Aussie disciple fights the fat
Below, perhaps a revealing pic of Swami Viral as he fasts – one begins to suspect a spoof, given this pic. of him and the name. . (SN)
So then meet Anthony Durrell, an Australian citizen, also known as Swami Dhyan Viral. He claims that the Osho Commune banned him for life for wearing a white robe while taking a walk on the lawns of Hotel Sunderban.
Terming this conduct as spiritual and cultural abuse, Viral points out that that in just two days India would be celebrating it’s Republic Day, and an Australian citizen like him, who claims to be half Indian, has an earnest appeal to make in a Gandhian manner to fellow disciples to put an end to this maltreatment at an ashram.
Viral claims he was roughed up by a person posing as a member of the management at Osho Commune yesterday afternoon. “The person asked me to end my hunger strike and leave the hotel. The entire episode was recorded on a CCTV camera.”
Viral has explained he earlier had difficulty adjusting to his new name, ‘Viral’, which he thought was derived from ‘virus’ and had negative connotations. But now, he says, something going viral is considered positive, and wishes that his protest meets with a similar reaction among fellow disciples.
Viral met Osho, so he says, on December 5, 1988 recounting that he was instantly drawn to him. However he only returned to Pune in January 2010 and was banned from the commune for resisting the physical and verbally abusive demands to remove his mala, as he terms it, in Osho’s ashram. He was allowed to enter only after tendering an apology, he adds.
But he has been banned again, so it seems for the fourth time, for wearing a white robe in the grounds of Hotel Sunderban. . “In fact, a life ban has now been imposed on me. I am trying to deal with the distress of being denied access to Osho’s Samadhi,” he said.
He adds that he has not eaten since then and has set up a small ahimsic hunger fast camp on the front lawn of Hotel Sunderban as seen in the pic above.
They say, oif people have not called them selves boddhisattvas like arun. What should a person or people be called having the one and only right for osho’s words, owning the property, being ” i leave you my dream” man?
Director of ” post office”? (No letters, no paper newspapers) that profession is just going out.
Viral in sanskrit means precious which was the name given to this Swami, not the english Viral. But of course Swami Viral is going Viral now. I hear that the Australian embassy has also taken this physical abuse by Resort management seriously and has already made a complaint.
Here is an email sent by Swami Viral to one of the news reports about being threatened by OIF management which is also going viral.
The email:
Hi there Kaumudi,
Thanks for the email. You may find some useful information in this email I sent to Ms Vinita Deshmukh. If you have further questions please come visit my tent on hotel front Lawn. I can give you a small update from today. I was confronted by an aggressive westerner male today at 1:55pm who demanded I cease my ahimsic protest and leave Subdaban hotel lawn immediately or there would dire consequences for me. This threatening male was captured on the hotel security camera. I attempted to move away from him and he assaulted me by pushing me on my left shoulder. Hotel staff and security witnessed the verbal and physical assault. We were all left shocked and distressed. What’s more he identified himself as a member of the resort management team!!!!
Kind regards,
Swami Dhyan VIRAL
The situation is ‘in tents’.
Why doesn’t SN get a scoop and interview Tony?
Viral could go viral with a youtube video diary and twitter updates.
This is one for the sannyas spring and the Free Osho brotherhood taking on the OIF Regime.
Media coverage is what’s needed.
Perhaps viral can spiral, and others can join.
Why not our own chuddiemeister?
Losing a few pounds wouldn’t hurt, would it?
From viral to virile.
You too can be, Swami Buffbodhi in a week. Book now!
Lose your fatwa with an Osho detox/hunger strike.
Ahimsa rocks.
Don’t say F%*# Y%#, say Peace on it!
What do we want? Malas.
When do we want them? Always.
How many? Lots and lots!
(What do I want? Food
When do I want it? Soon.)
Dear Dominic … These are the funniest and most insightful word plays I have seen in eons… Please rap a little more on my viral gyral dial… Please visit me on Facebook -”Osho Hunger Strike celebration 2014″… Lol … VIRAL xxx
I just read interesting comments on fb about the current situtation. There is someone saying we should accept illegal acts of oif if “the moment needs it” and actually “not at all think about them or anything what management does, but meditate and meet friends”.Does it ring a bell? How hilarious. Do you think illegal activity is ok if it serves “higher purpose”?
