Group of Osho Lovers, a gathering of friends.

Group explores Active and Passive Meditations devised or recommended by Mystic Osho. Some of the meditations include: Dynamic, Nadabrahma, Kundalini, Vipassana, Nataraj, No-Mind, No-Dimension, Kirtan, Sufi Whirling, Tantra, Chakra Healing, Chakra Sound, listening to Osho, Osho Video, Spiritual movies, breathing techniques etc

Events are held in Kennesaw, Decatur, Suwanee, Douglasville, Norcross, Woodstock, Sandy Springs area.

Group organizes regular weekend, weekday and 1 to 3 day Meditation Retreats / Workshops.

It has been observance of several friends that meditation in a group has been very effective for them. This group is an opportunity for all to experience group meditation in a safe and friendly enviornment. The group is not promoting or selling or providing any service.

Group is an informal and non profit gathering of friends to meditate in group. The group is not part or affiliated to any organization in USA or abroad. The gatherings are held at the homes of organizers or at temporory rented space. Each participant makes a small contribution to cover the associated costs. If you are unable to afford the 'at-cost' suggested contribution for a specific event then please let the organizer know. No one will be refused participation due to their inability to financially contribute towards the event. In each gathering all participants - new or experienced are welcome. Detailed instructions are provided.

Group offers a free shared library of great books, audio and Videos of Osho, Eastern and Western mystics, and General Welness topics. The library has been developed by gifts from other members.

Osho does not teach any religion and does not belong to any particular religion. What he really teaches is religiousness - the real fragrance of all the flowers of existence, the Buddhas, the mystics and sages that this world has known.Osho has given thousands of discourses on all the well-known and not so known mystics of the worldfrom Ashtavakra to Zarathusthra.Osho is a modern day mystic whose wisdom, clarity and humor have touched the lives of millions of people around the world.His insights are creating the conducive atmosphere or Atma-Sphere for the emergence of what he calls the New Man or Zorba, the Buddha the combination of celebration, dance and song of Zorba and the silence, stillness and meditation of the Buddha, the meditation of the East and the materialism of the West.Zorba the Buddha is a totally new human being who is an awakened one, and he is life-affirmative and free.When someone asked Osho the definition of religion, Osho replied: To be in romance with life is religion.Osho teaches meditation for our inner transformation. Love and compassion are the natural expression of this transformation. We can meditate with Buddha, dance with Krishna and celebrate our love with Sufis.

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For more information on Osho on web check http://www.osho.com (http://www.osho.com/), http://www.oshoworld.com (http://www.oshoworld.com/), http://www.oshona.com (http://www.oshona.com/), http://www.oshoviha.org (http://www.oshoviha.com/), http://www.oshoatlanta.com (http://www.oshoatlanta.com/) ; Youtube Osho Channel.

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The disciples of the late Indian guru Osho are far from wild, particularly those in Spain. There are no assault rifles in their ashrams or poisonous potions for their rivals, nor do they plan to take over whatever cities they may live in.

In fact, their lives are far more ordinary than those depicted in the Netflix documentary series Wild Wild Country, a retrospective of the Osho communitys rollercoaster years in Oregon when it became embroiled in criminal activities and its leader was ultimately run out of the country.

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh was a student of philosophy who shocked Indian society with his liberal ideas on sex and religion

The Osho Foundation now has its headquarters in Zurich, from where it peddles Osho products and promotes the Osho Meditation Resort in Poona, India, where the movement was first established in 1974 by the Indian mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.

Osho International recommends 16 centers in Spain to anyone interested in pursuing his teachings. Most are run by sannyasins disciples who have been renamed in an initiation ceremony. I had a friend who was a sannyasin and changed her name three times, says Jos Antonio Espeso, head of the Masunaga school in Coslada, Madrid, which offers shiatsu. In the end, you didnt know what her name was anymore. These rituals are somewhat infantile.

Born in India in 1931, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh was a student of philosophy who shocked Indian society with his liberal ideas on sex and religion and who changed the spiritual landscape for foreign hippies who had been drawing their inspiration from that part of the world since the 1960s.

Decked in expensive robes and jewelry, he had a fleet of 90 Rolls Royce and owned more than a few private planes. His meditations were renowned for their dynamism and his lectures were direct and easily grasped.

At the height of his fame, Osho and his sidekick Ma Anand Sheela snapped up a 26,000-hectare ranch in Wasco County, Oregon, US, and set about constructing an Osho city called Rajnishpuram, which included an airport and armed security forces. Thousands of Osho disciples flocked to the commune to experience the idealistic Osho lifestyle, but instead found themselves mired in conflict with the US authorities on account of assassination plots, illegal immigration networks, wire tapping and attempts to rig local elections.

Osho blamed a mass food poisoning attack and plots to kill public officials on Sheela and her inner circle at the ranch. But his bid to sidestep prosecution was not wholly successful. In 1985 he was given a 10-year suspended sentence, agreeing to leave the US and not to return for five years without the permission of the US Attorney General. The commune was dismantled and his disciples followed him back to Poona where he died in 1990 of heart failure.

More than 190 of the gurus books have been translated into Spanish

Sannyasin Luis Martn-Santos aka Charna recalled last May on the radio station Cadena Ser how he used to see Osho pilgrims walking down Las Ramblas in Barcelona at the start of the 1980s, wearing the hallmark crimson tunics. He himself belonged to the Oregon commune between 1983 and 1985 and now acts as a literary agent, managing Oshos publishing rights in Spain. More than 190 of the gurus books have been translated into Spanish. Martn-Santos says hes overjoyed with the publicity Wild Wild Country is offering the Osho brand but is dismayed by the protagonism given to Sheela. It just shows that the press and the public idealize figures who are proven to have committed crimes or who personify a certain disorder.

Martn-Santos says there are probably thousands of sannyasins in Spain but says that only a few dozen Spaniards were involved in the beginnings of the Osho movement in India and that around 100 would have visited the commune in Oregon.

The sannyasins response to Wild Wild Country can be found on their social networks and in the foundations digital newspaper, The Osho Times: their leader did nothing wrong. He was, they say, a victim of Sheelas machinations and a conspiracy by the US government, which saw the cult as a threat to its conservative values.

Ana Mara Ramrez, a dentist in Tarragona, is one of Spains sannyasins. Her brother bought a camper van in the mid-seventies and traveled overland to India with his girlfriend. While in India, he came across Bhagwan Rajneesh and returned from Poona a changed man. Ana Mara, then just 16, fell under his influence and is now the head of an Osho information center. She believes that Wild Wild Country has been of more interest to journalists than to the population at large. Ramrez adds that while the documentary helps us to understand the corrupting effect of power on Sheela, it fails to enlighten us about Osho himself.

The Osho information center in Barclona is run by Mara Crespo, whose sannyasin name is Chiyono. Crespo is a New Age therapist, working with family constellations and a diet, exercise and massage-based approach to medicine known as naturopathy. Not long after her 20th birthday she became a sannyasin, influenced by a group of friends who had made the pilgrimage to Poona and Oregon. According to Crespo, the documentary has little relevance anymore, given the proliferation of similar movements.

Crespo admits that Osho was a controversial figure but insists that the free love angle has been exaggerated. As far as Sheelas conference in May in Barcelonas Contemporary Cultural Center (CCCB) is concerned, she didnt attend as she prefers to remain aloof from the goings-on in Oregon.

Francis Sendn, another sannyasin, runs an organic food store in Palma de Mallorca. He is convinced that the documentary is one of Sheelas strategies to clean up her image, hence the CCCB conference. Shes unlikely to be doing it for money, he says. They claim she took $70 million.

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Osho defies categorization. His thousands of talks cover everything from the individual quest for meaning to the most urgent social and political issues facing society today.

Oshos books are not written but are transcribed from audio and video recordings of his extemporaneous talks to international audiences. As he puts it, So remember: whatever I am saying is not just for you... I am talking also for the future generations. Osho has been described by the Sunday Times in London as one of the 1000 Makers of the 20th Century and by American author Tom Robbins as the most dangerous man since Jesus Christ. Sunday Mid-Day (India) has selected Osho as one of ten people along with Gandhi, Nehru and Buddha who have changed the destiny of India. About his own work Osho has said that he is helping to create the conditions for the birth of a new kind of human being. He often characterizes this new human being as Zorba the Buddha capable both of enjoying the earthy pleasures of a Zorba the Greek and the silent serenity of a Gautama the Buddha. Running like a thread through all aspects of Oshos talks and meditations is a vision that encompasses both the timeless wisdom of all ages past and the highest potential of todays (and tomorrows) science and technology.

Osho is known for his revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation, with an approach to meditation that acknowledges the accelerated pace of contemporary life. His unique OSHO Active Meditations are designed to first release the accumulated stresses of body and mind, so that it is then easier to take an experience of stillness and thought-free relaxation into daily life.

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There is an old sufi fable. In a very ancient family there was some musical organ, but people had completely forgotten how to play it. Generations came and people even forgot that it was a musical organ. It was gathering dust. It was a very big organ and it was taking up much space. One []

A king was seriously thinking of turning the whole country moral. Nobody should be allowed to say anything untrue. Untruths should be banned. The wise men were all agreed; in fact, because these wise people were his servants they were even going further than him, exaggerating. One wise man suggested that of course this was []

There was a mystic, Hassein, who had a very beautiful son a very very intelligent and talented boy. Everybody loved the boy, but one day he suddenly died. He was just twenty and almost the whole town was in love with the boy. Hassein looked at the corpse and never cried. Not even a []

Chuang Tzu talks about a draftsman of the name Chui, who could draw more perfect circles freehand than with a compass. Really, the compass is needed because you are afraid. If you are not afraid you yourself can draw a perfect circle without any help. In nature circles exist everywhere, everything moves on a circular []

Let me tell you a Zen anecdote about a burglar who entered the house of a Zen master to rob him. The master not only made no move to stop him, but aided him in his search, suggesting things he might take. The burglar, wondering what kind of man this was who would help himself []

ONCE SOME HUNTERS went deep into a dark forest and found a hut in which a hermit was praying before a wooden cross. His face shone with happiness. Good afternoon, Brother. May God give us a good afternoon. You look very happy. I am always happy. You are happy living in this lonely hut doing []

Two persons were travelling in the night. One had a lamp, another had no lamp, but while they were both walking together both paths were lit. The path of the one who had no lamp was also lit, and he was very happy. He never bothered about any lamp what was the need? But []

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Welcome to the OSHO International Meditation Resort.

If this is your first visit you probably would like to take a look around. Why not take aphototour here.

As you can see, as a Meditation Resort it reflects a unique combination of the meditation qualities of a Gautama the Buddha and the resort qualities of a Zorba the Greek. Zorba the Buddha in fact!

A place where the mind, body and soul can play harmoniously together rather than pulling in different directions!

When you arrive, the front desk will direct you to the Welcome Center just to the right of the main entrance. They will take care of your registration for participation in the Meditation Resort activities. For all the details please seehere.

If you would like to stay on campus, there is the Osho Guesthousehere. Or, if you have more time available, you can check out the Living In Programhere.

Once you have settled you will probably want to review the Osho Multiversity programshere. And the daily meditation schedulehere.

If you are still wondering how to find us, please visit ourGetting Here section.

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Man is now living in his most critical moment and it is a crisis of immense dimensions. Either he will die or a new man will be rebornIt is going to be a death and resurrection. Unless human consciousness changes totally man cannot survive. As he is right now he is already outdated. During this period there will be every kind of destruction on Earth including natural catastrophes and man manufactured auto-suicidal efforts. In other words there will be floods which have never been known since the time of Noah, along with earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and everything else that is possible through nature. The Earth cannot tolerate this type of mankind any longer. There will be wars which are bound to end in nuclear explosions, hence no ordinary Noahs ark is going to save humanity. The Holocaust is not going to be confined to certain places, it is going to be global so no escape will be possible. You can only escape within and thats what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core. (OSHO (1983))

The mother of all travails is unavoidable. There will be famines, plagues, and global disasters, whether seers have used the gift of true providence to forewarn us of signs of the end times, or have conditioned us to make the end times happen. A tribulation is coming, whether it is the end of the world or the birth pangs of a new age. The year 2012 will come and soon be forgotten in as we advance deeper into a century of revolution and upheaval. The 2010s will pass into the Roaring 2020s that will see unprecedented stress brought to bear on human civilization and Earths ecology. There will be wars, global warming and unrest. By the 2020s there will be billions of young people expecting a better future, but they will be disenfranchised by their own excessive numbers. They will see the job market and the worlds resources collapse. The basics for happiness in life will be denied them. They will not enjoy a good education, or a roof over their head. They will be denied food, water and hope. The young will be prime targets for the harangues and hate mongering of not one but dozens of messianic Hitlers preaching an apocalyptic solution.

