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Ma Satya Priya: Reporting From The Osho Resort
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Christoph Schnelle: RE:Reporting From New York City on Sw. Christ and others. Email:  hotmail.comDate: Mar 3, 2006, 11:58 |
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Hi Harry, Loved your contribution. I looked at your website, photos and listened to your music. Very nice! If I read your message correctly then you are saying the following: Osho may or may not be a fake guru. Those who oppose him are stuck in the past and too much in their head. As a result these people miss out on all that is beautiful in life – playing, crying, smiling, singing. You love Osho, he inspires you and if a person is intensely and totally devoted then this person is glowing with love and bliss – regardless of whom that person is devoted to. That’s nice and a beautiful illusion. The issue is very straightforward: What is more important – truth or feeling good? You clearly answered that feeling good is more important for you than truth. That is very much your right, however I personally feel thoroughly uncomfortable basing my life on a lie just to feel good. I am doing the opposite – I accept whatever is true, no matter how uncomfortable, painful or embarrassing. As a result I am living in paradise with the most beautiful wife in the world and I have an amazingly happy time. I am writing about Osho because his lies and his deceit caused an enormous amount of pain for a lot of beautiful people. Most of these beautiful people have no idea that a sophisticated fraud was perpetrated on them and blame themselves for their deteriorating mental and physical health. Many of my sannyasin friends have great trouble sustaining this illusory happy fog and are taking more and more desperate measures to continue feeling good. This hurts. Back to your message: You are courageously conceding the possibility that Osho deceived people (I am not ironic – it DOES take a lot of courage) but then you use two of the best strategies with which Osho defrauded us all: • The first one is that those who oppose Osho are too much in their head. • The second strategy is that WHO is saying something completely overrides WHAT that person is saying. In other words an enlightened person can speak the most appalling rubbish and it is still much more valid than a lesser person speaking total truth. Osho defrauded some of the most beautiful and intelligent people on the planet. Therefore his fraud had to be sophisticated. The best trick he used in his fraud was telling everybody “Use your mind in the world, but go beyond the mind in the spiritual”. In other words, “Don’t use your mind around me. If you use your mind, you are in your head and you are missing out on the spiritual”. Osho mainly targeted and attracted very intelligent people who have strong minds. Osho here used the same strategy as the Catholic Church – create an unsolvable conflict within people and then they are easy to control. The church uses guilt to deceive and control its adherents. It is one thing to feel guilty about breaking your wife’s favourite crockery or to feel guilty about pulling the wings off a fly or to feel guilty about committing rape, murder and pillaging. However, the church demanded people feel guilty about perfectly natural things like sex and the church said that the only way to free yourself of this guilt is by adhering to the church’s commands. Osho’s “Go beyond the mind to be spiritual” had exactly the same effect. It’s ok to point out that the mind has serious limitations and many mental habits cause misery. However it is outright fraud to say that the only way to be spiritual is to ignore the mind. This creates a conflict with truth, because the mind is needed to recognize untruth. If the mind is ignored, the person becomes unable to distinguish between truth and lies. Osho created and exploited this internal conflict – just as the Catholic Church did with guilt. The more intelligent the person, the stronger the mind and the stronger the conflict. Every time sannyasins used their intelligence, they felt guilty. The smarter they are the bigger the conflict. The second nasty trick Osho used was “Only an enlightened person can speak truth, anybody who is not enlightened cannot speak truth, no matter what they say”. If Osho says, two plus two is five, it is a superior truth to my two plus two is four. This is only a small exaggeration. I think every sannyasin concedes that Osho sometimes spoke the most appalling rubbish, for example when he spoke about science. However, his strategy leads to sannyasins accepting anything Osho says, no matter how untrue and ignoring anything Osho’s detractors say, no matter how true. Osho managed something amazing with these two strategies: He managed to lie and lie and lie to us sannyasins. We didn’t expose his lies because we didn’t use our reasoning abilities (our minds) and we valued his lies more than any truth because an enlightened person’s lies are more valuable than another person’s truth. The best frauds are those where the victim says “I wasn’t deceived” and where the victim even actively fights anybody pointing out the fraud. Osho’s fraud is one of those. None of this would matter if those lies didn’t cause such enormous damage to so many intelligent and sensitive people. Harry, you are doing well. Many other sannyasins are not doing well. There is the enormous death rate through cancer – too high for a middle aged population. Many sannyasins work as healers and most of them fit the ?wounded healer’ syndrome. Many others’ health has collapsed. Many sannyasins are involved in things that are even more harmful, like Deeksha. Osho was a sophisticated and nasty fraudster with a grudge who intentionally misled and hurt his followers. His grudge was that deep down he knew that his teachings were a sham and he could not bear to see genuine seekers. It is a tragedy that so many people did not know and still do not know that they have been hurt in this way. |
