Anubodhi

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Ma Prem Anubodhi (Emily Spalding) was born in May 1928, graduated UC Berkeley in 1948 and taught English in the Navajo reservations and fancy private schools. She hung with the Beatniks in New York – she once commented about Alan Watts, “I am so tired of all these guys who think they are enlightened!” Her search led her to study with J. Krishnamurti for 25 years, to sit with Suzuki Roshi and Jakusho Kwong-Roshi, to try the fruit salad of therapies available in the 1970s, then finally to Osho. She took sannyas in 1977 at age 51, determinedly seeking truth!

Her cabins off Panoramic Highway in Mill Valley became resting places for sannyasins going to and from the ashram; much laughter and mischief up on that ridge! She spent as much time in India as she could with her teaching schedule, then worked in the truck farm on the Ranch, trying to be alone as much as possible. After the Ranch, she would load up her VW van and go off camping all around the country.

She spent her last years in Burbank Orchards in Sebastopol, California with a view of oak trees, meditating. Her greatest joys in life, after her eyes started failing, were listening to Osho tapes and having long phone conversations with dear friends all over the continent. We will remember her intensity, honesty, sense of the absurd…and wicked laugh!

Her love for Osho remained the light on her path till 25th December, when she had a heart attack.

Anila and Anunado, for Osho Viha (www.oshoviha.org)

To leave a tribute please do so on the memorial website Anila and Anunado have set up for her:
forevermissed.com/anubodhi-emily-spalding