If only they could catch a ride on a Rapture cloud if there were one. The more practical person might dig a survivalists ditch and wait out the tribulation to come, but escape may not be possible when the whole world is going to feel the pain of this multifaceted travail. If food runs out during a protracted global famine, the survivalists will be the first doomsday moles rooted out of their holes by the desperate who are rooting out the last of the hoarded supplies.

No one will escape.

You may choose to abandon the rising, flooding coastlines of California for a religiously pure and safe area like the desert town of Sedona, Arizona; but rather than drown from rising oceans, you may desiccate when the potable water in that New Age Mecca runs out.

The coming decades of the early 21st century could see all of us writhing under an Internet of historys first global emergency. No region, no nation and no person on Earth will be exempt from the effects of another persons misuse or overuse of the planet. The next 30 years will endure floods not seen in recorded history if not directly from weather, then from rising coastlines.

Prophets foresee earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and even many scientists predict natural disasters of a scope and magnitude never before encountered. It will be as if the earth were rebelling against a humanity that chooses to remain retarded while it waits for the saviors to fix them.

Nostradamus and other seers have predicted a plague of 70 wars across the world, triggered by the breakdown of water and food resources caused by rampant overpopulation. Many of these wars will end in nuclear explosions and the unleashing of biological and chemical-weapon plagues.

Attempts to escape may not only be futile but also result in a missed opportunity. A major theme promoted by more renegade redeemers those mystics who do not toe the mainstream anti-life and pro-afterlife line of the Second Coming Syndrome is that you cannot escape from yourself. No matter how high the Rapture carries you into the clouds, no matter how many Himalayan mountains you pull over your head to escape the disasters, the problem comes along for the ride.

You are the problem.

And you could be the answer.

The answer to averting the tribulations to come may arise out of each individual understanding and transcending the problem he or she has become.

Individual salvation requires something else entirely, a totally new vector. Whole some continue to wait for rescue in the form of a new ark of a New Jerusalem to mother-ship them out of harms way, there are visions that act like irritating flies dancing on the nose of such deliverance dreams, disturbing their reverie. These visions buzz with images of a travail from which theres no escape. They say that the coming disasters will force all people to stand face to face with a heartbreaking and dream-breaking reality: No saints or saviors are coming to save us from ourselves.

We will have to become our own saviors.

One of the renegade mystics, Osho, believes the next Noahs ark needed to save humanity is a Noahs Ark of Consciousness. It is not a UFO mothership of nebulous construction built for one to wait out the seven years of tribulation behind a comets tail. It isnt a cave city for survivalists. It is a hideaway so secret that youd never guess how close it nudges against where you live even at this moment. It hides right behind the source of your existence.

This safe haven is a place that spiritual survivalists retreat to.

It is the ark of consciousness within each of us.

The pathway to this ark can be found by remaining silent and centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone of the coming times.

MEDITATION: Therapy for Madhouse Earth

While watching the changing world outside and the movement of thoughts and emotions within, I become more aware of a presence that doesnt change. It is impossible to define in words what this is, but I do know that it is always the same presence; that when it comes, it is everywhere and nowhere at once; that nothing Im thinking or feeling can connect with it; that it is so still it doesnt exist and so subtle that at times it is too alive to bear.

I remember first encountering this presence as a child. Then I lost touch with it. The losing was a gradual process called growing up. I experienced it as walling up. Gradually Pink Floyds bricks piled up around me, blocking out the limitless view of the innocent and unnamable wonder that a child feels by just being alive. I was taught to hold on to thoughts and possess emotional expectations; in short, I was given recipes for accepted adult behavior. I painfully learned to live in a world where beauty and the art of being alive are pushed lower and lower on lifes laundry list; I was taught to survive in a culture where cars, money, face-saving at all costs, and manipulation of others are the primary values. I had come into the world as a cosmos and it looked like I would leave the world as a spent commodity.

When it got too much, I got pushed to the edge of a nervous breakthrough. There were only two alternatives: rediscover what I had lost, or lose myself.

How can I tell you about this journey inward to find my self again, without tarnishing it with judgments, dialectics, words?

If I ever greet you beyond the veil of these words, we might find a way to share this mystery called meditation. I will not speak of it, I will sing it to you, dance it; we will hug meditation, we will silent meditation. Our sutras will be giggles. Id rather not use words, but this is the Kali Yuga after all an age that uses the least adequate media to express the deepest truths.

With that said, lets stumble ahead in the darkness of print:

I do not yet know who I am but meditation allows me to often see how I am.

Through understanding the hows of my happiness-sadness-love-and-hate, I observe their rough-and-tumble within me with greater distance. Meditation helps me to watch the movement of my thoughts and emotions. I become more a spectator than a participant in stress, pain, and denial. Through meditation I have been able to uncover the root cause of all my misery: The fear of change, and lurking behind that, the ultimate fear the fear of death. Meditation has helped me observe the mechanics of misery and fear.

Theres a Sufi metaphor about identification. Misery doesnt come to us, we unconsciously seek it out and hold on to it, like flinging our arms around a pillar. As we squeeze tighter we yell, Oh, if I only could be rid of this misery and pain!

This misunderstanding is our choice. As American mystic Adi Da Samraj once remarked, we do misery, we do expectation.

Hell is not a place. We do it.

We do predictability.

We make prophecy work because we are so damned predictable. Caught in the cycles of time and unconsciousness, we have repeated again and again the behaviors that make it easy for the seers to prophesy us unto doomsday.

The crossroads in time where we find ourselves now demands a spiritual rebellion that can prevent us from doing an apocalypse of doom in all dimensions. The first decades of this new century require that a significant number of people get some distance from themselves to see how they tick.

There is a need for a global awareness of how, from the moment we emerge from the womb, we are programmed from birth onwards to imprint concepts that are totally divorced from our deepest natural understanding of life. Only when there are enough people ready to rebel against this ancient circle of programmed misery and predictability can it be broken.

