Osho's perspective on Therapy
When Osho Spoke About Therapy
Passages from the discourses where this theme comes alive.
Why are not the indians allowed to participate in the therapy groups? Second: are you brainwashing the innocent westerners in the therapy groups?
First he wants to know why Indians are not allowed in the therapy groups. Will they understand therapy? Will they understand bringing all their repressed sexuality out? Will they be able to realize and recognize their ugliness? Will they be able to see in the mirror of therapy their original face? I am perfectly ready to allow them. Pundit Lajjashankara Jha can be allowed, but will he be ready to put his scholarship -- he is a pundit, a brahmin -- will he be able to put his past aside and go into a therapy group? Will he be ready to be really spiritually naked, truthful, honest? -- because a therapy group can function only if you are authentic, if you say only that which you feel. But something else will happen: he will not say what he feels, he will say what is expected of him to say. Just…
Beloved Osho, how can a blind and ignorant person be helped by a blind and ignorant therapist and his blind advice? Is it all just to make some firecrackers explode in the dark tunnel, to have a party and excitement together, to make the journey a bit "piff-paff-puff"? Can real help and guidance not just come from a master like you? If you like, please comment.
Prem Ruchi, your question is," How can a blind and ignorant person be helped by a blind and ignorant therapist and his blind advice?" Do you mean to say that you cannot be helped by a doctor if you have a cancer and he has not? Are you going to look for a doctor who has a cancer? -- only he can help you? In life, you are being helped by many people who don't have the experience but who have the expertise. The difference is great between experience and expertise -- but the expert can also help. A man was purchasing eggs, and he said to the shopkeeper, "These eggs are rotten." The shopkeeper was very much shocked and angry, and he said, "Are you a hen? Have you ever laid an egg? What do you know about eggs? Neither are you an egg, nor are you a hen."…
Osho! Why are Indians not being included in group therapy, in collective psychotherapy? Is it only the West that needs group therapy and not the East? But that doesn’t seem to be the case. In fact, ninety percent of Indians are found to be sexually neurotic. In this context, please kindly clarify how it is justified to deprive Indians of this particular method, and why? Asked by Dr. Tapan Kumar Chaudhary. He is a doctor, so certainly he knows what the real mental condition of Indians is. All right—it's not just ninety percent; ninety-nine percent of Indians suffer from sex-repression. And I kn
I have broken no law. Everyone has the right to be naked in a room—otherwise all husbands and wives will have to be put in jail. I have broken no law. I am moving with full awareness on this count. There is no legal charge against me, nor against my ashram. We have taken care that in a legal way they cannot catch us. Otherwise, do you think they would spare me? If they can file twenty-two cases against Sanjay Gandhi, they would file two hundred and twenty against me. But even all the 420s together could not bring two hundred and twenty cases against me. There is no cause for a case. Hence there is a sense of impotence: what to do—nothing is within their power; otherwise they would have erased me. Still, they keep trying as far as they can. You say: Why don’t I include Indians in…
ओशो! भारतीयों को ग्रुप-थैरेपी, सामूहिक-मनोचिकित्सा में सम्मिलित क्यों नहीं किया जाता? क्या पश्चिम को ही सामूहिक-चिकित्सा की आवश्यकता है और पूर्व को नहीं? परंतु वस्तुस्थिति ऐसी नहीं दिखती। वास्तविकता तो यह है कि नब्बे प्रतिशत भारतीय ही यौन-विक्षिप्त पाये जाते हैं। इस संदर्भ में यह स्पष्ट करने की अनुकंपा करें कि भारतीयों को इस विशिष्ट पद्धति से वंचित रखना कहां तक उचित है और क्यों? पूछा है डाक्टर तपन कुमार चौधरी ने। डाक्टर हैं, तो निश्चित वे जानते हैं कि भारतीयों की असली मानसिक दशा क्या है। ठीक है, नब्बे प्रतिशत ही नहीं, निन्यानबे प्रतिशत भारतीय काम-दमन से पीड़ित हैं। और मैं जानता हूं उन्हें जितनी
मैंने कोई कानून नहीं तोड़ा है। कमरे के भीतर नग्न होने का प्रत्येक को अधिकार है, नहीं तो सभी पति-पत्नियों को जेल में डालना पड़ेगा। मैंने कोई कानून नहीं तोड़ा है। मैं इस हिसाब से होशियारी से चल रहा हूं। मेरे ऊपर कोई कानूनी जुर्म नहीं है, न मेरे आश्रम पर कोई कानूनी जुर्म है। सारी फिक्र इस ढंग से की है कि कानूनी ढंग से तो कोई तरह से वे पकड़ ही नहीं सकते। नहीं तो तुम सोचते हो, वे छोड़ते? अगर वे संजय गांधी पर बाईस मुकदमे चला सकते हैं तो मुझ पर दो सौ बीस चलाते। मगर सब चार सौ बीस मिलकर भी मुझ पर दो सौ बीस मुकदमे नहीं चला सकते। मुकदमे का कोई कारण नहीं है। इसलिए एक नपुंसकता अनुभव हो रही है कि क्या करें, वश नहीं चलता है, नहीं तो मिटा देते। मगर जितना वश चलता है उतनी चेष्टा जारी रखते हैं।
Osho, thousands of people enter into your therapy groups to transcend their limitations and break through emotional barriers. What guarantee is there that they will not suffer psychological damage?
WHAT MORE PSYCHOLOGICAL DAMAGE CAN YOU SUFFER? You have suffered it already. That work has already been done. You cannot be more ill than you are; you cannot fall more than you have fallen -- the society has done it already. We cannot damage you; it is impossible now. The damage has been done. What we are trying to do here is to undo it. You have been conditioned -- as a Hindu, as a Mohammedan, as a Jaina, as a Buddhist -- this is the damage. You have been conditioned as an Indian, as a German, as an Italian -- this is the damage. You have been forced to believe in things; you have been given all kinds of prejudices, superstitions. You have already been made schizophrenic; you have been cut into fragments. You have already been given the fever of ambition. You have been told that life is…
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