Category Archives: Meditation/Spiritual

Meditation/Spiritual

Meditation now the Opium of the People

The protesters looked anxious as they rode down the escalator in San Francisco’s Marriott Marquis. A yoga bag slung over one of their shoulders hid a banner reading “Eviction Free San Francisco.” Another had a bullhorn tucked into her backpack. … Continue reading

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The Tarot as a Tool for Transformation

As there has been some discussion on another string of how Sannyas News came to be back in 1985, we found ourselves looking at those old magazines…  somehow we alighted on this article,  drawn by the fact that Upnita after … Continue reading

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The Empty Chair

Sometime in the Poona summer of 1979 Osho started what seemed an enormous project. In the end it was to fill 12 volumes of books – his commentary on the Dhammapada, a central text of Buddhist literature containing 432 sutras … Continue reading

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A Moment between Osho and Shambhu Babu

This was part of a much longer post at OshoNews, but no-one can comment there, and it seemed a few old-stagers wanted to comment. Whatever which way, this part of the extract is so important to spirtual life.  The moment … Continue reading

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Precursors of Being/ Meditation and/or Therapy

When I first turned up in Poona in late 1974 there were no psychotherapy groups.  But there were meditation programmes featuring all of Osho’s active meditations. As far as we knew then these meditations had been devised originally by Osho, … Continue reading

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