Osho: The Book of Children
Jan 29, 2016 19:47:04 GMT 10
Post by James on Jan 29, 2016 19:47:04 GMT 10
I found this link to: The book of children, written by Osho - Rajneesh, the controversial Indian guru.
gaiancorps.com/terrace/unconscious-procreation/book-of-children/kid-pages/item/426-chapter-3
As an example, this is the first page of chapter three:
Chapter 3 ♦ Conditioning
Does a child not have as much right to privacy and freedom from parental conditioning as the parents expect for themselves? It is one of the most fundamental problems facing humanity today. The future depends on how we solve it. It has never been encountered before. For the first time man has come of age, a certain maturity has happened - and as you become mature you have to face new problems.
Slowly, slowly, as man progressed, he became aware of many kinds of slavery. Only recently in the West have we become aware that the greatest slavery is that of the child. It was never thought of before; it is not mentioned in any scripture of the world. Who could have thought ... a child and a slave? A slave to his own parents, who love him, who sacrifice themselves for the child? It would have looked ridiculous, utter nonsense!
But now, as psychological insight has deepened into the human mind and its functioning, it has become absolutely clear that the child is the most exploited person; nobody has been exploited more than the child. And of course he is being exploited behind a façade of love.
And I don't say that the parents are aware that they are exploiting the child, that they are imposing a slavery on the child, that they are destroying the child, that they are making him stupid, unintelligent, that their whole effort of conditioning the child as a Hindu, as a Mohammedan, as a Christian, as a Buddhist, is inhuman; they are not aware of it, but that does not make any difference as far as the facts are concerned. The child is being conditioned by the parents in ugly ways, and of course the child is helpless: he depends on the parents. He cannot rebel, he cannot escape, he cannot protect himself. He is absolutely vulnerable; hence he can be easily exploited.
Parental conditioning is the greatest slavery in the world. It has to be completely uprooted, only then will man be able for the first time to be really free, truly free, authentically free, because the child is the father of the man. If the child is brought up in a wrong way then the whole of humanity goes wrong. The child is the seed: if the seed itself is poisoned and corrupted by well-intentioned people, well-wishing people, then there is no hope for a free human individual. Then that dream can never be fulfilled.
This site has chapter three reproduced and I enjoyed reading his views on parenting and what happens to the child so as to be made obedient. However from this little bit it doesn’t seem like Osho understood the full depths of ones Childhood Repression, let alone how to go about healing it, and he didn’t believe in God as a Personality that we can love and feel loved by - that we can hate and feel hated by. And he seems to feel, because of his own experiences, that the mother can’t do any wrong and it’s all the father’s fault (that being based on his own personal experiences as a child), even though he speaks of both parents damaging the child. Still he does seem on the child’s side. So I think it’s worthwhile reading through this chapter, and I’ll think about possibly buying his book... however every spare cent at the moment Marion wants to by more crystals and crystal jewellery.
Then from another part of the site: a woman’s experience of being at Rajneesh’s ashram in India.
Jane Stork writes of high cost of Rajneesh's free love
From: Cult Awareness and Information Centre
Stork was introduced to the teachings of the Bhagwan through a psychologist she was seeing because of personal and marital problems.
The psychologist worked in the public health system but had just returned from Pune, India, where the Bhagwan had established an ashram.
"I didn't even notice that (he) was wearing a long orange robe and had a string of beads around his neck," she writes.
Going to Pune
The psychologist became her mentor, and in 1978 Stork followed his footsteps, and those of many other Australians, to Pune. She was later joined by her husband and two children — Peter, 10, and Kylie, aged 8.
Stork says she was attracted to the Bhagwan as a reaction to the guilt of her Catholic upbringing and because of the lack of rules and regulations in his teachings.
But she soon discovered that the ashram wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Stork felt uncomfortable with many aspects of life there, including the group sex and partner swapping, as well as deliberate moves to fragment families and drive a wedge between husbands and wives, parents and children.
Around 87 per cent of residents had a sexually transmitted disease and women who became pregnant were told by the Bhagwan to abort and sterilise, Stork says. Stork and her teenage daughter were both sterilised.
"Women would write (to the Bhagwan) saying 'I'm pregnant. what should I do?'
"And he would always say 'abort and sterilise'," she says.
"He used to speak so lovingly about children, yet behind the scenes everybody's getting sterilised. There were no children born in the ashram."
So it’s all very well free love and all the rest, but the fact is no one is doing their healing properly, they are all overlooking all that, having no idea what’s involved as we’re finding out through our healing. It’s all very well to say that there is no point being angry with your parents even when you can see how damaged you are by them, all because they too are victims, so you’ve got to get over it by meditation or having as much sex with everyone as you can. So it all turned into one big sex free-for-all mess, and possibly harming more children in the end than doing good for them.
However from the small bits I have read about what he says about parenting and our affects on children, most of it sounds good, and I can relate to it from my own personal experiences.
