Rajneesh Osho Corruption And a few notes in relationship to J. Krishnamurti 2010 - by Reza Ganjavi
I
remember Rajneesh followers used to come to K’s talks in their colorful
purple and red outfits and hippy looks. They were fond of K. Years
later I read an article by Christopher Calder in which he wrote:
Listening
to J. Krishnamurti speak was like eating a sandwich made of bread and
sand. I found the best way to enjoy his talks was to completely
ignore his words and quietly absorb his presence. Using that
technique I would become so expanded after a lecture that I could
barely talk for hours afterwards. J. Krishnamurti, while fully
enlightened and uniquely lovable, will be recorded in history as a
teacher with very poor verbal communication skills. Unlike the
highly eloquent Rajneesh, however, J. Krishnamurti never committed any
crime, never pretended to be more than he was, and he never used other
human beings selfishly.
Osho
was deported from the US as a convicted criminal. And the above
paragraph is perhaps also the story of many K followers who are still
going to gatherings. I have wondered if after 30 years of being glued
to the stage, and now the video tapes, why is it that some are so
confused about the very basics of his teachings (this is not a judgment
but their own admission). Now I know. It’s perhaps because as Calder
puts it, they listened to his voice but not to his words.
This
subject reminds me of a discussion in evolutionary psychology where
theoretically in their first interactions some men and women who are
attracted to each other might think as follows: the woman thinks ‘what
will my child look like’, and the man thinks ‘how can I get her to
bed’. Osho misled a lot of people around the subject of sex.
In
K circles, the communities have had their own share of this subject but
handled it very well and nothing compared to the extreme nature of
Osho’s decadent communes. I witnessed this subject most common in
summer gatherings where people go in wonderful nature away from family
and daily problems and meet others. I’ve suffered enough around this
subject by the problems created out of mainly jealousy. K gave a good
tip years ago during one of the summer camps. He said, don’t fall in
love with each others’ wife or husband. That is so profound and it
eliminates so many problems, and it is a principle that I’ve always
lived by: stay away from married women.
On the subject of
listening, intelligence is to listen not just to words but the silence
between the words, not just the lines but also between the lines. The
folks that Calder mentions only listen to sound of the lines and not to
the lines themselves or what’s between the lines.
There is a lot
of material on Osho in relationship to K but it’s not worth spending
any time on. He apparently said K says what he says and K said it’s the
other way.
There are many websites that have articles in which
Osho talks about K. He praises K, and he criticizes K, and he
completely distorts K’s message in his silly interpretations. For the
most part the articles are pretty much drivel. They kind of remind me
of UG Krishnamurti’s drivel. There is a big market today for drivel,
nonsense, ‘spiritual’ entertainment.
There are better K copycats
out there. Some have obviously integrated deeper truths in their lives.
The best-selling author Eckhart Tolle learned a lot of his extremely
successful teaching from J. Krishnamurti. And Osho’s books still sell
very well. There are many others who pick a little piece of truth and
market it well and make millions off gullible people. I have a couple
of articles in the pipeline about two such cases. People prefer more
superficial material than deeper. Deeper material takes more work, more
diligence, more understanding.
Rajneesh was a great businessman.
It is disconcerting to see that some people move up in the K circles by
a shrewd strategy. What always works is the weakness Westerners have
for Easterners.
To end this section, here are a few lines from Julian Lee, a former follower of Osho:
"Thousands
of sincere western seekers were misled and harmed by the novel
teachings of Osho. I have seen many of them in the aftermath. They
always lack the satvic glow that comes from yogic sex restraint; they
look like spent rakes aged well beyond their actual years. Even in
their age -- when they might show some spiritual attainment -- many
still crave sex, and all the ordinary base things. Despite Osho's
"indulgence technique," they never got over sex addiction and lust.”
"Rajneesh/Osho
is the worst thing that ever happened to spirituality in the west. He
rode herd over a mob of naive, idealistic spiritual seekers”
“Osho
was basically a kind of pimp who used the base desires of average
people, along with their beautiful hunger for real spirituality, to
build a financial empire and a following of worshippers who would do
whatever he asked.”
"The
saddest thing is what happened to all those children of Osho followers.
Osho wanted them to grow up not knowing who their Fathers were; raised
by a mob, with no particular person as Parent. I can't think of
anything much more ignorant, or more cruel. Krishnamurti was right:
Osho was a criminal."
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