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Osho and Cixous

I am reading the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra and an introduction to it by Osho. The text has occupied me for several weeks now and feel much better than ever before. I have been practicing the techniques taught. Osho talks about a lot of things very sensibly. His commentary on the habits that we take to often have a reference to the time he was living in. These comments have been largely misunderstood in most of the stuff found on Osho on the internet. I remember distinctly what Osho says about experience. He asks us to experience things in themselves without the help of beliefs and words. He criticizes us that the moment something is about to enter our experience, we hurriedly name and interpret it. In talking of the word sex, he explains how all we have lost it. Sitting in France, a stark contrast came to mind, that of Helene Cixous. She is treasured for responding in her writing to words and is considered very good for this and more, by many of my Indian friends too. I too liked her at