The spiritual rebels will certainly be in the minority. Most of us are bound to avoid encountering the raw revelation that we actually love our misery and hold its pillar fast to our breasts while we wish and wail for a new age. In the coming decade, billions will discover that misery and fear is all they know. But unlike most people, the spiritual rebels will break out of their prison of conditioning and become the new humanity arising out of the rubble of the old.

The spiritual rebels will not pander to the death cults of current religious thought; they will live this life so fully that heaven will exist inside them, not somewhere in the afterworld. They will escape from their jail-keeper called God. And they will slip from the bonds of national identification to become citizens of the world.

Meditation is the method to uncover all the illusions that keep humanity in bondage. It is the only hope this planet has to avoid the collision course so many seers down the centuries have predicted for us. Every misunderstanding and distortion of truth that has blindly dragged us to the brink of the precipice will have to be jettisoned, if we are not to plunge over the edge at the end of this decade.

This is why the emergence of the new breed, Homo novus the true strangers among us, is viewed with suspicion and fear. The priests or the politicians cannot control these people. They do not pray for happiness, they are happiness. In the midst of a suicidal world, their way of life exposes the death wish society must encounter and transcend if it is to survive.

The spiritual rebels are the soul and spirit of the new Golden Age. And meditation is their new science.

My own journey into meditation and spiritual rebellion began from a nasty experience I had as a seven year old, when I moved to a new school in a new neighborhood.

I was in love with the little girl sitting next to me in my second-grade class. When she was moved to another spot in the classroom, I was brokenhearted. The teacher, like many adults I knew then (and now), liked to hide her fears behind a faade of power. She looked as big as her fear, and when she demanded to know what was the matter with me, I didnt speak in words but in pain, and sobbed into my hands. My expression of naked feeling elicited from kids and teacher alike an immediate wave of hostility and derision. For weeks after that event, I was treated with disgust and fear as some kind of thing.

During an atomic air raid drill for World War III so common in the years following the Cuban Missile Crisis I accidentally bumped into the largest kid in the class while groping in the dark classroom for my place to duck and cover myself.

His immediate reaction was to slug me in the stomach.

Crying, doubled over in agony, I asked him why he hit me. Still a kid and not yet completely formed into the proper masked and label-loving adult, he was struck by the blow of my existential question.

I dont know! he blinked, bewildered. Its what dad told me to do. When youre hit, hit back.

That was my first hard lesson in programming.

It got worse. When he and a gang of kids would chase me off the playground every recess with tetherballs and stones, I had to run my little ass into a nearby storm drain trench. As I huddled there, I was forced to face the reality that people were neither sane nor loving; they only pretended to be. The children would forget about me and wander back to the swings and sandboxes, but I could never forget this heartbreaking truth, heartbreaking because it set me apart from people. It made me aware that I am alone.

But no bitter experience is without its sweetness. Crouching in the trench, chin buried in the pungent grass, with tearful, wide eyes gazing at dancing clouds in a silent sky, I also became aware that Nature did not could not reject me. It was more than a friend, it was a beloved. As I became aware of my aloneness, Nature accepted it. Was it.

After that I could not see fear in Nature, only innocence. There is no judgment in Natures stases and catastrophes. It is unnatural man, divided against the Self, who judges them. There is life, death, violence and peace flowing from animals, earth and plants. They dont judge or feel divisions like we do. The rosebush doesnt compare itself to the lotus and commit suicide. In fact, no animal except man commits suicide or indiscriminately slaughters its own kind. We compare, and throw our minds and hearts into the turmoil of division. This division becomes projected onto all of our relationships with other human beings and with the Earth. As we become more and more split off from our fellow humans and from the planet, we create all the conditions that draw us closer to death personal and global.

The insights of my personal apocalypse made it hard for me to buy into all the ways people suppress the natural within and destroy the ecology of Earth with their fearful greed. A new and tender consciousness arose that at the time had no words. Looking back on it years later, I realized it was then I made the commitment that has forever sabotaged my efforts to embrace life as it is socially presented and commonly accepted. That is why I never succeeded in opera or fit with anyones projections and expectations.

I somehow understood in my child-mind that a truly natural, spiritual person would be as silent as that sky, as playful as those eddying clouds, as rich with the fragrance of wisdom as the grass cushioning my chin. A natural human being, like the grass, could not dictate or push his or her fragrance on others but would simply be unable to contain it.

In the intensity of that terrible moment of rejection, Nature showed me how to sniff out an authentic member of the genus Homo novus. These flowers in humanitys manure field would possess the silence of Nature and an equanimity in the face of Natures two polar complementaries destruction and creation. I would instinctively recognize these members of the new human race by their laughter and celebration uncaused, by the gleam of a second and consciously recognized childhood sparking in their eyes. I would know them if their silent gaze and presence were not disturbed by fame or infamy, riches or poverty, life or death. They would remain inwardly blissful, unaffected by lifes vagaries or any attempts by those outside of their silence to abuse and disturb them. The Homo novus would be happy in a palace or in the dirtiest holding cell. And if sadness on rare occasions came to their doors, they would watch it rather than indulge it, until sadness moved on.

I have spent the last sixteen years traveling around the world in search of such men and women. I have found them. They are my criterion for saying you and I are unnatural. They have also showed me in their unique ways that meditation, the science of self-observation, is the only medicine that can cure the insanity we have become and give us back a future.

I do not ask or expect you to believe me. In fact, there is no point in either believing or debunking what Im saying without a sincere and intimate investigation on your own.

I am satisfied with the ongoing process of my own apocalypse. I have met a few members of the genus Homo novus and their fragrance is meditation.

The words meditation and medicine have the same ancient root. One heals the body, the other the soul. If we look from a more occidental angle, the words meditation and mechanic also have the same roots. If you can watch your entire mental-emotional engine without getting caught in its grinding gears, if you can see it as the dispassionate and watchful mechanic, you will then find ways to fix your engine. It will start working for you rather than disturb your ride through life.

I can thank the apocalypse of meditation for pushing me out of an operatic career. Nine months before I had my nervous breakthrough, I became interested in meditation as a way to relieve stress and refresh my body-mind. But I soon found out that meditation was more than a mere exercise in positive thinking or an exercise in creative visualizations to find new and improved love and abundant money and health. Taking twenty minutes a day to watch my breath turned my outward focus in. This turning in did more than slow the heartbeat and ward off high blood pressure of the upwardly mobile professional I had become. It reminded me of childhoods timeless time when trees fall and nobody is there to hear, when flowers grow with nobody there to see, and feelings flow with nobody there to feel. Through watching the simple witnessing of lifes infinite movements I unearthed the pleasure in paradox.

