Lokesh
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satchit commented on the post, Osho, Gurus and the Spiritual Search, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 1 year, 10 months ago
Hmm, what you sense in my questions are your projections.
Seems you think you have to control your emotional reaction?
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Nityaprem commented on the post, Osho, Gurus and the Spiritual Search, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 1 year, 10 months ago
I was listening to the ‘A Little Bit Culty’ podcast and they did an episode on a cult called Buddhafield, whose leader basically copied Osho, sometimes verbatim by copying speeches from the books. He […]
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swamishanti commented on the post, Osho, Gurus and the Spiritual Search, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 1 year, 10 months ago
@Lokesh you put:
“Yes, many have their special spiritual experiences due to sitting in front of Osho, myself included. In retrospect I really can’t say for sure how valid any of those experiences are. It must be […] -
Nityaprem commented on the post, Osho, Gurus and the Spiritual Search, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 1 year, 11 months ago
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.
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Nityaprem commented on the post, Osho, Gurus and the Spiritual Search, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 1 year, 11 months ago
Oh dear. I may be your kryptonite. I’m a very unfun, straightforward kind of person. Very little humour.
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Nityaprem commented on the post, Osho, Gurus and the Spiritual Search, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 1 year, 11 months ago
@Lokesh, who quoted Osho saying, “blessed is the sannyasin who can trust me without bothering about my statements or my actions.”
I’d say to that, actions speak louder than words, words speak louder than thought. […]
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swamishanti commented on the post, Osho, Gurus and the Spiritual Search, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 1 year, 11 months ago
Osho was not Krishna – although there are certain similarities. He danced like Krishna and loved to play with women, multiple women, like Krishna.
Osho was also not a total pacifist, like Krishna.
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swamishanti commented on the post, Osho, Gurus and the Spiritual Search, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 1 year, 11 months ago
@Lokesh, you put:
“After all, Osho was breaking one of the cardinal rules of gurudom….having sex with his female disciples…”I have heard this kind of line put forth by moralists before and it simply isn’t […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, Osho, Gurus and the Spiritual Search, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 1 year, 11 months ago
@Lokesh who wrote:
“Since these allegations first surfaced over a year ago, I have had plenty of time to think about it and my own relationship with Osho over 40 years ago. I have much to be grateful to him for. […] -
swamishanti commented on the post, Osho, Gurus and the Spiritual Search, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 1 year, 11 months ago
@Lokesh:
There is always an energy transmission. It just depends whether we are open to receive it. The problem is when we project our own desires onto others, in this case, Osho. It is these kinds of stories […] -
Nityaprem commented on the post, Osho, Gurus and the Spiritual Search, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 1 year, 11 months ago
@lokesh who wrote “…why I waste my time on him.”
Haha. Because he is such a cute, little, Indian-sounding Bavarian? Or have I been totally misinformed?
But I think we can know a few things about Buddhas. The […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, Osho, Gurus and the Spiritual Search, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 1 year, 11 months ago
I think you are right, Osho did abuse Erin’s trust. He didn’t deny himself anything, it seems, even when that violated the bond between master and disciple.
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Nityaprem commented on the post, Osho, Gurus and the Spiritual Search, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 1 year, 11 months ago
Yes, it’s true, it is unavoidable, I was only making a little joke, hoho. I have not discovered the elixir of eternal youth.
Some people in my experience do a lot to stay fit in their later years, […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, Osho, Gurus and the Spiritual Search, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 1 year, 11 months ago
I read the first 100 pages or so of Joel Kramer’s rather waffly effort ‘The Guru Papers’ but didn’t find it compelling. The authors were building all kinds of anti-guru arguments out of thought processes […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, Osho, Gurus and the Spiritual Search, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 1 year, 11 months ago
There was a small problem with the mods editing my post, I wrote “polarised us-vs-them mentality” most of the time not. Yes, on the Ranch there were periods when that happened, but many other times the […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, Osho, Gurus and the Spiritual Search, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 1 year, 11 months ago
Some of those points certainly apply (“charismatic leader”, “mind numbing meditations”) and some of them do not (“polarised us-vs-them mentality”: most of the time not, “leadership inducing guilt […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, Osho, Gurus and the Spiritual Search, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 1 year, 11 months ago
@Lokesh, who wrote “made me realize I was once part of a religious cult.”
It’s easy to default to society’s view and call it a cult. But then you haven’t learned what Osho had to say about society, who was often […]
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madhu dagmar frantzen commented on the post, Osho, Gurus and the Spiritual Search, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 1 year, 11 months ago
I will have to wait a bit before watching the doc on NDR last night – as – for a week now,
I m not able, for tech reasons, to watch anything on TV or broadcasting media tech stuff – as my borrowed […] -
Nityaprem commented on the post, Osho, Gurus and the Spiritual Search, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 1 year, 11 months ago
I believe you’ll find ‘Future Shock’ was first published in 1970, but it was far ahead of its time. The young people are able to keep up with the pace of change, and the older folks say, “Boy, doesn’t the […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, Osho, Gurus and the Spiritual Search, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 1 year, 11 months ago
You are right with your boat metaphor. But we get so much “news” pushed at us that it’s easy to make the mistake to think that it’s important to us.
Some time ago I made the decision not to watch news […]
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