Osho's "Ten Commandments"

In 1970, when he was still known as Acharya Rajneesh, Osho was asked about his "Ten Commandments". In his letter of reply, Osho noted that it was a difficult matter, because he was against any kind of commandment, but "just for fun" agreed to set out the following. 1. Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also. 2. There is no God other than life itself. 3. Truth is within you, do not search for it elsewhere. 4. Love is prayer. 5. To become a nothingness is the door to truth. Nothingness itself is the means, the goal and attainment. 6. Life is now and here. 7. Live wakefully. 8. Do not swim - float. 9. Die each moment so that you can be new each moment. 10. Do not search. That which is, is. Stop and see.

소유

그대, 그대가 원하는 만큼 소유할 수 있으리. 그러나 소유함으로써 이제껏 삶을 완성한 사람은 없다. 삶은 오직 존재함으로써 이루어지는 것. 소유로서 이루어지는 게 아니다. 세속적이지도, 비세속적이지도 말라. 소유하지도 무소유하지도 말라. -오쇼 라즈니쉬의 <배꼽>에서

'이제는 더이상 내 양떼가 아니야.' 산티아고는 스스로에게 다짐하며 그리움을 참으려고 했다. '아마 벌써 새 양치기와 친해져서 나를 잊어버렸을 거야. 그게 좋은 거지. 양들처럼 떠돌아다니는 것에 익숙한 짐승들은 언젠가는 헤어질 날이 온다는 걸 잘 아니까.' 그리고 양털 가게 주인의 딸. 그녀는 이미 결혼을 했을 것이다. 팦콘 장수와 결혼했을 수도 있고, 그처럼 글을 읽을 줄 알고 여러가지 신기한 이야기를 들려주는 양치기와 결혼했을 수도 있었다. 결국, 반드시 그여야 했던 건 아니었다. 그는 자신의 내부에서 나온 예감으로 인해 약간의 동요를 느꼈다. 어쩌면 그는 지금 모든 사람들의 현재와 과거를 알게 하는 우주의 언어를 배우고 있는 건지도 몰랐다. 예감, 어머니가 자주 입에 올리던 말이었다. 그는 '예감'이라는 것이 삶의 보편적인 흐름 한가운데, 그러니까 세상 사람들의 모든 이야기들 속에 그럴 수밖에 없는 어떤 방식으로 펼쳐져 있는 것임을 이해하기 시작했다. 그리고 그것은 천지의 모든 일이 이미 기록되어 있기 때문이라는 것도 이해할 수 있었다. "마크툽." 산티아고는 크리스털 가게 주인을 회상하며 중얼거렸다. - 파울로 코엘료의 <연금술사>에서

남들도 모르게 서성이다 울었지 지나온 일들이 가슴에 사무쳐 텅빈 하늘밑 불빛들 켜져가면 옛사랑 그이름 아껴 불러보네 찬바람 불어와 옷깃을 여미우다 후회가 또 화가 나 눈물이 흐르네 누가 물어도 아플것 같지 않던 지나온 내모습 모두 거짓인가 이제 그리운 것은 그리운 대로 내 맘에 둘거야 그대 생각이 나면 생각난 대로 내버려 두듯이 흰눈 나리면 들판에 서성이다 옛사랑 생각에 그 길 찾아가지 광화문거리 흰눈에 덮혀가고 하얀눈 하늘 높이 자구 올라가네 이제 그리운 것은 그리운 대로 내 맘에 둘거야 그대 생각이 나면 생각난 대로 내버려 두듯이 사랑이란게 지겨울때가 있지 내맘에 고독이 너무 흘려 넘쳐 눈녹은 봄날 푸르른 잎새 위에 옛사랑 그대 모습 영원속에 있네

Scientologists in France go on trial for fraud

Registered as a religion in the United States, with celebrity members such as actors Tom Cruise and John Travolta, Scientology enjoys no such legal protection in France and has faced repeated accusations of being a money-making cult. The group's Paris headquarters and bookshop are defendants in the case. If found guilty, they could be fined €5 million ($7 million) and ordered to halt their activities in France. Seven leading French Scientology members are also in the dock. Some are charged with illegally practising as pharmacists and face up to 10 years in prison and hefty fines. The case centres on a complaint made in 1998 by a woman who said she was enrolled into Scientology after members approached her in the street and persuaded her to do a personality test. In the following months, she paid more than €21,000 for books, "purification packs" of vitamins, sauna sessions and an "e-meter" to measure her spiritual progress, she said. Other complaints then surfaced. The five original plaintiffs - three of whom withdrew after reaching a financial settlement with the Church of Scientology - said they spent up to hundreds of thousands of euros on similar tests and cures. They told investigators that Scientology members harassed them with phone calls and nightly visits to cajole them into paying their bills or taking out bank loans. The plaintiffs were described as "vulnerable" by psychological experts in the case. Scientology, founded in 1954 by science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard, describes the "e-meter" as a religious artefact that helps the user and supervisor locate spiritual distress. Investigators have described the machine as useless and said vitamin cures handed out by Church members were medication that should not have been freely sold. Judge Jean-Christophe Hullin ruled last year that the offices and members, including the group's 60-year-old French head, Alain Rosenberg, should be tried. The public prosecutor had recommended the case be shelved. In a trial that has revived a debate about religious freedom in secular France, the defence is expected to argue the court should not intervene in religious affairs. Scientology has faced numerous setbacks in France, with members convicted of fraud in Lyon in 1997 and Marseille in 1999. In 2002, a court fined it for violating privacy laws and said it could be dissolved if involved in similar cases. The headquarters and bookshop account for most of the group's activities in France and a guilty verdict would in practice mean its dissolution, although it is unclear whether it could still open other branches in the future. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/scientologists-in-france-go-on-trial-for-fraud-1690579.html

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.