I rediscovered moments when life became poetry again.

When roots of silence sink where I sit so still soaking earth softly. And deep silence dives in skies caught cavorting behind closed eyes.

Meditation started washing my looking with eternitys twinkle. After a few months of practicing simple Zen exercises of watching the breath, I couldnt understand why something so pleasurable and revitalizing wasnt universally practiced. Then a moment came when the new awareness reached deeper into my unconscious and threw a shattering light on my illusions.

It can happen at any moment. Especially if you watch your breath, if you are still, waiting. Something trips the existential switch and the screen of your personal id soap operas blinks out. A void fills the void, wiggling through a brief crack in the noise of the mind. It is the apocalypse of truth breaking the sliding bolt that locks away all the lies from ones sight. It is a thief in the night, stealth-like and silent, a wave, invisible, undermining ones cliff of solid ego.

In one unguarded moment I became transparent. And though the guard of moments the personality instantly returned, I could not completely forget the voids abiding and spacious sky of silence.

For me, this was and is the threshold of meditation. It is as much a death as a delight. Meditations techniques of self-observation showed me my thoughts were no more mine to possess than a wind racing through empty dreams.

At meditations first penetration, I became aware that this John Hogue was a fiction written by many hands none of them my own. A name, a religion, a country, and finally a personality had been applied like bricks, imprisoning the authentic being my mother and father had brought into the world.

Early on, the label bricks were of soft and pliable mud, easy for a child to break free of, but between the ages of seven and fourteen, the bricks turned into unyielding stone. I had become my own memorial statue while still living.

The child seized these brick labels as greedily as he seized the tit. What else could he do? That child needed the grown-ups, and the grown-ups felt they needed to condition him for the coming life of lies and limitations. The child of silence became a gullible youth who listened to societys learned hypocrites the priests of impossible horizons who, save for the noise of their roaring, have never encountered the things they taught: gods, heavens, and hells.

The youth became imprisoned in adulthoods emotional and psychic castle. At the age of twenty-one, meditations taste of disidentification made John aware that his buddha had atrophied. The Enlightened One reduced to enlightened once. Fear had become his bedmate, denial, the sheets.

Like medicines, meditation can be bitter. Initially, it can give you worse pain than the disease itself. Cancer patients would like to escape the only therapies that might possibly save them, but if they chooses to fight for life, painful chemotherapy or radiation will be risked.

After abandoning an operatic career, I began taking risks. I again started asking all those questions children ask and adults avoid. Essential questions: Why am I unhappy? Why do I fear? Who am I?

At first I tried the usual New Age assortment of meditations that heightened psychic powers. After four years of this, I could see auras, read minds, etc. Still, the essential facticity of my being was hidden. While astral traveling I had many fascinating experiences, but they didnt make me any more aware of who was zipping in and out of the astral realms. Who was seeing auras? Who indeed was opening his chakras? Who was reading minds? Who was this mystery that sometimes accurately saw the future?

Whether I am looking at a cup of coffee or seeing my past and future lives, how can any of these experiences be me?

Who, after all, is the watcher?

Frustration led me away from the psychic seeker-sucking game to an exploration of many Eastern techniques of classical meditation such as Yoga and Vipassana which is Buddhas technique of sitting watching the suchness of thoughts and emotions. I also had direct experiences with some new and radical seeds of Eastern meditation set to sprout in the West sometime in the next century.

Over the last decade, I have encountered what in my opinion were many charlatans and also a handful of authentic masters. An account of these spiritual examinations, meditation therapies and teachers would be too vast to describe here. A detailed account will be forthcoming in future books.

Here, on this web page, I can only touch on some of the radically new ideas about meditation that have been introduced in the latter half of this century. For instance, if you fly to the town of Poona, India, just 100 kilometers from the labyrinth city of Mumbai (Bombay), you will encounter the most striking examples of this. Nestled in the town that gave Tantra one of its greatest ancient centers, the birthplace of one of Indias most significant twentieth-century mystics, Meher Baba, is the Ashram (spiritual campus) that used to be known as Osho Commune International and currently goes by the name Osho Meditation Resort.

There you will find the disciples of the late Osho carrying on their masters vision of providing a Club Meditation for the creation of the new humanity. It is a sixty-eight-acre resort of luscious gardens, black granite and marble buildings and pyramids, a strange contrast to the surrounding squalor of a bustling Third World city.

It has undergone many alterations since I first entered its gates back in 1980, when it was known as the Poona Ashram of the notorious sex guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. I had gone there two years prior to my longer stay at the Rajneeshee Ranch in Oregon. While the later experiment allowed me the opportunity to sample social experiments in future living, the Poona Ashram offered me a taste of life at the frontiers of the Human Potential Movement.

In Nostradamus and the Millennium (1987), the first volume of my Nostradamus prophecy trilogy (the second and third volumes are Nostradamus, The New Revelations [1994] and Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies [1997]), I examined predictions of Nostradamus regarding the loose fellowship of therapists and meditation movements of the last fifty years known as the Human Potential Movement. Nostradamus pegged this movement as the source of tomorrows spiritual rebellion. I was determined to find out what it was all about. Frankly, when I did, it shocked me. Up until I became acquainted with these new therapy movements, I never knew that screaming, pillow beating, or openly exploring my sexuality in a therapy group could be the beginning of treading an authentic spiritual path. When I first heard about the ashram, I was told they practiced the most cathartic meditation technique in the movement. At first it was called Chaotic Meditation; then the name was changed to Dynamic Meditation. I was about to find out what it was, firsthand.

Osho is famous in meditation circles for his controversial claim that we moderns, particularly the Westernized variety, are the most restless and neurotic human who have ever existed. With enough forceful discipline, we may be able to keep our body still, but we cannot still our minds. Vipassana, Yoga, and all the rest of the 112 techniques from the East are made for simpler people of more innocent and less complex times.

