Talk:Sannyas: Orange and Mala

Seeing as this is a page where we talk about how to improve the page, whatever that might mean ...

A great idea, great pics, brilliant quote from Osho, and the extract from "Sam", well, it's pretty good in its way and definitely should have a place, but it may not be representative, ie "objective" or inclusive enough to be featured on the article page.

In fact, Osho's quote suggests strongly that this Talk page should be the place for it, along with other (sub-)articles on the theme. Sam has a viewpoint, nothing wrong with that, and he's a good writer, and he does his best to be far-seeing, eclectic and so on, but his words are still just a view, even as it purports to be a large view, perhaps as seen from far above.

In just one example of where he misses the really large view (thus marginalizing his whole presentation), he writes:

"Psychotherapy, meditation, creativity, mysticism...it’s a huge synthesis. And a synthesis existing not just as theory but as a quasi-political, international movement, with people at very different stages of their own individual development.

"What can hold it all together?

"I spent ages trying to think my way through this, while all along the answer was under my nose."

And what can this answer be that was right under his nose? Orange and the mala. Fine as far as it goes, but really in an important way, he has missed the answer to his rhetorical question, because it's surely Osho (in our hearts) that holds it together. Perhaps his problem was that he was thinking his way through it. Or perhaps he is writing only about outer symbols, but then those symbols cannot be said to be holding anything together, they are at most a device of recognition and bonding etc.

Blah blah whatever. Let's get some more writing on "Sannyas: Orange and Mala" and put it here, and have something else on the article page. Could be more Osho quotes, or more fact-based words less tilting to a view, or just that one quote and the pics, and an invitation ... -- doofus-9 (talk) 17:49, 15 February 2015 (UTC)