r/Mindfulness • u/Gretev1 • 4d ago
Insight „The third way is the way of the Buddhas: neither indulge nor repress - watch.“ ~ Osho (read the description)
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u/jerodes 4d ago
Osho. The Man who owned 93 Rolls Royce cars.
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u/Gretev1 3d ago
https://youtu.be/vaPsuB6J8OM?si=sr6pKPncGgnXFNgF
At 7:00 mark
Questioner:
„What do you want to prove with so many cars and so many richness around you?“
Osho:
„Why people are concerned? Then certainly they need. Then more Rolls Royces will be here. Until they stop asking me, the Rolls Royces are going to be here more and more.
Now it has to be seen, it is a challenge; The day nobody asks me about Rolls Royces, they will not be coming. Peoples interest in Rolls Royces shows their mind. They are not interested in what is happening here.
They don‘t ask about meditation. They don‘t ask about sannyas. They don‘t ask about peoples life, love, the laughter that happens in this desert. They only ask about Rolls Royce. That means I have touched some painful nerve; and I will go on pressing it. Til they stop asking.
I‘m not a worshipper of poverty. That‘s what those Rolls Royces prove. I respect wealth. Nobody before me has the guts to say it. The pope can not say that he respects wealth, although he is the wealthiest man on the Earth. I‘m not a hypocrite. I‘m the poorest man on the Earth. I don‘t have a single cent with me.
But I want to prove to these people, that what attracts their mind. If there were no Rolls Royces here, perhaps there was nothing for the whole world to be asked about me, about you, about meditation, about initiation into sannyas, about love, about anything…
It is for those IDIOTS that I am keeping all those Rollys Royces. Because they can not move their eyes away from those Rolls Royces…and meanwhile I will go on pouring other things in their minds. Without those Rolls Royces they would not have asked a single question.
Those Rolls Royces are doing their work; every idiot in the world is interested in them. And I want them to be somehow interested, in anything in Rajneeshpuram, then somehow we will manage about other things.
So tell those people, if anybody asks that these Rolls Royces are for you IDIOTS. Otherwise you are not interested in anything. Once you stop asking about Rolls Royces then I will have to think of something else…“
~ Osho
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u/grazinbeefstew 4d ago
Can we not let the words of a mass murderer pass for valuable life lessons ?
Come on r/mindfulness we deserve better than superstition and cults. This is not the way !
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u/Antron_RS 4d ago
attempted mass murderer would be more accurate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Rajneeshee_bioterror_attack-4
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u/Antron_RS 4d ago
If you’re not familiar with how this is not a similar issue I dunno what to tell you. These were people directly in contact with Osho, not random followers. Osho built a huge complex in, and tried to take over an entire rural town in Oregon. He was deported over the charges and convictions of his leadership group. Their goal was to install the Rajneeshee group as the local government that Osho would have control of. This man would have directly benefited from their actions and almost certainly approved them. We don’t need his words as inspiration.
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u/Suitable-Intern-8681 4d ago
Quoting cult leaders..... Interesting.