The Path of the Mystic ~ 37
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 22 May 1986 pm |
| location | Punta Del Este, Montevideo, Uruguay |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 35min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 37min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | MYSTIC37 |
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- synopsis
- Reader of the questions: Ma Prem Maneesha.
- Question 1
- Beloved Osho, since I have been a sannyasin, I have thought that I needed to use my mind less if I was to be in touch with my heart. Yet I heard you say the other day that we should train our minds to keep our intelligence alive and help it become sharper and sharper. Could you please clarify this?
- Question 2 from Kaveesha (Ma Prem Kaveesha ? )
- Beloved Osho, this past week I read three volumes of 'the Discipline of transcendence' -- your discourses on Buddha's sutras. I became aware of a strange synthesis in myself, that of being a romantic scientist. Tomorrow is the Buddha full moon. You -- the Lord of the full moon -- are very romantic to me. Is it also scientific?
- Question 3
- Beloved Osho, over the years, I have heard various sannyasins saying that they experienced a satori. What exactly is a satori, and how does it come about?
- Question 4
- Beloved Osho, I read an article about sannyasins in Germany. There were some things which struck me. The article said that for many sannyasins, sannyas seems to have changed into just a fashionable movement. The precautions you advised against AIDS are no longer used by many sannyasins, who respond to the question, "Why not?" with the justification that these measures were one of Sheela's power trips.
- Some sannyasins have taken off their malas and their red clothes, and they ask other sannyasins who continue to wear them if it still means something to them. Some sannyasins seem to use your words to justify their egotistic behavior.
- To me, it seems that not only your therapists, but also a lot of other sannyasins are walking the so-called path of freedom that you talked of in connection with some of the sannyasin therapists. Osho, what is happening to sannyasins?
- Question 5
- Beloved Osho, is it possible that while sannyasins might be cleaned of society's conditioning, they can adopt certain facets of your teaching as another kind of conditioning -- such as the need to be total, to doubt unless we know something from our own experience, not to be jealous, and so on? Could you explain how your way of working with us is not simply the exchanging of one set of values -- and thus conditionings -- for another?
- Question 6
- Beloved Osho, the other day you talked about Prince Kropotkin's failure to understand that real growth can only happen from the base upwards and cannot be imposed from above. It seems like this is the inherent cause of failure of every ideology. Ideas are formulated into plans which are then imposed on existence. It is a bit like going into a garden, finding the stem of a flower lying on the ground, sticking some beautiful petals to the top, placing it upright in the ground and then looking surprised and crestfallen when it simply falls to the ground in spite of their cries of "how wonderful!" Would you please comment.
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