Category Archives: Osho

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Twenty two years ago today

Posted on 19 January, 2012 by

It’s 10.30pm where I am, in Oz – and it’s the 19th January. Twenty two years ago on this same evening, some five hours earlier, I was sitting in the ashram gardens surrounded by mosquitos. I had not wanted to … Continue reading →

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Osho’s place in a New Spiritual Tradition?

Posted on 15 January, 2012 by

Prem Paritosh compares Poonja and Veeresh, and finds them lacking for the leadership of a New Spiritual Tradition The wealth of satori amongst those around him  was both Poonja’s strength and his weakness. Osho, by comparison, always tended to downplay … Continue reading →

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Osho’s Pre-enlightenment

Posted on 4 January, 2012 by

An Account from Sam (Prem Paritosh) “The abyss opens its mouth, the whole existence yawns…” That was pretty much what had happened to Osho. What he later came to understand as ‘enlightenment’ was not the product of any ‘religious’ practice … Continue reading →

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Meeta’s Darshan: An early Osho Zen stick

Posted on 31 December, 2011 by

The disciples on whom Osho’s early work, which laid the basis of  all his work, including that which still goes on were small in number. Even at its height the Pune One ashram had a maximum of 500 full time … Continue reading →

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How Still was Osho? The Watch Test

Posted on 17 December, 2011 by

Remarkably is the answer, other worldly another. In his insightful and recently published little book, My Dance with a Madman, (recalling his reflections of his life with Osho,)  Anand Subhuti. a former parliamentary correspondent in the UK House of Commons, … Continue reading →

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