An Adventure Across Borders

Asha and I got together when the rains broke. We moved into a room on the edge of the Park, an old hotel room with that high-ceilinged, almost sepulchral quality so prized by the English in India. There was a four-poster bed, an ancient lumbering fan, and outside the window the rain fell as calmly and evenly as if it was going to rain forever. I was making tea on a Primus, mixing the sugar and the milk powder, moving through a present moment as thick as honey.

“I’m down to my last few hundred dollars” Asha said. I didn’t say anything. By this time all I had was an old camera someone had given me, which I was trying to sell on M.G. Road.

“There’s a guy coming up from Goa to see me“ she went on. “He wants me to do a run. I’m not sure, but I think it’s a false-bottomed suitcase to Canada.”

I could hear the nervousness in her voice…But when the ‘scammer’ as she called him arrived, far from being the oily gangster I had imagined, he turned out to be a sun tanned young Dutchman – alert, humorous and quick-witted.

I’ll call him H. He had brought the suitcase for Asha to examine, and it was expertly made. There were two and a half kilos of Manali in the false bottom, and two and a half in the false top, and the only thing you could feel was that the lid was a bit too heavy. But then the lid had those criss-crossing straps so that you could pack things there too. We started to talk and quickly found we had a lot in common. We all loved India, and had no desire to go back to the West. H. as it soon became clear was into smuggling as much for the adventure as for the money…

To cut a long story short, we decided that Asha and I would do the run together;- and soon afterwards we found ourselves checked into a Bombay hotel, with our tickets to Brussels. The plan was that I take the suitcase to Brussels where Asha was to get a new passport with no trace of India on it, and then take the case on to Montreal. The first thing was that I, unkempt and dressed in crazy orange clothes, be made to look normal. There was a tailor’s shop, Paradise Tailors, right by the hotel where we were staying – little more than a shifty old Indian with a Singer sitting under some wooden stairs, but he measured me up and said he’d have some Western-style trousers ready in time for the flight. I had an expensive haircut, then back at the hotel I tried on the navy blue blazer with brass buttons H. had lent me. I put on a pair of glasses I had but never wore (“makes you look intellectual” H. had said) and through which I could not see properly. What I did see looked eerily like a successful dentist.

Worse followed. I went back to Paradise Tailors, but when I tried to put the trousers on I found I couldn’t get my foot into them. At first I thought I must be trying to get my foot into the pocket, so I turned them this way and that – but no, he had made the legs so narrow I could not get my feet into them at all. My self control snapped.

“Paradise, you arsehole!“ I screamed. I was like The Imperialist in revolutionary propaganda. Paradise leapt to his feet and flapped round his broom closet like a frightened hen. Finally he fished round under the spot where he had been sitting and, muttering viciously to himself in Mahratti, produced the rest of the cloth I had bought and with which he, like an Indian tailor in a panto, had hoped to abscond. Finally he fitted panels, large diamond-shaped panels with malevolently crude stitching, into the sides of the trousers. They looked insane.

Check-in was at two in the morning.

Going through Emigration I was pulled out and told to wait. I sat down on a bench with two Africans. They looked guilty as hell. I tried not to think. Asha drifted past, looking dead cool. “Oh, are you on this flight?” she said sweetly. “Well, I’ll see you in transit then.” I could have murdered her. Then Emigration gave me my passport back again.

Finally we boarded. The cabin was monstrously hot and full of what were apparently Korean businessmen. They were all dressed the same and didn’t move. It was like Zen at its worst. After a long delay the plane taxied off to what by now I was sure was certain doom in Brussels.

Neither of us could sleep. There was one trippy bit where we seemed to be caught in a loop, flying round and round over Mount Ararat in a bald and ghastly dawn. Asha and I had a furious whispered row up there. At last the airline served some breakfast and mercifully we both passed out until just before landing.