Viral, you are shocking new people..they do not know about that stuff..what do you think, should they know or not? What about their hurt feelings, they just might have come for meditation.
SN interviews Sw Viral.
“G’day Ton, how you doing? Is everything peaches and cream?
Must be warm as toast in Poona right now?”
“Uh…?”
“You’re cooking up a storm here, mate. What are you in a stew about? Aren’t you upsetting the applecart? What’s your beef?”
“What…?”
“Are you saying you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs? But isn’t it all small potatoes? Why do you give a fig?”
“Are you taking the piss?”
“Are you just vegging out, ton? Or are you one tough cookie, taking on the big cheese?”
“You pommy bastard…”
“Are you just milking it? I mean, can you cherrypick the rules? Is it sour grapes or do you think it will it bear fruit?”
“This is torture…”
“Are you going nuts and bananas from all the stress?
We’re here for you ton.”
“Aaarrrghh…”
Well erm…Tony seems to have lost his ahimsic vibe at the moment, and gone a bit out to lunch.
Still full of beans though and not eating humble pie at all!
Your story should sell like hotcakes mate! But the proof is in the pudding, as they say.
This has been your SN reporter, live from Sunderban, giving our readers some food for thought.
When internal organs are weak, every virus can become viral.
Dogs and people always feel the urge to pee on the walls of the ruins.
Similar is the situation in Pune.
This man who is visiting Pune after 1988 must keep in mind, Malas have lost significance. Osho himself had reduced their worth.
Girls with hairs armpits will still look cool but not the malas. They are retro. People who support them are the salesmen who want to sell combs to the bald headed.
That pic above shows that Swami Fosters could do with losing a few pounds.
Swami “Fosters” Viral says that the camera lens was sprayed with beer bubbles and distorted the belly profile of the fasting swami from down-under !!!
I accept that, it must have been a thick lens.
Allow me to take this opportunity to say that I support your action and I wish it goes from viral to global.
I hear reincarnation is making a comeback.
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Is Swami precious being precious about his right to worship?
Saw a programme about the ‘naked rambler’ recently who keeps being sent to jail (seven years so far) for asserting his right to walk around naked. Just shows how times have changed, that the bbc can film him with his family jewels on display. Who cannot agree with him?
So I wouldn’t take away viral’s right to worship.
However his profile, if it’s not a spoof, makes him seem like a guruholic in need of his bottle, with an indian guru mind-meld addiction.
Whereas oif management just go straight for the bottle.
How someone can embrace hare krishna, tm, ravi shankar, karoli baba and osho all at the same time is perplexing.
Unless you don’t discriminate and like gin, whisky, vodka, cognac…wherever you can get it.
And I suspect he wears rose-tinted glasses, for not one of them is ‘clean’.
By downgrading mala wearing, samadhis, et al, it shows the whole interconnected nexus to be hocus-pocus.
Why force people to wear maroon, black and white dresses?
Why have Indian names? There’s no more fairy dust to any of it.
Take away one, take away all and be done with the charade.
Let people do what they will.
They already are of course, and voting with their feet.
In that state there is no air or water, and no creation or creator; There is no bud or flower, and no fetus or semen; There is no education or Vedas, and no word or taste; There is no body or settlement, and no earth, air or space; There is no guru or disciple, and no easy or difficult path.
Sakhi: That state is very strange. I cannot explain it. It has no village or resting place. That state is without gunas (qualities). What name can on give it? ”
― Kabir, The Bijak of Kabir
How does it (Viral and oif encounter) look for a newcomer or an outsider of our very own osho cult? Maroon robed (if you do not get it, to be specific, maroon robe is also religious clothing) soldier saying to a white robed (religious) devotee: ”Stop that Amish behaviour”. Who is more ”Amish”? hahhaa, so funny indeed. I mean over a necklace and white robe, such fuss.
And what was this Canadian cult leader’s name again, who had also his own palace, but who is in prison now. I just read a book about their independent followers. Very interesting how they are practising the Principal. Also saw them on tv.
Viral is fun, he might be also a stand-up artist. I would love it if it was so.
I did some detective work at fb and found out, that at the moment you seem to have to take your stand. Until now I was being naive idiot my self; just thinking, in my bubble, it’s possible to ”stay outside” of politics and opinions and just surf on my own. You see, I follow this blog, but I also do so many other things..now I see I have been in total black out. Now I also do understand your comments and not commenting on something. Wow. At the moment I kind of ”like” your film Dom. Your own contribution into it is fantastic.
