“…or rather ‘in full flight of discourse’, as Anando put it, ahead of our evening gathering the next day in Buddha Hall” – by Radhika

The following was written, allegedly*, by the late Douglas Adams of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fame

A piece of guitar music by Shastro

The start of a new series by Shanti, titled Humans Are Still Young. “Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star,” says Brian Cox in Wonders of the Universe.

An essay by S D Anugyan. “With astrology I have moved through near-wholesale acceptance at the beginning… to a letting go of it in favour of the accepted science of astronomy; and finally to an interesting hybrid of the two, where I practise a certain detachment in favour of observation.”

Osho on the topic of ‘Computers’; “Knowledge is mechanical; it can be done by a computer.”

A chapter from Roshani Shay Curtis’ newly-published book, Two Souls, Tandem Journeys: Our Adventures with Love, Deafness and Autism

Priya’s journey from the first experiment to becoming a co-facilitator of this Osho Meditative Therapy technique

Enrich your vocabulary…

Abheeru and Divya wanted to know from Punya how she came to take sannyas and how Osho News came into being (zoom video). The article includes an excerpt from Bhagawati’s book, Past the Point of No Return

(21 February 1947 – 19 November 2023)

If there is no self, whose arthritis is this?

“The moment you have accepted the night totally – and there is no seeking and hankering for the morning – the morning has come.”

News on HipHopDX by Bernadette Giacomazzo, January 7, 2024 and on Bollywood Mascot on December 16, 2023

Osho’s mother, Mataji, continues with her reminiscences (part 2 of the interview)

Artwork by Nirvi Bennich from the Jutlandic countryside

Last summer, Rachel Klingner participated in a Primal Painting workshop at Osho Miasto in Tuscany, facilitated by Kantu Nishigori and Svagito. Published in Femme Review on October 1, 2023. Next workshop will be again at Osho Miasto, 24–27 August 2024

What is the difference between ‘completed’ and ‘finished’?

Rico Provasoli: The still, small voice within has been promised to lead us out of confusion, into clarity. But how can we be certain that this voice is guiding us, not beguiling us?

(12 September 1932 – 19 December 2023)

Madhuri’s review of Bhante Walpola Piyananda’s book. “An enormously genial Buddhist rant… peppered with anecdotes from the author’s life as a monk, teacher, Abbott, chaplain, and Chief Sangha Nayaka Thera of the USA.”

Sudas leaves Nepal to return to his native Ireland via Denmark, in 2020 (Part 3)

A letter by Osho to Deriaji (aka Babulal Ji Deria), dated 19 January 1960

A Jewish boy walks up to his father…

– 28 December 2023

Osho, if one were to make only one New Year’s Resolution, what would you suggest?

The many ways and days in the year to celebrate the New Year – by Sarita

This month’s planet transits discussed by Marga

These two – the life and death meditation – are going to help you tremendously.

– 28 December 2023

Sarita shares a 5-senses-self-hypnosis technique to rewrite those cringe memories

– 24 December 2023

A captain notices a light in the distance on a collision course with his sip.

A poem by Madhuri

Have you already heard about this Training at Osho Risk in Denmark?

Rashma shares how her sannyas initiation went through a sort of time travel, half a century ago

What did one snowman say to the other snowman?

…and the history of how 25 December became Jesus’s date of birth – by Sarita

– 25 November 2023

Two slideshows of Shivananda’s most recent paintings (best if viewed fullscreen)

We asked the Alaska Department of Fish and Game

This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “Life is a miracle because there is no reason for it to be. It is simply a miracle that you are, otherwise there is every reason for you not to be!”

A review of a book by Janwillem van de Wetering; “Enjoyable and full of surprises,” writes Madhuri

Techniques to stop our Inner Judge, by Bhavi

(6 May 1939 – 18 August 2020)

Subhan suggests that the next time we need to take a decision we try to listen to the body’s message

“When you come close to a real Master, he gives you the taste of fearlessness.”

How do we navigate our remaining days? asks Rico Provasoli in this essay

A letter by Osho to Manubhai Desai, dated 26 May 1963

A poem by Nanda Nina

A detailed account by Ageh Bharti

Samudro examines Osho’s 92nd Birthday and the recent events in Osho World in the light of Numerology and Astrology. He adds, “It’s time for a renewal of Osho’s world.”

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By Manoj Dattatrye More in the Indian Express on 12 December 2023.

Article by Amit Singh Kushwaha in Kashmir Vision on 12 December 2023; “In honoring Osho on his birth anniversary, we pay tribute to a visionary who dared to challenge the status quo, who beckoned us to awaken to our true nature, and who left an indelible mark on the tapestry of human consciousness.”

A recipe from the Café & Restaurant Osho’s Place in Cologne, Germany

An excerpt from a discourse by Osho published in The Speaking Tree, on 11 December 2023

Part 1 of an interview with Osho’s mother, Ma Amrit Saraswati, first published in the Hindi Rajneesh Times

As reported in the The Indian Express on 10 December 2023 and Times of India on 11 December 2023

Osho speaks on the subject of ‘Sannyasin’: “My sannyas is an opening, a journey, a dance, a love affair with the unknown, a romance with existence itself, in search of an orgasmic relationship with the whole.”