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OSHOTIMES Remember that great summer vacation you took last year?

When you think back, you might see flashes of a day you spent on the seashore, or a night spent dancing at a disco and eating delicious food at a café. But how do you go about storing those images so you can enjoy them later? They’re in your memory, a part of your complex brain.

Memories are queer things. Sometimes something very insignificant creates a lasting impression on the mind, and at other times something important is not registered by the brain.What one wants to save and what one wants to delete from the experience is very subjective.

Memories of an event comprise many components – sights, sounds, smells and tastes. Our brain stores all that depending upon our sensitivity to a particular sense.

Then all these features of the episode are woven together to create an impression. In spite of all the scientific developments, researchers have not been able to find how memories are processed by the brain’s memory center. Or why the brain wants to store the experiences in the first place.

For meditators, clinging to memories is a big impediment, because they create a thick fog or cloud over our consciousness. And our consciousness identifies itself with this fog.

When we say,“I recall” or “I remember,” we are not available to respond in the moment.

Secondly, those who are too surrounded by their memories start living in the past. If they are miserable today they glorify their past, the atmosphere, people and events that happened in their lives. Phrases like “the good old days” or “golden childhood” come from this tendency. Interestingly, when we were actually living that past we may not have enjoyed it so much, because then our mind was stuck in what came before! This is all a mind game to prevent us from clearing the sky and going deeper into the clarity of our inner consciousness.

If memory can function like a car – used when needed and put aside afterwards – then it is a wonderful tool. If it is used to avoid living in the moment, then it is anti-life.

That is why Osho continuously asks us to die to the past, meaning not to get entangled in the impressions of the past on our brain.

In this month’s Cover Story, Memories – Help or Hindrance, we will learn many ways to “access what we need, when we need it and forget the rest.”We will see how to be free of the past and rooted more and more in witnessing this very moment.The witness is not part of any mind games. It doesn’t have a memory because it doesn’t need it.

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Radical means of the roots.

When I say have a radical change, I mean change your very roots. