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I just read a book which seems relevant.

‘BLISS OUT’ by Francesco Gatti

https://book.blissout.co/get-it

This year I am celebrating 40th neo-sannyas birthday. Perfectly happily!

“It is your decision. Always […]

RE: Shantam’ 5 Euros

Anand Yogi told me that evil British colonizers picked the name ‘Osho’ and our master, being a choiceless-choice-go-with-the-flow kind of guy accepted the name ‘Osho’, explaining that His new […]

“I talked with him many times, sat close to him many times to the point of being very familiar with the scent of the perfumed balm he wore. I often wonder how people became involved with Osho minus such […]

Thank you, Shantam. I looked up “organic” in the OED (3rd edition, September 2004) and found a lot of different definitions. Definition 6a is the one that seems to fit for “organic spirituality”…Definition 6a […]

Whatever happens to the property I think Osho is set to become the next great religious figure in history, like Buddha and Jesus. This is inevitable because Osho programmed a kind of serial deployment of his […]

Frank, what do you mean by the word “meditation”?

This has a ring of truth, from an interview with Mominatu.

Question:
“Finally, what are the books, movies and music that have fed you, that have centered you during this time?”

Answer:
“Wow. That’s a […]

Putting this site on life support is not dignified. When Parmartha died I suggested letting SannyasNews die. Parmartha had dignity. He did not beg.

All things born will die (Alfred Lord Tennyson). It is time […]

Great title for Joan’s latest book: ‘Death: The End of Self-Improvement’.

I came across this recently:

“We’re obviously in a wonky period now and it might be awhile before things stabilize again. Whether or not […]

Why not live the present moment fully and simply enjoy life? Each breath is a gift. Why talk about “enlightenment”? Maybe because the ego makes you think enlightenment is somehow special?

Fuggedaboutit.

“Don’t […]

Lokesh says, “Phew, glad I am not a spiritual seeker. What a relief.”

I was once not interested in awakening. I didn’t even know I was asleep, so no need for spiritual seeking. Then I was interested in spiritual […]

Recent research indicates spiritual bypassing may be useful:

“The authors collected a sample (783 participants) from the general population and tested a parallel mediation model in which 2 factors of spiritual […]

Thank you, Klaus. This fellow, Osho, is brilliant, a Master of Masters.

Is Rumi guilty of spiritual bypassing?

“Spiritual bypassing…to avoid dealing with our painful feelings, unresolved wounds, and developmental needs.” John Welwood, 1984).

It has become fashionable to condemn “spiritual bypassing”…almost dogmatically […]

Thanks for sharing this of Pune One. My experience of Pune Two was equally chainless. 38 years of neo-Sannyas…shedding chains with each breath. Ahhh, This!

Thank you, Madhu, for your beautiful nature-inspired messages! Sun is not shining here but drizzly overcast days have their own intimate beauty.

Many take nature (or Nature) as their satsang-giver. I have never […]

Well said, Lokesh!

”I do not believe that visualizing no shit happening in the course of one’s life is going to lead to a shit-free life, but of course the ‘create your own reality’ believers do.” (Lokesh)

I do not agree that shit […]

“There is a deep humility in seeing the world as it is and not as we want it to be. There is a profound relaxation when we accept ourselves as we are and cease to hankerfor what we are not. We are infused with an […]