From true believer to true sceptic is progress, on the pathless path.
Dom, I have no idea what you are referring to.
Arpana (yes, you know)
Fresch I really don’t know what you mean
Is this an echo-chamber?
I have no idea either.
Thx anyway.
Apana, there goes out your professor status. And it’s Fleschie for you.
“Drink my blood and eat my fleschie,” sayeth the lord.
John 6:53
Pune denies banning Viral…
http://www.mid-day.com/articles/osho-commune-denies-banning-aussie-disciple-for-life/15052046
Well, you go there with your mala and see. Also the same what I read from their spokeswoman “expression is not the problem”..well, you go and express and see for your self. Like this Viram did. Double Amish stuff.
It’s not a spoof anyway…
~ Mala In-Your-Face Rap ~
Wearin’ my white robe on the lawn
Evenin’ prayer at Sunderban.
Passin’ thru the gateless gate
Why am I getting all this hate?
Came a long way, up from under
Was it worth it now I wonder?
I get banned for my support
When I say ashram not resort,
For wearin’ a mala with Master’s face,
The guiding light behind this place.
They’re freakin out, I’m freaking in
What was cool is now a sin.
I stick it to them, they stick it to me
For a written fake apology.
The place is empty, dying fast
The future gone, all in the past.
One thing’s clear, like white and black,
Another guest, not coming back.
And who would do it, but a stand up artist, if there are 50 visitors and 100 people in stuff?
The beauty of India is even Gora Log(white people) learn very easily, ” Law is an ass, system is a toy.”
Just think the top disciples forge the will of well known master or of a philosopher or just a common man and law machinery and system remain on silent mode in US, UK, Germany, Canada or France.
When the top disciples Gora Log did the forging the didn’t realized that some other Gora Log will catch them out.
PS There is no such thing as the beauty of India. It’s an oxymoron. It’s an awful stinking place, and even you Shants don’t want live there.
The view from the train, rising into the hills towards Poona, after leaving Bombay, is breathtaking.
Speak up every one whose been to India.
To dismiss an entire country like that is outlandish.
You might as well say the whole of the USA is a shit hole,
because parts of the inner cites are shit holes.
If I was thinking of somewhere to go and live, India wouldn’t make the top ten. I didn’t go to see Osho in India because of the poverty. It actually upsets me to see people resigned to their position.
I’m not arguing with that. I’m challenging you about dismissing the whole country as a shit hole, and I repeat; if that’s your perspective then the whole of the States is a shit hole.
I didn’t call India a shithole, I just called it awful and stinking to wind up Shantam.
I don’t know why you keep bringing in the US… it has good and bad. It’s a different mind-set altogether, depending on your colour.
Now you want to go to Athens… in a couple of years they will be shooting foreigners over there. Perhaps the world you knew is not the same world anymore.
I saw India as invigoratingly alive, despite the poverty, such resourcefulness.
Sure, an unforgettable country, Arps, life in the raw, unsanitised (in all senses of the word) as it were. Not only that, but one with which we Brits have a close historical connection, as I found in Poona, where my father was stationed for a few years before WW2 and where a number of locals lamented to me the departure of the Raj! Not sure whether those sentiments would be echoed these days though…
But honestly, would you like to live there now, ‘permanently’?
To be honest, if I was going to move to a warmer clime would be Rome or Athens, but I must get of my ass and go to India again, one more time; and if I was younger, that would make a difference.
(Amsterdam also draws me.)
Yes a long way from Swami Viral…
But yes I too Satyadeva had a grandfather who “served” in Poona. He was a regular soldier who took the King’s shilling in 1898 to escape the dire poverty of the English working class at that time, and made a career of the army eventually ending up as a Company Sergeant Major, and being decorated twice for “bravery in the field” in Italy during WW1. Between the Boer war and the first world war he seems to have served quite a lot in India. He had a better constitution than me – never seemed to get malaria or illness. Many British soldiers died of such diseases in the old India.
I must admit when I lived in Poona myself, like you, I thought about the connection. My own father said that my grandfather had “liked” Poona and enjoyed serving there… … the military encampment was apparently not far from Koregoan Park!
Parmartha, If you visit Pune, you feel yourself, Pune Cantonment area has more Buddhafield energy than Koregaon Park.
Ancient Banyan trees, spacious land, solitude and sunrays….they have made Pune, what it literally means, Holy.
Only the area under military cantonment has this feeling, everywhere else, it is high rise buildings, Honda city cars and English speaking Indians. Only good point is, girls where trendy clothes and smoke Marlboro light.
Indian girls smoking cigarettes, I find it sexy!
In cantonment area, one can feel dusty fragrance of mother India.
Thanks Shantam.
I dont think I ever visited the Catonment when I lived in Poona, do the Indian Army still have a base there?
Southern command of Indian Army is based in Pune. I think around 40% of strong Indian armed forces are under this command.
Famous MG (Mahatma Gandhi) Road is part of this camp area.
Driving scooter in the camp area, looking at the ancient trees and coming back to the ashram for evening meditation; this is a part of paradise for me.
From Pope the Pollack to Pope the Francis on the cover of Rolling stone magazine; Christians around the world are feeling rejuvenated because of open windows and fresh air, whereas Spiritual world´s newest movement has Jayesh jayesh and Jayesh during all these years.
Seems like nothing changes in the world of Osho other than windows and washbasins.
Such a stagnation!
shantam prem says:
>> Christians around the world are feeling rejuvenated because of open windows and fresh air,
WHAT? WHAT? WHAT? Those xtians you are talking about are trying to figure out which way to turn after the gazillions they’ve been paying out in pedo-lawsuits. Fresh air? Yeah! In their bank accounts.
The xtian faith is just that, a faith. Because the reality is too gross to contemplate.
And stop bothering with Jayesh. All he is holding is a husk. An empty cage after the bird has flown.
Bodhi Vartan,
Now is the time to ask for your facial profile. I think you are too knowledgeable to fit into a shrink´s chair.
There are people who cannot provide solutions, have no capacity for tailoring solutions.
What they can offer?
Tap water filled in the bottles of Volvic!
shantam prem says:
>> Bodhi Vartan,
Now is the time to ask for your facial profile.
I don’t know what you mean? What does the side of my face have to do with my psychology?
to be a disciple – dominic –
does mean for me to UN-learn at my best capacity
all the rubbish crippling my soul
it s more a kind of cleaner s job
and thank you for asking
madhu
‘UN-learn’
YES.
)
Learning to unlearn.
Would be a dedisciple strictly speaking.
Good answer, extra points.
Though I was thinking more along the usual meaning of
‘surrender to a Gooroo.’
Thank you for sharing.
I have just heard that Zorba’s High Court case in Mumbai has been deferred until later in February because the defendant lawyers claimed yesterday to be sick!!! They may wish to join me on this day 19 of my “Osho Hunger Strike Celebration 2014″ (aka raw juice fast protest) it’s a very health promoting strategy… Viral
A new pic of your good self would go down well. You are a few weeks into your fruit juice fast, so you maybe you are becoming interesting.
Joking aside, how are you feeling?
Well I have thrown myself into a full-ish lotus contortion and taken this photograph to reassure sannyasnews readers that there is still plenty on the Viral bones!!!!
Lots of infectious Osho love to all my generous supporters who are feeding my Soul to a calorific golden glow!
Those bloody beer bubbles on the lens again !!!
This is a better view of a Viral Lotus posture
My best friend at this moment, the beastly juicer… Jerry the juicer… A deliverer of vibrant tonics in shades of green, red, blue and yellow!!!!
…
Don’t be such a rat bag. Hes on a diet.
Arps.
It’s OK. All of the above will go through the juicer.
Catch me putting all that through a juicer.
Send it over.
I’ll eat the lot.
Wrong to waste good food.
.
Mmmm… Some very superficial perspectives … Of course the real issue is not the size and mass of the physical form but genuine effort and motivation pictured here to pull the body into a meditative position… The Viral Lotus posture xxx
I would love sannyasnews to encourage their readership to visit and contribute their thoughts, dreams and hopes ( if any ) for Osho’s Pune Ashram… The Facebook page “Osho Hunger Strike Celebration 2014″ would benefit from some lively exchange of opinions regarding the best way forward for Osho’s spiritual navel and etheric central nervous system in Pune. Should there be a reinstatement of a co-operative, collaborative, compassionate group of 21 inner circle Osho devotees in leadership? Should this group rotate to protect against stagnation of power and creativity? Should sannyasnews promote such questions and should a new Pune4 management culture emerge by devolution, revolution or evolution?
Pune4 will not happen until the Pune3 regime die off. It doesn’t matter what you or I think. Their minds have been set, or the have them set for them. Whichever way, I cannot see anything of value for the old-time sannyasins coming out of Pune3. They can only go as high as they know.
A timeline for various incarnations of Osho’s Pune Ashram
Pune 1 = 1974 to 1981
Osho (then known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) establishes his “navel” ashram koreogan park and remains there until leaving for the Oregon experiment in the USA
Pune 2 = 1987 to 1990
Osho returns to the Pune Ashram after the Oregon, USA, fiasco and World tour. He resumes discourses until leaving the body around the 19th January 1990
Pune 3 = 1990 to present
Following Osho’s bodily departure this chapter of the Pune Ashram leadership has included some beautiful buildings including several pyramidal structures…
A sharp narrowing and stagnation of power has resulted from this shift away from Osho’s Pune Ashram leadership model of 21 inner circle devotees…
What has now emerged is a weak oligarchy which teeters on autocraticism…
This sad shift away from Osho’s steerage model has fostered a management culture clouded by secrecy and bullying with a concerted elimination of an Osho-centric focus…
The most obvious absence and loss is the spirit of compassion and loving kindness which Osho beamed like a beacon of hope…
Coupled with this mini-dark age of Osho’s Pune Ashram is the emergence of a dismissive attitude regarding the invigorating spiritual dimension of Osho’s Pune2 Ashram which is now termed a resort…
Osho would love to combine all the celebration of a Resort with the spiritual aesthetics of an Ashram and perhaps it is this complete union of Resort and Ashram that will coincide with the emergence of Pune4
Pune 4 = soon to sometime
Restoration of Osho’s Pune Ashram leadership group with an open, honest, inner circle of group of 21 Osho devotees, revival of an Osho-centric focus with photographs, freedom of expression in terms of malas, restoration of the spiritual importance of Osho’s Samadhi space, rebuilding of the Buddha Hall podium, a return of Osho’s chair, reasonable admission fees to allow greater access for both the local Indian people and overseas guests, a greater synthesis of both resort and spiritual cultures and loads more loving celebration!!!
Pune5 = sometime to future time
Etc
Etc
Etc
Pune6 = etc etc etc…
Pune7 = blah, blah …
Looking for 21 people to agree is too many. 9 would make more sense.
Day23… Birds are chirping here in Sydney and there is a distant sound of a young woman singing songs of praise to “Krishna”…
Yes 500years have passed but time has carried forward a faint echo of Meera’s Bhakti devotional celebration…
I thought today Meera could hold the limelight for this Osho Celebration day…
A Rajput princess who held Krishna so close to her heart that all else in her life became overshadowed by her divine attraction…
Legend has it that Meera danced her way throughout most of Northern India to celebrate her infectious love for Krishna…
I recall Osho talking of her entering a male exclusive temple where she resisted eviction by informing the head priest that there is only one true man in her eyes … Krishna … All others are females in front of Krishna … The head priest bowed to her transcendental insight…
Is Viral running out of steam??… Can he find others to hand over the Osho Pune4 “celebration for change” torch before he eats food again ??
Viral Rocks!!!
Viral Rocks? I think this is a favourite tourist destination in Pune? If my memory serves me rightly “Viral Rocks” refers to a mysterious mobile marble rock fornation that appears and disappears in Osho’s Pune Ashram. This sometimes popular tourist sight has attracted usually only smallish crowds. The “Viral Rocks” have been known to shrink in size, bubble forth ginger tea, sing and dance on Sunderban Hotel’s front lawn.
Good morning from a rainy Sydney Saturday mornings to Sannyasnews bloggers… Some of you may like a Viral update… I’m spending Day26 with Gautama Buddha sipping on fruit and vegetable juice and patiently waiting for the birth of Pune4… Viral
Day27… Buddha stays around for some more time on my juice fast Osho celebration …
Got there!… One month down and who knows how long to go!!
I have been recruiting Osholy-curious people into a preparatory exercise… Which I call mini-dynamic … Basically a compressed sampler, entree affair, of 7minutes duration that will allow a gradual build-up to the full 60minute dynamic… Here is a photo of Swami Adyar doing his warm up for mini-dynamic on Bondi Beach yesterday
Day29 of this celebration goes to Meher Baba!!
