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It’s perhaps not such a mystery, Shantam. These names (and the malas and orange) were part of Osho’s effort to cut through our conditioning, a way to help disassociate our minds from their old identities, to make […]

Here’s something for you to ponder upon, Shantam. I recommend 5 or 6 minutes beginning at 24 mins. especially from around 25 mins.40 secs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igpaMvjqgEo

“Probably, Osho’s religion turned out to be paradox of his real vision.”

What exactly do you mean by this, Kavita?

Wake up in the back row, Satchit! Have you already forgotten my lesson of last night, 11.42pm, you ungrateful little boy? Write it out, 50 times immediately! And no milk for you this morning!

What you don’t appear to realise yet, Shantam, is that your habitual, overwhelmingly negative mind-set on display here and elsewhere is itself a form of profound self-punishment, however much you like to pretend […]

Shantam, many years of persistent moaning and complaining, playing the ‘hard done by victim’ card over and over again has qualified you for a “long overdue” statement of gratitude in order to create, hopefully, a […]

“My heart was calmed when I saw the photos of westerners around Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. If there were only Indians around the master, as it is now, I would not have gone at all to that Jaina preacher! For […]

Ok, Shanti.

It’s just that I’ve known a number of people who, when mentioning BL’s sex teachings, put on a ‘knowing’ look while passing a sceptical comment or two hinting at how they’re far too worldly and wise […]

I think you’ve misunderstood what BL has said, Shanti. “There is nothing like man worshipping at the entrance to woman…” suggests it’s a very special, very significant practice, at that point nothing to do with […]

Good one, Shanti!

Well, he wasn’t a hypocrite about the four women who, btw, he was with for a few months when in his late 60s, I think. All was in the open, not hidden.

His teachings on sex, in live talks and […]

“Thankfulness and gratitude does not mean one stops looking at the negative side of human nature.”

But where is this “thankfulness and gratitude” from you, Shantam? You express none of it here, you just complain […]

Didn’t you ever hear Osho saying it was “a risk” to be with him, Shantam?

Which surely included that you might not get what you want?

But what exactly did you want, I wonder? The question of how truly authentic […]

Shantam, you focus on externals – the movement, creating a commune, admin flaws of hierarchy and of Osho.

You appear to place no value on self-enquiry, which is surely what Sannyas is about?

No wonder you […]

Thanks, Shantam (although what BL has to do with this, apart from your gratuitous attempt to put me down, defeats me).

But what does it actually matter to you whether there’s a “multinational empire” or not? Can […]

Shantam, why does it matter to you whether or not Osho becomes an inspiration for yet another ‘religious empire’?

Was that what he wanted, or is that what you imagined was on the agenda, what you’d have […]