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I’m not in a place where I can listen at the moment, based on your textual quote and based on what I’ve seen and where I’ve personally been in the past, I would agree. “Toleration” smacks of condescension. A power dynamic is created where someone claiming moral superiority deigns to “tolerate” someone or something they consider damaged (at best) or inferior, or even evil (at worst). I don’t think even at my worst I ever associated “tolerance” with individuals either - tolerance was towards the idea or concept, and individual people I either accepted or rejected. There’s still a lot of bias there of course. Tolerance as a term reminds me of unconscious bias. Stating you tolerate someone means you are on some level (conscious or not) implying some superiority. I think the goal is to grow past that and learn to accept people as individuals. Just my two sats.

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I would have liked to have heard Osho have this discussion with HH Dali llama, or a Buddhist Rinpoche. Maybe I'll share with a Rinpoche on FB and see what their response is.....

I'm sure you will get a myriad of beautiful responses ;)

Osho was, at heart, a Zen master, so his teachings are full of contradictions designed to prevent borrowed knowledge and point the way to one's own inner experience.

Yes, he had his followers sign over all their possessions, while he paraded his fleet of 99 Rolls Royces in front of them. They poisoned the food of restaurants in The Dalles (a town), and poisoned the water of Madras. His followers stopped my dad on a public highway with Uzis. Fuck this hypocrite shitbag.

Yeah, absolutely crazy. Can't see why anyone would still take anything this horrible cunt has said seriously.