being answered by a Kashmiri bus-stand hustler: “I am also doing…”, but you assumed I had made a mistake and […] -
frank commented on the post, Maharishi/Osho, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 7 months ago
Pahalgam is where Jesus Christ was purportedly buried, according to the ‘Jesus went to India after escaping crucifixion’ story.
I imagine him getting off at the bus stand, proclaiming:
“I am going about my […] -
frank commented on the post, Maharishi/Osho, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 7 months ago
It`s a wonderful image of the delusions which afflict so-called spiritual people:
Sitting cross-legged on their arses, bumping up and down on a padded floor and calling it “flying”.Priceless.
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frank commented on the post, Death, where is thy Sting?, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 7 months ago
…or Shantam attending one of Rev`s services and nodding along to the sermon.
“Would the congregation now rise and sing hymn number 69:
‘Oh Lord, we delighteth in letting the energy of Shantam out of our life altogether.’ “ -
frank commented on the post, Death, where is thy Sting?, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 7 months ago
Anubodh,
It could have been just an old suggestion popping up..Yet,I would say he probably did well to remember that rather than any number of other more negative suggestions that might have come his way in his life.
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frank commented on the post, Death, where is thy Sting?, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 7 months ago
It`s all getting a bit lovey-dovey around here. Has someone pumped some unconditional love gas into the SN cyberspace or something?
Some of us negative, closed, unconscious, cynical bastards are twitching […]
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frank commented on the post, Death, where is thy Sting?, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 7 months ago
Aha!
Madhu,
I have finally found a way to your heart…
by taking the piss out of the British!
(An important, honourable and necessary step on the spiritual path, I may say. And a keen hobby of mine, too!). -
frank commented on the post, Death, where is thy Sting?, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 7 months ago
SD, the ad does sound a bit American-style, but it`s also so British, isn’t it?
The “world-class” (read: spiritual upper class) facilitators appeal through ads in in-flight magazines to the aspirational spiritual […]
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frank commented on the post, Death, where is thy Sting?, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 7 months ago
You`re not wrong there, Dougal.
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frank commented on the post, Death, where is thy Sting?, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 7 months ago
Arpana,
They are pretty resilient old birds from that generation.
After my mum’s funeral we all came back to the house so people could take it in turn to get up and say something about her. Her oldest friends (in […] -
frank commented on the post, Death, where is thy Sting?, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 7 months ago
Thanks, guys.
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frank commented on the post, Death, where is thy Sting?, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 7 months ago
Cheers, K!
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frank commented on the post, Death, where is thy Sting?, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 7 months ago
Simond,
The `how the fuck does that work?` was not entirely an expression of loss of meaning as in life seeming “meaningless, empty and worthless, altho` that was a part.
It was desperation mixed with wonder and […] -
frank commented on the post, Death, where is thy Sting?, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 7 months ago
I was having a discussion with two friends of mine,one a Buddhist and one well into various current Indian gurus. They, like Shantam ,consider reincarnation as a clear unquestionable reality.
I said to them:if […] -
frank commented on the post, Death, where is thy Sting?, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 7 months ago
Simond, you say:
“Easy to celebrate another persons` death and to wishfully look back on their life with sentiment as we so often do, when friends or family die.”I have not found such experiences to be all that […]
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frank commented on the post, Death, where is thy Sting?, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 7 months ago
”If a person can enjoy and celebrate his death, that shows he has lived rightly; there is no other criterion. Your death will prove how you have lived.”
Proved to whom?
To a panel of judges on ‘The Death […] -
frank commented on the post, Dynamic without Music, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 7 months ago
Re the Ranch..
We know now that it was all part of a master plan to get rid of religious crap.
Osho always said you have to do stuff first in order to to go past it.God is a duff fantasy
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frank commented on the post, Dynamic without Music, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 7 months ago
Arpana,you say:
“I know Osho is dead intellectually, but my irrational side, (and happy with that), experiences him as very much still alive.For me. (Yes. I know. More new age tosh. Just cant manage to express […] - Load More