An exploration of Osho’s and other mystics’ teaching that joy and suffering are two sides of the same coin – and how transcending both leads to true bliss

Q: How is it possible that by simply becoming aware at a particular point in the breathing process one can attain enlightenment?

“Meditation has nothing to do with seriousness. Meditation is playfulness.”

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.”

Sudeva’s path into sannyas.

Keerti and a group of meditators from Osho Nisarga visit the Gyuto Monastery.

Sudas’ Vipassana experience in Pune.

Anand Urvashi writes about her visits to Osho Swan Nest, located in the foothills of the Himalayas.

The Buddha did not use the old Sanskrit language – he used the Pali language which everybody could understand in those days, writes Keerti. Published in The Asian Age on May 13, 2019.

Chaitanya Keerti writes on the benefits of meditation, now recognised globally. Published in Happy Ho on November 19, 2018.

Anand Kul Bhushan reports how meditation helped twelve Thai boys and their coach to overcome emotions and fears during their long ordeal of being trapped in a cave.

One who lives in that space of tathata (suchness) is called tathagata, which is also one of the names of Buddha, writes Keerti in the Deccan Chronicle. Published on May 28, 2018.

An introduction, and invitation to Shaking by Nisarga from the Integral Body Institute in Poland (video).

Meditation should not be treated as a fashion embraced by movie stars, writes Keerti in the Deccan Chronicle on December 4, 2017.

An introduction, and invitation, to Vipassana; a video by Nisarga from the Integral Body Institute in Poland.

Arjuna on his mother Vipassana’s cremation.

Arjuna writes about his mother Vipassana’s passing.

Keerti explains what J. Krishnamurti calls choiceless awareness is what Buddha calls vipassana and Osho calls witnessing consciousness, the ‘sakshin’. Published in The Asian Age, India, September 27, 2015.

Shunyo will be facilitating a Vipassana Retreat in Northern Italy, 5-8 December 2014.

An excerpt from Subhuti’s My Dance with a Madman: Tales by a British journalist about his life with a controversial Indian mystic

Fatima, with her startling humour, comments on our meditations. This month we start with ‘Vipassana’