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Arun Extract from his Book “My Days with Osho”

Posted on 21 February, 2016 by

In 1969, I spent four days with Osho who was then known as Acharya Rajneesh. He had accepted our invitation to give talks at Patna University. His fiery and libertine speeches had made a deep impression on me. But when … Continue reading →

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Just Sitting

Posted on 19 February, 2016 by

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

Posted on 14 February, 2016 by

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

Posted on 9 February, 2016 by

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

Posted on 6 February, 2016 by

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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