Register Log In Wordsmith.org Forums General Topics Miscellany Zen and Osho Search Advanced Forum Search Forums Calendar Active Threads

Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 3 1 2 3 Re: Zen and Osho dalehileman #170181 09/25/07 12:45 AM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park what does owning (if a person can own?) a cat have to do with anything? my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Zen and Osho of troy #170185 09/25/07 05:59 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA D dalehileman OP Pooh-Bah OP dalehileman Pooh-Bah D Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA I'm not quite sure, as No. 2 Son and I were in our cups when we posted it dalehileman Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Zen and Osho dalehileman #170230 09/27/07 03:05 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA D dalehileman OP Pooh-Bah OP dalehileman Pooh-Bah D Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA them: I understand but I can't quite agree. Osho writes:"...a scientist...sitting with a plant with electrodes fixed. He thought, 'If I cut this plant....Suddenly, the needle...jumped. The plant became afraid of death...recording that the plant was trembling...just a thought and the plant received it.... ...think of cutting one plant, all the other plants...become emotionally disturbed...plants...are more sensitive than the human mind" Thus one gathers that this fellow has revealed himself, like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as terribly ignorant or immensely credulous and though in other respects it's a beautiful book, he has cast some qualms about Zen dalehileman Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Zen and Osho dalehileman #170316 10/02/07 03:26 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA D dalehileman OP Pooh-Bah OP dalehileman Pooh-Bah D Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA Interestingly enough, even though Zen isn't trumpeted as a religion, if you question or criticize it in the present extreme Politically-Correct social environment you'll be called sacreligious However, as I suggested, I think they're laughing at us, as well they might, since we imagine their approach to be far more complex than it is dalehileman Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Zen and Osho dalehileman #170456 10/06/07 07:41 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA W wow Carpal Tunnel wow Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA Then I grabbed a nearby metal floorlamp and with it's base I sawed his head off. Savage! Cruel! I do not think I like you at all. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Zen and Osho wow #170457 10/06/07 07:49 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA D dalehileman OP Pooh-Bah OP dalehileman Pooh-Bah D Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA Who, me? dalehileman Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Zen and Osho dalehileman #170462 10/07/07 10:40 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Quote: Who, me? no, the quote is milo's, dale. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Zen and Osho wow #170467 10/07/07 02:40 PM Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague How poisonous is a young copperhead? What would you have done? You can't just sit and meditate it away. I ate salad and a tomatoe (!)(slowly as recommended by the biodynamicals) What's more cruel, to eat the salad and the tomatoe or to kill (in the quickest way) a snake that might bite someone? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Zen and Osho Buffalo Shrdlu #170469 10/07/07 03:27 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA D dalehileman OP Pooh-Bah OP dalehileman Pooh-Bah D Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA eta, as you gather, I'm not very literate. Actually, I have 11 books going, but I read only during the tv commercials. Hence very slowly However I'm still vitally interested in comments from anyone else who might have an insight into Zen. Evidently it's kind of obscure, as a similar thread in another site of this sort yielded only 2 responses dalehileman Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Zen and Osho dalehileman #170763 10/21/07 03:38 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA D dalehileman OP Pooh-Bah OP dalehileman Pooh-Bah D Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA Forgive me for bubbling this one back up, I won't make it a habit; but I have been wondering whether anyone with an afterthought might have further comment Also, meantime I have encountered in Osho several more puzzling if not egregious instances. For example, on page 58 he makes reference to a Zen allegory with an illustration where a bewildered fellow "...sees the back of the ox standing in the thick forest," though the plate itself shows him observing it head-on, and not in a thick forest but across the banks of a stream I feel bewildered too dalehileman Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,317 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 759 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 31 A C Bowden 13 LukeJavan8 1 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,542 wofahulicodoc 10,534 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

Default Style BlackNTan Drab eBay GooG v2 infopop new dark new light original dark original stock rounded corners Slate snow sunny dropshadow theblues Touch Of Grey UBB.threads UBB.threads - Dark UBB.threads - Light UBBCentral UBBCentral - Crimson UBBCentral - Lime UBBCentral - Marshmallow UBBCentral - Mocha UBBCentral - Zen UBBT77 UBBT77 - Dark ubbthreads ubbthreads-dark Forum Rules · Mark All Read Contact Us · Forum Help · Wordsmith.org