Leo Gura

@Carl-Richard It's all just atoms and shit.

Giving an addict a bunch of money could actually hurt him. How much drugs is he gonna buy with that cash? I hope he has kicked his addictions by now but I doubt it. If he is stressed from this fire, this will make a relapse more likely.

@Terell Kirby Survival must happen either way and survival always involves work. So the question is what you will be working towards: either your values or a corrupt capitalist devil's values. Even monks clean toilets for some headmaster most of the day. Business is basically inescapable. If I could escape all business, I happily would.

That is the whole problem. He doesn't grasp God. That is why he is resorting to these word games.

That's not all. That's a stupid thing to bother rejecting. A man of Osho's intellect should know better than to be rejecting a strawman.

You don't know that.

No

I used to believe that but no longer. If they reject the word, then I will reject their realization. That is my new policy. No. Not even close to what I mean. You don't know that. Perhaps reasonable, but false.

Well, it does suck to deal with that nasty mess and lose your equipment. But he did not lose a house, which is a whole nother level of suck.

Too cute by half.

Sorry, not buying it. There is no other word for God but God. I refuse to accept that anyone who is allergic to the word because of history is actually conscious of God, because if he was, he would not object to the word. You don't throw away a perfect word just because some idiots used it incorrectly in the past. Osho speaks of God as if he doesn't understand what it is.

First time I hear this phrase.

He distinguishes between mind and Consciousness/Reality/Being. So when he says mind doesn't exist it is like saying the human self doesn't exist. He is speaking from the Absolute perspective. Ralston does not use "mind" in the same way I do. His notion of mind is not infinite.

So he was renting? It isn't even his house? And he doesn't have money to rent elsewhere? Strange.

What caused the fire?? Didn't he have house insurance to cover this?