Before sitting in silence can happen, the accumulation of stress, anger, and repression packed away behind modern peoples happy-face masks has to be creatively and safely expressed. Osho claimed to have a meditation technique that, if practiced all over the world every morning, could be used as a release valve for all the pent-up collective angers that periodically erupt in a binge of global slaughter what Ive coined as the will to catharsis.

The meditation has five sections and is done to especially composed music by the New Age composer Deuter as conceived by Osho. During the first part, of ten minutes duration, you breathe rapidly, chaotically and deeply through the nose. This is supposed to build up the energy that can help you release the flame of pent-up repressions.

Then, at the sound of a gong, the music changes into waves of sonic wildness. For the second ten minutes you are to undergo catharsis, release emotions, anger, gibberish, fear, rage, madness whatever comes up. You are to dance it, shake it, scream it, sing it, but you are absolutely not allowed to hurt others in the hall.

The third gong brings on a ten-minute hop of heaven-hell. You stop releasing emotions [or stop undergoing catharsis] and reach your arms straight over your head and jump to the pulsing synthesizers and drums. Every time your feet hit the ground you yell Hoo! with all youve got, as if it meant life or death. This is a variation of a Sufi technique designed to bring your energies up out of your sex center and take them through the rest of your body.

At the last hop and Hoo! the pre-recorded voice of Osho yelling Stop! cuts the music like splitting a thunderbolt. You then freeze in place like a statue for fifteen minutes and watch within.

Finally, there is fifteen minutes of dancing and celebrating.

The first three sections are consciously constructed to completely exhaust you. In this way, Oshos techniques are similar to those of George Gurdjieff and the meditation schools of central Asia who believe that man had deeper and deeper layers of energy second winds, if you will that first have to be expended before real meditation can happen. The more total your exhaustion, the deeper the plunge within your being.

Many mystics, past and present, say that only when one reaches a crisis can an authentic spiritual journey begin. A state of extreme urgency is a must. Totality is the ultimate credential. Only when the inner search becomes a life-and-death issue can the tension be brought to the breaking point and send you into an altered state of deep relaxation.

Dynamic Meditation uses the first three sections to prepare you for the state of dispassionate witnessing that is the final preparation for meditation. The rapid breathing brings up the repressed tensions; the catharsis stage then activates a good spiritual vomit; the hopping nearly exhausts you, bringing the body to the limit of its endurance, and then you can fall into an altered state a meditators version of a runners high, so to speak.

My understanding of meditation techniques is that they relax you into witnessing. These techniques themselves, however, are not true meditation, nor are all those so-called spiritual experiences one has through being still and silent. Meditation is not an experience. Meditation is not a thing one does to get something, but it does seem that some preparation for meditation is needed. The silent witnessing of meditation only blossoms from the waiting, the allowing, the parking of the body-mind, the deep relaxation without a goal or expectations, because to have goals and expectations is to be tense.

Back in 1980 when Dynamic Meditation was first described to me, it was enough to stir a volcano of rage and fear underneath my spiritual faade. The night before doing my first Dynamic Mediation was one of the darkest in my life. I experienced the essence behind the terrible words of St. Johns prophecy about people trying to pull the mountains over themselves to escape facing the revelation of truth. That night moments passed like the peeling of skin. I tossed and turned, then ran to the bathroom and saw the puffy face and slit eyes of a man stunned by his own terror.

I never felt so stuck. I could not go back and I did not want to go forward into the unknown that a cathartic meditation would reveal. I writhed about in the damp fishing net of my bed covers in a tropical-fever night, cursing myself, Osho, meditation, and all the mystics that disturb peoples sleep.

I could sense that if I went too far with this meditation experiment I would reach a point when I could no longer return to that deep sleep. I tell you, reader: since my experience of that night I see a terrible revelation about everyone we dont want to wake up. We dont want happiness, we dont want real freedom because to attain it we must confront all that is false in us, chaining us down. To be a meditator is to be mother to the birth of our own inner child. The master or the meditation technique is the midwife. They can help, they can hold your hand, they can indicate what you have to do, but the pain of giving birth to yourself is encountered alone. No one else feels the contractions of your womb like you do.

When 6 a.m. came, I somehow managed to drag myself out under the wide, wall-less dome of the meditation hall. There I mingled with several hundred groggy meditators. We blew our noses and blindfolded ourselves, digging bare feet into the cold cement floor. All braced themselves for the first gong, which would strip the predawn air of its silence with Deuters apocalyptic muzak.

At the sound of the gong, the knotted rubber band of my pent-up terrors released its prop and off went my model-plane personality into the predawn darkness.

By the end of the third stage of dynamic, if I had any ambition for nirvana left, the hopping and hooing was squeezing it to the relaxing point. When the recorded blast of STOP! cut the sweaty air, I froze-fell to the cold floor. For fifteen minutes, I became a stillness floating on the waves of a gasping-for-breath too tired to think, too cleaned by catharsis to be afraid.

What can I say to you about this heap of John Hogue lying on the cement floor? What words can convey the down-down-down, deeper-deeper-deeper he had become for those eternal minutes?

Clear, because nothing obstructs.Soundless, because it has no end of depth.No bottom for the sounding,No surface for the sounder.IT looking without eyes and dying

without death.A cloud of darkness, I gave my self in rains,Letting fall showers of sorrow,Until a burning sky of joy remains.

The delicate notes of the flute heralding the final stage of Dynamic Meditation brought the first awareness of that inner sky to me. Drained limbs made an effort to move, twitching like a fresh corpse. The music caressed more movements out of my still pool of exhaustion until I was able to lift my heavy, blindfolded head. At that moment, I was drowned in an explosion of white light as bracing as a cold mountain stream. The light took me up in its embrace. Where one exhausted man lay a moment before, there appeared a dancing fool.

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Osho Rajneesh was an Indian mystic, guru and spiritual teacher who created the spiritual practice of dynamic meditation. This biography of Osho Rajneesh provides detailed information about his childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline.

