This website is established since 10+ years or so. Is it possible to share how you got to this website? Since it’s not a widely known website outside of its sannyas circle.

It’s always interesting/helpful to know a little background of contributors.

I think that if somebody watches the show with an open mind and heart, that there will be more to be gained than lost by you and your organization.

He’s come away with similar statements before. A very negative view for sure. It also happens to be almost completely untrue. In my extended community of friends, sannyasins are known as people who know how to get their shit together. There are one or two living in the hills who are unconcerned with material things. Their lives are not always easy. Within a few kilometres of where I live are two of the most successful restaurants on Ibiza. They make yearly profits that probably run into the millions. Both of those places are sannyasin-owned and run. One place in particular is run by a lovely matriach who learned her trade around Osho in the kitchens.

Shantam does not seem to have learned basic sannyasin understanding like projecting. He constantly projects his inner world onto the outer. The other day I spent an interesting afternoon with a wandering shaman. Amongst other things, he demonstrated how our subconscious creates our personal reality and how important it is to direct our intention in the direction we wish to progress. If we do not intend our life to be a blessing it won’t be. Personal responsibility, one might say.

This is where Shantam is going majorly wrong. He constantly blames the outside for the way he is, instead of the other way round. Shifting blame is something that is particular to humans. It also makes a man weak. By blaming others for how one feels you are giving away your power to those others.

Osho wanted his sannyasins to play the game of life to the max and take an active role in the world at large. He was against social spongers and parasites. Zorba the Buddha was the message: There is nothing wrong in enjoying what the world has to offer. Just don’t make the mistake of being identified with it. About sums it up.

Only losers win at this game is all very well but show me a good loser and I’ll show you a good loser.

I agree with that.

I am not in a permanent state of trust about everybody, but I would say I am closer to trusting life in general these days, so I can trust taking a pop at you one minute, but now responding to this most recent post sincerely and honestly is comfortable. I trust my inconsistency if you will.

I have come to trust my own perceptions and discerning ability, and don’t expect of myself that I need to act out some copycat idea of what Osho is.

I trust how I live my life and behave. Trust my trust in Osho.

I withdraw the remark about trust and you, and apologise.

I see you as something of a ‘bighead’, and rather set in your ways, but I don’t see you as a bad man. Not even vaguely.

I’ll buy you a beverage of your choice if we ever come across one another.

I never knew that.

Trust is an interesting topic. You either trust or you do not. I don’t think trust has to do with someone external, as in I trust him, her etc. Trust is an entirely subjective quality. Trusting ‘in’ something or someone is beside the point.

I think Osho wanted people to develop trust in themselves. If I say such and such is a very trusting person I mean it as a compliment. It takes courage and the willingness to being open and, erm…trust.

Well, Shantam, your first sentence here is yet another unsubstantiated claim (which no doubt you choose to believe in order to console yourself for your own situation).

And as for saying you’re “feeling contented”, how come the vast majority of your posts are saturated with repetitious, obsessive rage at people you perceive as enemies who’ve ruined your life? Not to mention the half-truths and fabrications you employ to justify such vitriol?

“Contented”, eh? That sounds more like the Prozac talking than a genuine existential well-being.

You’re such a liar to yourself, Shantam. And as such, it would appear you’ve simply wasted much of your time in all those years at the ashram (notice I’m saying “much”, not “all”).

Later on, I’ll tell you something Veena wrote about the end of Poona 2, which puts your own chronically negative attitude into perspective.

As a film, he himself thought it was weak, as it simply gave two convicted criminals a free range, and did not ask them any difficult questions. But he agrees this may have been all fixed beforehand, and of course, we don’t know yet how much she and others were paid for their long interviews.