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Books by Ronnie Wood, Barbara Kingsolver, Merridy Eastman, Andrew Lownie, Rob Parsons, Rosamond Lehmann, James Cracknell and Beverly Turner, Helen Dunmore – reviewed by Madhuri
“That is a subtle and cunning way of the mind to escape from itself.”
The book, Toxic: Stories, Science and Remedies for a Cleaner Mind, Body and Spirit was co-authored by Swami Shailendra Saraswati, published by Bloomsbury India
Tantra teacher Satya Puja’s signature retreat is now available as a full online course, opening 17 September 2026
Subhan writes about a workshop module he has devised to explore the hidden roots that shape our behaviour, relationships and decisions
Modita tells her story
Marga explains how Planets can enrich and fine-tune a HD relationship reading with the help of Astrology and Gene Keys
Apurva’s first meeting with Osho
Insights / Essays
The hard lesson that Prince Harry needs to learn – by Subhuti
Amido and Purushottama continue their 2006 travels in India, to Rajasthan, Udaipur and Mount Abu, where they visit Vimala Thakar (Part 4)
“The mystics have told us that watching is never a fighting,” writes Subhan
No. 10 from Avikal’s collection, Coming Home
Note 8 from Avikal’s collection, Coming Home
Sudas reports from his visit, earlier this spring, to the Elontuli retreat centre in Finland, created by Sudeva and Pragita
Discourses and Darshans
“I am giving you a simple alternative: you have to drop your whole past – your hatred, your distinctions of color and nation, your fights amongst religions, political ideologies…”
Poetry / Prose
Mini-collages as free art born out of Samudra’s creativity
Preview of Veeno’s exhibition at the Johanniter Chapel, Rheinfelden, Switzerland, 22 August – 27 September 2026
Samudra’s latest creative venture – on video and in two photo slideshows. Let yourself be surprised! (Exhibition opens 2 July in Le Conquet, Brittany, France)
Photographs from the Eternal City by Michael Sudheer
A poem with photographs by Dhyan Tarpan
A photo with a poem – by Fakeer
The book, Toxic: Stories, Science and Remedies for a Cleaner Mind, Body and Spirit was co-authored by Swami Shailendra Saraswati, published by Bloomsbury India
Books by Ronnie Wood, Barbara Kingsolver, Merridy Eastman, Andrew Lownie, Rob Parsons, Rosamond Lehmann, James Cracknell and Beverly Turner, Helen Dunmore – reviewed by Madhuri
This month Madhuri reviews books by Brian Masters, Charlotte Uhlenbroek, Rosamunde Pilcher, Andrew Terrill, Michael Connelly, Sarah Penner
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Nudity’; “We have created a world around ourselves and we have cut ourselves off from nature. We have become uprooted – and this uprootedness is one of the basic causes of your misery.”
“That is a subtle and cunning way of the mind to escape from itself.”
In the Media
The book, Toxic: Stories, Science and Remedies for a Cleaner Mind, Body and Spirit was co-authored by Swami Shailendra Saraswati, published by Bloomsbury India
Chaitanya Keerti, who knew both filmmaker Vijay Anand and his niece Sushma personally at Osho’s ashram, has disputed a recent Indian Express report claiming Osho advised the marriage between them
“For Osho, Guru Purnima was not simply about paying respect to a teacher but about beginning an inward journey,” writes Kanakanjali Roy in the Hindustan Times on July 29, 2026
“I care only for those who are ready to change the very course of human consciousness.”
“I want also the whole of humanity to rise with the enlightened people…”
Osho speaks in darshan to a sannyasin who is leaving to visit her dying father, and gives her a special meditation. “I call it emptying. Just empty yourself of everything, like a zero, just a nothingness.”
Q: When I awake in the morning I feel very depressed… I want to know if I can do something when I feel depressed.
When pleasure and anger are hooked together
by Hibiscus Belvedere (Shaheena)
Series
Phoebe comments on the last two chapters of the discourse series, Roots and Wings. Protagonists are Mahakashyapa and the Zen monk Ziguin
Osho comments on anecdotes about Zen Masters Ekido, Mu-Nan and Nansen, in the discourse series Roots and Wings – by Phoebe
Take-away lessons from anecdotes about Zen Masters Joshu, Hyakujo and Bankei, as told by Osho in the series Roots and Wings – by Phoebe
A meditation technique that can be made in couples, two friends or partners, presented by Madhuri.
Marga explains how Planets can enrich and fine-tune a HD relationship reading with the help of Astrology and Gene Keys
