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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, Osho and the Organising Woman, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 10 months ago
Lokesh had commented on this quote of Osho’s, taken above from Parmartha’s opening piece:
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“A real commune will have men and women in a deep synchronicity. All the past communes had to die because they […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, The Art of Lying, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 10 months ago
Parmartha, over the years I’ve come to question the whole nature of ‘shaktipat’ energy, and related phenomena. Experientially I’ve been well acquainted with such things — in fact, what got me ‘on the path’, and […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, The Art of Lying, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 10 months ago
Arpana, you wrote:
‘The only objective statement it’s possible to make is their is no such thing as objectivity.’
Given that you just said ‘the only objective statement it’s possible to make…’, that would seem […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, The Art of Lying, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 10 months ago
Arpana — I was responding to Frank’s post above where he made the comment that ‘all art and drama is essentially lying’. Your painting is your representation of reality, a dramatic performance (like theatre) is […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, The Art of Lying, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 10 months ago
A few comments on the topic:
Art is indeed based on trickery/deceit, but science is based largely on truth. A truth that may be overthrown, yes (and commonly is), but the intent is to uncover things ‘as they […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, From Bhagwan to Buddha/ Ishada’s involvement, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 11 months ago
Chogyam Trungpa was more savvy than DL. He said he was going to reincarnate in Japan as a businessman. Buddhist master Ole Nydhal was more provincial, however. Asked where he wanted to reincarnate, he said […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, From Bhagwan to Buddha/ Ishada’s involvement, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 11 months ago
Long ago I went to three psychics to ask about my last life. The first said I was a Chinese schoolteacher. The second said I was an Italian psychiatrist. And the third said I was a Tibetan monk. So I went to a […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, From Bhagwan to Buddha/ Ishada’s involvement, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 11 months ago
Interesting, Frank, and probably true in some sense, given the curious nature of time, being (as Kant pointed out) little more then a mental construct. Ouspensky for one was convinced that ‘eternal recurrence’ […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, From Bhagwan to Buddha/ Ishada’s involvement, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 11 months ago
Frank, the issue of whether genuine ‘malamat’ is possible may be related to the question of whether or not everything is simply more degraded in present times (which is what Rene Guenon, for one, argued). That is, […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, From Bhagwan to Buddha/ Ishada’s involvement, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 11 months ago
Re the matter of Osho’s claimed past-life in Tibet 700 years ago, the problem with past-life recall is this: the relationship between memory and identity is tenuous at best. For example, it’s common to ‘remember’ […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, From Bhagwan to Buddha/ Ishada’s involvement, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 11 months ago
Lokesh and Frank said it very well, I’d just add that this whole story of the Buddha using Osho’s body was so preposterously over the top, that it provided a good insight into the tendency for intelligent seekers […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, Bhagwan to Osho, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 11 months ago
This one here, also from 1972, is quite interesting as well. I think as much as any film of Osho it gives some idea of his charismatic force, particularly since it was from his ‘formative’ years as a guru before […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, Bhagwan to Osho, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 11 months ago
And here Osho, back when he was Acharya, some good old video recently posted to YouTube:
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, Bhagwan to Osho, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 11 months ago
Yes, it’s a close race between those two, but I think it may be a draw:
1. Franklin Jones
2. Bubba Free John
3. Da Free John
4. Da Love-Ananda (probably the worst of the lot)
5. Da Avadhoota
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, Bhagwan to Osho, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 11 months ago
From the opening article above:
“…the well known 17th century Zen Haiku Master himself had a Master called Butcho Osho…”
This means pretty much nothing. ‘Osho’ being a religious honorific in Japanese, […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, Bhagwan to Osho, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 11 months ago
‘Osho’ is a fairly common term in Zen lore, far as I know. It’s not particularly special. It’s just a term for a Zen priest, something like ‘Father’ or ‘Reverend’ in English. The connection to William James […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, Indian Sannyasins make moves on political leaders, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 11 months ago
Good points Parmartha, re Osho’s new-found respectability. This is, I think, partly due to books like Vasant Joshi’s recent work, which presents the sanitized version. There is probably a cultural divide here as […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, Osho and his Dynamic Meditation, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 11 months ago
You mentioned somewhere above about not doing Dynamic anymore. It reminded me of a friend who recently asked his old Zen teacher what his current meditation practice was. The Zen teacher, now in his 60′s, replied […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, Osho and his Dynamic Meditation, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 11 months ago
I first starting doing Dynamic in the early 1980′s. Just before that I’d spent a year in a Gurdjieff Work group led by someone who had studied under John Bennett (one of G’s main disciples). The ‘Work’ consisted […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, Osho and the Beedi Baba, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 11 months ago
Part V of my recent book ‘Rude Awakening’ contains capsule bios of seven sages, one of whom is Nisargadatta. I recently posted this section of the book to my website (scroll down past the section on Ramana, for […]
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