In part 12, Shanti lets artists and poets speak: Michelangelo, Robert Frost, Rabindranath Tagore, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Miguel de Cervantes, Gertrude Stein, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikos Kazantzakis, Ōtagaki Rengetsu, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Maria Angelou, Sappho
Ailon’s initiation into sannyas in Pune, from his yet-unpublished memoir, Diary of a Neurotic Jewish Yoga Teacher
Gopal and Subhan’s comments on a selection of tracks from album 3 of the compilation, Songs of Gratefulness – inspired by Osho
“All paths can lead to it because in a way it is already achieved. It is within you. You are not seeking something new. You are seeking something which you have forgotten.”
In Part 11 of his series, Shanti calculated costs and savings when switching to an efficient and renewables energy system using our present defense budgets
Part 2 of Sajjad’s photographs from his mountaineering trips with his beloved Saaralya, in the Italian Alps
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho from the series And the Flowers Showered; “There is no way to find truth, except through finding it!”
A video interview (in English) by Vrienden van Osho with the vice-president of the Humaniversity, a world-renowned therapy institute in Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands
Osho speaks to a sannyasin in darshan, “One should always cultivate something that is purely for delight.”
“Life itself is enough unto itself. And if you are trying to fulfill some goal, you will miss life.”
Short reviews by Madhuri of books by authors: Burton Silver and Heather Busch, Pico Iyer, Celia Imrie, Joseph Wambaugh, Marina Chapman, Bernie Chowdhury, Joe Tusker
Divakar (Marc Itzler) writes, “Society has become more sensitive and more discerning. We now ask more of ourselves. We demand a higher standard of self-awareness, of values, of behaviour.”
In Part 10 of the series, Humans Are Still Young, Shanti discusses the size of global military spending and the concept of nations
Spring photographs by Surendra; “Although every year cherry blossoms bring the experience of renewal, they are also a reminder of how fragile and fleeting life is.”
Abheeru and Divya interviewed Leela on zoom about her life with Osho and of course about the Mystic Rose
Osho speaks on ‘Leela’: “Life is a leela, it is a play, and the moment you are ready to play, you are enlightened… You are already that which you are trying to be.”
“Don’t start seeking, just start looking at what is the case. Looking into the reality as it is, is enough.”
In Part 9 of his series, Shanti explores the socio-economic and earth-system trends of the new geological epoch called Anthropocene
Jokes and the let-go meditation guided by Osho (with audio); “Just be a witness that you are not the body. Be a witness that you are not the mind. And finally, be a witness that you are only a witness, nothing else.”
Avinasho opens her very first art exhibition, running from 2 to 30 May 2024, at the Freie Galerie Munich, Germany
A recipe from Maria-Carin’s cookbook, Lick Your Plate! It includes a recipe for a Tomato Harissa Salsa to go with the chippies
Part 8 of Shanti’s series: “The Holocene has seen many of us creating… some of us have flowered as caretakers… in scientific research, on the path of devotion, or exploring beyond the frontiers of the known.”
Sarjano remembers in his memoir the events leading up to the Italian journalist Enzo Biagi interviewing Osho on 12 January 1986 in Kathmandu. The program was then shown on national television Rai Uno, on 28 January 1986 (video with transcription)
Leela from Osho France interviews four experienced facilitators on: Mystic Rose, No-Mind, Born Again, and Reminding Yourself of the Forgotten Language of Talking to Your BodyMind
Osho states, “A destination is a very clear-cut thing; direction is very intuitive. A destination is something outside you, more like a thing. A direction is an inner feeling; not an object, but your very subjectivity…” (with audio)
Osho speaks on ‘Death – Love – Meditation’: “All that you can do is either you can go into it dancing or you can go into it reluctant, clinging to life. If you are reluctant you will miss the experience of death. If you go joyously you will have the experience of death.”
In Part 7 Shanti writes, “We may have shown our ugliest face to the mirror, to others and to life on the planet, but we have also expressed our potential.“
“The seeker is the sought. Just a few unnecessary things are crowding you. The search is negative – drop them and you discover yourself in all your glory.”
A grand 60th Birthday Party for Neerav: a Poona Revival Festival at Parimal in Germany, 22-26 September 2024. Five days of sharing, meditating and dancing, just like in the old Poona days…
Madhuri’s short reviews on books by: Jon Ronson, Myriam Sagan, Isabella Bird, High Lasgarn, Catherine Cookson, Caitlin Moran, Claude Saks, Stan Jones, Ayya Khema, Thurston Clarke, Helena Merriman
Historical notes by Michael Topper on this re-surfaced documentary, one of the first about Osho and his commune
In Part 6 Shanti writes, “The next step in the development of human societies… cannot be other than One World and a World Administration. “
Photographs by Surendra: “In the Japanese winter, colours in the landscape fade and sometimes disappear altogether… Going around with my camera, I was happy to explore this world of muted colours in nature. “
Anasuya wrote an article for the French magazine Nexus, which published it in their March-April issue, No. 151. Here exclusively for Osho News the English translation