Comments on: Resistance and the Disciple

By: alokjohn

alokjohn — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:36:08 +0000

Young sannyasin said : “when before even the last idiot manage to find a job and make a decent life,well……”
I am in England and I think you would have to go back to the 60s for this to be true, largely because many women were not in the labour market. Since the early 70s there has been moderate to high unemployment. Many clever vulnerable people, including me, never had careers. Most old sannyasins I know do not own property, and have had variegated careers to say the least.

By: Young sannyasin

Young sannyasin — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:15:19 +0000

Of course the real origin of every problem in the world is,at the end,a lack of awarness and understanding.
But i agree with alok john:how many people where singing peace and love during the 60/70′s? And how many of them later vote for Reagan and the Bush family? More than one,apparently.
Anyway like a friend of mine say:” to take the right decisions in life you need experience.Problem is,to make experience you need to take the wrong decisions”.
But when i think how many talented people of my generation spend the best years of their life on studing at university,just to find out they will never manage to buy an house,when before even the last idiot manage to find a job and make a decent life,well……

By: Arpana

Arpana — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:42:41 +0000

Least bad of available options.

By: alokjohn

alokjohn — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:36:30 +0000

Well I am sympathetic to the general thrust of the article, though I do not necessarily agree with every word. I agree with Paxman’s description that most of us are selfish, self-absorbed and solipsistic. As to modern politicians, well the baby boomers did vote for them.

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:37:00 +0000

Paxman’s article might appear ‘reasonable’, esp to those with an adolescentish ‘I hate the older generation’-type axe to grind, among whom you, young sannyasin, have often appeared to stand. But really, it’s pointless looking for any particular “generation” to blame for the world’s ills, the sources of it all go back a very long way, right to the roots of our individual and collective malaise. One might even cite western intellectual materialism itself, in which we’ve all been immersed since birth, as a fundamental cause.

While I’d never undervalue the brave contribution of the people who endured world war 2 – on both sides – the truth is that on the whole they, due to what had gone before, were deficient in and apparently blind to many aspects of humanity, ie were psycho-sexually repressed (not to mention a certain, er, shall we say, deficiency in love) – which it was the fate – karma, if you wish – of the post-war people (eg sannyasins!) to bring to the surface and attempt to resolve. Not such an easy task and no wonder we’re currently in such an unholy mess!

Moreover, young sannyasin, what were and are the real, underlying, bottom-line causes of war? If you really look deep into this, you might find something far more real than the allegedly cataclysmic errors of the ‘baby boomers’ to be angry about.

By: Arpana

Arpana — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 06:26:59 +0000

We spend our lives dealing with the consequences of our own past actions, inactions, the past actions and inactions of others. Not something that’s only happened because of baby boomers.

By: dharmen

dharmen — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 02:22:28 +0000

The comments that follow Paxman’s article bring some perspective to it.
There’s a line in a Grateful Dead song, ‘When life looks like easy street there is danger at your door’. Things are cyclic, good follows bad and bad follows good. Meanwhile, if you want to blame someone, blame the modern politicians for letting the potential for a better planet slip away with their short-sighted and minority-serving policies. Not that blaming anyone will get you anywhere, better to read a few Osho books where you’ll find some pointers to transcending the whole shebang.

By: Young sannyasin

Young sannyasin — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:18:48 +0000

ecxellent article.The generation who’d brings the biggest amount of mess and distruction and pain to the world in the whole history,and give the bill to pay to their childrens.I’m thinking on how my generation and the ones who follow will ever find a way to make them pay……….haven’t found a decent solution yet.
Actually we haven’t find a way to kick them out of the chair even.

By: Young sannyasin

Young sannyasin — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:47:40 +0000

probably true;exactly like the 90% of what you write,dear Lokesh.Did you notice how much repetitive you are,on enforcing the concept”Lokesh is an independent seeker and doesn’t need any stupid dependence from any master,especially osho,and by the way he is also a good swimmer and enjoy an happy life in Ibiza even at an old age”?

By: Arpana

Arpana — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:12:17 +0000

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A Dylan Song though.