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You could say she didn’t protest and so there was ‘consent’ but I think it was a special situation. Osho talked many times about the master-disciple relationship, and that she was involved in that way […]

@satchit who wrote “why are you interested in that?”

Who wouldn’t be interested in deeply knowing their own nature and the truth about their reality?

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Every teacher seems to have his own favourite phrasing. I like Ramana’s self-realisation. Or Adyashanti’s shift in perspective.

But if the door to the madhouse is wide open, do you choose to walk in, […]

@Satchit.
Sounds like you and your parrot have been getting mullered!

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Let`s try to get to the bottom of this.

So, you are slumped on the sofa with a half-empty bottle of Asperger Pils watching an old VHS of Gerd Muller`s greatest goals.

You become aware of the […]

@satchit who wrote, “it was a beautiful and dramatic failure.”

And even then, except for ‘Wild Wild Country’ it might still have been forgotten. It has a certain air of wild conflict, something almost […]

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For sure, the Wagner piece from ‘Apocalypse Now’ is appropriate!

Colonel Sheela Kurtz, model officer gone bad deep in the twisted jungles of the mind, presiding over her brutal, despotic kingdom in […]

@satchit said/ wrote:
16 May, 2022 at 3:32 pm (I to IV)

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“Also a religionless religion needs a good story to be remembered, SD.”

A religionsless religion does not need a good story to be remembered, […]

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I feel it pays one to choose gurus carefully. Much as I like my old dad, he is not really guru material. I’m pretty sure he’d agree, too. He found it difficult enough being a school teacher.

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That’s a terrifying thought that my father might be enlightened. He has been a sannyasin for a long time, but he still watches ‘Ancient Aliens’ on tv.

@Satchit,
I was more asking for a personal account rather than some second-hand abstract philosophising that can be found and parroted from any newage book.

@Satchit,
Could you describe a moment when you felt the master`s love for you?

@Satchit,
Actually, the details of the tenets are not really relevant to the point I`m making, which is essentially that the purported unconditional love in the spiritual group, particularly that of the guru, is […]

@satchit, who wrote “the good auld days…”

Very nice to see Osho with a dark beard, it looks like footage from a meditation camp perhaps? Shame the speech is all dubbed in Italian, but still a good find!

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How would you expect this communication with an inner guru to happen? It might be a bit much to expect fully-formed visions to appear in your mind’s eye….

@satchit who wrote:
“I think one arrives somewhere ‘home’ when the inner guru is developed. In the connection with the outer guru this may happen.”

My uncle, a fun and wise man who died of cancer last year, was […]

@satchit 7.43 pm

At least, Swamishanti seems to have had ‘spiritual experiences’ as described by Barry Long in the book mentioned in the thread.

Transient as those may be: impermanent – impermanent.

Imo, these […]

@Satchit who wrote:

“I doubt that there is so much difference between ‘consciously’ and ‘unconsciously’.”

That’s a dismissal of Osho’s teachings, who, as I understand it, is working to move his people beyond […]

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I am still, albeit much more subtle than at one time, about relationships.

I am a long way from full transcendence of relationship.

@satchit 15 April, 2022 at 9:33 am

To connect to Osho is to move away from a life of imitation, although I guess imitation goes on at the start, which is sannyas conditioning, into a trial and error life, a life […]