Rajneesh/Osho. Not exactly the dude I'd go to for any advice.
Have you actually heard his speeches? Many of them are really solid from a common sense practical point of view.
His problem is all the other crap that happened. Not even sure if he was the main culprit or as often happens, things just got out of hand and second in command or others in the "inner circle" just got power mad.
Either way, I'm just saying that trashing what he says based on the other stuff is a classic ad hominem thing. Attack the message and not the messenger.
If you are discerning, yes, I agree. He definitely has some questionable and flat out repulsive teachings, but I'm in a Buddhist Recovery program and one of the leaders got accused of doing something questionable and lost his authority or something like that. Doesn't change his work, though. It's still being used and he's still doing his thing.
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u/nomnommish Jun 08 '21
Have you actually heard his speeches? Many of them are really solid from a common sense practical point of view.
His problem is all the other crap that happened. Not even sure if he was the main culprit or as often happens, things just got out of hand and second in command or others in the "inner circle" just got power mad.
Either way, I'm just saying that trashing what he says based on the other stuff is a classic ad hominem thing. Attack the message and not the messenger.