Coming through Immigration in Brussels a muscle in the side of my neck started to twitch. I had not known muscles could do anything like that. It was as though I had some small animal inside my shirt collar. I’ll never get away with this, I thought…Then the bag didn’t show up on the carrousel. There were lots of dark blue ones, but each time I thought I had spotted mine it turned out to be somebody else’s. (“Don’t look around. Don’t make eye contact,” H. had said. “Whatever you do, don’t look alert – that’s what they’re watching for.”) Another flight was starting to come through, and still no suitcase…That first run was the only one I got frightened on. I don’t mean that later I developed nerves of steel; but while the run was actually happening I didn’t get scared. That was one thing I did learn from drug-running: real physical danger does not produce fear. On the contrary real danger produces fearlessness…

Suddenly the suitcase was there. I picked it up and headed for the exit. “Rien, merci.” I said to someone in blue, in my best schoolboy French. He made a chalk mark on the side of the bag and I was sailing towards the glass doors…and through them…

Asha was there, looking wonderful, with a bunch of roses. So was our contact, another young Dutchman. “I came through in that blazer a month ago” he laughed, as he ushered us out of the airport. I couldn’t believe it. Sunlight, autumn in Europe, thousands of dollars. “You looked really straight” he said, as he opened the doors of a beat-up old VW.
“You could have been a dentist.”

Pari

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72 Responses to An Adventure Across Borders

  1. shantam prem says:

    What a catchy story. I have read this thriller word by word. After all it is written by one of us sannyasins.

  2. shantam prem says:

    Does it mean, sannyas “community” is tired from the stories of the golden past, when young from the heart and being were willing to take all kind of risks for the emerging New age, New Man!
    Now when finally new age has dawned. google and youtube, me tube, sextube, lovetube, innertube are here as a sign post of this new age, why not just enjoy the last few years before the old people´s nursery becomes the new ashram!

  3. martyn says:

    Drugs, Sex and Gurus … its obviously a made up story which is totally untrue….ok I admit the sex part is missing but the next three months of SN will be solely dedicated to sex love and relationships as a balance to all the other meditative insights and rumours of drugs that have filled our last few years here on SN

    • rajni says:

      M – If you have been on sannyas news for the ‘last few years’, as you state, you’ll know that the 200 odd page book by Paritosh, from which this extract was taken, was discussed on 17 October 2010. There were many comments at the time, including a posting from ‘Bob’, who suggests that Paritosh’s involvement with the Situationists may have inspired his take on events. For your interest, the book is available here in its totality. http://www.enlightenedbeings.com/pdf/life_of_osho.pdf
      and is an erudite and moving read, by the way. The question for me is why, at this point in time, the editors chose this particular passage…

  4. alokjohn says:

    This is an extract from Sam’s (Pari’s, who died a couple of years ago) “Life Of Osho.”

    I believe it to be true.

    • Parmartha says:

      I confirm the story is true.
      I also bear witness to the fact that sannyasins of the first decade of sannyas, up until around 1980 included many outsiders, and people who lived on the edge of society. I dont know the figures, but of westerners living in India it might even have been the majority.
      These guys formed what to me was an admirable subculture (of which I was on the periphery), but oddly enough I found that subculture almost always accepting and loving. I felt alive there, and freedom of thought and expression was simply an assumed value.
      I fully accept after 1980 and until 1985 things changed. Some of those guys I knew were excommunicated. I remember how one good friend was thrown off the Ranch simply because he wanted to wander around the geography of the place and walk from peak to peak in a robe…. so it is true that the terrible yoke of convention did overcome the Ranch, and this was a disease from within.
      Osho was full of the creation of double binds, and for me they were zen koans.
      Similar to Dharmen’s experience, I was working in the silk screen dept for some of Pune one and we did get messages from the old man – and sometimes of even a small detail that we had got wrong on a cover say of his books. Now I doubt whether these messages were actually from the Old man, they could have easily been from the administration as my feeling now is that he gave them a sort of carte blanche to speak in his name, if they needed to achieve a result.
      I therefore dont really accept that Osho himself wanted a “public image” otherwise why did he insist on the publication (in 1984) of the three “niotrous” books against the advice of both Sheela and Vivek. (For once and perhaps only once the two agreed!).
      So as often the case things are not black and white. For me almost all men are inherently lazy, (as is evolution taking so long to do things!)
      and long for black and white and certainty. That’s why there is so much fundamentalism. But the truth is that there are an infinite complexity around almost everything, including such topics as good and evil. The challenge is to “hold” that frame and not get lost in fear or ambition to escape it.

