An excerpt from the book by Dhyan Shaida (Catherine Auman), ‘Shortcuts to Mindfulness’.
Article 38: What if Earth, as a system, is operating now in a quantifiably new state, because of the profound changes humans are making to Earth’s natural systems?
From the BBC series ‘India on a Plate’. India is a land with diverse cuisine, writes Ayeshea Perera, published on BBC on July 6, 2016.
The third article in a series of four on meditations about purification by fire, water, earth, and air by Prem Geet.
Beloved Osho,
I am just curious. Have you read the book Zorba the Greek by Kazantzakis? I love it so much. Is not Zorba exactly the way you want us to be? At least that is how I understand your teaching.
Outspoken and controversial well-known film director speaks on ‘invasion’ of privacy in gaming app and about his new film ‘Snowden’. The Guardian, July 22, 2016
Naina discovers her late father’s diaries and finds out about unknown events in his life that have had an impact on her life.
Prem Paras shares ‘Shambu Shankara’ recorded and filmed on top of the Swiss Alps (with some shots of Kailash).
Article 37: The Holocene is the name given to the last 12.000 years of Earth’s history. The Holocene is witnessing all of humanity’s recorded history and the rise and fall of all its civilizations.
From the BBC series ‘India on a Plate’, sampling food at the amma canteens in Chennai. Geeta Pandey reports on July 4, 2016.
Osho says, “You are not new on this earth, you are older than the earth because you have lived on other earths also, other planets.”
An exhibition of Pratiksha Apurv’s paintings at Rashtrapati Bhavan Museum in New Delhi was inaugurated by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 25, 2016. Published in The Pioneer, July 28, 2016.
The Upanishads say that there is no opposition between God and the world: there is no Devil, and there is no power opposing God. How then is this world created?
The first step is to stop projecting your moods on to the other person. Then witness this phenomenon, writes Pratiksha Apurv in Speaking Tree, New Delhi, India, July 18, 2016
Article 36: The genus ‘Homo’ is the youngest twig from a 2.5 million year old branch from a 4.6 billion year old tree, a seedling in a 13.8 billion year old universe. You and I are a recent leaf, or maybe a flower, on that twig!
Paul A Philips researches the concepts of heaven and hell, and wonders, “The question is, if people keep coming back lifetime after lifetime then how come is it that they never went to heaven or hell in between lives?”
Only a psychopath could read someone else’s lies from their teleprompter with such feigned emotion. Video by The Corbett Report, published July 21, 2016.
A couple, newly returned from the West, are present. The man says that whenever he has to deal with authorities – for example to get a visa – or even sees a policeman, he feels tense.
This month, fine tuning is the word – and an accurate screening of proceedings, structures, situations and constellations in all walks of life, says Sitara.
From the BBC series ‘India on a Plate’, about the Irani cafés of old world charm in Mumbai that used to be hugely popular. Published June 29, 2016
Captivating video by Jeremy Bennett, one of Canada’s most prolific experts and speakers on stress and anxiety.
Article 35: During the present Ice Age, temperate zones are alternately covered by glaciers, during glacial periods, and uncovered during interglacial periods, when the glaciers retreat, like the period we are living in right now.
Fourth article in the BBC series ‘India on a Plate’, on the popularity of international and in particular Chinese food in India. Samar Halarnkar writes on BBC on June 27, 2014.
Srajan writes about his and Pravina’s search for a new home, starting with a visit to north Florida, full of various surprises.
Trust is never conditional. I trust you, not because you are trustworthy; I trust you because I cannot distrust.
A new and extraordinary deep view of the nebula. Marisa Gertz writes in TIME Magazine on July 12, 2016.
Article 34: The Pleistocene is characterized by the presence of large land mammals, like mammoths and mastodons. This period also sees the evolution and expansion of our own species, Homo sapiens.
On July 9, 2016, thousands of people stripped and painted themselves blue for a Spencer Tunick art installation in Hull, England.
An update by Satya Vedant in regard of the establishing of an Osho Chair at South Gujarat University in Surat, India.
Micro-plastics threaten our oceans’ ecosystem as juvenile fish are becoming addicted to micro-beads. By author ‘number 23’ at AnonHQ.com, published on Natural Blaze on July 2, 2016
BBC Two documentary about a young British family’s move to Germany to find out how it is the Germans can work fewer hours than the Greeks and still live in Europe’s economic powerhouse.
Science is still working continuously to find a way to prolong life – to make it longer and longer and longer, and then ultimately to make life immortal.
Why do we wait so restlessly for the workday to end and for the weekend to come? And this is not only true in India. Ashish Kothari writes on Scroll.in; published on SOTT, June 17, 2016
The common people have to understand this simple thing. They should move back to the villages because money has not given anything…
Excerpt about the Centering Group in Pune from the book by Swatantra Sarjano ‘When A Real Lion Meets a Real Master’.
Even after 800 years, great mystic and poet, Rumi, makes big news, writes Kul Bhushan who will conduct a Rumi event in New Delhi on July 17th and 18th 2016.