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Ma Satya Priya: Reporting From The Osho Resort
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Sarlo: RE: Reporting From The Osho Resort Email: Date: Oct 9, 2005, 18:41 |
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Okay I don't know if this is the first time Calder has come out with his sannyas name since putting up his scurrilous site, but it is good. Those of us who might be concerned with the authenticity of his objections to Osho have a right to consider his background. First, an excerpt from a letter from Osho to Sw Krishna Christ, in answer to his complaint about the name, reproduced from A Cup of Tea (letter 327): The ego is the seriousness, the disease, and the tao, the egoless existence, is the bliss, the ecstasy. That is why I have given you a name so absurd! But I have given it to you knowingly. I have given it to you so that you may never be identified with it. The name is so absurd that you will have to remain nameless and nobody behind it, and the name is such that not only others but you yourself will be able to laugh at it. Swami Krishna Christ! =-=-=-=-= I wrote elsewhere about KC / CC but thus far no specific feedback so i thought i'd try here as well: I had remembered a story about this ridiculous name, but associated it with another legal name, not Chris Calder but a German name, Walter Pfuetze, and i thought this is a pretty silly name too, Krishna Christ is not so much more ridiculous. A German friend told me that Pfeutze means puddle. Hilarious! Does anyone else know something about him? Is my memory accurate? I ran across this story about six or seven years ago and was quite struck by it, i think it made the rounds of Sannyas List or maybe a private bulk email. Is it possible that KC is not really CC and he is just making that up? It would be nice to expose that. Or even if true, perhaps this name is Calder's real beef. How could Osho do this to him? On the face of it Calder's main beef with Osho is that he didn't tell the truth. Osho's explanation of this is good enough for me, that he is yelling in our ears that our house, ie our self-prison, is on fire and we have to wake up and run out into the open sky. When we do that, we will see that the house wasn't really on fire but we will still appreciate his helping to wake us up. Obviously this is a matter of taste and won't appeal to everyone, but where is Calder's energy for this coming from to continue this crusade? What is the Big Deal? Sarlo |