Revised: Provisional list of potential caretakers (3months only) up for voting onto Osho’s Pune4 Ashram Resort “new” inner circle of 21 Leaders:
Prem Jayadip
Jayant Anand
Samudro Prem
Shantam Tarangita
Swami Anugrah
Swami Premgeet
Swami Anadi
Vivek Jain
Zorba
Yogesh Thakkar
Swami Shivananda
Swami Arun
Prem Naveen
More… More needed
More… Some women please
More… More …
What the hell has Meher Baba – great master that he was – got to do with Osho, his work or his ashram?
Is Meher Baba going to be one of the 21?
I am still perplexed that Shantam is quiet in this thread. Perhaps he can see, what we cannot.
Maybe because he is not in the list of Viral’s proposed 21!?
I am choosing a focus for each celebration day… I choose from a list of Osho’s long list of favourite saints, mystics and philosophers… Today which is Day29 I chose Meher Baba whose books Osho lists as one of his top ten books of all time … That’s the connection with Osho … A focus person helps to distract one from the hunger rumbles!!
This is a photo of Meher Baba’s bedroom (during his second Australia June 1958) on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia… It is free to visit and attracts both Osho devotees and Meher Baba lovers alike!!
I just read up on MB. Cool dude. Didn’t say much tho.
Some very pertinent debating is going on…
More…
More…more..
And more…
Some more…
Yes more…
And some more…
Finally some more…
This is the first I hear about “Osho’s final bedtime tales” (not a great title now, is it?)…
1. I wouldn’t put too much weight on a dying man’s words. Especially if they would contradict the existing cannon… which I doubt.
2. If such tapes “of his final words” exist and they have been hoarded, it is a crime against Osho. Nothing can be hidden forever (it is the nature of man, study it) and when the apocalypse comes (and all is revealed), your names will be added on Sheela’s list, as the apostates who did not understand.
3. Go Viral.
Osho’s last discourse was 10 April 1989… So we have 10months of him talking to various friends and assistants, making comments on various new books in his library, giving instructions to future management teams and talking about his “Will and Testament”… There are hours and hours of Osho’s voice recordings, from this 10month period, in storage somewhere… These voice recordings are an important resource for Osho lovers and those keen to research Osho’s expressed ideas and words in the 10 months, weeks , days , hours , minutes and seconds prior to him leaving his body… How can we access and publish these recordings.
Well let’s see… Osho’s last discourse was 10 April 1989… So we have 10months of him talking to various friends and assistants, making comments on various new books in his library, giving instructions to future management teams and talking about his “Will and Testament”… There are hours and hours of Osho’s voice recordings, from this 10month period, in storage somewhere… These voice recordings are an important resource for Osho lovers and those keen to research Osho’s expressed ideas and words in the 10 months, weeks , days , hours , minutes and seconds prior to him leaving his body… How can we access and publish these recordings?
I’d love to see a new book by Osho but I don’t see it happening. As I have said in the past, if the current regime where specifically going out of their way to destroy Osho’s legacy and everything he loved, they couldn’t have done it better. Which leads me to believe that they are dancing to someone else’s drum, probably the CIA’s.
You don’t think maybe the expectations of
all their detractors have played a part in
how things are?
You see a devils (Them) / Angels (Detractors)
issue at work.
“The real thing is that you are suffering from your expectations. When they are not fulfilled — and they
are never going to be fulfilled — frustration arises, failure arises, and you feel neglected, as if existence does
not care for you.
Drop expectations for the future. Remain open, remain available to whatsoever happens, but don’t plan
ahead. Don’t make any psychological, fixed ideas about the future — that things should be like this — and
much more suffering will disappear. These two are the root causes of suffering.”
Osho.
The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 11
Chapter #2
In a right moment
Viral,
nice you keep posting here. It’s good when someone actually “does” something, rather than just writes or moans.
Just a few words of clarification:
Certainly Osho had all sorts of doubts about “democracy” as ordinarily understood.
He showed an abstract interest in things like “meritocracy” as better than democracy, but self-evidently did not use it within his own organisation !
