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Use a bit of common sense, perhaps, Frank, and substitute ‘simply’ or ‘sheer’ for “pure”, as in ‘simply emotion’, or ‘sheer emotion’. Might be more useful than trying to attach a convenient label – “puritan” – to […]

Perhaps a major problem of human beings is that they insist on viewing their destructive emotions as valuable, important – as essential components of their self-created ‘identity’, in fact.

Why do you imagine the […]

Well, I’m not contesting the existence of emotions, Frank!! Why, I even recall ‘having a few’ myself – before I ‘saw the Light’, of course…But even you, surely, would find it difficult to deny that some are […]

On first reading, I felt a bit uncomfortable, reminded of Ma Yoga Sudha’s introduction to the first edition of Osho’s ‘The Mustard Seed’, where she mentioned how she grew up with the crippling concept of God as a […]

Disgust and dissmell then are initially and essentially instinctive reactions of the organism then, Frank, part of our survival mechanism, rather than ‘pure’ emotions.

Agreed, interest is an ‘interesting’ one….

You’re dead right, Roman, my memory tricked me re your Shakespeare on jealousy remark. How strange – I was convinced I’d got it right! Just shows, eh, how unreliable is memory – and how we recall as we’d like it […]

Cheers, Roman.

No, Shantam,I’m simply stating what I take to be obvious. It suits you to think and broadcast that I “feel great” about it. In fact, I’m not really bothered, either way.

Ultimately, as I understand it, human reality is of the senses, with “nothing arising” – no inner conflict, no neurosis, just a vast inner space…But that simple description hardly does it justice, I […]

Roman, I’m not denying the place and value of the creative imagination, I’m not that stupid. In fact, literature was my main subject from age 16, I first enjoyed Lawrence as a teenager and Shakespeare was very […]

Because they’re pretty well all – except joy? – in a way ‘automatic’, unconscious, ‘robotic’ reactions, Frank. We might like to think otherwise, because that’s what we tend to identify our ‘selves’ with.

Put it […]

I guess the answer’s in your second-last paragraph, Shantam, ie they’re simply trying to prevent people succumbing to sentimentality.

Sounds as if Osho was making a distinction there between feeling (sensitivity) and emotion (sentimentality).

The one being a pure phenomenon, grounded in the depth of the present, the other being of the past, […]

If that were the case, Roman, there would probably be vast numbers of ‘enlightened’ people in the world.

In the world of the human psyche, that aspect of reality, it has its place, sure. Useful tool too, […]

Perhaps you should re-read my post, Roman? I made it clear, didn’t I, ‘different strokes…’ etc?

For one thing, BL was a real man, addressing real issues for the people of his time – us. Not a product of […]

Well, Roman, I was struck by an absurdity I preceived, I guess…Broadly akin to a ‘Private Eye’ spoof article ending in something like; ‘EJ Thribb is 75′….

Ok, ‘whatever turns you on’, or ‘whatever works for […]

How about writing an article on Jimmy Savile for SN then, Frank – you do appear to be extremely interested in the man? Chance to ‘get it all out’, as it were….

The Lawyers’ll be after you shortly, mark my words, sir!

(Not sure re the Taliban, but if I were you I’d think about hiring a bodyguard, mate….)

Agreed, Lokesh, an extraordinary work (from his ‘Gnostic Period’, y’know).

“She has since turned to worshipping female deities.”

Wonder why I found myself bursting into laughter reading that last sentence…?!