Beyond Psychology ~ 27

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event type discourse
date & time 25 Apr 1986 pm
location Punta Del Este, Montevideo, Uruguay
language English
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shorttitle PSYCHO27
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Reader of the questions: Ma Prem Maneesha.
Question 1 from Premda
Beloved Osho, often joyously I hear you saying contradictory things, and emphasizing that everything just has its polar opposite to be complete.
But the other morning I got into trouble when you were talking about offering your friendship to your sannyasins.
I understood that some of them have taken this long-wanted opportunity for their self-aggrandizement, and haven't been aware of the fact that they were basically resentful and angry towards you at being mere disciples.
My understanding was totally different, when you were telling us in Kulu and Kathmandu that as far as you were concerned, you didn't have any disciples anymore, and now it was up to us to drop discipleship.
To me your offer of friendship was just overwhelming, and I felt more reverence and love towards you than ever before, and very very grateful. I felt a very delicate, sensitive and precious kind of intimacy starting to grow between me and you, as my master.
Now you say that all this was just a device to get rid of egoists, and that they enjoyed this offer of yours. I don't understand anymore. Did I get it all wrong? Where am I hooked?
Question 2
Beloved Osho, hearing about the sannyasin therapists who are choosing to do their own thing, reminds me that once I also decided to do my own thing rather than be with you.
When I did come back, I judged myself, and felt judged by others -- ironically, some of whom are among those of whom you have recently spoken.
Because I can alternately view my experience as a going astray or as a constructive learning, I am very cautious about judging others who would appear to have gone off track. Surely only an enlightened seer is in a position to indicate where we are.
My question is: What is it to miss? Is it something other than, through our sleepiness, choosing to take a longer, more devious route to that place which we must some day reach... That place which, in fact, you say we have never left?
Are we all missing every moment of every day until we are enlightened?
Question 3
Beloved Osho, in the Hindi incarnations of god there are a woman and a man together -- like Vishnu and Laxmi, Shankar and Parvati, Krishna and Radha, Rama and Sita, etc. On the other hand, there are other religions like Jainism, Buddhism, Taoism, Mohammedanism, Christianity, et cetera, which have no place for women.
Please comment.
Question 4
Beloved Osho, during the time with you in Oregon, I sometimes felt that leaving was an escape, a mistake -- like removing the kettle from the fire just before the water boiled. Now look at us: We've all had to leave, and you are continents away. Yet this time seems even richer -- a time when you are offering something vital, not to be missed... Perhaps the chance to be "at home" everywhere. How to summon you, and how to slip quietly into our hearts as we drive cabs and bulldozers in the "outside world?"


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