R.I.P.

"As of the bribery scandal, I am clean. History will reveal the truth." - Roh, Moo Hyun (Ex-President of S.Korea)

Six Minutes Writing

That first day was the longest, the day after you left. I spent six hours sleeping six hours reading six hours eating six hours sitting six minutes writing fighting every inclination in me to convince the holiday company that I was too ill to stay away, from you. I wasn't homesick, Just yousick which annoyed me. Until today I didn't believe that it's not where you are but who you're with that makes the difference between being content and being happy. -Kadija Sesay

Faith is not something to be proud of. Faith is retarded. The more faith you have, the more retarded you are. Luckily, knowledge is to faith what light is to darkness.

He droaps a cotton ball intae the spoon n blaws oan it, before sucking up aboot 5 mls through the needle, intae the barrel ay the syringe. He's goat a fuckin huge blue vein tapped up, which seems tae be almost comin through Ali's airm. He pierces her flesh and injects a wee bit slowly, before sucking blood back intae the chamber. Her lips quivering as she gazes pleadingly at him for a second or two. Sick Boy's face looks ugly, leering and reptilian, before he slams the cocktail towards her brain. She pulls back her heid, shuts her eyes and opens her mooth, givin oot an orgasmic groan. Sick Boy's eyes are now innocent and full ay wonder, his expression like a bairn thit's come through oan Christmas morning tae a pile ay gift-wrapped presents stacked under the tree. They baith look strangely beautiful and pure in the flickering candlelight. - That beats any meat injection... that beats any fuckin cock in the world... Ali gasps, completely serious. It unnerves us tae the extent that ah feel ma ain genitals through ma troosers tae see if they're still thair. Touchin masel like that makes us feel queasy though. From Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Hell

every sunday dressin' up catchin' gossip at its worst couldn't see the difference in the baptist and the catholic church caught up in the rapture of the first chapter and the second verse if we all god's children then what's the word of the reverend worth taught early that faith is blind like justice when you facin' time if we all made in god's image then that means his face is mine wait or it's that blasphemy it's logical it has to be if i don't look like my father then the way i live is bastardly naturally that's confusion to a young'n tryin' to follow christ taught that if you don't know jesus then you lead a hollow life never question the fact that jesus was jewish not a christian or that christianity was law according to politicians and who was king james and why did he think that it was so vital to remove chapters and make his own version of the bible they say hell is underground and heaven is in the sky they say that's where you go when you die but how they know i've been to many churches i've quoted many verses i've dealt with my base self i controlled my many urges i used to study my lessons that was a blessing and not a curse i found out that heaven and hell exist right here on earth word studied with rastafarians found out from the dreads that hell is called babylon and that's where them crazy boarheads dwell they got us thinkin that muslims like to make bombs but real muslims believe in paradise and resist the shaitan so it all sound the same to me but when they say one's right and the other's wrong it just sound like game to me it's like god skip past the church and came to me no that ain't vain to me it's just a particular way i came to see the difference between those that claim to be religious and those they say they spiritual and recognize that life is full of miracles you could see my glow in a rhyme the poem divine 'cause they coincide with a grow in the time that those who lookin' for god knowin' to go inside living in mass confusion looking for absolution the gas seducing and psychopath produce the last solution based on his interpretation of what the words were sayin lookin' for god but ended up doin' the work of satan religion create division make the muslim hate the christian make the christian hate the jew make the rules in faith that you condition to and to you gotta follow god forbid you go to hell but if you ever walked through any ghetto then you know it well -talib kweli Download here: http://rapidshare.com/files/232030239/10_Give__Em_Hell__feat._Coi_Mattison___Lyfe_Jennings_.mp3

The Antichrist

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome. The very word "Christianity" is a misunderstanding - in truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross. As an artistic triumph in psychological corruption... the Gospels, in fact, stand alone... Here we are among Jews: this is the first thing to be borne in mind if we are not to lose the thread of the matter. This positive genius for conjuring up a delusion of personal "holiness" unmatched anywhere else, either in books or by men; this elevation of fraud in word and attitude to the level of an art - all this is not an accident due to the chance talents of an individual, or to any violation of nature. The thing responsible is race. That faith makes blessed under certain circumstances, that blessedness does not make of a fixed idea a true idea, that faith moves no mountains but puts mountains where there are none; a quick walk through a madhouse enlightens one sufficiently about this. I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty - I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.

DOGMA is the primary problem - All assertions must be proven beyond reasonable doubt - Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Recognize that you reject the claims of all other religions, and extreme ideologies because you can objectively see that they are nonsense - You just need to take it one step further, and apply those same critical standards to your own religion

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Faith

"'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true." -Friedrich Nietzsche "Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved." -Tim Minchin "Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits." -Dan Barker "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." - Richard Dawkins

"I just don't think I can continue to live in a place that embraces and nurtures apathy as if it was a virtue." "You aren't different. You're no better." "I didn't say I was. I'm not. Hell, I sympathize. I sympathize completely. Apathy is a solution. I mean, it's easier to lose yourself in drugs than it is to cope with life. It's easier to steal what you want than to earn it. It's easier to beat a child than to raise it. Love costs. It takes effort, work." from the movie Se7en