Also reading this snippet of Osho’s book I feel that all we are doing by setting out to do our healing and coming to terms with our unloving parenting is once again way beyond anything else; I mean, I don’t think I fully appreciate the full enormity of what I’ve written and all Marion has told me, even with all the healing I’ve done.
gaiancorps.com/terrace/unconscious-procreation/book-of-children/kid-pages/item/426-chapter-3
As an example, this is the first page of chapter three:
Chapter 3 ♦ Conditioning
Does a child not have as much right to privacy and freedom from parental conditioning as the parents expect for themselves? It is one of the most fundamental problems facing humanity today. The future depends on how we solve it. It has never been encountered before. For the first time man has come of age, a certain maturity has happened - and as you become mature you have to face new problems.
Slowly, slowly, as man progressed, he became aware of many kinds of slavery. Only recently in the West have we become aware that the greatest slavery is that of the child. It was never thought of before; it is not mentioned in any scripture of the world. Who could have thought ... a child and a slave? A slave to his own parents, who love him, who sacrifice themselves for the child? It would have looked ridiculous, utter nonsense!
But now, as psychological insight has deepened into the human mind and its functioning, it has become absolutely clear that the child is the most exploited person; nobody has been exploited more than the child. And of course he is being exploited behind a façade of love.
And I don't say that the parents are aware that they are exploiting the child, that they are imposing a slavery on the child, that they are destroying the child, that they are making him stupid, unintelligent, that their whole effort of conditioning the child as a Hindu, as a Mohammedan, as a Christian, as a Buddhist, is inhuman; they are not aware of it, but that does not make any difference as far as the facts are concerned. The child is being conditioned by the parents in ugly ways, and of course the child is helpless: he depends on the parents. He cannot rebel, he cannot escape, he cannot protect himself. He is absolutely vulnerable; hence he can be easily exploited.
Parental conditioning is the greatest slavery in the world. It has to be completely uprooted, only then will man be able for the first time to be really free, truly free, authentically free, because the child is the father of the man. If the child is brought up in a wrong way then the whole of humanity goes wrong. The child is the seed: if the seed itself is poisoned and corrupted by well-intentioned people, well-wishing people, then there is no hope for a free human individual. Then that dream can never be fulfilled.
This site has chapter three reproduced and I enjoyed reading his views on parenting and what happens to the child so as to be made obedient. However from this little bit it doesn’t seem like Osho understood the full depths of ones Childhood Repression, let alone how to go about healing it, and he didn’t believe in God as a Personality that we can love and feel loved by - that we can hate and feel hated by. And he seems to feel, because of his own experiences, that the mother can’t do any wrong and it’s all the father’s fault (that being based on his own personal experiences as a child), even though he speaks of both parents damaging the child. Still he does seem on the child’s side. So I think it’s worthwhile reading through this chapter, and I’ll think about possibly buying his book... however every spare cent at the moment Marion wants to by more crystals and crystal jewellery.
Then from another part of the site: a woman’s experience of being at Rajneesh’s ashram in India.
Jane Stork writes of high cost of Rajneesh's free love
From: Cult Awareness and Information Centre
Stork was introduced to the teachings of the Bhagwan through a psychologist she was seeing because of personal and marital problems.
The psychologist worked in the public health system but had just returned from Pune, India, where the Bhagwan had established an ashram.
"I didn't even notice that (he) was wearing a long orange robe and had a string of beads around his neck," she writes.
Going to Pune
The psychologist became her mentor, and in 1978 Stork followed his footsteps, and those of many other Australians, to Pune. She was later joined by her husband and two children — Peter, 10, and Kylie, aged 8.
Stork says she was attracted to the Bhagwan as a reaction to the guilt of her Catholic upbringing and because of the lack of rules and regulations in his teachings.
But she soon discovered that the ashram wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Stork felt uncomfortable with many aspects of life there, including the group sex and partner swapping, as well as deliberate moves to fragment families and drive a wedge between husbands and wives, parents and children.
Around 87 per cent of residents had a sexually transmitted disease and women who became pregnant were told by the Bhagwan to abort and sterilise, Stork says. Stork and her teenage daughter were both sterilised.
"Women would write (to the Bhagwan) saying 'I'm pregnant. what should I do?'
"And he would always say 'abort and sterilise'," she says.
"He used to speak so lovingly about children, yet behind the scenes everybody's getting sterilised. There were no children born in the ashram."
So it’s all very well free love and all the rest, but the fact is no one is doing their healing properly, they are all overlooking all that, having no idea what’s involved as we’re finding out through our healing. It’s all very well to say that there is no point being angry with your parents even when you can see how damaged you are by them, all because they too are victims, so you’ve got to get over it by meditation or having as much sex with everyone as you can. So it all turned into one big sex free-for-all mess, and possibly harming more children in the end than doing good for them.
However from the small bits I have read about what he says about parenting and our affects on children, most of it sounds good, and I can relate to it from my own personal experiences.
Also reading this snippet of Osho’s book I feel that all we are doing by setting out to do our healing and coming to terms with our unloving parenting is once again way beyond anything else; I mean, I don’t think I fully appreciate the full enormity of what I’ve written and all Marion has told me, even with all the healing I’ve done.
