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I watched the video of his interview with Osho, it was interesting to see both the younger Vishrant and how he interacted with Osho. It’s on Vishrants YouTube channel.

But props to him to actually have a YouTube […]

Swamishanti said; “coming back to the topic, here’s a freshly discovered meeting and exchange between two masters who could be said to be of Osho’s lineage, his bodyguard Vasant Swaha and Vishrant.”

Interesting, […]

They’re more a kind of suggestions, but yes, there are five precepts which are given to all Buddhists. But then, I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I still enjoy a hefeweize half-litre once in a while…

I agree, SD, that metaphor was out of all proportion, as if Veet actually spends time trying to make up offensive make-believe situations… I mean why would you bother?

A Tibetan Buddhist temple here in the Netherlands is as close as I’ve been to a Zen monastery,` Satchit. I enjoyed the experience and received an initiation from the Dagpo Rinpoche, it was nice. The garden was beautiful.

Due to a change in circumstances my morning routine has altered somewhat, and I have taken to spending my morning hours in a re-reading of Nisargadatta Maharaj’s book ‘I Am That’. Now on my first reading years ago […]

I think marijuana and LSD are a threat to the status quo, but the status quo deserves to be threatened. The world is currently drowning in a sea of materialist sentiment, people worrying about jobs and houses and […]

The whole LGBT movement and openness about diverse genders seems to have a lot of buy in from the younger generation, it’s quite interesting how things are changing. Sometimes you see a teenager dressed in […]

Hmm, well, I’m all in favour of tolerance, kindness, fellow feeling. It’s too easy as life carries you towards old age to become embittered and suffer many egoic reactions. Every once in a while the ego should be […]

Hitler once wrote that any statement repeated often enough took on the appearance of truth. That is how cliches form, and it is a good thing to examine them again and again to see if they are still true.

It seems that rituals involving psychoactive mushrooms go back 6,000 years at least according to cave paintings in the Moroccan Atlas mountain range. It seems very likely to me that these kinds of experiences are […]

Quite right, Swamishanti. Did you know that in many parts of America marihuana is a schedule 1 substance? You can actually go to jail for a long time, many years, for holding a bag for your own use. While it’s […]

I was watching Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia (a television series about a variety of psychoactive compounds, their uses and chemistry) about the Peyote cactus, and how it is used in the Native American Church. It’s a […]

It’s very much sannyas-cliche, but is it actually true? It could be a diversion into an incorrect path,

Fair enough, SD. It’s pretty much an argument about semantics in any case.

In fact all medicines are also drugs, and most people use some form of medicine. My father uses beta blokkers for his heart, I have a friend who uses lithium as a mood stabiliser…very few people are clean of […]

You can bring a sense of play to anything, but that doesn’t make it creative, Herr Satchit.

The hospice in town here has closed temporarily, so it doesn’t look like I’ll be volunteering there anytime soon.

Perhaps you can be a little creative in caring, if you choose to. You can interact with people in different ways, you can choose to play with them a little.

But it’s not the same as following a creative […]

Yesterday I met up with a sannyasin friend who had been a psychiatric nurse and had worked in hospices with the dying. He’s now in his sixties, and it was interesting listening to some of his stories. I’ve myself […]

Some of those statements were great. “Be prepared, plan for a miracle” was one of my favourites too. It seemed to somehow embody the essence of sannyas, of not doing the ‘mortgage, home, family, pets’ thing but […]