“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
“The original mind is egoless. It does not know the ‘I’, because ‘I’ is a shrinking. The original mind is infinite, like the sky.”
14 Variations by Siddho Varza on a Theme by Paul Cézanne, with an essay titled, Painting and Happiness
“For a real lover of challenges, success and failure mean nothing,” says Osho to a sannyasin in darshan
A review of Neeten’s online book by Scott Lowe, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, published in the magazine Nova Religio
Osho speaks on ‘Bliss’; “You cannot achieve it directly. You have to grow rose bushes; when the roses arrive there will be fragrance automatically. Bliss is a fragrance of meditation.”
In part 12, Shanti lets artists and poets speak: Michelangelo, Robert Frost, Rabindranath Tagore, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Miguel de Cervantes, Gertrude Stein, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikos Kazantzakis, Ōtagaki Rengetsu, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Maria Angelou, Sappho
Ailon’s initiation into sannyas in Pune, from his yet-unpublished memoir, Diary of a Neurotic Jewish Yoga Teacher
Gopal and Subhan’s comments on a selection of tracks from album 3 of the compilation, Songs of Gratefulness – inspired by Osho
“All paths can lead to it because in a way it is already achieved. It is within you. You are not seeking something new. You are seeking something which you have forgotten.”
In Part 11 of his series, Shanti calculated costs and savings when switching to an efficient and renewables energy system using our present defense budgets
Part 2 of Sajjad’s photographs from his mountaineering trips with his beloved Saaralya, in the Italian Alps
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho from the series And the Flowers Showered; “There is no way to find truth, except through finding it!”
A video interview (in English) by Vrienden van Osho with the vice-president of the Humaniversity, a world-renowned therapy institute in Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands
Osho speaks to a sannyasin in darshan, “One should always cultivate something that is purely for delight.”
“Life itself is enough unto itself. And if you are trying to fulfill some goal, you will miss life.”
Short reviews by Madhuri of books by authors: Burton Silver and Heather Busch, Pico Iyer, Celia Imrie, Joseph Wambaugh, Marina Chapman, Bernie Chowdhury, Joe Tusker
Divakar (Marc Itzler) writes, “Society has become more sensitive and more discerning. We now ask more of ourselves. We demand a higher standard of self-awareness, of values, of behaviour.”
In Part 10 of the series, Humans Are Still Young, Shanti discusses the size of global military spending and the concept of nations
Spring photographs by Surendra; “Although every year cherry blossoms bring the experience of renewal, they are also a reminder of how fragile and fleeting life is.”
Abheeru and Divya interviewed Leela on zoom about her life with Osho and of course about the Mystic Rose
Osho speaks on ‘Leela’: “Life is a leela, it is a play, and the moment you are ready to play, you are enlightened… You are already that which you are trying to be.”
“Don’t start seeking, just start looking at what is the case. Looking into the reality as it is, is enough.”
In Part 9 of his series, Shanti explores the socio-economic and earth-system trends of the new geological epoch called Anthropocene
Jokes and the let-go meditation guided by Osho (with audio); “Just be a witness that you are not the body. Be a witness that you are not the mind. And finally, be a witness that you are only a witness, nothing else.”
Avinasho opens her very first art exhibition, running from 2 to 30 May 2024, at the Freie Galerie Munich, Germany
A recipe from Maria-Carin’s cookbook, Lick Your Plate! It includes a recipe for a Tomato Harissa Salsa to go with the chippies
Part 8 of Shanti’s series: “The Holocene has seen many of us creating… some of us have flowered as caretakers… in scientific research, on the path of devotion, or exploring beyond the frontiers of the known.”
Sarjano remembers in his memoir the events leading up to the Italian journalist Enzo Biagi interviewing Osho on 12 January 1986 in Kathmandu. The program was then shown on national television Rai Uno, on 28 January 1986 (video with transcription)
Leela from Osho France interviews four experienced facilitators on: Mystic Rose, No-Mind, Born Again, and Reminding Yourself of the Forgotten Language of Talking to Your BodyMind