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You can look all you like at his face, but it will get you not very far. Put him on a pedestal or feel a tingle looking at him. However you romanticise him, the real journey is to find your way to become your own […]

There is so much insight and reflection in your writing on Ramana. It’s a wonder to read your interpretation. So thank you, you add your own intelligence to what is sometimes a challenging read in Ramana.

He’s an […]

Much of the story has passed me by, so thanks for your recent highlighting of history.Its clearly a sad story, which has traumatised those closely affected.

That such a movement might attract those with a […]

I feel that it’s important not to defend Osho but to see him for what he was. To suggest he was distant because he didn’t want to engender vestiges of attachment on their part is not to recognise that he too was […]

As usual, well thought out writing from Lokesh.

I wholeheartedly agree with his reasoning as well as his wisdom on the saga. If the new crisis amongst sannyasins over what happened many years ago has any purpose […]

I thought this was as valuable an insight for consideration as anything out there in the so-called spiritual world

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Many thanks for your thoughtful reply, Kavita. I feel you express your insights very well into what I was trying to say. It’s a complex subject and one I was inspired to explore so thanks again for the positive feedback.

How do you know what his reasoning is? You presume, you project, you infer – that’s lazy thinking

Dangerous ground to think you know.

How do you know what his reasoning is ? You presume, you project, you infer – that’s lazy thinking.

Dangerous ground to think you know.

I’d say his use of ‘spaciousness’ also suggests that he too is afraid to use the word ‘nothingness’.

Spaciousness implies a subtle feeling which is not the same is nothing. These sort of teachers pander to the […]

Hi Satchit,
I too spent many years ignoring the word ‘Nothing’.
This was because I was afraid of it. It appeared to refer to an emptiness that I feared.

It doesn’t surprise you prefer other words like Tao or […]

Thanks, Lokesh, for your generous feedback.

I hope your talk went well. I have full confidence in your abilities and your intelligence to use the unknown mystery as your foundation.

Something to ask yourself is how AI, which is simply a computer, can ever become “intelligent”? The scientists might call a computer intelligent, only because it reflects their own minds – which they think are […]

The honesty and the vulnerability with which you describe your “grip of the mind” displays how deep is your mastery, Lokesh. No one is above the occasional grip of the mind, it’s how we learn and accept this fact […]

AI has an ability to summarise ideas in an academic sort of manner. It is, after all, simply collating information that has been otherwise collected by human beings. It has no intelligence of its own, it’s merely […]

One hundred percent incorrect, NP, the real questions of the so-called spiritual life revolve around the causes of our unhappiness, our struggle with meaning, with the profound lack of self and self-worth we all […]

The debate around older Indian gurus is pretty tiresome – they are largely dead, and their influence has waned in the West except amongst some aficionados here on the website, and those copycat western teachers […]

One of the features of many modern teachers is how their language about enlightenment just becomes more and more abstract and unintelligible. They use a vocabulary of eastern terminology, talk endlessly about […]