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Famous as: One of the most controversial spiritual leaders and public speakers

Nationality: Indian

Birth Date: December 11, 1931

Died At Age: 58

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Born in: India

father: Babulal

mother: Saraswati Jain

Died on: January 19, 1990

place of death: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Personality: ENFP

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education: University of Sagar (1957), D. N. Jain College (1955), Hitkarini Dental College & Hospital

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Osho Rajneesh was an Indian mystic, guru and spiritual teacher who created the spiritual practice of dynamic meditation. A controversial leader, he had millions of followers worldwide, and also thousands of detractors. Confident and outspoken, he was a gifted speaker who never shied away from expressing his views on a variety of topics, even those considered to be taboo by the conservative society. Born in India into a large family, he was sent to live with his grandparents who played a major role in making him the person he eventually became. He grew up to be a rebellious teenager and questioned the existing religious, cultural, and social norms in the society. He developed an interest in public speaking and used to regularly speak at the annual Sarva Dharma Sammelan (meeting of all faiths) at Jabalpur. He claimed to attain spiritual enlightenment at the age of 21 following a mystical experience. He began his stint as a spiritual guru simultaneously while embarking on a professional career as a professor of philosophy. Eventually he resigned from his academic job to focus on his spiritual career. Over a period of time he established himself as a very popular spiritual guru not just in India but also internationally. However he also made the headlines when it was revealed that members of his commune had committed a range of serious crimes.

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Selected excerpt from an OSHO TALK The Great Pilgrimage: From Here to Here #23

Here, Osho speaks over the versatile use of the English word Fuck. It is one of the most interesting words in English language today.

Osho says that there are not many words with the versatility of fuck. Besides the sexual meaning, there are also the following uses:

Ignorance: Fucked if I know.

Trouble: I guess I am fucked now!

Fraud: I got fucked at the used car lot.

Aggression: Fuck you!

Displeasure: What the fuck is going on here?

Difficulty: I cant understand this fucking job.

Incompetence: He is a fuck-off.

Suspicion: What the fuck are you doing?

Enjoyment: I had a fucking good time.

Request: Get the fuck out of here.

Hostility: Im going to knock your fucking head off.

Greeting: How the fuck are you?

Apathy: Who gives a fuck?

Innovation: Get a bigger fucking hammer.

Surprise: Fuck! You scared the shit out of me!

Anxiety: Today is really fucked.

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Osho is a spiritual leader that left a wonderful legacy for people who strive to improve their lives and to gain a deeper awareness of lifes most wondrous possibilities. With his otherworldly wisdom, Osho spread messages of love and peace that can heal us in the most difficult times.

Check out these quotes to discover some of Oshos insights on love, life, creativity, and meaning. Learn how glimpses of hope hide in the simplest words.If you love a flower, dont pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation. Osho

Osho teaches us that true love never requires possession or domination. True love is an act of appreciation for someone or something that brings us joy. By demanding someone we love to belong to us, we interfere with their freedom.

Be. Dont try to become.

To attain wisdom is a simpler process than we think. Sometimes, all it takes is accepting that we dont have to be always running towards elusive and ever-changing goals. We all try to become more than we are and meanwhile, we forget to simply be.

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty. Osho

As many other spiritual teachers, Osho always emphasizes the need to lead a creative life. Being creators allows us to add our own personal contribution to the beauty of the world and it is important in the process of falling in love with life.

Courage is a love affair with the unknown. Osho

The wiser we get, the easier it is to accept that risk is necessary to life. Surrounded by the unknown and the unpredictable, we have to find the courage to fight the heavy things that come our way.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they dont know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue. Osho

Most of the worlds problems stem from a lack of understanding and love between people. Whenever we think of love, we think about us being loved, not about us being the ones who love. This selfish approach spoils the possibility for real love.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death. Osho

Great teachers do not want us to give up on life or to seek refuge far away, afraid of lifes messiness. They want us to live passionately and consciously. Awareness is the all-powerful element that increases the quality of our lives.

Life repeats itself mindlessly unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel. Osho

We often succumb to the mistake of living life on auto-pilot, not paying attention to people or things. While its true that processes and events of life repeat themselves, everything is new and worthy of attention for an awakened mind that is able to grasp the nuances and subtleties.

Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life. Osho

The key lesson of all spiritual teachings is to respect and love life, never negating its divine nature. Life is amazingly mysterious and complex, and even though we dont always find meaning easily, we can at least revere in its beauty.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence. Osho

An awakened person is not weak or complacent. If we seek to awaken, we should not become passive to life. We can still revolt against evil, suffering, injustice by using constructive forces, such as creativity.

People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind. Osho

Every route towards enlightenment takes us through love. Without love guiding us, we cannot find the way. By saying love is blind, we condemn love to irrationality, while love is one of the most obvious signs of a true awakening.

Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you. Osho

We are always looking on the outside, searching for things to amuse and entertain us. We hold on wrongly to the idea that our feelings must be a response to the outside stimuli. We need to focus our energy on our inner life, which is the source of all happiness and joy.

Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: dont commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing. Osho

On our way to wisdom and clarity, we should never let mistakes demoralize us. As long as we dont repeat our mistakes and we seek to learn from them, through each mistake our experience of life grows bigger and we earn a better armor for the future.

What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos. Osho

Besides a humble disposition of the soul, discipline is another important element that can help a person reach spiritual awakening. Discipline is vital because it creates healthy habits and puts order to our lives, minds, and souls.

I love life. Thats why I give teachings of celebration, celebrate everything. From body to soul, physical to spiritual, sex to superconsciousness, everything is divine for me. Osho

People who open their hearts to wisdom discover in them compassion, kindness, passion, and curiosity. For them, everything is sacred, connected to the whole in intricate and meaningful ways. Nothing is superfluous. With their eyes filled with beauty, they see beauty everywhere.

You need either to create something or to discover something. Either bring your potential to actuality or go inwards to find yourself, but do something with your freedom. Osho

We all have the freedom to carve our own destiny and to decide in which ways we want to fulfill our destiny. Some are explorers, others are creators, but each person has an inner journey to make to bring out to the surface their unique gifts.

A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love. Osho

From the wide perspective of the enlightened, nothing is dismissed as meaningless or feeble. A single act of love or justice is worth as much as all others, no matter the scale at which it occurs. Everything we pour our souls into becomes valuable.

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving. Osho

Love has many forms and a person who seeks to lead a happy and fulfilled life must cultivate them all. We tend to focus on romantic love, but friendship can often reach a greater and more profound dimension. Friendship comes directly from the heart.

Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Osho

Once we start to pay more attention to our lives, we begin to notice little things that werent obvious before. Our intuition speaks louder, our feelings become clearer, and our minds get sharper. The weak inner voice gains strength.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: life is really a great cosmic laughter. Osho

Some people think that spirituality emphasizes the profound, heavy, and austere realities of life, but truthfully, spiritual teachers from all times have asked us to never take life too seriously. Sometimes laughter can take us closer to wisdom than gravity.

