Face to face with emptiness
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
“If you love a man, meditation will be the best present that you can give to him. If you love a woman, then the Kohinoor is nothing; meditation will be a far more precious gift – and it will make your life sheer joy.”
From Subhan’s desk; “We can say that something has ended, but it’s helpful to remember that this exists ONLY in the mind.”
Two marble statues of a man and a woman facing each other have been standing in an old park for centuries.
“First you have to become a receiver, first you have to attain to silence, then communion is possible, not before it.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “The vast ocean, the infinite, is moving. You are just a wave in it. Relax, and let things be!”
“Just as Drugs, Sex and Rock ‘n’ Roll were popular in the 60s, inquiry about The End is a popular topic among my generation of Boomers,” writes Rico Provasoli
In part 13, Shanti lets the mystics speak: Gautama Buddha, Dōgen Zenji, Hakuin Ekaku, Kabir and Ramakrishna
Follow Nandin’s voice accompanied by her background music (and beautiful graphics) for 10 minutes of relaxation
“When I am talking about one way, I am that way. Don’t cling to my words, listen to the wordless message. And if it hits your heart, if it sings in your heart, then you have found your way.”
Purushottama is sharing with the sangha a priceless body of work he has collected over the years while offering online and in-presence meditation courses
Two meditation camps for children, at Osho Dhyan Upvan in Hisar and the Osho Ashram in Sonipat respectively
“The original mind is egoless. It does not know the ‘I’, because ‘I’ is a shrinking. The original mind is infinite, like the sky.”
Ageh Bharti reports from an event facilitated by Swami Krishna Bharti at Satna, from 22nd to 26th May 2024
14 Variations by Siddho Varza on a Theme by Paul Cézanne, with an essay titled, Painting and Happiness