Parmatha… Thanks for the encouraging words… It is always an unknown as to whether anyone is reading these missives… Yes I am finding that by sublimating my protest into action by way of a raw juice is more satisfying then just verbal ventilation …. There has also been collateral repair effects on my body which is loving the cleansing detox… Best wishes… Viral
Day32… Good morning, Osho lovers and a new celebration day begins… I am about to start my dynamic meditation but before I do let’s pick another of Osho’s favourites to focus the “celebration for change”…
Osho talked lovingly of another pioneer of Taoism, that next great Taoist pioneer after Lao Tzu…Yes, good old Chuang Tzu…
I love Chuang Tzu’s “butterfly dream” … This story involves Tzu dreaming he was a butterfly and with joy he fluttered in the freedom of flying … awakened by this joy he asked himself, “Am I Tzu dreaming I’m a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I’m Tzu…?”
Taoism, according to Chuang Tzu, identifies the duality of all things but at the same time celebrates that transcendental truth that nothing is separate… The duality springs from unity… When you can live in the world of opposites (yin and yang) but stay connected with the underlying unity (Tao) you are truly alive!
Let’s have a party… We have done enough talking and talking and talking about shifting Pune3 forward and the birth of Pune4 …. Let’s change our communication medium from “talk to dance” for a day… March 21st 2014… A dance celebration for the gestation and birth Pune4″
Viral you declare that, ‘We have done enough talking and talking and talking about shifting Pune3′ and then you continue to do just that. This might suggest that you are confused.
Quite a few posts here about what happened to the things that Osho said in his last months on the planet. Actually Vartan it is not such a long shot. It is certainly true that whatever he was saying was recorded, and planned for release.
Anando his Secretary at the time is about to publish her own book this year, Viha will have the details, and that may prove illuminating. She may even have the transcipts. She is said to have “left” the Inner Circle.
I wrote some years ago on Sannyas News:
“Finally a book that certainly has never seen the light of day is ‘The Philosia of Existence’ Osho’s so-called last book, which Osho dictated to Anando his Secretary in the last year of his life during meals. On this book, disciples do have a right I think to ask why they have not seen it, and have answer.” This still remains my opinion, as seems it is also the opinion of Viral!
The long awaited “P4 Solution”
Dear Osho Lovers,
I hope you may find my point numbered essay on the “P4 solution” as described below interesting.
Perhaps some of the ideas expressed may be helpful in our combined efforts to save Osho’s Pune Ashram and Samadhi.
The “P4 solution” is a paradigm shift in that it does not require the current Pune3 OIF regime to fall before our work begins.
To date our solutions tend to focus on how first to terminate the current Pune3 OIF management team’s rule.
However this has proven very difficult as the Pune3 OIF resort management team have “dug-in” deeper and deeper despite all efforts, legal and moral, to have them exposed and evicted.
The “P4 solution” instead does not require the Pune3 OIF resort management team to cease their activities. This idea of providing some continuity, albeit reduced, for the “Pune3 OIF resort” operation to continue therefore holds some the merit.
Also by allowing the OIF to continue along their merry way at the moment they will have an opportunity to defend their past and present actions, motives and methods.
The P4 solution in a nut shell involves the immediate partition of resort (west side) and ashram ( East side) along the dividing line of Lane1 Koregoan Park.
The “OIF” operates their resort from the West side whilst the “OAF” operates from the East side to make an immediate start on the important job of reviving and running Osho’s Pune4 Ashram with loving kindness and celebration.
Therefore we now have a solution right now!
We no longer need to wait for the “OIF” to END before we the “OAF” to begin and our START our rebuilding Osho’s Ashram.
Best wishes and Jai Osho!!!!
Swami Dhyan “VIRAL”
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Pune4 Partition Project Petition…
… or let’s say the “P4 solution” for easy reference
Now here are some important ideas that deserve healthy and spirited debate amongst Osho lovers scattered across the globe.
In essence the “P4 solution” offers a compromise position in that the current “Pune3 OIF resort” continues its work at a reduced level whilst simultaneously a new “Osho Pune4 Ashram” emerges in parallel.
There are a number of favourable compromises in the P4 solution that may allow immediate progress to be made:
1- there is no need for us to wait any longer for the long forecasted events such as “total dysfunction and total implosion” of the “Pune3 OIF resort” management team.
2- Osho Pune4 Ashram can open its welcoming doors RIGHT NOW to Osho lovers around the globe without having to wait for the “Pune3 OIF resort” to cease it’s operation.
