by Matt Schaefer | Jul 19, 2009 | Crystallization
Pankaja, there are many things in your question. First, you ask, “When someone like Nietzsche or Gertrude Stein dies — a genius who would probably have become enlightened if they had met a master — what sort of consciousness do they carry into the...
by Matt Schaefer | Jul 17, 2009 | Habits
OUR BELOVED MASTER, ON ONE OCCASION, A MONK ASKED ISAN ABOUT THE NEED FOR CULTIVATION OF ONE’S SPIRITUAL LIFE AFTER ENLIGHTENMENT. ISAN RESPONDED THAT IT WAS NEEDED BECAUSE OF THE “INERTIA OF HABIT.” HE THEN WENT ON TO SAY: “WHAT YOU HEAR MUST...
by Matt Schaefer | Jul 17, 2009 | Neurosis
BELOVED OSHO, I FEEL EMOTIONALLY TOTALLY EXHAUSTED. SOMETHING IS RIPPING ME APART, BUT I CAN’T FIGURE OUT WHAT. IN THE LAST FEW DAYS I’VE BEEN THROUGH INTENSE SPELLS OF HATING MYSELF. IT FEELS LIKE AN ATTACK, AND IT LOOKS IMPOSSIBLE TO LOVE SUCH A...
by Matt Schaefer | Jul 17, 2009 | Neurosis
WHAT IS NEUROSIS AND WHAT IS THE CURE FOR IT? Neurosis has never been so epidemic in the past as it is now. It is almost becoming a normal state of human mind. It has to be understood. The past was spiritually more healthy, and the reason was that mind was not fed so...
by Matt Schaefer | Jul 17, 2009 | Death
BELOVED OSHO, A FRIEND WROTE TO ME THAT TWO DAYS AFTER HER FATHER DIED, SITTING BY THE CORPSE SHE FELT AN INCREDIBLE RISE OF ENERGY IN HER. WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND A DEAD PERSON, AND HOW SHOULD WE LOOK AFTER THE BODY OF A PERSON WHO HAS DIED? The moment a person dies...
