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- The Journey from Child Sannyasin to Grown-Up Seeker, by Nityaprem 14/08/2025 satyadeva
- The Ghost in the Machine, by Lokesh 15/07/2025 satyadeva
- Reflections on the Deaths of Paul Lowe (Teertha) and Andrew Cohen, by Simon Dunster 16/04/2025 satyadeva
- The Rumble in The Zen Jungle! By Dominic 25/02/2025 satyadeva
- The Mystery of Seeking and Not Seeking, by Satchit 12/02/2025 satyadeva
- Revisiting ‘Children of the Cult’, by Nityaprem 27/01/2025 satyadeva
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bodhi vartan posted an update in the group
Caravanserai 7 years agoParmartha’s Celebration
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bodhi vartan posted an update in the group
Caravanserai 7 years, 3 months agoJournalist Anke Richter goes inside the cult of Netflix’s Wild Wild Country
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bodhi vartan commented on the post, Amrito gives his take on Wild, Wild Country, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 4 months ago
I understand that there is one more episode to come but it will be made up from footage that has already been filmed, with no new material.
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bodhi vartan commented on the post, Swami Gajar Baba, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 11 months ago
From the “I leave you my dream” video.
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bodhi vartan commented on the post, Boddhisattva ?, on the site sannyasnews 8 years ago
A Greek Bodhisattva
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bodhi vartan commented on the post, Boddhisattva ?, on the site sannyasnews 8 years ago
On the cover of his book he describes himself as Bodhisattva Swami… to which he should add Mulla Saint and complete the set.
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bodhi vartan commented on the post, Arrested for a Silent Explosion, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 1 month ago
The real cover.
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bodhi vartan commented on the post, Sometime in Poona in 1977, on the site sannyasnews 8 years, 8 months ago
Is this the film that was called ‘The Ashram?
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bodhi vartan commented on the post, Osho’s Grandmother, on the site sannyasnews 9 years, 4 months ago
Last year there was an article on Greco-Buddhism on Osho News (nothing new that cannot be found on Wikipedia).
Greco-Buddhism
http://www.oshonews.com/2015/02/26/greco-buddhism/
A number of tribes in what used to […]
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bodhi vartan commented on the post, Swami Anand Julian, Ace Spy, on the site sannyasnews 9 years, 7 months ago
The description of the effect makes it more likely to have been an ADS rather than a (sound weapon) LRAD.
Active Denial System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System
Long Range Acoustic […]
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bodhi vartan commented on the post, The Day we got Guns, on the site sannyasnews 9 years, 9 months ago
“Anyway, what egotistical sex means? Anyone could enlighten me? Cheers!”
I think egotistical sex is when you talk better sex than what you give.
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bodhi vartan commented on the post, The Day we got Guns, on the site sannyasnews 9 years, 9 months ago
Madhu Dagmar Frantzen says:
“Hold on a minute, Bodhi Vartan! Some of that flavour (late Rajesh´s) is truly missing from your side.”Sorry, I didn’t know that I had to subscribe to any particular flavour. I just […]
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bodhi vartan commented on the post, The Day we got Guns, on the site sannyasnews 9 years, 9 months ago
Madhu Dagmar Frantzen says:
“He wrote in 1988 during his then visit to the so-called Pune 2 Ashram, this letter to Bhagwan, about how miserable he had felt.He was left alone (unanswered?) and not comforted – not […]
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bodhi vartan commented on the post, The Day we got Guns, on the site sannyasnews 9 years, 9 months ago
Nothing in it that is not already known. The rumblings of one of Sheela’s lesser lackeys as he was sleepwalking into tyranny…
This is how he described the end:
“But the tragedy, like tragedies are, was […]
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bodhi vartan commented on the post, The Delhi Jain Conference: Accommodation block antics, on the site sannyasnews 9 years, 11 months ago
(Sorry for the long quotes but they give a good understanding of the situation. What I find interesting is Osho’s use of the word ‘ascetics’ for the meditators. The date is 1973).
Many government officials were […]
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bodhi vartan commented on the post, The Delhi Jain Conference: Accommodation block antics, on the site sannyasnews 9 years, 11 months ago
The Digambara monks are still expected to be naked. Just put the word in google/images and you will get the idea.
Rajneesh was at an early age confronted with death, as his younger sister Kusum died from an […]
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bodhi vartan commented on the post, The Delhi Jain Conference: Accommodation block antics, on the site sannyasnews 9 years, 11 months ago
Lokesh says:
“Sweet Jains”…There are two types of Jains, Digambara and Svetambara. The ones with the hankies over the mouth are Svetambara. Osho’s family are Digambara of the Taran Panthi sect. Digambara […]
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bodhi vartan commented on the post, Enlightened and Unenlightened Paradoxes, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 1 month ago
Ditto. Good bit of writing too, from Locki.
As far as Osho and enlightenment go. I don’t know about enlightenment but he definitely had “something different”. Part photographic memory and part hypnotism.
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bodhi vartan commented on the post, A Ranch Myth exposed, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
SS, the Robin Williams snowy movie was called “The Big White”.
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bodhi vartan commented on the post, A Ranch Myth exposed, on the site sannyasnews 10 years, 2 months ago
This is the pic Veena posted in “The Art of Dressing The Master”. According to her she had to import fake fur from England to make one for him. Does anyone have the one where he is looking at the camera?
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