All that is great cannot be possessed and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess. Osho

We want to possess things, thinking that this is the only way to grow bigger than we are. However, great things always escape us, and the meaningless things that can be possessed usually end up becoming a burden that slows us down.

Dont try to understand life. Live it! Dont try to understand love. Move into love. Osho

We often become victims of our rational minds that like to categorize life by patterns and laws. Understanding is valuable but it can only come as a result of an experience, not as a product of just rational thought.

Love is the goal, life is the journey. Osho

If all the teachings of the worlds spiritual leaders were to be summed up, saying that love is our main goal and life is a journey would be enough. These simple statements can determine the best approach to a well-lived life.

It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory. Osho

All human experiences are equally precious. Solitude, companionship, and love have their own merits and complement each other in making us well-rounded people. We dont have to choose between them, but to accept them as different parts of the same road.

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Osho

Once we gain hold of our inner lives by practicing awareness, we rediscover the world in all its richness. With new, powerful lens, we start to notice the marvels that surround us and that we often took for granted. Everything reveals itself in its glory, from a flower to a star or a bird.

You will find meaning in life only if you create it. It is a poetry to be composed.It is a song to be sung. It is a dance to be danced Osho

Striving for meaning is one of the core traits of a being endowed with consciousness. While we search for our own, we should remember that meaning is something we create, not something we are given from the outside. We definitely need meaning, but its forms can change endlessly.

You need power only to do something harmful. Otherwise love is enough, compassion is enough. Osho

To use power to achieve something means to force our will upon others and make them accept our views, which is very selfish and inconsiderate. If our intentions were good, love and compassion would be enough to convince others.

Dont seek, dont search, dont ask, dont knock, dont demand relax.If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it. Osho

We are always told that only people who act with confidence and who workstrenuously achieve their potential. Rushed by the demands of our fast-paced lives, we forget that there is value in relaxation. When we relax, life makes room for all kinds of possibilities and connections.

Life is not a problem. To look at it as a problem is to take a wrong step. It is a mystery to be lived, loved, experienced. Osho

We often take life too seriously, setting all kinds of milestones and goals that dont let us catch our breath. We forget that, when looking back, life is a cumulation of the experiences that surprised and amazed us. Nothing is more important than exploring and engaging with the present moment.

If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love. Osho

Love and awareness are two forces that intertwine and support each other. One helps the other grow and together, they shape the most profound aspects of our lives. When we focus on love, our awareness develops as well, and vice-versa.

Think before you desire a thing. There is every possibility that it will be fulfilled, and then you will suffer. Osho

Desires are harmful, no matter their nature. Fulfilled desires can be as harmful as those unfulfilled because they bring out new distractions and problems into our lives. We end up going from one desire to another, and we lose ourselves on the way.

Joy is spiritual. It is different, totally different from pleasure or happiness. It has nothing to do with the outside, with the other, it is an inner phenomenon. Osho

We know that we are closer to our inner, most profound spiritual self whenever we feel joyful without being able to identify the cause. An unexplainable joy is a confirmation that the soul is at peace with itself.

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Many of the most influential people our world has seen have exposed truths, wisdoms, and controversial viewpoints that have earned them both respect and fear from the masses. Osho Rajneesh was one of those people.

An Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher, he had millions of followers worldwide, along with thousands of detractors. Confident and outspoken, heshed light on topics often considered taboo by mainstream society.

Born in 1931, Osho grew up questioning the existing religious, cultural, and social normsof society, eventuallyhavinga mystical experience that led him to what he calls his enlightenment at the age of 21. He came to prominence as a spiritual guru not just in India, but also internationally. His teachings focuson the necessity for meditation,awareness, love, celebration, courage, creativity, and humor, all of which he believed to be suppressed by traditional belief systems, religious tradition, and socialization. His teachings have greatly impacted the Western New Age movement.

Osho died in 1990, but his work continues to bepublished by over 200 publishers worldwide and in over 60 languages. With that said, here are 15 incredible quotes by the influential guru:

1. Love knows no boundaries. Love cannot be jealous, because love cannot possess. It is ugly, the very idea that you possess somebody because you love. You possess somebody it means you have killed somebody and turned him into a commodity. Only things can be possessed. Love gives freedom. Love is freedom.

2. Remain continuously on a honeymoon. Go on searching and seeking each other, finding new ways of loving each other, finding new ways of being with each other. And each person is such an infinite mystery, inexhaustible, unfathomable, that it is not possible that you can ever say, I have known her, or, I have known him. At the most you can say, I have tried my best, but the mystery remains a mystery. In fact the more you know, the more mysterious the other becomes. Then love is a constant adventure.

3. When you dont need a person at all, when you are totally sufficient unto yourself, when you can be alone and tremendously happy and ecstatic, then love is possible. But then, too, you cannot be certain whether the others love is real or not you can be certain about only one thing: whether your love is real. How can you be certain about the other? But then there is no need. This continuous anxiety about whether the others love is real or not simply shows one thing: that your love is not real. Otherwise, who bothers? Why be worried about it? Enjoy it while it lasts, be together while you can be together! It is a fiction, but you need fiction.

4.Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

5. I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and thats why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message.

6. If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion, life itself will be the religion.

7. Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

8. Just being alive is such a gift, but nobody ever told you to be thankful to existence. On the contrary, everyone was grumpy, complaining. Naturally, if everything surrounding your life from the very beginning goes on pointing out to you that you are not what you should be, goes on giving you great ideals that you have to follow and you have to become, your isness is never praised. What is praised is your future if you can become someone respectable, powerful, rich, intellectual, in some way famous, not just a nobody.

9. If you want to learn anything, learn trust nothing else is needed. If you are miserable, nothing else will help learn trust. If you dont feel any meaning in life and you feel meaningless, nothing will help learn trust. Trust gives meaning because trust makes you capable of allowing the whole descend upon you.

10. Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, thats what maturity is all about.

11. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.

12. Life is a balance between rest and movement.

13. Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.

14. All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of all the inhibitions of the past. And laughter and tears can do both. Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy. Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised.

15. That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, dont let past move your mind; dont let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.

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