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- Osho Through the Eyes of Gemini Chat AI – Nityaprem reports on and assesses an experiment 26/03/2024 satyadeva
- The Very Best and Worst of Sannyas News, Volume Two 07/03/2024 satyadeva
- Sannyas and Time-Rich Living, by Nitya Prem 06/02/2024 satyadeva
- Compassion for the man Osho, by Nityaprem 30/01/2024 satyadeva
- Osho As A Mythological Figure, by Nityaprem 03/01/2024 satyadeva
- Remaining Loose Like Water, by Ma Deva Uma 11/12/2023 satyadeva
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Parmartha commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
It’s a paradox Jay of which I suspect you are aware that many of those who reached positions of power in the ashram and the Ranch, and still run things now (like Amrito) never did any real apprenticeship in and […]
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Parmartha commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
To me the words, Cult, sect or religion are just words, they should not tug the nose of the discussion, but be servants of the discussion.
By embracing the mystical view that when we become unified with God, […] -
Parmartha commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
Thanks for the longer list Jay. I think it is a very moot point whether “evolution” can be said to have occurred with the human species.
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Parmartha commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
Nothing very complicated here Frank. Just there are those with delusions of grandeur that find a way beyond them (as Dharmen indicates elsewhere – they become ordinary).
But there are those who (like most human […] -
Parmartha commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
“existence will always yinyang you into shape”
Pity about this Frank, but it’s wish fulfillment.
Where was the existence when Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot needed to be “yinyanged” into shape. The existence is […] -
Parmartha posted an update 12 years, 5 months ago
This 15 minutes is worth a look. I partook of these type of groups in the seventies…. I buy the view that in Pune they were somehow protected by being in a Buddhafield. But could imagine those who come raw to such footage might be perplexed.
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Parmartha commented on the post, A Personal Watershed, Sept 19th, 1985, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
Some of my best friends support the Tibetan cause, and as someone gave them my address I get quite a lot of Tibetan mail looking for donations, etc.
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Parmartha posted a new activity comment: 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to: Parmartha posted an update in the group The Humaniversity: Alok, etc, I have met at least five people who definitely should not have been exposed to Humaniversity therapy. one spends long periods in a mental […] ViewThanks Frank. Heard of the book often but never took a look. Will try and find a copy. Therapy, in the way I am talking about it, is a voluntary relationship, so, as they say, it takes two to tango.
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Parmartha posted a new activity comment: 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to: Parmartha posted an update in the group The Humaniversity: Alok, etc, I have met at least five people who definitely should not have been exposed to Humaniversity therapy. one spends long periods in a mental […] ViewI am not really talking here about madness. There is certainly a sense in which the human condition is one of universal madness – agreed. I am talking of comparative vulnerability. I see no sense in a so-called therapeutic relationship which is abusive and kicks the weak. Such kicking is another form of weakness itself.
When you talk of…[Read more] -
Parmartha posted a new activity comment: 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to: Parmartha posted an update in the group The Humaniversity: Alok, etc, I have met at least five people who definitely should not have been exposed to Humaniversity therapy. one spends long periods in a mental […] ViewI agree
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Parmartha posted an update in the group
The Humaniversity: 12 years, 5 months ago
Alok, etc,
I have met at least five people who definitely should not have been exposed to Humaniversity therapy. one spends long periods in a mental hospital even now. I have also met a number of people who clearly seem to have benefited from it.
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Parmartha commented on the blog post A Personal Watershed, Sept 19th, 1985 12 years, 5 months ago
“Forgive them for they know what they do”. Wasn’t that an indication of more or less total human unconsciousness from Jesus on the Cross?
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Parmartha wrote a new blog post: A Personal Watershed, Sept 19th, 1985 12 years, 5 months ago
I remember being in discourse with Osho in Oregon when he spoke these words below. I remember feeling at the time an enormous shift, though even now I could not fully define it. But it did mean to me then and now, that an “enlightened Master” could be mistaken and could own his mistakes. And even [...]
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Parmartha commented on the blog post What’s in a name – part two ! 12 years, 5 months ago
There is a question of formal private daily meditation or practice done alone and bespeaking one’s own connection between God and you. Basically a Buddhist precept. The main problem with this to me is it becomes a sort of mental hygiene on a daily basis, and there are many who find they cannot do without [...]
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Parmartha posted an update in the group
News Items that may interest SN readers: 12 years, 5 months ago
The last words of the late, much-lauded and much-quoted Steve Jobs have been revealed almost a month after the Apple co-founder died at the age of 56.
Jobs, who once memorably described death as “very likely the single best invention of life”, departed this world with a lingering look at his family and the simple, if mysterious, observation:…[Read more]
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Parmartha posted a new activity comment: 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to: dharmen commented on the blog post What’s in a name – part two ! You are probably right about Vivek, but you say this as a definitive statement! Did someone give you inside information? I’ve only ever heard this […] ViewMy insider on this was Usha who as you know was around Osho in the very early days in Bombay when Vivek got involved with Osho. She used to say it was all ridiculous this bit about Vivek being Osho’s caretaker. I myself thought it was self-evident.
However my point to Chetna is not undermined, there clearly were things that Osho himself, and/or…[Read more] -
Parmartha commented on the blog post What’s in a name – part two ! 12 years, 5 months ago
Given the misunderstanding you are definitely now a candidate for choosing your own name, if as it seems you dont like Martin! Maybe there is a Sanskrit translation for a “Vegan who eats cheese”! I even once thought you were a fruitarian when I knew you back in the eighties, but do correct me if [...]
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Parmartha commented on the blog post Osho Foundation skips dates with Charity Commissioner 12 years, 5 months ago
This all seems to be political chess by some Indian Sannyasins. They basically want to take over the Resort (Ashram) and spread rumours and stories convenient to their cause. Okay, so maybe Osho International has changed it’s mind, they should be pleased as it was this “sale” that they seemed so implacably opposed to. Let [...]
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Parmartha commented on the blog post What’s in a name – part two ! 12 years, 5 months ago
Chetna: Osho did leave some instructions as to how to progress his work. Unfortunately they never reached the public domain. However one of the instructions may have been that they should not reach the public domain! In his life he was always changing things, and old sannyasins are uniform about the fact that many things [...]
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Parmartha posted on the forum topic Steve Jobs is Dead in the group
This might interest readers, Osho predicting the sort of computers that Steve Jobs produced.
http://oshomedia.blog.osho.com/2011/11/steve-jobs-osho-computers/
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