      • roman says:

        Parmartha, I’m glad you’ve used the word ‘complexity’ because there can be a somewhat Manichean approach
        to sannyas and Osho by certain people. Thanks for your post.

  5. dharmen says:

    The above article, as Alok points out, comes from a chapter in Sw. Paritosh’s book, ‘Life of Osho’. I had to give some serious consideration as to whether publishing such a story on this site was a good idea. Pari (Paritosh) as some of you may know, was a co-founder of  the web edition, of  Sannyasnews.
    Back in 2002 we put up a piece on a LSD trip Pari had taken, entitled, ‘ A Trip on the Heath‘. A friend of mine who visited Poona regularly, came back from one visit and told me this article was pinned up on a wall in one of the offices in Poona, and that certain people there were concerned that publishing such articles was not in the best interest of Osho’s ‘work’. I have to admit I thought they had a point. Of course with something like that, it is all going to depend on your viewpoint.  My viewpont had already been coloured, between 1988 and April 1990, I worked in the Rajneesh/Osho Times, Poona offices, laying out pages for the newspaper.  I was there, more or less 20 months, so over time, I picked up on how it ran.  It became apparent to me that that some things did indeed come down from Osho.  He was quite involved with its publication, he saw every edition and there were things that he always insisted on. The Rajneesh Times and the Press office were part of a publicity machine to promote Osho.  I believe, that when he changed his name, it was all part of a rebranding exercise, that a sannyasin media guru, had put forward (but thats another story). The point I am trying to make, is that Osho wanted a public image. It was all thought that it would aid his ‘work’ and get him known throughout the world. He sometimes said he didn’t care what kind of publicity he got so long as he was known. But for the Ashram publicity machine, a positive image was what was important.  It all worked with his approval. Twelve years after his death they were still trying to do just that and they were concerned that articles like, ‘A trip on the Heath’ ran counter to what they were trying to do. I think that had I not worked on the ‘Times’, I would not have had much sympathy for their concerns but I had and I believed that at least as far as his publications were concerned he did not want much emphasis on the shadowy side of things.  Now twenty two years later, where do we stand? Over the last years, the shadowy stuff has slowly come out and keeping the positive image just seems ridiculous. Some of the things that have been revaled have shocked even sannyasins, possibly more so, as it a lot of us held an image of him, to one degree or another, as a perfect and enlightened being.

    I remember when the ranch debacle broke and the diabolical stories came out. I was shocked, what was I part of? What had I invested so much time in? But I guess I was not alone, everybody had to come to terms with it. It took a long time but in the end my gratitude for what I felt Osho had given me and his tremendous effort to wake people up, won out.
    I only have my experience and my memories and yes something thats beyond words, but these things I would not have, had I not been part the merry caravanserai. I am tempted to say, because of that, I don’t care what shit went down, I do, but its not something I want to focus on. Its not something I want to be continually reminded of, because, despite how dark some of it a was, it was not the main event . The main event was a wonderful glorious experience. But there are a lot of people around, who are either still cayying wounds from what happened, or are just plain sick, that want to wallow in the negative.

    Here on sannyasnews I have had enough of J.C. Pennie’s obsession with negative stories. To me he is like a plant from the dark forces, conducting a vicious smear compaign and alienating as many people as possible.
    Recently over on the caravanserai he been bringing up, drug running and prostitution, claiming they were major sannyasin activities. I am not saying these things did not occur but he’s got the perspective and their significance totally wrong. I posted the drug running chapter from Pari’s book because these things did happen and thought it might be good to give someone’s first hand account. If there are things to discuss about this then it can be done here, if theres a need, but from an editorial standpoint, invective, hyperbole and provocation are not welcome at all.

