The Last Testament (Vol 1) ~ 27

event type	interview
date & time	13 Aug 1985 pm
location	Jesus Grove, Rajneeshpuram
language	English
audio	Available, duration 1h 31min. Quality: good. Live music after the interview.
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video	Available, duration 1h 44min. Quality: good.
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see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1985 first edition : The Last Testament (Vol 1) (1994 on CD-ROM) other editions, translations and links
online text	find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle	LAST127

notes

synopsis: Interview. Announcements by Ma Anand Sheela : Illustrated Weekly of India.; CD-ROM on this chapter: Interview with Illustrated Weekly of India, Bombay, India.

Question 1

For about three and a half years, you kept a maun. And after that, you gave it up. Why did you choose to take a maun? Why did you choose to give it up?

Question 2

But what is the difference between being addicted to your words and being addicted to you?

Question 3

One may draw sustenance from his love for you; some may draw sustenance from their love for what you are saying. Why do you think one kind of lover is less important than the other and needs to be dropped off?

Question 4

But does a master choose his flock?... He leads his own life and by his example, people follow him. How does it matter to him who follows him?

Question 5

Only this morning in your discourse, you said that you are not a simple man, you are extraordinary man.

Question 6

But you hardly interact with them.

Question 7

But it is hardly a one-to-one communion with anyone.

Question 8

In India you were perhaps in closer touch on a day-to-day level with people.

Question 9

But you are slowly withdrawing yourself?

Question 10

But you have this gorgeous feminine mafia in between.

Question 11

You speak of freedom of all kinds: intellectual, emotional, sexual. How can you yourself live such a rigid, boring, dull, disciplined life?

Question 12

But surely the most comfortable and the most luxurious is not necessarily the best way to live one's life.

Question 13

It's said you are the guru for the rich.

Question 14

But how do you combine your own levels of comfort at every point... with the principles of community living which your own people follow?

Question 15

They have basic norms of community living which they follow, which may be self-imposed, or structured by the commune.

Question 16

How do you combine this highly individualistic philosophy of yours with the ground rules of the commune?

Question 17

This could be extremely dangerous if a farmer wanted to be a doctor...

Question 18

But he must know the land use laws.

Question 19

You will not find such prosperous and well-kept sannyasins anywhere, for that matter.

Question 20

I was actually prevented from seeing your house.

Question 21

The Oregonians don't think so....

Question 22

Then why the sub-machine guns?

Question 23

What is that "our thing?"

Question 24

That can be very dangerous.

Question 25

It's a sad comment if an attractive person is walking naked and no one looks around.

Question 26

But here you have total freedom to hug each other, you also give total freedom to hit each other. And that could be dangerous....

Question 27

In other words, you believe that if Hitler had a jewish girlfriend to make love to, he wouldn't have committed violence on the Jewish population?

Question 28

What do you mean he did well? You would support what he did?

Question 29

But you don't either -- you attacked Mother Teresa recently.

Question 30

But you are selectively using that verse. The full verse is: Blessed are the poor for they shall inherit the earth. So those who inherit the earth can never be poor, so he was using the word poor purely metaphorically.

Question 31

There are two versions -- the King James version says the earth.

Question 32

But that's purely a sexual preference.

Question 33

You mean a man like you who believes in free sex, you would object to people exercising a sexual preference?

Question 34

But you were a celibate at twenty-one. Why can't they be?

Question 35

Your Bible says that.

Question 36

Of sexuality?

Question 37

Where do you draw the line between sexual perversion and sexual experimentation?

Question 38

So would you, like Rousseau, talk in terms of going back to nature, to the wild?

Question 39

Do you think that if the nations of the world did not invest such a large part of their money, of their gross national product in nuclear arsenals, they would have used it more meaningfully? They would have found some alternative means of creating a situation of terror in the world?

Question 40

It is born out of the desire to conquer, to rule.

Question 41

M.A.D. -- mutually assured destruction.

Question 42

Then why are you investing in missile silos?

Question 43

The rumor that you are shifting to Australia, are they right? Do you have any such plans whatsoever?

Question 44

When is that?

Question 45

How do you stay in touch with them? Or how do they stay in touch with you?

Question 46

If rumors are to be believed, on the 5th of September, you are starting a new program which will possible have something to do with AIDS?

Question 47

Why is this particular affliction so important that you keep talking about it everywhere?

Question 48

Neither has cancer.

Question 49

But it has spread beyond the gays.

Question 50

But to stop kissing is like saying that you don't shave because you might get a nick in your cheek with the blade which might give you tetanus.

Question 51

Then how do you stop kissing? That's exactly what I'm saying.

Question 52

Of foreplay? Hardly any.

Question 53

I'll ask you those questions separately, perhaps!

Question 54

They don't know what they are missing....

(source:CD-ROM)

The Last Testament (Vol 1) ~ 27

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