Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries by Osho (Epub)

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Book by Osho, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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⭐On the Socrates part:”First there is a certain experience we must be careful to avoid…That we must not become misologues, as people become misanthropes. There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse. Misology and misanthropy arise in the same way. Misanthropy comes when a man without knowledge or skill has placed great trust in someone and believes him to be altogether truthful, sound and trustworthy; then, a short time afterwards he finds him to be wicked and unreliable, and then this happens in another case; when one has frequently had that experience, especially with those whom one believed to be one’s closest friends, then, in the end, after many blows, one comes to hate all men and to believe that no one is sound in any way at all…””It would be pitiable…he [Socrates] said, when there is a true and reliable argument and one that can be understood, if a man who has dealt with such arguments as appear at one time true, at another time untrue [just as Socrates’ argument had appeared to those present], should not blame himself or his own lack of skill but, because of his distress, in the end gladly shift the blame away from himself to the arguments, and spend the rest of his life hating and reviling reasonable discussion and so be deprived of truth and knowledge of reality…This then is the first thing we should guard against, he [Socrates] said. We should not allow into our minds the conviction that argumentation has nothing sound about it; much rather we should believe that it is we who are not yet sound and that we must take courage and be eager to attain soundness.”—–Plato, PhaedoThen compare with Osho:”The person who thinks about truth is bound to think wrongly. All thinking is wrong about truth, because the moment you start thinking you follow the path of logic – and reality is paradoxical; they never crisscross. They run parallel, but they never meet.””When you are one with the master – so totally one, so deeply one – there is no argument, no logic, no reason.””I have been a teacher of philosophy for nine years, and finding that there was nothing except words, I entered into the world of mysticism. There I have found what was missing in all the philosophies, in all the logical treatises. But now it is impossible to say it. Still I speak. I have been speaking for thirty years continuously – round and round, hoping that somebody may get caught into the net of words and may be pulled out of the misery in which he is drowning. The words can do that much. They can pull you out of your logical world, your linguistic world, your world of philosophies. That too is great. Half the work is done, the remaining can be done by meditation.”On the poisoned part:My skeptical mind tells me that not only was Osho probably wasn’t poisoned by the U.S. government either. His symptoms seem much more likely a result of valium abuse and withdrawal than thallium poisoning IMO.Though my logical mind tells me that since science can actually tell us whether or not someone has been poisoned or not, reality must not be wholly illogical as Osho would have us believe. The logician would have us approach reality like a detective, Osho would have us approach it like a thief (to uses his words).On Zen and Osho’s enlightenment:Is such an approach the revelation of Zen? (Or is Zen wholly without revelation? Or merely to be made as paradoxical and difficult as possible?)If this review has piqued your interest, Graham Priest, the Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at CUNY, has done a lot of work on logical paradoxes and wrote an article for Aeon Magazine, “The logic of buddhism” that you might wanna check if you want to see how someone a little more well-read than me (logic also tells me that Osho didn’t read 100,000 books either; his writing doesn’t betray that much erudition IMO) sheds light onto this unwieldy topic.Osho claims to be fallible in this book’s opener. And in AoaSIM he says, “I am proof enough that being enlightened does not mean you are infallible.”—-Proof? How can you prove anything if logic is null?…Point taken.

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