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SOMEONE ONCE TOLD ME THE SAYING: ”ALL THAT YOU PUT INTO THE LIVES OF OTHERS COMES BACK INTO YOUR OWN. ”IT HAS BEEN WITH ME EVER SINCE, AND I FEEL IT TO BE TRUE. CAN YOU PLEASE TALK ABOUT THIS? IT KEEPS COMING UP A LOT FOR ME.

BELOVED OSHO,
MY MIND IS ALREADY WORKING ON THE PARADOX I FIND BETWEEN YESTERDAY’S TALK AND TODAY’S.
TODAY YOU HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT SPONTANEITY OF RESPONSE TO NEW SITUATIONS, SEEING THEM AS FRESH. YESTERDAY, ONE OF THE MESSAGES FROM THE STORY ABOUT JOSHU WAS THAT SITUATIONS ARE ALL THE SAME, PEOPLE THE SAME. HENCE JOSHU OFFERED THREE PEOPLE A…[Read more]

BELOVED OSHO, YOU HAVE SAID THAT THE FUTURE IS NOT IMPORTANT, BUT HOW WOULD YOU FEEL ABOUT IF,SAY IN 30 YEARS OR SO THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO TOSSED ONE OF YOUR QUOTES AROUND FOR EVERY ACTIVITY SUCH AS GETTING UP IN THE MORNING ,THEN ANOTHER ONE FOR MAKING A CUP OF TEA AND THEN GOING OUT FOR A PINT OF MILK THEN LATER IN THE DAY WHEN THEY DON`T HAVE…[Read more]

BELOVED OSHO,

YOU HAVE SAID THAT ALL YOUR WORDS OF THE PAST ARE NOT IMPORTANT. SO WHAT ARE ALL YOUR BOOKS FOR?

Hopefully normal service will resume soon, now that Jitendra/Clive is back at home.
Meanwhile, here’s a rather lovely song…

https://youtu.be/Y2iDmuoIRl0

I hear that a film is being made by a sannyasin, Georgia Wyss:”Mantra:Sounds into silence” a documentary about the growing “social phenomenon” of mantra chanting.
The trailer, as you would expect, bigs the whole scene up and puts out all the “you can measure the change in your brain” stuff.
Singing, and in large groups is great fun and…[Read more]

Another exploitative cult leader is on trial in America, with a top psychoanalyst bracketing what went on there with Osho’s set-up:
“Hierarchical structures like that described in court this week are common to cults of any description. According to Jamieson Webster, a psychoanalyst based in New York, borrowings from the $9bn wellness industry…[Read more]

For all those of you who think that Anand Yogi is some kind of spoof character……..

In his column Abracadabra, K. B. Ganapathy explores the ‘Esoteric Group’ of nine persons known as ‘Navaratanas’ and some of Osho’s statements about the group. Published in the Star of Mysore on April 20, 2019.
Plato the Greek Philosopher had said that an…[Read more]

Frank, thanks for the directions! Have found your article, which will be published in due course, although after the recent ’crisis’ we now have about a dozen ”on the stocks” (an old shipbuilding (note the ’p’) metaphor).

Just think of Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, coming back and looking at the world — they will start crying. This is the world for which they wasted their whole lives? This is the world for which they hoped and staked their whole lives, gambled with their lives? They could not live their lives because they were trying to change the world. They were trying…[Read more]

Frank and SD.

How Albert Camus found solace in the absurdity of football
The French philosopher proclaimed that the only way to live was to revolt relentlessly against meaninglessness. So why did he love such a ridiculous game, asks MM Owen

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/albert-camus-football-literature-france-nobel-prize-a8820891.html