A young man went into confession, crying…
Feeling helpless in the face of the world’s craziness? Nayana remembers what Osho told her in 1988 when she asked how to save the world, and why it still guides her today
Arpita talks to Punya about her time working in the sewing room making Osho’s robes and shoes and more… (Part 1)
Turyna’s impressions after a Silent Retreat at Osho Nisarga in the Himalayas. Next retreat: 1-22 February 2027
“You cannot solve it from the outside; you cannot just be a spectator to it – you are in it – you are it.”
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…”
“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.”
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?’
Rabindranath Tagore, Hazrat Inayat Khan and Jiddu Krishnamurti each set foot on Dutch soil – essay by Shanti
“Mind has a stupidity: to complete things. Mind is a perfectionist. Ninety-nine? The obsession is created: they must be a hundred.”
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
Dharmamurti remembers his move from Buffalo, New York, to the Bear Tribe in California – as told to Madhuri (Part 1) [Long Read]
“Almost each sentence is going to create trouble for anybody who wants to organize a religion around me.”
When meditation becomes a profession, association becomes authority, and the messenger becomes a product – by Anuragi
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.”
In the last days of 1984, Hafiz, together with four others, is dispatched from Medina to join the Rajneesh commune in Freiburg, via the ferry from Harwich to Hook of Holland… [Long Read]
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.”
This year’s Boulderthon kicked off on Sunday, September 27, with a 5K run dedicated to Bhikkhu Schober
Anandi’s monthly horoscope introduced by Friedrich Nietzsche’s quote: “Wherever there is happiness, there is joy in nonsense.”
The authors of this month’s book reviews by Madhuri are: Catherine Cookson, Joanna Hodgin, Jonathan Kellerman, Sylvia Townsend Warner
“…it has tremendous beauty; it has something of the ultimate in it. Now it is pure sharing. Now it is a luxury, it is no more a need.”
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
Amido (text) and Purushottama (photos) end their 2006 pilgrimage in India with a visit to Varanasi, Darjeeling, Rumtek and Kalimpong (Part 7)
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
Shravan’s artwork in our online Art Gallery; “When the creative spirit calls, I just pick up my colours.”
Introduction from the book, Living with the Inescapable: Consciously Accepting Death, by Alfredo (Sanjiva) Ovalle