The Last Testament (Vol 1) ~ 20
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| event type | interview |
| date & time | 6 Aug 1985 pm |
| location | Jesus Grove, Rajneeshpuram |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 48min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Available, duration 2h 4min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | LAST120 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Interview. Announcements by Ma Prem Savita : Penny Allen, who is writing a novel on this Community, a chapter that will be going to Esquire Magazine
- CD-ROM on this chapter: Interview with Penny Allen, Freelance Journalist, Sisters, Oregon.
- Question 1
- I have read that your goal is to make enlightenment available to as many people as possible. Now I have heard that you're saying that enlightenment is not all its cracked up to be, and that you want to be normal. What's happening?
- Question 2
- If I could ask you a question about your past.... When you were looking for that door, you spent a year when you were mad -- in which you couldn't formulate a sentence -- and you lost your perspective. Is this correct? Is that the time that you were looking for that door?
- Question 3
- Even though you're beyond enlightenment on the other side of the door, do you still have black moments? For example, this spring when you stopped giving discourses for two months, where were you? Were you in the black hole?
- Question 4
- Is there a reason why you were silent for about two months around April and May of this year?
- Question 5
- It wasn't a loss of perspective, or something like that?
- Question 6
- You have said that here on the Ranch, in the buddhafield, your sannyasins experience and share moods; that joy is contagious. Does a bad mood ever pass through the commune?
- Question 7
- I asked about the energy field here; and I was wondering if it ever happened, particularly when you were not feeling well, that a melancholy caught on? Or, is the energy here always positive?
- Question 8
- How can the energy field, the gestalt, of this place continue with no children being born? I certainly understand your views on that subject and I agree with them. I just wonder how will you account for that? How can it continue and everyone just gets older and there are no young people coming up?
- Question 9
- I know that you have said that you don't worry about what the community in Oregon thinks about you; that they worry about you, you don't worry about them. But I wanted to ask something about the polarization that has gone on for four years or so in Oregon. I finally came to the conclusion that the polarization was a kind of public dynamic meditation that you were carrying on to try and increase tension for a long time so that after a while it would relax. You're shaking your head, "yes."
- Question 10
- There's so much music that has come out of this place, a music of an original sort. Do you think that there will ever be a literature coming out of here?
- Question 11
- Would you personally like to ever travel again?
- Question 12
- Did you dance?
- Question 13
- I read in the Rajneesh Times from one of your interviews this past week that you said that you didn't have the energy to make love to a woman any more -- you didn't have the energy for those gymnastics -- but now that you're going to the disco....
- Question 14
- What happened to your glasses?
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