Osho states, “A destination is a very clear-cut thing; direction is very intuitive. A destination is something outside you, more like a thing. A direction is an inner feeling; not an object, but your very subjectivity…” (with audio)
Osho speaks on ‘Death – Love – Meditation’: “All that you can do is either you can go into it dancing or you can go into it reluctant, clinging to life. If you are reluctant you will miss the experience of death. If you go joyously you will have the experience of death.”
In Part 7 Shanti writes, “We may have shown our ugliest face to the mirror, to others and to life on the planet, but we have also expressed our potential.“
“The seeker is the sought. Just a few unnecessary things are crowding you. The search is negative – drop them and you discover yourself in all your glory.”
A grand 60th Birthday Party for Neerav: a Poona Revival Festival at Parimal in Germany, 22-26 September 2024. Five days of sharing, meditating and dancing, just like in the old Poona days…
Madhuri’s short reviews on books by: Jon Ronson, Myriam Sagan, Isabella Bird, High Lasgarn, Catherine Cookson, Caitlin Moran, Claude Saks, Stan Jones, Ayya Khema, Thurston Clarke, Helena Merriman
Historical notes by Michael Topper on this re-surfaced documentary, one of the first about Osho and his commune
In Part 6 Shanti writes, “The next step in the development of human societies… cannot be other than One World and a World Administration. “
Photographs by Surendra: “In the Japanese winter, colours in the landscape fade and sometimes disappear altogether… Going around with my camera, I was happy to explore this world of muted colours in nature. “
Anasuya wrote an article for the French magazine Nexus, which published it in their March-April issue, No. 151. Here exclusively for Osho News the English translation
Sudhir writes in this month’s horoscope: “As the Sun moves through Aries, it’s time to figure out the difference between activity and action. Activity is distraction, escape. Action is an immediate, unpremeditated response to ‘what is’ that combines energy and awareness.”
One of the facilitators, Dhyan Tarpan, describes the weekend – which was punctuated by very special sessions
A story from a collection of short stories, ‘A Drop of Death: dancing your way to farewell’ by Bhakta Angelika Lorenz
In Part 5 of Shanti’s series, we travel through the history of humankind, from family groups, to tribes, chiefdoms and states, kept together by organized religions
A poem by Sambuddha, included in the guidebook for Padma’s Sacred She Tarot deck, for the XVIII Anxiety card in the Spirit suit
“Consciousness is not the content. You are consciousness: thoughts come and go, you are the host. Thoughts are the guests – they come and stay for a while, take a little rest, or their food, or stay overnight, and then they are gone. You are always there.”
A new meditation centre, created by Jagdish Bharti and friends, will be inaugurated on 21st March 2024 with a meditation retreat facilitated by Chaitanya Keerti
“There are no concepts that can depict it, and, above all, there is no entity separated from the presence that experiences it. I’m not there.” An excerpt from Avikal’s book, Who is in? Beyond Self-image.
“The mind is very impotent in a way. It cannot give you any existential juice, any existential experience, and that is the only thing that matters,” comments Osho on this anecdote
In the fourth and last part of the interview, Mataji, Osho’s mother, talks about her most recent years
This month’s planet transits discussed by Marga. “It is certainly no coincidence that Osho, who has the Channel of Awakening in his design, became enlightened precisely during this transit of the Sun during Spring Equinox…”
In the next installment (Part 4) of Shanti’s new series, Humans Are Still Young, we meet the first homo sapiens
In these four videos, Deva Padma compares corresponding cards from the Rider–Waite, the Osho Zen Tarot and her new The Sacred She Tarot deck (Episodes 1-4).
Insights by Amrita Suha. “A sweet joyful old age is mischievously stinging the top of my mouth and is patiently leading me to continue to explore the world within and without with an attentive and amused gaze!”
“Somewhere a deep balance is needed. Just between the two, exactly between the two, is transcendence. “
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “Once you drop expectations you have learned how to live. Then everything that happens fulfills you, whatsoever it is.”
Photographs by Surendra taken last year, some as late as November and December. “After a number of warm, sunny days, the bright reds, oranges and golds suddenly appeared. The leaves slowly reached their peak around the middle of the month and some were still glowing beautifully in December.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (11 May 1895 – 17 February 1986) is remembered by close friend Pupul Jayakar who is describing in her biography some of his last moments on earth… and by Osho speaking to us in discourse
Another big anniversary celebrated by a sannyasin enterprise. Congratulations to Amlas and Atmo! An interview with Amlas, by Punya
“Share whatever you have gained… Your meditation is a preparation for a higher life, for a deeper life, for a more divine life. But you will have to be more loving and more compassionate…”
In Shanti’s new series, Humans Are Still Young, we travel through the Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene and Pliocene Epochs (Part 3)
Osho speaks on ‘Balancing’: “Live life in all possible ways; don’t choose one thing against the other, and don’t try to be in the middle.”
“From the very beginning, everyone is a Buddha… This is the basic message of Zen – and the greatest message that has ever been delivered to man.”
Short notes on a pile of books read recently. Authors: Adeline Yen Mah, Wendy Burden, Peter Nichols, Jojo Moyes, Jamie James, Tessa Hainsworth, Dr Amanda Brown, Betsy Whyte, Sara Pascoe, Dean Nicholson, Edward Chisholm
This month’s planet transits discussed by Marga. “In February, the challenge is to go through the different emotional nuances while at the same time enjoying the journey without slipping into unconsciousness.”
A Tantra meditation bringing patience, release of expectation, and empowerment, described by Madhuri