Philosophia Perennis Vol 2 ~ 08
event type | discourse |
date & time | 7 Jan 1979 am |
location | Buddha Hall, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 45min. Quality: good. |
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video | Not available |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | PEREN208 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the questions: n/a; questions are being read by Osho himself.
- Question 1 from Peter Jenkins
- What does your movement signify about the condition of society? Is it an escapist and self-regarding cult? Or do you propose through changing human nature to change society and the world?
- Question 2
- I am a psychoanalyst, but listening to the patients day in, day out, is driving me crazy. What should I do?
- Question 3 from Subhuti
- Osho, thousands of people enter into your therapy groups to transcend their limitations and break through emotional barriers. What guarantee is there that they will not suffer psychological damage?
- Question 4 from Richard Mitchley
- Osho, I have been here for a month and now I have come to the end of my stay here. I feel I have much to thank you for and I don't want to slink away without saying goodbye and without asking at least for your blessing.
- My experience of you and your teachings seems to have crystallized for me into a basic paradox: when you talk about love and passion and intensity of living and authenticity, I feel a warm glow of recognition inside -- I feel that is truth as I have sometimes glimpsed it at my peaks.
- But when you talk of detachment, aloofness, watching, I feel cold fear and deadness inside. I cannot grasp this paradox. How can I fall in love and remain aloof? How can I lose myself in a beautiful view and remain detached? If it comes to that, how could I love you and remain aloof?
- I recognize that what you say about oscillating helplessly between heaven and hell, ecstasy and despair, is true of my life. I see that this helplessness is unsatisfactory and painful. But if the alternative is a cold, detached aloofness, then I feel I would rather keep my heaven and hell, my joy and my sorrow, and forget all about enlightenment.
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