Comments on: The Twenty One

By: ananto

ananto — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:22:20 +0000

Logic is bollocks
[Bertrand Russel]
Bollocks!
[Wittgenstein]
God is Dead.
[Nietzsche]
Nietzsche is dead.
[God]

By: frank

frank — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:00:30 +0000

Women tend to shy away from fights?
Man,that is so last century…
You should get down to any busy town or city in the UK on a friday/saturday night…
Those girls are worse than the boys.
They`ll `mash you right up before you have a chance to say “gender psychology”….

By: Teertha

Teertha — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 22:06:48 +0000

Someone did a study on this back in the late ’80s. The sannyasin gender balance ran something like 52% female, 48% male. The ’3 to 1′ ratio is exaggerated nonsense, like the ’1 or 2 million sannyasins’. (Was probably never more than 50,000).

As for why this message board attracts few females, that’s no secret. This board is contentious, edgy, even without the infamous JCPenny. Women seek harmony through fusion (group hug), men seek to define differences through competition (think rams butting horns). Huge generalization, of course, but explains why women tend to shy away from bar fights — unless of course you’re women around Charles Bukowski:

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By: Teertha

Teertha — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:58:50 +0000

Male and female disciples both screw up in different ways. Males by competitiveness, seeking to prematurely equalize with the guru (establishing their manhood before Dad), or the ‘Judas’ complex (selling out); and females by getting too identified with emotional issues and confusing boundaries (Sheela’s weird obsession with the Lao Tzu residents being a classic example, Vivek’s death due to hormonal imbalance/depression being another).

The role of female disciples throughout history has been lower profile and less visible, but doubtless full of as much mischief as the more obvious male ego-activities. What made Osho more unique was his insistence in making his female disciples visible, higher profile. Accordingly, their screw-ups became more visible as well.

By: shantam prem

shantam prem — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:01:43 +0000

For many men, to bow their head before Osho was like a need-based act, almost like someone takes trousers off before the urologist, surely it hurts self-worth. Therefore it was just a question of time that surrendered ego will surface back with vengeance.
Now, most of such gentlemen in their 60′s and above are the ones who talk loudly for self-reliablity. They speak the same language, they felt repelled in their early years.

By: lokesh

lokesh — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:23:27 +0000

Whatever gave you the idea that I believed I was?

By: lokesh

lokesh — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 14:38:22 +0000

Don’t worry, Shantam, the likelihood of you having any disciples, male or female, is extremely slim.

By: ananto

ananto — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:42:00 +0000

According to the man himself three times as many women as men took Bhagwan/ Osho sannyas, but I reckon most of us posting on here are chaps.
Wonder what the M/F sannyasin ratio is these days.
Resort attracts lots of life-laundrying-ladies for sure, but teacher/therapists working there possibly a different gender balance per capita with perhaps more chaps doing that job than women. Maybe out amongst the independent causes more men than women sign up these days.
Anybody know?

By: Arpana

Arpana — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:31:49 +0000

It’s quite easy to reason logically and still be wrong.

By: ananto

ananto — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 11:13:14 +0000

Yes, it was grim.
We might have been poor but, by gosh, we were miserable.