Sermons in Stones ~ 12

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event type discourse
date & time 11 Dec 1986 pm
location Sumila, Juhu, Bombay
language English
audio Available, duration 2h 32min. Quality: good.
Live music before and after discourse: 1986-12-11 Birthday Songs.
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video Available, duration 2h 36min. Quality: good.
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online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle SERMON12
notes
This date is Osho's birthday.
Before and after discourse there is a special singing event, see 1986-12-11 Birthday Songs.
synopsis
Reader of the questions: Ma Prem Maneesha.
Question 1 from Amrito
Beloved Osho, you have talked about the superiority/inferiority dialectic as the basis of authoritarian and fascist relationships. It is one of the miracles of being with you that in spite of having been constantly persuaded of our unworthiness by our parents, teachers and priests, you are able to shed light on all our unconscious habits without ever making us feel bad about it. You allow us to be aware of our potential for enlightenment in a way that does not make us feel superior, and yet simultaneously you never make us feel inferior because we are not enlightened. In groups, too, while you are present, we can reveal our notions of inferiority but because you are there and simply not part of the egotistic inferiority/superiority game, dependency and spiritual slavery cannot happen. But what happens in groups where you are absent? Surely, if the therapist has a trace of ego, then doesn't this kind of psychological fascism inevitably emerge?
Question 2
Beloved Osho, as far as you are concerned, is your birthday just like any other day in the year? Or is it in some way special for you?
Question 3 from Maneesha
Beloved Osho, I imagine that if you have the faculty to predict the future, you would not use it. Yet, you do seem to know how events are going to unfold. Is this because the enlightened man is so in tune with existence that he can see how its rhythm is moving? Or is it that being thoroughly familiar with man's mechanical mind, he can fairly confidently foresee how certain thoughts and actions are going to precipitate certain other thoughts and actions? Or is it a combination of the two? Is this faculty increasingly available as one becomes more clear, or is it available only to the enlightened consciousness?
Question 4
Beloved Osho, what you talk about can mean so much to so many people. Your message has spread. It has to bring about a spiritual explosion. That seems to be the only hope there is for us today. How do you intend to let your ideas grow and spread and blossom, to flower into something more universal, more accepted, more usual?
Question 5
Beloved Osho, according to Gurdjieff, a normal man needs laughter as a means to discharge an excess of energy. Whereas, for a man like Gautam Buddha, laughter is simply no longer possible. Please comment.


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