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Parmartha posted a new activity comment 11 years, 7 months ago
In reply to: Parmartha posted an update I always feel a sense of paradox about the facts (from a neutral source as detailed below.) Somehow the denouement of the Ranch and these ”achievements” still seem a mystery to me. […] ViewThanks Frank and Arpana. The paradox about the efficiencies of dictators is certainly a good reminder Frank and fits the Rajneeshpuram experience.
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Parmartha wrote a new post, Osho and the Indian Consciousness, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 8 months ago
They say a prophet is never accepted in his own country
and this certainly seemed to be the case when Osho was alive. I remember suddenly being recruited as a guard in Pune one, when the police seemed to want […]
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Parmartha posted an update 11 years, 8 months ago
I always feel a sense of paradox about the facts (from a neutral source as detailed below.) Somehow the denouement of the Ranch and these “achievements” still seem a mystery to me.
Anyone going a help me?
In an article in The New Yorker, journalist Frances Fitzgerald detailed some of the accomplishments the commune had managed by 1983:…[Read more] -
Parmartha posted an update 11 years, 8 months ago
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Parmartha commented on the post, The Oregonian, an unconventoinal view from Parmartha, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 8 months ago
I hope Toby that your sort of fleeting and anonymous visit to this subject is not only that, but that you are prepared to dialogue.
I am after being a detective myself, my great grandfather was actually quite a […] -
Parmartha commented on the post, The Oregonian, an unconventoinal view from Parmartha, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 8 months ago
You seem to agree that Sheela was pushed over the edge, and you give your reason as Hasya envy. She was certainly in a bad mental way, but from much earlier (circa 1982/3) when she became addicted to uppers and […]
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Parmartha commented on the post, The Oregonian, an unconventoinal view from Parmartha, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 8 months ago
It wasn’t just Osho’s room that was bugged, Vivek’s was also. So your explanation does not hold.
The most famous “discourse” that was “lost” was from 1984/5 when Osho described Sheela’s empire as fascistic […] -
Parmartha commented on the post, Osho and Three Individuals, Lokesh tells the story, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 8 months ago
Yes, very difficult when crowds appear. Voltaire once said when the crowd cheered him to the rafters at one of his plays: yeah, they would cheer equally loudly if I was being dragged to my execution.
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Parmartha wrote a new post, The Twenty One, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
Who were the original 21 appointed by Osho?
The original 21, thanks to Arpana’s research were - appointed by Osho, but one imagines advised by those closest to him are listed below.
Anyone want to relist […]
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Parmartha commented on the post, BREAKING NEWS FROM PUNE, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
Nice to see you here again Anthony.
Perfectly right. But the fact that there is such disarray I don’t consider such a bad thing. A feature of the “ordinary” mind I have found, having mixed with the English […] -
Parmartha commented on the post, BREAKING NEWS FROM PUNE, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
The original 21 from 1989, we can probably find through searching through historical sources. As we are busy right now, maybe Arpana could research for us?
The present committee – well, that is why I asked […] -
Parmartha commented on the post, BREAKING NEWS FROM PUNE, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
Just a thought experiment.
Those who have run the place since Osho died and before, suddenly decease, or suddenly quit. (If the latter it seems with very little thanks from some.)
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Parmartha commented on the post, End of Maitreya, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
Madness and genius, often the same thing in my experience of human beings!
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Parmartha commented on the post, End of Maitreya, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
Sorry Shantam, not always clear what you mean.
The link/site you give is the Maitreya I knew. There has not been much activity there for some time as far as I can tell, now explained by the fact he was […]
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Parmartha commented on the post, End of Maitreya, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
In 1974 when I arrived in Poona there certainly were many westerners already there, but none of them, Shantam, were blue or white collar workers with careers. It was a wild type of time with all sorts of Western […]
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Parmartha commented on the post, End of Maitreya, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
I found this reply Maitreya made to Sam (Prem Paritosh) the author of “Life of Osho” in the back pages of Sannyasnews.
It’s interesting in that Maitreya, unlike Paritosh, considered the Pune ashram authorities […] -
Parmartha commented on the post, End of Maitreya, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
There are lots of Maitreyas around Shantam. Are you sure you have the right one? Sounds unlikely to me of this guy.
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Parmartha commented on the post, End of Maitreya, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
Thanks for that Lokesh, a very well argued contribution.
I am not myself sure, as you know, of “enlightenment” as a concept that has much relevance to the 21st century. It’s an old Buddhist concept which seems […] -
Parmartha commented on the post, End of Maitreya, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
Background early biographical info was requested of sannyasnews:
here it is:
Maitreya (Wayne Anthony Unsworth) was born to a middle-class English family in Widnes, Cheshire. In his autobiography, he describes […] -
Parmartha wrote a new post, End of Maitreya, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
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