Shivananda’s initiation – as told to Punya
In this video, Rupda talks about her life growing up in spiritual communities and how she started running seminars worldwide
Subhuti writes from his visit to the exhibition, Yoshida: Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking, at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Friendship’ by commenting on Pythagoras’ sutra: “Choose for thy friend, the friend of virtue; yield to his gentle counsels, profit by his life; and for a trifling grievance never leave him.”
Gopal writes about the third song in the album titled Fly, Fly High, in his collection Songs of Gratefulness Inspired by Osho
This month’s planet transits discussed by Marga; “This month it is important to take a look at our Human Design birth chart to see what our situation is…”
From the album called, Fly, Fly High, part of Gopal’s compilation, Songs of Gratefulness Inspired by Osho
Abundance of colors in this double show of Michael Sudheer’s photographs from his recent visit to Europe
“Whatsoever you believe becomes effective,” says Osho. “You see only that which you are looking for.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “Your heart is beating now. It cannot beat in the past; it cannot beat in the future. The heart knows only the present, hence it is utterly pure…”
“When the disciple touches the feet of the master, it is not only what you see, something else is happening.”
Nityaprem reports on and assesses an experiment; “If people choose to learn about Osho from Chat AI they may well get a much less biased view than if they read old lifestyle magazine articles…”
In Part 15 of Shanti’s series: Friedrich Nietzsche, Rabindranath Tagore, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Ruth St. Denis, Dalai Lama
Short reviews by Madhuri on books by Anne Watts, Keith Foskett, Bill Green, Philip Gonzalez and Leonore Fleischer, Jojo Moyes, Louise Candlish, Doris Lessing, Barbara Erakko Taylor, Sherman Alexie, Karen Armstrong, David Vann, Alec Le Sueur, Elizabeth Kim
“Sex is only the alphabet of love, bricks out of which you can make a Taj Mahal. But Taj Mahal is not just bricks,” states Osho
Subhan writes, “Years ago, I heard someone say that the universe is one, and that we are all interconnected with everyone and everything around us. But that was NOT my experience.”
Doris Stellmacher (Sangit Masto) recalls the three-month Esoteric Science Training with Wadud and Waduda of autumn 1988
This beautiful meditation is from The Book of the Secrets: ‘Toward the Untouched Inner Reality’: “I have used it in Channeling groups as well as Tantra groups and private Tantra meditations,” writes Madhuri
by Waduda (aka Leela) to the 1991, now out-of-print, boxed edition of The Book of the Secrets by Osho, where she writes about her experience in preparing herself for and then leading the three-month Esoteric Science Training workshop
An excerpt from Madhuri’s latest book, Reluctantly to Kunzum La: Motorbiking in the Himalayas in the Name of Love
For Part 14 of his series, Shanti’s invited to speak: Walt Whitman, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu
From Subhan’s desk; “We can say that something has ended, but it’s helpful to remember that this exists ONLY in the mind.”
“First you have to become a receiver, first you have to attain to silence, then communion is possible, not before it.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “The vast ocean, the infinite, is moving. You are just a wave in it. Relax, and let things be!”
“Just as Drugs, Sex and Rock ‘n’ Roll were popular in the 60s, inquiry about The End is a popular topic among my generation of Boomers,” writes Rico Provasoli
In part 13, Shanti lets the mystics speak: Gautama Buddha, Dōgen Zenji, Hakuin Ekaku, Kabir and Ramakrishna
Follow Nandin’s voice accompanied by her background music (and beautiful graphics) for 10 minutes of relaxation
“When I am talking about one way, I am that way. Don’t cling to my words, listen to the wordless message. And if it hits your heart, if it sings in your heart, then you have found your way.”
Purushottama is sharing with the sangha a priceless body of work he has collected over the years while offering online and in-presence meditation courses
“The original mind is egoless. It does not know the ‘I’, because ‘I’ is a shrinking. The original mind is infinite, like the sky.”
14 Variations by Siddho Varza on a Theme by Paul Cézanne, with an essay titled, Painting and Happiness
“For a real lover of challenges, success and failure mean nothing,” says Osho to a sannyasin in darshan
A review of Neeten’s online book by Scott Lowe, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, published in the magazine Nova Religio