Comments on: Osho: The First Buddha in the Dental Chair

By: Bhikkhu

Bhikkhu — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:56:04 +0000

ok guys, the book has 276 pages and it will be available from middle of May
in the US and two weeks or so later from Munich Germany. We are also planning to make it available as an ebook on kindle (Amazon), Apple ebook and nook (Barnes&Noble). Devageet also finishes right now the more detailed second book ‘Osho Messiah of Love, Life and Laughter’, which we will release in 2014 sometimes. Not sure why it took so long for him to find a publisher, but we were not thinking about publishing books, we are happy with the music (New Earth Records), but when Devageet send me the manuscripts last year, I enjoyed reading the material and thought it would be sad not to make these available. And Devageet is 75 years old, time to find a publisher. So we started a publishing company, which was something new to learn. Hope you will enjoy and find what you are looking for. Love, Bhikkhu

By: canadafollower

canadafollower — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:34:04 +0000

These are some of the scams that I experienced:
1)Getting a price quoted on the phone for a sannyasin venue way out in the country and then after spending a lot of time and gas (petrol) to get there, one is charged a lot higher price

2) sannyasin therapists who go beyond their scope of knowledge and their abilities just to keep a customer ( and therefore a steady income). This is done by fooling a trusting person about what the sannyasin therapist really knows. Often the therapist really knows nothing at all about therapy.

3)A certain clique of sannyasins (who are not really interested in people outside their clique) who organize parties and charge other sannyasins exorbitant admission prices so that the clique members can get in for free at everyone else’s expense. Often these cliques used these parties as an opportunity to cruise neophyte sannyasins for potential therapy customers.

4) Exploiting Osho celebrations such as Osho’s birthday (Dec. 11th), Enlightenment Day (Mar. 21st) to lead a meditation group where the prices were so high that it was clear that the sannyasin leader intended to make a living off of it. I do not mind sannyasins making a living off therapy but I do not think that people should make a living from these Osho celebrations. Only amounts to cover basic expenses for these events should be charged such as the room rental and other things.

I can think of many other things and I invite others to show me what other scams there were.

I myself had really good times with other sannyasins but things like this made me feel revolted. So I often had a love/hate feeling when I attended sannyasin events

By: Ashok

Ashok — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:02:20 +0000

My pleasure Parmartha! And thank you for the info that the book is exceedingly long. That provoked a hearty spontaneous chuckle out of me as it sounds like classic Devageet i.e. overlywordy, pretentious and in love with the sound of his own voice.He however, would probably claim it is poetry.

By: Parmartha

Parmartha — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:36:48 +0000

Of course, Ashok,
given what you say, it may just be a bad book! I know it to be very long! That may well be why noone ever seemed to want to publish it until now.
The guy certainly lived in Osho’s household,and saw him on a daily basis, so in the end it depends on whether you believe, as many sadly do, that the physical closeness to a Master rubs off indelibly, or not. I think not…
Thanks for your comment.

By: prem martyn

prem martyn — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:53:25 +0000

Pee and Eff,
I on the other hand support all the egalitarian intimacies necessary for combining especially youthful life into playful LIBERTARIAN mayhem. I don’t ask that you have the same Osho as me, either by imagination or symbiotic existential experience. If I don’t like things or people I avoid them, I don’t demand definitve constructed realities or unveilings. The only time this matters is if you are intending to
save the world
declare yourself a non participant of society’s norms, by what terms…
set up an intentional community
when Oshoness is a core part of the curriculum, expect everything to be in a permanent state of flux…. especially anyone who sets themselves up….including O.. and thats my credo, which is part of the grand scheme of living from my perspective of sannyas if not also osho’s proximity…..
it makes not the slightest bit of difference either way ….and i can’t spell entitlement properly…so prefer to leave it out of the pub competition….

By: frank

frank — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:35:55 +0000

parmartha,
you ask:
“can you confirm that your position is one of doubt towards self declared states of anything by anyone?”

i can certainly answer that in the affirmative,your honour.
and i would like to ask for at least 84000 similar offences to be taken into consideration….

By: Parmartha

Parmartha — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:06:15 +0000

That’s what I was driving at Frank. Can you confirm that your position is one of doubt towards self declared states of anything by anyone?
IF that is the case then you have a right to question anyone’s pronouncements of their inner states. I sometimes (but not always) have felt that you had Osho as a particular target and this was a result of some unacknowledged bitterness. In fact I have sometimes thought that 2 people write as “Frank” !!
I myself have in other places questioned the entire notion of enlightenment, partly because it creates a division between those who have “it” and those who do not. A dangerous and disempowering way for human beings to relate to each other, as has been proved throughout history.
Thinking for and being oneself is a very painful business. It doesn’t come easy. But it’s better to try to be a man or women of maturity and fail, than live a disempowered and childish life imaging someone else can give you anything. This argument is valid irrespective of whether enlightenment exists, or does not.

By: frank

frank — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:21:35 +0000

ps.
i do feel that its possible that osho was a genuine fake !

By: frank

frank — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:12:29 +0000

sannyasnews,you ask:
“do you `feel` “enlightenment” is a genuine state and some people achieve it?or that satori,samadhi,enlightenment are just figments…?”

first. is “feeling” the medium with which to find out the genuineness or otherwise?

second. i have absolutely no way of knowing.
do you?

third: is your question fundamentally different from asking “do you believe in god?”

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:11:12 +0000

How can total paranoia be total awareness?! You might as well say that total misery or total fear or total drunkenness is total awareness. Don’t you mean ‘total unconsciousness’?