From Bondage to Freedom ~ 20

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event type discourse
date & time 4 Oct 1985 am
location Rajneesh Mandir, Rajneeshpuram
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 51min. Quality: good.
Live music after the discourse.
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video Available, duration 1h 55min. Quality: good.
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shorttitle BONDAG20
notes
synopsis
Reader of the questions: unidentified man (reader 2).
Question 1
Beloved master, I am one of the stargazers, idealists, naive. I learned from you about trusting existence totally. But I understood total trust to mean just that -- total trust, trust unto death. So I had great difficulty understanding when my own master supported protecting ourselves with guns and searching visitors, or even just buying insurance. I became split: One part of me could see perfectly well that existence contains wars and famines and Hitlers, and even just thieves who will take your belongings if you don't watch them.
Another part of me threw out love and trust to existence, and was rewarded with great joy and what seemed like a constant and continuous shower of miracles.
The events and the discourses of the last few weeks have greatly shaken my trust and intensified the split in me.
Please comment.
Question 2
Beloved master, I have heard you emphasizing the importance of creativity in music and spiritual growth, for the last eleven years. Yet the ashram, the commune, is the only place I have lived in where it has been impossible to live totally as an artist or musician.
There are artists and musicians here, including myself, who have been yearning for the space to pursue their art in a climate of meditation, but have had to put it aside to be with you.
In the past, we were told repeatedly that it is not the right time. Isn't now the right time?
Question 3
Beloved master, on our farm, the work that needs to be done is obvious. The cows need to be milked on time, the vegetables have to be picked for each meal. Rejecting the old ways of organization and authority has created a gap. Less is getting done and people are confused. It's very exciting, and a spontaneous kind of organization seems to be arising, but it is still very chaotic.
How can we get the worship done? How do we balance what we want to do and the needs of the commune?
Question 4
Beloved master, is there such a thing as personal power which is different from power over others? What is the relationship between power and responsibility?
Question 5
Beloved master, in the past, you've always said that our love is what keeps you in your body. Is all this negativity and everything that's been happening recently affecting you? Will we lose you?
Question 6
Beloved master, human nature is tricky. It will create a simple institution to begin with and then turn it into an establishment so as to control it and the people it is there to serve. In such a situation, can an enlightened master create an institution or a flexible, fluid relating, where the emergence of an authoritarian organization is not possible?
Question 7
Beloved master, that's all -- there are no more questions.


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