Just Sitting

In a small cabin in a North London Wood (Queen’s wood), used in the great plague to bury thousands of bodies, some half a dozen old sannyasins come together early every Saturday morning to “Just Sit”. We can jointly say … Continue reading

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Krishna Prem back in the Resort 2016

Around 1974/5 some of us older sannyasin chaps remember Krishna Prem (American) in old Poona. A sincere seeker and into meditation. And someone who had bravely refused, at some risk, (as someone being in the US army), to fight in … Continue reading

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Osho’s Later Jokes

Prem Paritosh (who died in 2009) was one of the founders of the website SannyasNews in 2001, and the author of “Life of Osho”. He found himself split about what he perceived as the decline in the quality of the … Continue reading

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The Prieure and Rajneeshpuram

The Chateau de Prieure des Basses Loges was a medieval hospital, and later monk’s priory which patrons of Gurdjieff bought him to create a commune in 1923 near Paris. Oddly enough the largest financial patron of Gurdjieff in the interwar … Continue reading

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Sarmad, the death of a Sufi

I have often wondered how Sufism has continued under the umbrella of Islam. Some say that Sufism predated Islam, and somehow just adapted to survive. No matter, clearly when truth raises its head (as here in 1661)  above the parapet, … Continue reading

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