Sermons in Stones ~ 01
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 5 Nov 1986 pm |
| location | Sumila, Juhu, Bombay |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 59min. Quality: good. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 2h 3min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | SERMON01 |
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- synopsis
- Reader of the questions: Ma Prem Maneesha.
- Question 1
- Beloved Osho, many contemporaries and enlightened ones -- Raman Maharshi, Meher Baba, George Gurdjieff and J. Krishnamurti -- have worked with people, but people get more offended by you than by anybody else.
- Osho, where does your technique differ from that of other enlightened ones?
- Question 2
- Beloved Osho, you have mentioned in the past that the witches burned by the Christians knew, among other skills, how to hypnotize. It seems that in ancient Egypt too, hypnosis was practiced. It has even been suggested that Jesus was a skilled hypnotist.
- Was hypnosis once a respected form of healing? How did it evolve, and how did it fall into disrepute?
- Question 3
- Beloved Osho, modern scientists like Karl Pribram, David Bohm and others, have been stumbling on religion. They have been stating that our brains may be holograms, interpreting a holographic universe; that certain circuits in the brain are the trigger of consciousness without a content, that it is the analytical, the thinking part of the mind, that creates separation and fragmentation while the intuitive part experiences reality in a holistic way; that energy is a limited term needing to be replaced by a wave concept.
- They are proposing 'resonance' and 'synchroncity' as more appropriate terms.
- Beloved Osho, when you are talking about the mind do you mostly mean the thinking part -- the one which creates our belief systems and personalities?
- Is it enough to totally disidentify with the thinking, or does the mind altogether -- including the conscious and the superconscious -- need to be transcended?
- Is the universe, is existence made of mind stuff?
- Are these scientists contributing to a science of enlightenment, and can one do so without being enlightened?
- Question 4
- Beloved Osho, a constant comparison with you, with enlightenment, has made my life very difficult. Deep down, I have a nearly constant guilt feeling for not being enlightened.
- My closest friends have pointed out to me that in a way I am always comparing myself to you. Then my intelligence doesn't look so intelligent, my happiness seems shallow and false, my love a pretension, and my understanding just a joke.
- For years I have had this standpoint that I and everybody else is an idiot -- except for you and perhaps a handful of others, the blessed ones.
- Have I simply found a new way to torture myself? Is this comparison with you a strategy to suffer and remain unenlightened?
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