“Democracy basically means - Government by the people, of the people, for the people. But the people are retarded”. - Osho
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Leave it to a yogi to have the last word on individualism.
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He was far from being a yogi. He taught no yogic practice. A lot closer to Zen Buddhism, but really just unique.
Buddha was an ascetic of the yogi tradition?
Out of Yoga we have almost every religion and tradition out of the east. If you want to you could generalize even Christianity as an extension of Yoga since Christ was a Yogi.
Like I said, Osho can’t be categorized. It’s impossible. Zen Buddhism is just more similar to what he advocates.
Osho is his own category.
As are each of us. Every day. 💛
Interesting.
> One main difference between yoga and Buddhism is that while yogis seek self-knowledge, Buddhists seek to reframe the concept of self. For Buddhists, the idea of an unchanging self is an illusion. The delusion tricks us into believing we are separate, unchanging individuals. When we believe that, we spend our lives clinging to our ideas of who we are and what will make us happy only to find it doesn’t work.
I do not agree with this comparison. Yoga is an all encompassing science for which Buddhism exists under. Osho does not.
Buddhas path was very tantric, and not methodical. Awareness of breath, watchfulness, meditation, have to do with the first several tantras(techniques) revealed by Shiva.
Seeking self knowledge is an oxymoron. Yoga means union. A Yogi is someone who experiences everything as themself. A Buddhist achieves this, with yogic techniques, through increasing awareness with methods like meditation, concentration, discipline. A Yogi might achieve this through Kriya Yoga, manipulation of the breath, transfer of energy throughout the body to certain points, and also meditation. They might achieve this by exhausting their Karma through Hatha Yoga, alignment of the body, to be a penetrable vessel for the universe. There are MANY more.
The goal is not self-knowledge. They’re acutely aware of the boundaries, the karma, the flesh, the lust, the heartbreak death and disease, and simply want to remove the boundary. Not for self knowledge, but because the soul longs for boundlessness. It’s an end unto itself. No goal.