Osho

Osho is a mystic who brings the timeless wisdom of the East to bear on the urgent questions facing men and women today. He speaks of the search for harmony and wholeness that lies at the core of all religious and spiritual traditions, illuminating the essence of Christianity, Hassidism, Buddhism, Sufism, Tantra, Tao, Yoga, and Zen. Further information at http://www.osho.com.

Oshos vision is a new man. After his enlightenment in 1953, the evolution of that new man became his whole work. In 1963 he left the academic world where he had taught philosophy at the University of Jabalpur and began speaking to tens of thousands across India. He then focused intensely on developing practical tools for mans transformation. Modern man, he said, is so burdened with traditions of the past and anxieties of modern-day living, that he must go through a deep cleansing process before he can begin to discover the thought-free relaxed state of meditation.

Meditation Hall Pune, India

In 1974, a campus was established around him in Poona, India, and a trickle of visitors from the West soon became a flood. Today this campas has become the largest meditation resort and spiritual-growth center in the world. Each year it attracts thousands of international visitors to its meditation, therapy, bodywork and creative programs.

In the course of his work, Osho speaks on virtually every aspect of the development of human consciousness. His talks cover a staggering range from the meaning of life and death to the struggles of power and politics; from the challenges of love and creativity to the significance of science and education.

Osho, who was born in India in 1931 and left his body in 1990, belongs to no tradition. He says, My message is not a doctrine, not a philosophy. My message is a certain alchemy, a science of transformation.

Osho Leela Center in Boulder offers initiation into Sannyas The Way of the Seeker. Sannyas is the path of awakening created by Osho.

Original mala given by Osho to his sannyasins. It looks slightly different now.

Sannyas is a heartfelt, sincere commitment to yourself and to your own spiritual growth. It is a vow or statement that the most important thing in your life is to become more conscious, more aware, more loving and more awake.

Sannyas is inclusive, meaning that it includes all aspects of life. It is not a retreat or a renunciation. It embraces all that life offers including work, play, travel and relationships. A sannyasin works with any of the great spiritual traditions of the world finding inspiration and tools, techniques and meditations that can benefithim or her on his spiritual journey.

Surrender is an important aspect of sannyas, meaning the surrender to a higher aspect of the divine or supreme consciousness or whatever name or form for the ultimate that one may want to use. To become a sannyasin is a life changing surrender to the truth of your being and a commitment to find your way home.

Avinash has written a great article on sannyas today and the Osho Leela Center called Sannyas: Into the Stream. Its about what attracts new people to Osho, why they take sannyas now, and whats in it for everyone (hint: a LOT of juice). Read it >>.

If you are interested or ready for such a step or need more information contact Punitama1@haikudesigns.com 720-300-9312

Here at Osho Leela we will be celebrating his life by meditating.

5.30 PM Kundalini

6.45 PM I leave you my Dream Video

7.30 PM Ancient Music in the Pines #8 Audio Discourse

Come and join us any time.

With Love and Gratitude to Life, Existence and Osho

Beloved Osho, the fruit falls on the ground when it is ripe. One day, You will leave us, and it will be impossible to have another master in Your place. How can anybody else be the substitute for the Master of Masters? 0sho, when You leave the physical body, will Your meditation techniques help our inner growth as they do now?

My approach to your growth is basically to make you independent of me. Any kind of dependence is a slavery, and the spiritual dependence is the worst slavery of all. I have been making every effort to make you aware of your individuality, your freedom, your absolute capacity to grow without any help from anybody. Your growth is something intrinsic to your being. It does not come from outside; it is not an imposition, it is an unfolding.

All the meditation techniques that I have given to you are not dependent on me my presence or absence will not make any difference they are dependent on you. It is not my presence, but your presence that is needed for them to work. It is not my being here but your being here, your being in the present, your being alert and aware that is going to help. I can understand your question and its relevance. It is not irrelevant. The whole past of man is, in different ways, a history of exploitation. And even the so called spiritual people could not resist the temptation to exploit. Out of a hundred masters, ninety-nine percent were trying to impose the idea that, Without me you cannot grow, no progress is possible. Give me your whole responsibility.

But the moment you give your whole responsibility to somebody, unknowingly you are also giving your whole freedom. And naturally, all those masters had to die one day, but they have left long lines of slaves: Christians, Jews, Hindus, Mohammedans. What are these people? Why should somebody be a Christian? If you can be someone, be a Christ, never be a Christian. Are you absolutely blind to the humiliation when you call yourself a Christian, a follower of someone who died two thousand years ago?

The whole of humanity is following the dead. Is it not weird that the living should follow the dead, that the living should be dominated by the dead, that the living should depend on the dead and their promises that `We will be coming to save you.? None of them has come to save you. In fact, nobody can save anybody else; it goes against the foundational truth of freedom and individuality.

As far as I am concerned, I am simply making every effort to make you free from everybody including me and to just be alone on the path of searching. This existence respects a person who dares to be alone in the seeking of truth. Slaves are not respected by existence at all. They do not deserve any respect; they dont respect themselves, how can they expect existence to be respectful towards them? So remember, when I am gone, you are not going to lose anything. Perhaps you may gain something of which you are absolutely unaware. Right now I am available to you only embodied, imprisoned in a certain shape and form. When I am gone, where can I go? I will be here in the winds, in the ocean; and if you have loved me, if you have trusted me, you will feel me in a thousand and one ways. In your silent moments you will suddenly feel my presence. Once I am unembodied, my consciousness is universal. Right now you have to come to me. Then, you will not need to seek and search for me. Wherever you are your thirst, your love and you will find me in your very heart, in your very heartbeat. ~Osho

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