06-28-2007, 06:18 AM
One my interests is religious masters. Osho is one of them. Osho was born in India, became a philosophy professor, started an ashram, created a lot of publicity and died in 1990.
http://www.osho.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh
He talked and other people recorded that and created books from that. Without writing books himself he was able to publish 600 books.
Separate from the facts above, the rest of this post is my personal view.
I believe Osho was a very intelligent human being. He loved to talk. He read an incredible number of books and had an interest in philosophy, psychology and religion. He attracted people. He also deliberately chased people away by telling lies and stimulating false rumours.
I like to read his books. I'm not in a cult or something, I live rather isolated. Osho loves to talk, to tell stories. I love to read them.
He has great people skills and a big sense of humour. He has a vision about the future of this beautiful planet. I think he is a gifted. I think he is an enneagram type 5. I think he is very healthy. I think he has aspie traits, such as a special interest and not liking small talk.
As an example why I like what he tells: he said something like "when you take the heart out of a body and replace it by a mechanical heart the person will not be able to love anymore". Now this is 3 things: first it is a lie. Secondly it is a joke because there will be people who really believe what they hear. Thirdly there is something we can learn from it: you start asking yourself where the source of love is (not in the physical heart).
So his books are a mixture of lies, jokes, lessons and gossip. It's a kind of puzzle. Having read a lot of his books I am able to see the hidden jokes more. For example he says "you will not understand this because you are not so far yet". The truth is he didn't understand the subject himself completely, that's why his statements that day were nonsense, confusing, not understandable. But most people will really believe him that they don't understand because they are not far enough yet. I can laugh about that, and I think he must have smiled inside that people are so gullible.
About Ellen's question in another thread: you cannot be trained in Osho, Osho is a person. The commune in Pune (I haven't been there) gives many courses but they don't train psychics. About psychics: Osho (and me) will not believe in what they do and say. Osho fought against belief. When the church says that there is a God, people believe it. As I understand from Osho: don't believe anything, be scientific. And experience yourselves.
If anybody has a question or opinion about Osho, also the negative ones, I would love to comment on it.
http://www.osho.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh
He talked and other people recorded that and created books from that. Without writing books himself he was able to publish 600 books.
Separate from the facts above, the rest of this post is my personal view.
I believe Osho was a very intelligent human being. He loved to talk. He read an incredible number of books and had an interest in philosophy, psychology and religion. He attracted people. He also deliberately chased people away by telling lies and stimulating false rumours.
I like to read his books. I'm not in a cult or something, I live rather isolated. Osho loves to talk, to tell stories. I love to read them.
He has great people skills and a big sense of humour. He has a vision about the future of this beautiful planet. I think he is a gifted. I think he is an enneagram type 5. I think he is very healthy. I think he has aspie traits, such as a special interest and not liking small talk.
As an example why I like what he tells: he said something like "when you take the heart out of a body and replace it by a mechanical heart the person will not be able to love anymore". Now this is 3 things: first it is a lie. Secondly it is a joke because there will be people who really believe what they hear. Thirdly there is something we can learn from it: you start asking yourself where the source of love is (not in the physical heart).
So his books are a mixture of lies, jokes, lessons and gossip. It's a kind of puzzle. Having read a lot of his books I am able to see the hidden jokes more. For example he says "you will not understand this because you are not so far yet". The truth is he didn't understand the subject himself completely, that's why his statements that day were nonsense, confusing, not understandable. But most people will really believe him that they don't understand because they are not far enough yet. I can laugh about that, and I think he must have smiled inside that people are so gullible.
About Ellen's question in another thread: you cannot be trained in Osho, Osho is a person. The commune in Pune (I haven't been there) gives many courses but they don't train psychics. About psychics: Osho (and me) will not believe in what they do and say. Osho fought against belief. When the church says that there is a God, people believe it. As I understand from Osho: don't believe anything, be scientific. And experience yourselves.
If anybody has a question or opinion about Osho, also the negative ones, I would love to comment on it.