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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, Osho and Three Individuals, Lokesh tells the story, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
Mind Bomb is an excellent premise (being original is always key, which it is), and sounds like good material for a movie-script, although that industry is struggling like everything else of late. (I was contacted […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, Osho and Three Individuals, Lokesh tells the story, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
Lokesh, that seems like good stuff for a book, well written and with original material.
There’s a good scene in a Ridley Scott movie, ’1492′, where Christopher Columbus is being criticized by a local Spanish […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, The Twenty One, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
Someone did a study on this back in the late ’80s. The sannyasin gender balance ran something like 52% female, 48% male. The ’3 to 1′ ratio is exaggerated nonsense, like the ’1 or 2 million sannyasins’. (Was […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, The Twenty One, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
Male and female disciples both screw up in different ways. Males by competitiveness, seeking to prematurely equalize with the guru (establishing their manhood before Dad), or the ‘Judas’ complex (selling out); and […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, The Twenty One, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
Lokesh, we can form our own circle of 21. Frank can be the leader. Shantam can be secretary to Frank.
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, The Twenty One, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
Disperse does not mean ‘die’, or any such nonsense. Disperse means scatter, spread, diffuse, dissolve, etc. Many times Osho said, ‘I will be dissolved into existence’. His teachings must disperse — dissolve — in […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, The Twenty One, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
Shantam, Bukowski basically stole those words from W.B. Yeats. His were more poetic:
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, The Twenty One, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
Very good post by Lokesh. One interesting pattern that often unfolds with the death of an influential mystic is that the high profile successors (circle of 21, de Salzmann’s Gurdjieff Foundation, etc.) are […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, End of Maitreya, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
Ananto — If someone proclaiming themselves a ‘bodhisattva’ disconfirms for you that they are in fact that, does that also apply to enlightenment for you? In other words, if a mystic proclaims their enlightenment, […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, End of Maitreya, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
I took special interest in this last paragraph quoted by Parmartha above:
“On 23 June 1997 in Delhi there was a more subtle and exquisite miracle as the crown chakra, the thousand-petalled lotus, opened […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, End of an Era/Leaving Pune, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
Re Sarlo, he even has me on his page of Osho’s ‘self-declared enlightened heirs’ (the second group below the first) — this despite the fact that I repeatedly denied anything like ‘enlightenment’, much less being […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, End of an Era/Leaving Pune, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
Shantam, it is everyone’s inevitable destiny to become a ‘guru’ of sorts — that is, we all have a contribution to make to the evolution of the human race, in whatever fashion. It’s just a question of gathering […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, End of an Era/Leaving Pune, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 9 months ago
I was surprised to find this video of Andrew in dialogue with Shantam, Arpana, and Frank:
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, Jayananda, Sheela’s ex-husband gives more detail of his experience, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 10 months ago
I remember Ava from the Ranch. Oddly, my memory of her is from a time when I was having a heated argument with Patipada. This was July of ’84, just after the summer festival. (I had done something rebellious, and […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, End of an Era/Leaving Pune, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 10 months ago
Ananto — yes, Osho’s books certainly continue to sell well. ‘Ebbing flame’ was meant rhetorically, as in ‘receding in time’. Probably not the best metaphor. I think Osho has been marketed quite well and his […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, End of an Era/Leaving Pune, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 10 months ago
Frank, I think Cohen is noteworthy if only because he’s not the typical ‘placid’ guru who smiles beatifically and never has an ill word to say about anything. He pushes buttons and has offended many, which puts […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, End of an Era/Leaving Pune, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 10 months ago
Lokesh, do you recall how you first heard of Poonja? I’m curious about this because I’ve been led to believe over the years that Cohen was the main source of Poonja’s publicity, i.e. without Cohen it’s […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, End of an Era/Leaving Pune, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 10 months ago
Shantam, you can see my ‘potato’ head here:
As for the rest, I was a martial artist, Gurdjieff student, and practitioner of Zen Buddhism before I’d heard of Osho (I took sannyas […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, End of an Era/Leaving Pune, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 10 months ago
The whole purpose of a spiritual sanctuary, like the current Osho ‘resort’, ultimately needs to be questioned. As the flame of the master ebbs, now past 22 years since he departed, it becomes increasingly clear […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, Osho and the Organising Woman, on the site sannyasnews 11 years, 10 months ago
That’s an interesting question in itself. The common view has been that Osho was rather ‘feminized’, that is, he had a profound grasp of relationship, was body-oriented, had a marked aesthetic nature, installed […]
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