Yesterday I was having a walk in the evening trying to deal with some unpleasant memories that had arisen. And the question naturally came to me – Why do people suffer? This is an age old question and mankind has asked it of himself throughout history. Here is Osho’s answer to it. It is not […]
Monthly Archives: December 2022
Do This to avoid Disaster
What do we need to do avoid disaster? We need to avoid error. I’ll start with a quote from Voltaire which sums up the point I want to make better than anything I could say myself. Twenty years are required to bring man from the state of a plant, in which he exists in the […]
On Prudishness – Some Comments
India has a notoriously prudish attitude towards sex. When I was young I thought that this was completely flawed and mistaken. I believed in openness regarding sex education and (being influenced by Bertrand Russell) freedom of choice for the young regarding whether they should have sex relations or not. But here I am at age […]
Do this before criticizing
I am – and I think almost all of us are – a man of fixed and settled opinions. I have a view of myself and of the world that is clearly defined and which has helped me deal with the world and survive. So if someone tells me something that is opposed to my […]