Comments on: Osho’s “A Cup of Tea” / Letter 54

By: r p macmurphy

r p macmurphy — Sun, 29 May 2011 23:51:19 +0000

there was an old man called bhagwan
who had a cup of tea with genghis khan
he said:”being a buddha is just too easy,
i need to try something less cheesy,
so i`ll spin `em a bloody good yarn….”

By: Hafiz

Hafiz — Sun, 29 May 2011 11:35:16 +0000

Thanks for this, Parmartha.

So we were warned! – “the anguish of such experience” – he is after all embarked on a passion play, inviting us to participate in the drama.
Here is no room for ‘betrayal’.
“nectar and poison, both are mine”… hmm.

By: Swami Prem Arpana

Swami Prem Arpana — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:57:08 +0000

Analyzing an Osho statement!!
You’ve turned the letter into a koan.

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Wed, 25 May 2011 12:16:40 +0000

Yes, I was admiring a bentley coupe just the other evening and I thought to myself, by golly, I’d love one of those…all the Stones have em so they have to be good.

By: robin c. crusoe

robin c. crusoe — Tue, 24 May 2011 03:24:31 +0000

mr shantam cares more about others’ mental condition than his own… Delusions of grandeur, maybe? Is he looking to start his own “Buddha- Field” and wants advice, perhaps hire some of the old-timers who used to live at the ranch. Osho did what he did caused he wanted to or thought he had to for whatever reason. Personally, I would have bought Bentley’s not Rolls. Diamond crusted watches, they’re common stones, how about rubies, sapphires, and emeralds- nice and colorful too.

By: r p macmurphy

r p macmurphy — Mon, 23 May 2011 20:44:47 +0000

darkness and light
white and black
god and the devil
genghis khan and buddha
tamurlaine and laotsu
psychosis and enlightenment
shantam and lokesh
the oaf and the genius
just polarities…
they are all within all of us….

om muddy puddly hum….

they are all polarities

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Mon, 23 May 2011 20:31:49 +0000

Macmurphy, that made me laugh. The vegetarian thing is more a question of aesthetics. Ever tried looking in a butcher shop window while under the influence of LSD. Scary!

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:47:17 +0000

Shantam, you already posted more or less the same statement on the forum. Why don’t you examine your own psychology instead of someone elses? That way you might realize that what you are saying is basically a projection of yourself and quite uninteresting to boot. Of course, you have to chuck in a vague metaphor as a conclussion but what it is actually alluding to is anyone’s guess.
So here is an opening for you, Shantam, a chance to enter a dialogue instead of a diatribe. What does, ‘Seems like foot soldiers don’t get the second chance!, actually mean?

By: r p macmurphy

r p macmurphy — Mon, 23 May 2011 13:46:36 +0000

the enlightened guy from his lofty perspective may be witness to the creation of good and evil both,as lokesh suggests…
but he still goes one way rather than the other..
i never saw osho disembowelling people with his bare hands like old genghis,for example..
but he acted more like laotsu and buddha,for sure..
and why bother with vegetarianism?
if you are beyond it all,a few burgers can be good,the abbatoir is after all,just an illusion,a cosmic play like in the gita…

what i mean to say is,you dont have to be enlightened to see that polarities are just that..
poles…of the same thing…
you can have a higher aesthetic of eating veg cos meatheads exist.
you have good because evil exists
we can be conscious,but dont forget the unconscious guys without whom it would all be impossible…
i can be a lotus because the mud exists..

really,it is all co-existent…..

and i doubt it all has much to do with the shenanigans on the ranch.
genghis khan was more for beheading whole populations and shoving their heads on stakes..
salmonella in a salad bar and poisoned pens up the ass?
genghis, adolf, tamurlaine would not have been impressed….

By: shantam

shantam — Mon, 23 May 2011 08:06:50 +0000

The discussion will be more meaningful if we go into the psychology of people who are obsessively fascinated by the rajneeshpuram phase. For example, Parmarha can share how much disillusionment he felt after the debacle, how it changed the course of his life etc.
As i have seen during Pune days, not many people from ranch phase had enough energy and financial resources on their disposal to invest again at the new bigining. Seems like foot soldiers don’t get the second chance!