Your Opinion on Osho

[WillEast]

As far as my opinion goes, i enjoyed reading his book, it gave me more clarity. Some of his ideas does seem crazy, so I don't buy everything he says. This thread is not intended for debate. Just give your honest opinion on Osho and his teachings.
Thank you

I like OSHO. He was a progressive person who spoke on many topics. I don't think his meditations were particularly that great but he spoke with clarity, espoused vegetarian values and committed to respecting individual beliefs without insisting that everybody conforms to some dumb rules made up 5000 years ago that are no longer relevant today.

 

[Jedster]

I just watched a documentary on Netflix called ‘Wild Wild Country’ which covers those years of Rajneesh morphing in to Osho. Lots of footage.


Also here's an article which covers points left out of the documentary.
I Covered The Rajneesh Cult. Here’s What ‘Wild Wild Country’ Leaves Out. | HuffPost

This reminded me that one of my former mother-in-laws was a devotee of Rajneesh. She paid £8000 for a promised home there, never to be received. She was one many who had her life savings ripped off there.

 

[Mark Ridler]

I happen to believe that Osho became manic when he took the Buddhist doctrine of Living In The Moment to heart. It's all very well avoiding negative spirals of thoughts and feelings associated with Past and Future. Out of the frying pan into the fire: a positive spiral associated with the Present can be just as dangerous.

I love the guy. Just wish he was better understood.

Mark

Write And Burn

 

[Jedi07]

I think Osho is overrrated... you can take a look here...

 

[SalixIncendium]

I think Osho is overrrated... you can take a look here...

What does most enlightened or more enlightened even mean? Enlightenment, in my understanding, is a state of being. There are no varying degrees.

It's kinda like walking into a cemetery and asking which corpse is the most dead.

 

[Vinayaka]

What does most enlightened or more enlightened even mean? Enlightenment, in my understanding, is a state of being. There are no varying degrees.

It's kinda like walking into a cemetery and asking which corpse is the most dead.

Only the enlightened are qualified to make those sorts of quantifying judgements. (groan)

To me, it seems that for a lot of folks their guy is THE guy, therefore the 'most enlightened'. Definitely not in the spirit of dharma to make it some weird competition.

 

[Jedi07]

What does most enlightened or more enlightened even mean? Enlightenment, in my understanding, is a state of being. There are no varying degrees.

It's kinda like walking into a cemetery and asking which corpse is the most dead.

So,you're saying that Lord Shiva is as much enlightened as Sai Baba?

 

[SalixIncendium]

So,you're saying that Lord Shiva is as much enlightened as Sai Baba?

Before I attempt to make sense of your question, please share with us your understanding of enlightenment.

 

[Vinayaka]

So,you're saying that Lord Shiva is as much enlightened as Sai Baba?

God, versus a person? Really?

 

[SalixIncendium]

God, versus a person? Really?

I typed about four responses to that post. This was one of them. Another was "what would a deity be enlightened to?"

I won't say what the fourth one was.

 

[Vinayaka]

I typed about four responses to that post. This was one of them. Another was "what would a deity be enlightened to?"

I won't say what the fourth one was.

I'm betting it has to do with the deification of Gurus by their devotees. (Not sure which Sai Baba he was referring to either.) But yes, some are very hard to respond to, and often the best response is no response. I can't remember if there is a separate shrine to Shirdi Sai in Cleveland's temple or not, but there sure is in quite a few.

It will also be Shiva the anthropomorphic version. Puranic Hinduism has a much stronger influence than traditionalists like myself would like.

 

[Aupmanyav]

.. he wasn't interested in money, people kept giving him money, and watches, and Roll Royce's, he would play with them and then give them away, ..

Did not give away anything. Liked them to be lined in his ashram till he was turned out of US. His center of interest was sex. He was a rebel to Jainism, the religion he was born in, and they are very restrictive in this matter.

 

[Aupmanyav]

One thing for certain there will always be people like Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.

Some people like Bhagawan Marquis de Sade also.

Forget about 'dharma' (duties) and morality.

.. and committed to respecting individual beliefs without insisting that everybody conforms to some dumb rules made up 5000 years ago that are no longer relevant today.

If one wants to be a part of society, then individual beliefs are secondary to social beliefs. Otherwise the person may go to Gobi desert and do whatever he/she likes.

 

[j1i]

I don't know I didn't read about it
But I love a humble person who spreads good and truths
If a person tries to get reverence from followers, we must doubt the integrity of his message

thanks

 

[Jedi07]

Before I attempt to make sense of your question, please share with us your understanding of enlightenment.

Enlightement is a state of being, yes, but expanding in different stages of consciousness, higher and higher, called Initiations in esoteric psychology. We all expand from light to light, so cosmos and gods. So yes, Shiva and Sai Baba and all of us are enlightened, just on a different level.