short follow-up re Osho

Appreciated all comments and info passed along in response to my recent post about Osho. Just wanted to post an excerpt from a recent e-mail exchange with Jerry which I thought was instructive:

Each person has to examine their reaction to Osho. Maybe we expect enlightened people to be perfect in every way and when we see they're not, then we figure they're not enlightened and therefore their teachings are not worth examining.

For my money, his teachings are valid, but they get dismissed or become suspect because of his involvement in things that people don't expect from an enlightened one. It might require us to look at the source of our own expectations.

Virtually every event in our lives can give us a chance to examine our own expectations, if we let it. I've personally noticed that when I get upset or angry about something, it's usually because I had set my expectations too high. This is particularly easy for students to do with respect to their teachers. We routinely have very high expectations of our spiritual teachers, and it can be hard for us to accept it when they don't live up to them -- especially if they're supposed to be enlightened.