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satyadeva commented on the post, Meditation now the Opium of the People, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
“Also, post office people have all the way interfered with sannyasins’ inner search.”
I’ve been waiting for someone to bring up this threat to our spiritual freedom for a very long time, decades in fact – thank […]
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satyadeva commented on the post, Meditation in the Freezer, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
Madhu, you say,
“what has become predominant in my life is to look at issues where groups or cults become very aggressive and harassing others
what happens here in the West more often meanwhile
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satyadeva commented on the post, Meditation in the Freezer, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
But don’t you see how absurdly funny this also is, Madhu?
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satyadeva commented on the post, Meditation in the Freezer, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
madhu, you say, “the people mentioned above are happy to live in a culture where people are not put in mental asylums when they show up with “their” ways of dealing with facts of life and death and what they call […]
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satyadeva commented on the post, Meditation now the Opium of the People, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
“I read most (very few I just scan through, when they have less contents) of the posts of fellow bloggers. Many times I don´t feel to respond when the questions are put forward with hostile energy.”
Shantam, […]
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satyadeva commented on the post, Meditation now the Opium of the People, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
Well, as I said, there’s a fine line between ‘innocent’ and ‘naive’ and what you term sannyasins’ ‘innocence’ – and sure, at its best it’s a desirable spiritual quality – I say is/was too often rather childish […]
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satyadeva commented on the post, Meditation in the Freezer, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
It surely depends on the questions, Fresch – and the quality of the answers.
I wonder if most of the topics discussed are largely ‘surface’ matters, and how often people go into things in depth.
Anyway, […]
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satyadeva commented on the post, Meditation now the Opium of the People, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
Well, one thing Shyam wasn’t was naïve – or innocent!
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satyadeva commented on the post, Meditation now the Opium of the People, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
Well, as I said, there’s a fine line between ‘innocent’ and ‘naive’ and what you term sannyasins’ ‘innocence’ – and sure, at its best it’s a desirable spiritual quality – I say is/was too often rather childish […]
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satyadeva commented on the post, Meditation now the Opium of the People, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
That comment applies to the Oregon adventure, of course, not to his entire work.
I don’t think we can ‘spin’ the Ranch business as anything other than a failed project, given that it was supposed to be an […]
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satyadeva commented on the post, Meditation now the Opium of the People, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
To me, that tends to indicate you’re possibly being hoodwinked by ‘the mysterious East’, Arpana!
Although I am somehow certain that his work has succeeded, in that it’s penetrated the human psyche, via […]
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satyadeva commented on the post, Meditation now the Opium of the People, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
Re-read my last paragraph, Arpana, I thought I’d made it clear enough…
“The best that can be said, I think, is that he was misled by those he trusted (arguably having misjudged their characters) and that he […]
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satyadeva commented on the post, Meditation now the Opium of the People, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
But Vartan, if you’re “being naïve on purpose” then you can’t really be naïve, can you?!
The point about naivete is not knowing any better, ie being in one or more ways unconscious.
For sannyasins (and others) […]
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satyadeva commented on the post, Meditation now the Opium of the People, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
But I don’t mean just the ‘big issues’, ie the Ranch, donations etc., Vartan, I’m talking in general terms, of how people were/are, in their ordinary lives.
And Osho, of course, embodied both the profound […]
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satyadeva commented on the post, Meditation now the Opium of the People, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
I’m reluctant to answer you, Shantam, as you so often fail to respond to others’ points, including mine, which leads me to think that you might well not bother to read many posts, especially when you get an […]
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satyadeva commented on the post, Meditation now the Opium of the People, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
There’s a fine line between ‘innocence’ (desirable) and naïve (undesirable). And many sannyasins, including me, cross(ed) and
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satyadeva commented on the post, Meditation now the Opium of the People, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
Although ‘mock-heroic’ is literally more ‘pseudo-heroic’, ie not the real thing, unauthentic, like ‘mock Tudor’ architecture.
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satyadeva commented on the post, Meditation now the Opium of the People, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
Perhaps I should have said, ‘to cut his concept of himself and his, er, ‘very important work’ down to size’.
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satyadeva commented on the post, Meditation now the Opium of the People, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
“Emphasis is and should be to get others and oneself more refined.”
Since when were you any sort of example of this, Shantam?!
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satyadeva commented on the post, Meditation now the Opium of the People, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
But this, being “naïve”, is the case for many sannyasins, isn’t it? It might well be down to the ‘puer eternus’ (eternal child) syndrome, many having been first attracted to Osho and the movement as a substitute, […]
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