Leaving brought upness to a completely new way of sensing the totality
I shall go through an initial and thorough reappraisal kind of thing for the belief of my family and culture, but also am slowly and gradually having an influx of Eastern stuff, which is by some teachers not so different from the belief of my forefathers and sixmothers. I'm skeptical of such claims, but like suspending disbelief in order to enjoy a piece of fiction, perhaps they could convince me, if I could concentrate on it prolongingly.
There was always for me a deep admiration of the Tao Te Ching, that slender volume was filled with mind - frame summations like equanimity, for there to be nothing possible to really cause you to react in rage, or any extreme emotion. That's a big pull for me. Radical shifts in the mode of being is draining, and it's usually not worth going through it, in a way of daily existence which crosses out most of the terrain of liveable experience out.
And yet, getting more into this other way kind of literature shows me that literature is only one part of many parts. There can thus be no substantial appropriation of this kind of way unless I modify it fundamentally. Which is what folk like Stephen Batchelor did. There's a solid YouTube channel called Doug's Dharma that I will check in sometimes.
The case of Osho, now with this portion of this material, I would like there to be a distinction in my mind from the true crime documentary side of it all, and just to isolate the teachings themselves in the Osho Talks, which there is a HUGE amount of. It was the sitewide sale and I got most of the long ones, then when I saw a link to a site with ALL the Talks for free I felt like a complete donkey.
There is a whole different way of thinking that I hope can be achieved but it might take some time.
There was always for me a deep admiration of the Tao Te Ching, that slender volume was filled with mind - frame summations like equanimity, for there to be nothing possible to really cause you to react in rage, or any extreme emotion. That's a big pull for me. Radical shifts in the mode of being is draining, and it's usually not worth going through it, in a way of daily existence which crosses out most of the terrain of liveable experience out.
And yet, getting more into this other way kind of literature shows me that literature is only one part of many parts. There can thus be no substantial appropriation of this kind of way unless I modify it fundamentally. Which is what folk like Stephen Batchelor did. There's a solid YouTube channel called Doug's Dharma that I will check in sometimes.
The case of Osho, now with this portion of this material, I would like there to be a distinction in my mind from the true crime documentary side of it all, and just to isolate the teachings themselves in the Osho Talks, which there is a HUGE amount of. It was the sitewide sale and I got most of the long ones, then when I saw a link to a site with ALL the Talks for free I felt like a complete donkey.
There is a whole different way of thinking that I hope can be achieved but it might take some time.
46-50, M