‘Taking LSD every week for the past six years,’ I replied almost defiantly.

The master chuckled and said, ‘Very good.’

I was flabbergasted.

‘You have seen the peak of the holy mountain,’ Osho continued, ‘but every time the LSD wears off you are back where you started, or even lower in the foothills of consciousness. It is too easy to imagine that by taking a driug you can find God. If you wish to make your home in the peaks of consciousness you must meditate.’

I strared doing all of the meditations that the master devised on a daily basis.

That first evening with Osho was 35 years ago and a lot of water has passed under the Bund Garden Road bridge. One thing I am sure of: It was excellent advice from a wonderful being.

Good that you share such thoughts.. I have not experimented with drugs.. I used to rely on drinks for relaxation..But after listening to Osho and learning to stay with awareness i started hating that dullness of sense created by drinks.. Now i just dont have interest in drinks..

Recently one of my friend gave me some substance which is normally taken in India commonly during festivals.. I took a heavier dose not knowing the effects..And i lost time sense for for few hours ..only space sense remained..But my awareness was good enough and i came out of it quickly and wowed to myself not to take these stupid stuff..There is no need.. Just staying aware and focusing on the Inner silence is so beautiful..

I simply wanted to share my experience,
I am absolutely agree with article Meditation stronger than LSD
by Lakshen Sucameli
“Once you have closed your eyes for an hour and followed the stages of Dynamic, Kundalini, Mandala or Nataraj … something is bound to happen. No matter if you are a spiritual seeker, or a fervent atheist.”
I remember when I first read Osho. The very first book created an urge to experiment his meditation techniques. From very first day, was very clear to me that Meditation was the only solution.
I had confidence and trust in meditation, while I was for 7 years in the commune of Osho and 7 years in Europe.
I knew from my friend who just returned from Costa Rica had accidentally participated in a Shamanic ritual with ayahuasca, he was so exited to share his experience. Except vision and all stuff, what impressed me is that he said:
“The experience was so beautiful that even one do whole life meditation and don’t reach to present moment, while with this ritual one reach so easily at present and total”
So I became interested, after a year, Shaman was in Europe, so I attended, there was three sessions at night, the first night I felt bad because of the fear of something new, the second night I skipped, the third night I had dynamic meditation at 6 o’clock in the morning. That third night was wonderful and I was entranced by this ritual. I had seen the first time sky so colorful with brilliant stars. Everything was so intense and music was so beautiful. I had in my mind to observe and mind was doing so.
Throughout the year, before he arranged for the following year, I was in a state of absolute surrender just as Indian women who are conditioned by thousands of years because it believes that the husband is God. There are millions of conditions which are believed by millions of individuals by name of qualities (love, religion, truth and so on…) that becomes part of culture as realties.
I was crying just to hear the songs of this shaman.
However, trusting in meditation and living in Europe, personally, I decided to invite friends to my house once a week for an Osho’s meditation.
Before this shaman visited to Europe, I decided to do dynamic meditation for 21 days.
It was three nights sessions ritual. So First night with great trust I participated the ritual.
The ritual is based on music and singing songs so one could ride on the waves of music to have visions and so on…
What I experienced was incredible, because I watched my mind. Under the effect, the thought process has become faster. And so quickly that a little thought begins to move in a circle, and if one may be able to observe, it is so easy to realize that the same thought passes on the screen many times. It creates two possibilities for poor mind, one is, too difficult to handle and second is, to enter into the waves that are created by the music and ritual…Have a ‘TRIP’…..
First time I became aware of my mind. It just like, when in normal state of mind, ‘it’s as if we are moving in the car on the road having normal vision’ and in a state of hallucination of the mind, it’s as if we are in airplane over the road having different visions. In both cases, the mind is the one who plays the role.
In meditation the mind has no role. Besides, who’s playing the role? The observer, observation is a quality that does not belong to the mind.
Instead of entering in the waves that were created by music, I just started to look around and it was fun, because everyone was ecstatic. The only thing that surprised me to see their eyes were moving in a circle so fast. I just laughed and thought, ‘how the drug can fool a human being.’
If it is that much easy then there is no need to invent meditation techniques, which are devises to be free from mind. These shamans and so-called spiritual teachers are interested in mind. It is easy for them to attract minds. I feel sorry for these so-called spiritual teachers and students because they gather only mentally sick people around. None of them are interested in meditation.
I shared with great difficulty with my friends who have participated, but they didn’t understand. They think I lost the opportunity to experience and to be guided from above. In a sense they are right. I am very happy to lose this possibility.
For me, this is the real difference between drug and meditation!!!

But the question still remains, the painting we are seeing right now is not the Original. It is not even the copy, someone has given his own hands to the master’s work.
Why it happened and how long people will be served soup of the soup of the soup.
Naturally what Osho used to say something like, My people are the elites of the elites, the cream of the cream, the salt of the earth……
May be we need one more round of the washing machine with higher temperature to get into that stage, He was feeling about us.
Osho as a human being was part of an immigration fraud in one of the most developed country of our time, He was bound to pay the legal price for that, and He paid it, willingly or reluctantly….But What His people did to His legacy..turning a classic into a cheap parody,, I don’t think He deserves this, and neither seekers on the path crafted by Him.

shantam prem
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And specially the end-

Of course the fearless ones that stood pillars against the violent aggression were also unmoved. In fact they had grown more resolutely in the power of here and now.

SO BELOVED WRITER: SHOW YOUR METAL. JUST TELL WHO YOU ARE?

World has seen enough paper tigers, to move people with words, just with words is pornographic, whether spirutal words or words full with social motivation…

My God…you have no sense of shame, that just not to get banned from the resort, you are hiding yor identity.
Are you 60+ youngman, who can get the young woman only and only in the resort because there it is easy to give reference of your golden days with Osho and win the trust of a delicate heart in a sensuous body.

But i thouroughly enjoyed your last post for the creativity and presentaion.. Thanks..