Q: When you came to say farewell to Dadaji on the podium in Buddha Hall, suddenly the area where you and Dadaji’s body were became like a film. You both seemed to be without substance.
Osho, would you say something about your father’s death yesterday?
During a rare interview in the seventies, Osho’s father tells Sarjano about ‘little Mohan’s’ childhood and how he took sannyas
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.”
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– 7 September 2024
Deva Premal and Miten’s tour dates with the Temple Band of their upcoming 16-concert European Tour in September, October and November
Miten and Tanmayo reminisce about the first song in the album Let Love Grow of Gopal’s compilation, Songs of Gratefulness – Inspired by Osho
Nirbija writes from his visit to Osho Parimal’s Special Summer Festival (19-28 July 2024)
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
“A wonderfully cleansing exercise, a mainstay in Waduda’s Heart groups,” according to Madhuri
Subhuti on why the media is warning the public about mindfulness
One of Waduda’s Heart Group exercises I took away to use many a time in my own groups, writes Madhuri
Insights / Moments / Notes
We are often granted glimpses of five-dimensional communication in this life, writes S D Anugyan
A cautionary tale for all tourists – by Subhuti
Subhan asks, “Do you want to feel gratefulness? “
Essays
In Part 18 of his series, Shanti quotes under the section, Fragrances of human flowering, from more mystics
This whole Part 17 of Shanti’s series, subtitled Fragrances of human flowering, is dedicated to the Persian poet and mystic Hafiz
An essay by Kul Bhushan
A handwritten note by Osho from the collection titled Vichar Anu (Thought Particles)
Osho replies in writing to the question: ‘Can one meditate on a formless entity? And if so, will the formless remain formless?’
Discourses and Darshans
Osho replies in discourse to a question from a disciple
Tagore’s insight “that the moon is the moon whether you have a very beautiful mirror or a very ordinary mirror.”
Music
Miten and Tanmayo reminisce about the first song in the album Let Love Grow of Gopal’s compilation, Songs of Gratefulness – Inspired by Osho
Parijat’s song, the 6th in the album titled, Let Love Shine Through. Texts by Parijat, Raji and Gopal on the song and the Uta Band
Gopal writes about the third song in the album titled Fly, Fly High, in his collection Songs of Gratefulness Inspired by Osho
Shivananda’s most recent paintings in our online art gallery
A slide show of photos of Atit Maria’s terracotta sculptures, with a personal letter
Poetry / Prose
Short reviews by Madhuri on books by Cathy Glass, William Finnegan, Glen Tibaldeo and Laura Berger, James Lee Burke, Dr. Louis J. Camuti, Matt Lewis, Stevie Smith, Rosemary Thornton, Maria Coffey, Susan Lewis and George Mahood
An exhibition of Rashid’s most recent paintings at the Gallery Different in Central London, 2-5 October 2024
An invitation by Marie Jamil to visit her exhibition in Kassel, Germany, 7-8 September 2024
Subhuti writes from his visit to the exhibition, Yoshida: Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking, at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London
News / Letters / Events / Media Watch
Deva Premal and Miten’s tour dates with the Temple Band of their upcoming 16-concert European Tour in September, October and November
Article in the Italian Il Mattino, 27 August 2024
Ageh Bharti reports from the summer festival at the Osho Int. Meditation Resort, Pune, 11-15 August 2024
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.”
Letter 145 from the collection, A Cup of Tea
Deva Premal and Miten’s tour dates with the Temple Band of their upcoming 16-concert European Tour in September, October and November
Sannyasins know how to celebrate!
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…
Osho speaks to a sannyasin in darshan who had asked: Would you say something about dying?
with Shastro (video of 25 min)
Follow Nandin’s voice accompanied by her background music (and beautiful graphics) for 10 minutes of relaxation
A main dish from Veet Karen’s vegan cooking school
Another cook-along recipe by Veet on video
A recipe from Joy and Michael
Just got this in from a reliable source.
This month’s planet transits discussed by Marga; “Better to intensify the art of meditation to avoid being completely sucked into the Mind and its ideas, especially if they are not even our own!”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “Your very being has to be musical, it has to become harmony. A man can exist as a chaos or a cosmos. Music is the way from chaos to cosmos.”
NEW BOOKS BY SANNYASINS
The wonderfully designed book, subtitled Songs of Love, Wonder & Devotion, contains 25 poems, photos and stories
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