(20 October 1943 – 20 July 2024)
This month’s planet transits discussed by Marga; “This month it is important to take a look at our Human Design birth chart to see what our situation is…”
From the album called, Fly, Fly High, part of Gopal’s compilation, Songs of Gratefulness Inspired by Osho
A handwritten note (𝟷𝟿𝟼𝟼-𝟼𝟽) by Osho, published in Naye Sanket, and translated in Wings of Love & Random Thoughts
Abundance of colors in this double show of Michael Sudheer’s photographs from his recent visit to Europe
Article by Andrea Gibson subtitled, The joy of choosing curiosity over certainty, published on Substack, 23 July 2024
“Whatsoever you believe becomes effective,” says Osho. “You see only that which you are looking for.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “Your heart is beating now. It cannot beat in the past; it cannot beat in the future. The heart knows only the present, hence it is utterly pure…”
“When the disciple touches the feet of the master, it is not only what you see, something else is happening.”
Nityaprem reports on and assesses an experiment; “If people choose to learn about Osho from Chat AI they may well get a much less biased view than if they read old lifestyle magazine articles…”
Times of India article from July 17, 2024, based on a talk with Ma Prem Devyani, Meditation Facilitator at Osho Dham
A lack of knowledge is at the heart of our most profound experiences says Rory Stewart in the Radio Times (6-12 July 2024)
The Indian Express on July 14, 2024: “The self-appointed owners of Osho’s Intellectual Property Rights – in Zurich – have not allowed Osho’s teachings to spread in India and outside India.”
In Part 15 of Shanti’s series: Friedrich Nietzsche, Rabindranath Tagore, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Ruth St. Denis, Dalai Lama
“The deepest core of being is non-being. The foundation of isness is nothingness. And when I say nothingness I don’t mean nothingness – I only mean no-thingness.”
Article in Millenium Post by Sanjeev Chopra, dated 13 July 2024: “Shortlisted in the Hindi non-fiction category, the biographies of Pandita Ramabai, Rahul Sankritayan, and Osho Rajneesh highlight a renewed interest among readers in these diverse and impactful figures.”
Short reviews by Madhuri on books by Anne Watts, Keith Foskett, Bill Green, Philip Gonzalez and Leonore Fleischer, Jojo Moyes, Louise Candlish, Doris Lessing, Barbara Erakko Taylor, Sherman Alexie, Karen Armstrong, David Vann, Alec Le Sueur, Elizabeth Kim
“Wherever you go, you go with the idea of profit, achievement, success, attainment. If somebody has come here with this idea he should leave as soon as possible, run as fast as possible from me, because I cannot help you to become somebody.”
“Sex is only the alphabet of love, bricks out of which you can make a Taj Mahal. But Taj Mahal is not just bricks,” states Osho
Subhan writes, “Years ago, I heard someone say that the universe is one, and that we are all interconnected with everyone and everything around us. But that was NOT my experience.”
Doris Stellmacher (Sangit Masto) recalls the three-month Esoteric Science Training with Wadud and Waduda of autumn 1988
This beautiful meditation is from The Book of the Secrets: ‘Toward the Untouched Inner Reality’: “I have used it in Channeling groups as well as Tantra groups and private Tantra meditations,” writes Madhuri
by Waduda (aka Leela) to the 1991, now out-of-print, boxed edition of The Book of the Secrets by Osho, where she writes about her experience in preparing herself for and then leading the three-month Esoteric Science Training workshop
An excerpt from Madhuri’s latest book, Reluctantly to Kunzum La: Motorbiking in the Himalayas in the Name of Love
For Part 14 of his series, Shanti’s invited to speak: Walt Whitman, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu