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“this current trend towards natural plant medicine is very good, because it means you come in touch with curandes and shamans who (hopefully) have a real background.” (Nityaprem)

Taitas (aka the name in Colombia […]

A new book chronicles the experiences of dozens of sannyasins and ex-sannyasins, and how their lives were changed by Osho.

‘OSHO ORAL HISTORY: Conversations with individuals whose lives have been inspired and […]

“Didn’t Osho say that his people were largely rebels, “crazies” who couldn’t fit in with their oppressive, repressive societies?”

Seeking fell away after taking sannyas. Before taking sannyas, in the 60s and […]

“but how have you fared when faced with inevitable adverse conditions?” (Satyadeva)

Satyadeva, I am not a serious person. No wealth, no health, no problem.

Adverse conditions are inevitable. Relaxation in […]

The same day I began my neosannyas journey, this was the first song I heard that day:

‘It’s So Easy’ (Linda Ronstadt)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsOYS9pd_Gc&t=12s

“People tell me love’s for fools,
Here I […]

“To take “easy is right” as some immutable rule to govern one’s life is pure folly. Difficult is right and can be the way to go because there will be no development in one’s life without challenges.” […]

I have found Maneesha’s OSHO BARDO “right-mindfulness in living & dying, a new guided meditation for relaxation and as a meditative preparation for dying to be useful in old age as death preparation since it […]

“It is clear that any guru or teacher is also a human being, with flaws, and it is best to stay aware of that.” (Nityaprem)

It was easy for me to be aware that Osho was a human being because I heard Osho himself […]

“What is meditation? — because this whole Heart Sutra is about the innermost core of meditation. Let us go into it.
The first thing: meditation is not concentration. In concentration there is a self concentrating […]

Masters tend to have enemies, so it was for the Master of Masters. Rajneeshpuram was completely successful, a perfect prelude to the Zen culmination called Poona 2, which I thoroughly enjoyed, leading to Osho’s […]

“there are certain themes on which he is very consistent” –Nityaprem

Yes, there are many essential themes in Osho’s life’s work in which the Master of Masters never contradicts himself.

Of meditation the […]

Thank you, Nityaprem, for an interesting topic.

My understanding is that Osho says meditation is not something you “do”…rather it is a quality of being, no matter whether you are doing or not doing. […]

Collecting 93 Rolls Royces to one-up materialistic America. I still laugh about that.

Check out NASA’s high-resolution colour images from its James Webb Space Telescope for further proof of contradictions and paradoxes.

Ya-hoo! Osho!

From the Master of Masters, the Lord of the Full Moon, Maitreya:

“Freedom remains untouched — no definition covers it. But people try to cover themselves with definitions. They feel protected by a definition. […]

Just for the journey: A young American couple who were touring England went to Canterbury Cathedral, where they could not resist making love on one of the historic marble tombstones. The next day the girl […]

OSHO INTERVIEWED BY FRED BRUNING OF NEWSDAY, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK:

“Q: What do you want set on your tombstone?

A: No. Nothing. Once I am gone, I am gone. Then whatsoever my people want to do, they can […]

From the ‘Master of Masters’:

“Let me tell you one anecdote: A politician named Strange lay dying. A friend asked him what he would like inscribed on his tombstone. “Just put,” said the politician: “‘Here lies an […]

From the Master of Masters:

“One woman hypochondriac died. The whole town felt relieved, the whole medical profession felt relieved, because she was a constant trouble to many people’s heads, everywhere, all […]

“Inscription on the tombstone of Peter the Pessimist: I knew this would happen one day.”

Osho, ‘The Invitation,’ chapter 30