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Back from her travels, Madhuri writes about books by Andy Cave, Doris Lessing, Dodie Smith, Joe Biel and Elly Blue, Walt Larimore, Karolina Ramqvist, Charlotte Bingham, Heather McDonald, Dave Barry, June Tate
“You are supported by your past life, that’s why you are here. And your past life is supported by another past life…”
A poem by Ageh Bharti
Dharmamurti remembers his move from Buffalo, New York, to the Bear Tribe in California – as told to Madhuri (Part 1) [Long Read]
The smartphone, of all things, is supposed to help with meditation? This month, an experiment gets under way that approaches a contradiction of our time in earnest and turns it into research, writes Dwariko Pfeifer
Tarangini and Prachi from Osho World present their new project in detail
Anuragi reflects on the challenge of preserving a living legacy
Srajan’s story from the Dutch collection ‘Hoe Osho in mijn leven kwam’ (How Osho Came into My Life)
Insights / Essays
Rabindranath Tagore, Hazrat Inayat Khan and Jiddu Krishnamurti each set foot on Dutch soil – essay by Shanti
When meditation becomes a profession, association becomes authority, and the messenger becomes a product – by Anuragi
At fourteen Radhika felt ready for love – the grown men around her knew better
Food for thought – by Sambodhi Prem
In this letter Pankaja acknowledges the lack of care many of the children in our communes have suffered, without denying the positive experiences that also happened
Amido (text) and Purushottama (photos) end their 2006 pilgrimage in India with a visit to Varanasi, Darjeeling, Rumtek and Kalimpong (Part 7)
Sampatti’s crystals capturing the ashram’s energy
An observation by Subhan
Note no. 15 from Avikal’s collection, Coming Home
From Avikal’s collection, Coming Home – note no. 11
Subhan explains his four-step approach which has helped himself and many others find the work they love. Next workshop on October 23–25, 2026
Already in its third edition, the Festival will be held at Osho Parimal, Witzenhausen, in the heart of Germany (between Kassel and Göttingen), 18–22 October 2026
This year’s Boulderthon kicked off on Sunday, September 27, with a 5K run dedicated to Bhikkhu Schober
Back from her travels, Madhuri writes about books by Andy Cave, Doris Lessing, Dodie Smith, Joe Biel and Elly Blue, Walt Larimore, Karolina Ramqvist, Charlotte Bingham, Heather McDonald, Dave Barry, June Tate
S D Anugyan on the Emily Dickinson TV show, the Transcendentalists, death and astral travel
Madhuri reviews Dr Chris van Tulleken’s book, subtitled ‘Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food… and Why Can’t We Stop?’
Discourses and Darshans
“These people have taken a tremendous step. They have risked their established mind to enquire into the unfamiliar and the unknown – and ultimately, the unknowable.”
“You are supported by your past life, that’s why you are here. And your past life is supported by another past life…”
Poetry / Prose
Shravan’s artwork in our online Art Gallery; “When the creative spirit calls, I just pick up my colours.”
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
Photographs by Bhaven, with a poem by Abhinava
Photographs by Michael Sudheer
Thanks to Priya’s efforts, Neelam’s memoir – that Osho had asked her to write for ‘seekers on the path’ – is now available in Hindi
The authors of this month’s book reviews by Madhuri are: Catherine Cookson, Joanna Hodgin, Jonathan Kellerman, Sylvia Townsend Warner
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
An excerpt for the topic of ‘Tantra’; “Before you meet the woman you should rise higher in your consciousness because then the meeting will happen on a higher plane.”
“Meditation does not require any application of the mind or use of effort.”
In the Media
Pratiksha Apurv writes in Speaking Tree (The Times of India) on September 25, 2026
As reported in Bold, on September 24, 2026
This approach will be explored through two programmes at Osho Dham in New Delhi from 18-20 September 2026: the Osho Shunya Silence Retreat, with Premgeet, and Osho Neo Reiki, with by Dhyan Akhil, writes Kanakanjali Roy in the Hindustan Times on 15 September 2026
“Almost each sentence is going to create trouble for anybody who wants to organize a religion around me.”
“A real master is always a shock, a shattering.”
A meditation by Atisha explained by Osho
A meditation given to a new sannyasin
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.”
A woman has a problem with her wardrobe door
Planet transits discussed by Marga; “The month looks fairly calm overall, although there are some elements of suspension due to the retrograde motion of several planets.”
Anandi’s monthly horoscope introduced by Friedrich Nietzsche’s quote: “Wherever there is happiness, there is joy in nonsense.”
Series
In her series of articles dedicated to Human Design and Relationship, Marga delves today into the significance of the Lines, starting from the I Ching
