Talk:Life's Mysteries
- Here and there I see these links to Friends of Osho re the changes made to the texts. They did a good job to compare newer editions and compilations to the original sources (they used the CD-ROM as reference).
- Then they say:
- Osho had wanted his discourses to be published in their original form without any change or abridgement. Just a few years after Osho left his body, His words are being tampered with and indeed mutilated.
- I have taken a close look at the comparisons.
- 1. What I see is that, yes compilations do exist. Personally I prefer original texts and I thought that Osho wanted complete texts, but actually I do not and can not know if that was really what he wanted exclusively. One can be against compilations, but obviously they do have a role, e.g. in interesting big publishers.
- 2. As for "His words are being tampered with and indeed mutilated.": I really do not see anything in the editing that would justify such stark words. Pieces of text are choosen, yes. Specific names of e.g. sannyasins are left out, yes. Texts are modernized, yes. But I do not see any biased, tendentious editing, in some specific direction, no matter how suspicious I am looking for such changes, sorry.
- 3. A real issue, also in my opinion, was the case of The Book of Wisdom. It's title suggests an un-abbreviated work, but is in fact, from the 2000 Element editions, heavily abbreviated. When I asked Garimo about this, she said she knew about this and felt this was an error and should not be repeated in the future. I have not seen any other case like that. (They are publishing many books each year.)
