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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…”
A poem by Ageh Bharti
Madhuri asked Yuri about his life, and how he came to Osho
Osho Archives search tool (English and Hindi) launched today thanks to Anuragi’s initiative
Sanjiva’s app, announced last year, has now been launched for Apple iPhone users; “Kyosan is for the questions that need room to breathe.”
An Austrian software developer is building an app to help people plan permaculture gardens in harmony with nature – and grow a community around it
Ageh Bharti writes about a recent event
Insights / Essays
Bodhi is looking for a personal assistant to help with his planned non-profit initiative Perma in Austria (3.10.2026: This position has now been filled)
Critical comments on a recent event, expressed by Zorba Buddha in a video (Hindi with English translation) – and a letter from Chaitanya Keerti
A letter from Ma Divyam Ashna to Keerti who ran the retreat at Osho Nisarga; “While conflict raged in the outside world, we turned inward. We sat in silence. We meditated. We watched. And we healed.”
A letter from Anu Azrael
Purushottama and Amido write about their 2006 travels, when they visited Kerala and Karnataka – and two holy men, Ajja and U.G. (Part 2)
Marga explains how Planets can enrich and fine-tune a HD relationship reading with the help of Astrology and Gene Keys
Subhan ponders on the saying, “It was difficult for us to connect.”
“The mystics have told us that watching is never a fighting,” writes Subhan
No. 10 from Avikal’s collection, Coming Home
Turyna’s impressions after a Silent Retreat at Osho Nisarga in the Himalayas. Next retreat: 1-22 February 2027
The authors of this month’s book reviews by Madhuri are: Catherine Cookson, Joanna Hodgin, Jonathan Kellerman, Sylvia Townsend Warner
Second, revised edition of Satya Niranjan’s memoir, now available as Kindle edition
Madhuri writes about the process of creating audio books for two memoirs: Mistakes on the Path and Reluctantly to Kunzum La
Discourses and Darshans
“I am giving you a simple alternative: you have to drop your whole past – your hatred, your distinctions of color and nation, your fights amongst religions, political ideologies…”
“It is not that you have to become a Buddha, you are a Buddha, fallen asleep. Somebody needs to kick you. Somebody needs to shout at you. Somebody needs to hit you. And that is the purpose of a master.”
Poetry / Prose
Samudra’s latest creative venture – on video and in two photo slideshows. Let yourself be surprised! (Exhibition opens 2 July in Le Conquet, Brittany, France)
Recent artwork by Shivananda
Artwork by Pavel Its
Photographs from the Eternal City by Michael Sudheer
A poem with photographs by Dhyan Tarpan
The book, Toxic: Stories, Science and Remedies for a Cleaner Mind, Body and Spirit was co-authored by Swami Shailendra Saraswati, published by Bloomsbury India
Reviews by Madhuri of books by Graeme Fife, Yvonne Roberts, Helen M. Stevens, Emma Brockes, Billy Connolly and Colette
Reviews by Madhuri of books by Rowan Coleman, Araminta Hall, George Mahood, Robert Goddard, Michael Palin, Nick Pettigrew, Robert Bateman and Rick Archbold, Mary Stewart
Madhuri reviews books by Tim Peake, Michael Connelly, Nigel Cawthorne, Douglas Kennedy, Doris Lessing, Helen Forrester, Beth O’Leary, Melanie McGrah and Beth Macy
“The true word, the authentic word, always creates silence in you. That is the criterion of its power…”
“He who is whole is also healed, and to be healed is to be whole,” writes Osho
In the Media
A review by Matthew Korfhage in Willamette Week (Sept 8, 2026) of In Search of Portland by Brian Libby that recounts tales of Humphrey Bogart, Sammy Davis Jr. and The Hotel Rajneesh
The idea of “Zorba the Buddha,” associated with Osho, brings together the joy of living with inner awareness, writes Kanakanjali Roy in the Hindustan Times, on August 30, 2026
The book, Toxic: Stories, Science and Remedies for a Cleaner Mind, Body and Spirit was co-authored by Swami Shailendra Saraswati, published by Bloomsbury India
“I care only for those who are ready to change the very course of human consciousness.”
“I want also the whole of humanity to rise with the enlightened people…”
Q: When I awake in the morning I feel very depressed… I want to know if I can do something when I feel depressed.
When pleasure and anger are hooked together
Video by Nayana
Eleven for you…
Series
Marga continues her exploration of the channels that connect the Emotional Center to the Throat, and those that connect the Sacral to the Self Center, also called tantric channels