3- This “P4 solution” accommodates a parallel or dual operation model which allows the current “Pune3 OIF resort” management to continue its experiment within a reduced geographical zone.
3- The central feature of the “P4 solution” is that Lane1 Koregoan Park becomes a partition line which divides the OIF’s international meditation resort from Osho’s new Pune4 Ashram.
4- The present “International Meditation Resort” will be restricted in its present and future functioning to the WEST side and the new Osho Pune4 Ashram will operate on the EAST side of Lane1.
4- Now come the calls for the reasoning behind why have the resort on the West and Ashram on the East?
5- This choice is quite simple given that Osho’s most sacred sites including his Samadhi space, Buddha hall and residence are all pooled together on the East side of the partition line of Lane1.
6- There will also flow from this “P4 solution” some healthy opportunities for “competition” and “comparison” on matters such as visitor numbers, entry price, mala sightings (lol), frequency of hugs, numbers banned per day (lol) etc, etc …
7- The incumbent Pune3 resort management team will have the meditation pyramid as their new headquarters (or Pharaohs tomb) and can continue along with their experiment to see where their resort experiment takes them.
8- The new Osho Pune4 Ashram management team, guided by Osho’s vision, can immediately get on with their job to “protect-promote-preserve” Osho’s enormous legacy for the current and future generations of Humanity.
9- If at all possible I would like to think that Zorba may be able to present aspects of this “P4 solution” to the High Court to see if there could be several immediate interim Judicial support for this proposal.
10- An interim High Court ruling could for instance include Orders such as the current Pune3 resort management team operating under OIF must totally, within 21 days, relocate to the West side of the Lane1 partition line.
11- An interim High Court ruling could also include Orders that the new formed OAF ( Osho Ashram Foundation) establish its operations on the East side of the Lane1 partition line effective immediately.
12- For decades, since Osho’s death in January 1990, there has been dissatisfaction and conflict amongst various factions of Osho’s devotees about the operation and management of his Pune legacy.
13- This “P4 solution” has great promise because it is a “parallel” approach rather than a “serial” approach. That is we don’t need the current Pune resort OIF management team to cease operation before beginning our important work which aims to “protect-preserve-promote” Osho’s Pune Ashram and his legacy.
14- Please, please, please can we have some lively discussion and debate amongst Osho lovers about this “P4 solution” proposal.
15- Of course there will be hard work ahead but what a relief to think we don’t need to wait for the complete fall of the current regime Pune3 OIF regime to end before starting our “OAF” work on the East side of the partition.
16- Yes our collective expressed thoughts to date about future management models, which have been guided by Osho’s expressed vision, will see the “OAF” steered by an inner circle of “21 Osho devotees”.
17- We have learnt from the present Pune3 OIF resort experiment some very important lessons about the consequences that flow from collusion, inaccessibility, secretiveness, covertness, narrowing and stagnation of power.
18- Therefore the OAF leadership team of 21 “sincere” Osho devotees must :
a) rotate regularly
b) be overt in operation
c) be open to criticism and compliments
d) publish each three months details of their ashram management performance inclusive of their mission statement, ashram goals, proposed methodology, successes, failures, expenses and future vision.
19- Sadly there is a group of people that seem deliberately destructive towards our efforts to protect Osho’s valuable legacy.
20- In many ways these narrow minded Osho “haters” or Osho “bashers” have thrived on seeing the infighting between the various factions of Osho lovers.
21- For the first time in a long time this “P4 solution” promises an opportunity for ALL Osho lovers to unite behind a relatively simple and time efficient way forward to ensure the survival of that very endangered species the “Osho sanyassin” and its vital habitat, the “Osho Pune Ashram”.
Finally may I end this essay to say that both the endangered species (Osho sanyassin) and endangered habitat (Osho Pune Ashram) have been squeezed to the point of near extinction since January 1990 and the time to act is NOW.
Swami Dhyan VIRAL
Dear Viral, as far as SN goes it would appear that almost nobody here is interested in your plans for change on the outside, which in turn might suggest that you are in fact wasting yor time here.
Thanks Lokesh… Do you have any suggestions about how I could improve my traction upon the readership of SN?… Have you some first hand experience in terms of promoting your views for what is happening in Osho’s Pune Ashram? And what do you feel needs to happen, if anything at all, in terms of protecting-preserving-promoting Osho work and legacy in his Pune Ashram?
Kind regards,
Viral