    • jaycpennie says:

      actually, for the powers that ran the ranch and pune, the dark stuff WAS the main event.. are you still that blind? the dark stuff, enabled people to get away with what they did, the dark stuff made tons of money for the operation of pune 1 and the ranch, the dark stuff, had people fighting over minutiae, still to this day, and you and most others want to simply bury your heads in the sand as if this stuff didn’t doesn’t occur, that it’s not a big deal. if you do that you’re wasting your time trying to elevate your consciousness, for it will always be there, lurking in the shadows.. never accepting, never dealing with it, and never looking for ways to go beyond it…. and this attitude is called being “spiritual”? acceptable for a 5 year old but not adults on a growth quest.

      • dharmen says:

        This dark stuff, firstly how much of it was truly dark, going against the laws and regulations of a society, well, its open to debate, how dark that is. There are a lot of things that cause no harm to others but they’re against the law.
        the dark stuff made tons of money for the operation of pune 1…
        I left out ‘and the ranch’ cos, quite frankly I don’t have any sense about that.
        This is a blanket statement that you make with no details to back it up, ‘tons of money’, sounds like just another fantasy to me. Most of the money in Poona One came from the therapy groups, they were quite a phenomena. At its peak, in Poona One, there would be 3000 to 5000 people visiting the ashram and people stayed for as long as the could, often 6 months or more. Almost everybody that came to Poona did groups, lots of groups for many to, it was quite a revenue stream for the Ashram.
        Give me some figures Penny. Give me some facts, otherwise what you say has no weight at all.
        And as for this stuff being the main event, it can be your main event if you want, mine was being there, it had nothing to do with this.

        • Arpana says:

          If Bhagwan, as he called himself had not decided to set up his neo-sannyas none of this would’ve happened. Sannyas news wouldn’t exist, with people who are for him and against him. The ranch would never have happened, nobody would ever had a Sheila to discuss. Nobody would’ve had an Osho to blame or revere.
          At one point there were stories going around saying that there were 200 people who had become ’enlightened’, and on the other hand only about 10. We wouldn’t be able to analyze those viewpoints The ashram wouldn’t exist, with its management to demonize. People wouldn’t be hell-bent on destroying him, destroying the faith others had in him. People wouldn’t be driven to spread the word about him. People wouldn’t be filled with bile and hate and bitterness and spite and malice because they felt disappointed in him and those people who revered him; and others wouldn’t be convinced that their the lives been transformed because of him. A spectrum. Dark to light. All because of Osho. A straightforward unequivocal cause and effect relationship.

  6. martyn says:

    Dharmen…if its true about JC ….why does that matter ?….its not as if spirituality needs a clean image does it….christ, if all the group leaders’ washing was hung out to dry no-one would ever do a group… and would that make us, the community of sentient beings, less able to develop a countercultural imperative and ethic…or different forms or connections or fraternities or any zillion and one things humans do ?
    conclusion….
    sannyas does not need a safe pair of hands and should deal with itself as adults…or what?..
    i think we’ve all proved ourselves and what we are ….we are….let the show continue…. its just a piece of Jacobean theatre.. you need all the responses .. yours included..to make the show..
    its just his penny’s worth after all.

    • dharmen says:

      For me the guy just sits at home throwing rocks at people and every now and then he knocks someone off the site. How many first time posters have not taken to his insults? Yeah, ‘their problem’, I here you say, well, yes – thats why they walk away, thats how they deal with it. If you like to trade insults you can have a lot of fun with JC. but its not my cup of tea.

      • roman says:

        Dharmen,
        You’ve made a very important point. When discussion is marked by personal vitriol people opt out and remain silent. The only option to silence is to be drawn into a slugging match against one’s best intentions, which isn’t worth it. First time posters are inclined to walk away if they are abused for offering intelligent ideas, therefore any debate is limited, because it is so restricted. I understand your dilemma.

    • jaycpennie says:

      hey martyn, i’ve been at this a while now, and if you can’t figure out what i’m doing.. you get what you deserve.

  7. Chetna says:

    Dharmen-thanks for sharing your views. It is very inspiring to see how sannyasins dealt with difficult times. It is also refreshing to see some people’s insights rather than insults and showing off of knowledge.

  8. kavita says:

    Dharmen . . . ofcourse what one feels about anyone is solely ones individual concern . . . its virtual . . so its still ok . . everyone should be included . . and ofcourse you & the whole team are doing a good jOb dear . . . I could only suggest . . . SN could have an hide / ignore / block option . . if possible . . . well we all . . do have our own communes ( lol ) in any case . . :)

  9. kavita says:

    PS : & this option should be available for each contributor of SN & not only SN administrators . . just needed to be more clear . . :)

  10. martyn says:

    ”all i said was ‘by jehovah, that was a nice piece of halibut”…..
    ‘there you are you’ve said it again ..you’re only making it worse for yourself…
    ”how can it be any worse, i’m going to be stoned to death any minute… jejovah,jehovah, jehovah”

  11. jaycpennie says:

    Dharmen, i’m so happy that i’ve really pushed you over the edge… being naive is one thing, but to take that and running with it like it’s a bag of diamonds is another.. An interesting read (your 12:25 response), there you clearly admit to the shenanigans that went on at the ashram, the ranch(so obvious), at osho centers and from most sannyasins in general- oh let me rephrase that.. only “some” sannyasins and only “some” of the time.. i’d like to ask you.. if it were only done by some sannyasins and only some of the time, the ranch would probably still be alive and kicking, ashrams flourishing, centers spread out all of the world, and millions upon millions of osho disciples hooting every morning to dynamic meditation.. instead.. bullshit in house fighting, in pune, nepal, europe. australia. lawsuits filed every other week so osho’s lectures can be controlled and profited from. tid bits of info from long time former inner circle members and close friends of osho’s family telling of the real “dirty” deeds that went on unbeknownst to the general sannyasin population and world in general. Your amazing display of chronic “head up the ass syndrome”, a.k.a. “denial”, makes me wonder why you even bothered to post that story of drug running… let someone else, who is without fear and “tells it like it is” take your place as co-editor of this “news” site.. cause i think your comments don’t do sannyasins, nor osho any good, if you’re just taking a lopsided p.o.v. P.S. it was nice to have my allegations at least partially verified by you regarding osho being involved deeply with the newspaper publications, and the higher ups at the ashram not wanting the complete story being told about sannysains and osho and the ranch and ashram… get the point? osho was probably deeply involved with day to day affairs both in pune 1 and the ranch and thereby is totaly responsible for the debacle at the ranch and his forced emigration from India to the U.S., Why is this so difficult for you and most others to accept.. admit it, absorb it, and move on.. don’t you get tired of smelling your own shit? enough said to a bozo like you.. hey shantam, where you be at boy? what’s the latest dope?

    • dharmen says:

      Pennie I know shit went down. I had my bubble pricked along time ago, I just don’t have the same morals as you. I can’t condone it but done is done. As I tried to point out, I got over it . I don’t need to bang on about it now. If you must know I think the ranch failed due to three things, land use laws, Valium and Nitrous Oxide. I should probably say four things, I forgot to mention, human beings.

  12. Preetam says:

    My subjective euphoric character likes to celebrate, who cares about rules of an violent society, about passports and f… missleading laws.

  13. Preetam says:

    Shantam, this emerging New age with capital city London has nothing to do with Osho and Truth. That construct nothing less then the try of Freemasons by realizing fascistic anti Human goals.

  14. Arpana says:

    The story so far.

    The only possible reason to recall anything that has happened because of Osho, that might be deemed positive, given that positive and negative are pretty obviously being used in a Xtian sense here, dualistic, black and white thinking, is that whoever does this is living in the past, deluding themselves, trying to put a gloss on a bad situation, generally delusional, however to mention anything bad, is to be objective. Certainly cant be called clinging to the past, and definately nothing to to do with a glass is half empty mind set..

    I have never regretted taking sannyas. My inner landscape ha been transformed because of me, meditation and Osho. Have met some terrific people, and a lot of people I would rather not have to bother with. Known heaven and hell.

    Mind you a further part of the change in me is that I haven’t used recreational drugs since before I took sannyas, started meditating, and rarely drink. Using drugs definitely brings a particularly xtian type focus to the mind. Most of the people I knew before I took sannyas still live in that place.

  15. Arpana says:

    Let us just say, scientifically speaking that one billion, billion, minute discrete experiencing’s happened, in a sense that might be related to Osho.

    Just to make a point.

    Then if one single one of those billion, billion discrete experiencing’s can be judged to be not ok, not good, by the all wise, all seeing one, then all discrete experiencing’s that have until these glorious times, when the truth has been revealed to us, labelled positive, were not.

    Only one of a billlion, billion, discrete experienceings has to be not good, and obviously far more than that were not good, and so all discrete experiencings you label as positive, are not positive. If you persist with these ideas, you are either insane or evil, and thick as well.

    DO YOU UNDERSTAND. !!!!!!!!!

    Shut this damn chat board down, or re-label it, the anti Osho sannyas chat board, and put up a header that says.

    ‘We are on a mission to ensure that the word gets spread that everybody who has ever had any contact with Osho and believes that any good came out of it is insane, or evil and thick as well. If you presume to post positive statements that relate to youre life in general, and more specifically to life as it relates to Osho that are not utterly negative you will be shat on remorselessly until you mend your ways.

  16. Karima says:

    As i see it”, this blog is a beautiful example how duality presents itself in: positive opinion is “good”negative opinion is “bad”! But they are both sides of the coin,are’nt they.? And if opnions would’nt start up than we would’nt have this forum or whatever,then Life would just be as it is! And that could be expierenced as boring, or exhillarating depending on which side of the coin you are operating from! I must admit i’m addicted to exhillaration,which is gradually becoming very boring!

  17. shantam prem says:

    Can the contributors and readers of Sannyasnews imagine a day, week or two to sit together for meditation in an environment which suits each and everyone of us?
    Can we imagine where apples and mangos are growing in different parts of the same garden?
    More than ever before, most of us closer to our twilight zone will enriched by the feeling of meditating together and then to have some chit chat..

  18. Fresch says:

    Young people were having fun..

    This winter in pune we were watching jeyesh planning new lights and a friend said he is making a new innovation, machine to kill the birds… Ohh, i was lauhging so much.

    (sorry about the spelling, it’s iPad..)

    So, how to set rules and how to be free?

  19. Fresch says:

    I did things when “younger”, not that risk taking, but it feels like ages ago…

    I do miss freedom…Sense of everything is possible..like as if i was walking on ” no man’s land”, no future, no past.. This is it -feeling..no turning back

  20. Fresch says:

    However, did you ever hear somebody doing something creative who was just mad.. Or somebody doing anthing creative but never experienging pain? No, these allways come together..

    • Preetam says:

      To me, pain is needed for experiencing creativity as long the individuum did not experiensed him “self”. The greatness of our “Self” is inspiration and true creativity in it self as I experience it. As i see it, that is of course only the old way the “little builders” keep humanity in pain. I see it as an controlled chaos keeping Humanity away from experiencing our creativity in a healthy way.

    • Arpana says:

      I worked in a hotel in Tenby as a school kid one summer. Guy worked at the Hotel who was a fundamentalist Christian. Frustrating. Banging head against a brick wall time. Talking to fundamentalist anti Oshoites reminds me of talking to that guy.

  21. shantam prem says:

    How so ever resort boss try to sell his Osho product as non religious targeting the secular kind of Yuppies; but as per the above wise quotation posted by Martyn, all the indications lead to the direction that Mr. Chairman is quite religious in his attitude.
    Can any one give a single dialogue with him during last 20 years. Does he has e mail address?
    If one tries a bit, it is not impossible to get e mail address of President Obama and even one of the most famous senior citizen of the earth, Pope Benedict!

  22. Fresch says:

    Preetam, what i mean is that you do not get up, go to the Office, then shopping and then go home and get creative – or meditative – there is always a process behinde it..
    Thank you Martyn, House is no more a doctor, but an artist – with pain..

    And shantam, most of my yoppies friends say ” i do not need meditation” but they like yoga because it looks good these days. That is a very good start, they just do not know there will be no turning back…at some point. So, resort is doing very excelent job there..
    Good to see you sweeties

    • Preetam says:

      Yes, life is a kind of process, I see it more an happening. But I dont like if other decide for me how this happening should go like, and keeping their profane legs dry.

  23. shantam prem says:

    Arpana, this is a nice irony, through your one liner, you are proving my hypothesis right.
    If you have the Mr. chaiman´s e-mail, it means you are a yes sayer, who will listen the high command with hand on the heart. Part of the cult mentality; is it not so?

  24. Fresch says:

    The energy in the resort was wonderful: intimate and playful. There were not so many people. I was thinking it’s not about the money, old sanyasins always drop out and do their “own” thing elsewhere. We were dancing at new year celibration so much in tune together..you all know how it can be at best. People in charge really start being old. For me it feels like respecting their work – and i am expecting younger people to take over for something new. I have a feeling it’s happening very soon. And i am excited to see what it will be.

  25. Fresch says:

    One more thing. I watched the video from neelam’s place. I love Indian culture and india, but really..arghhhh.. I just do not relate what they are doing. Heart is wishpering, not sentimental..osho is not about cultural conditioning! Well, something will happen again and we will be more one.

  26. shantam prem says:

    Fresch, That place blessed by Osho and His people was great,far out, intimate one to one from the day of its conception.
    I will be glad if the creators of resort take the challange to create second Osho resort in UK, USA or Canada. Fact is, if you tell someone about Osho in the west, majority will still think Osho is some kind of hair conditioner to prevent dandruff! You need to tell, Osho is Bhagwan; that Bhagwan of 93 Rolls!
    May be then it will be also justified for you to compare Neelam´s place. She has done it out of her own. Her place has no historical significance, still she has made it survive and created its niche.

  27. Fresch says:

    I am aware that my comments are a bit out of place here. I read this blog sometimes and it’s dear to me even if i do not participate all the time.

    I must say everything has been dealt with here. With such cruelty among .. Or with each others, osho and sanyasins.

    Good thing about it is that if any one outside ever wants “cult information”, you know, stuff like “what about sex and drugs and power and etc” i can always say read here, it’s open and public. So i do not need to talk about it. Wow!

  28. Fresch says:

    I should not compare neelam’s place.. Indiana sanyasins have a right to “do their thing”..like all the other centres. Sorry about that.i was coming from my own opionion or impression on what has been going on.

    However, my own dream is that at some point we are doing together again ( and not that every one of us ” is doing Me, My self and I doing My thing”. It just would be so much more..

  29. shantam prem says:

    “However, my own dream is that at some point we are doing together again ( and not that every one of us ” is doing Me, My self and I doing My thing”. It just would be so much more.” Fresch
    Beloved Fresch, this dream of yours is almost every Osho seekers dream. We have inhereted this dream from Him.
    Dreams are as fragile as wings of a bird, and right now this morning bird called Osho is in golden cage..
    Its freedom from congested interpretation will be almost like a new dawn..

    PS-Any way, nice to see you back at sannyasnews after few years gap.

  30. Preetam says:

    Could it be that our commune is a bit money adicted. Hence it is wrong oblation. My dent after all this years, Osho seem to be in a golden cage since Oregon, maybe Pune I. Within whose Golden cage he is, as I assumed already.

  31. Preetam says:

    It is how and why the brood of Hiram Abiff.

  32. Preetam says:

    He was architect of King Solomon’s Temple, Freemasons also call him “the widow’s son.”

    • Preetam says:

      To me, the whole story is almost our History and if you find out who else was or is a Mason, you wouldnt believe. Then it becomes clear how all the trouble is possible, its not the unwilling collective.

      Its natural to ask, if the same hand interferes our Commune and even the time Osho was in his body.

  33. Fresch says:

    Yes, we are no exception. Few years back we had a good conversation about buddha’s “real life”  ( thanks shantam about the article…) it was like us happening. Mind is the machine,  collective mind a bigger machine. So, where are we taking our destiny now?what is happening NeXT?

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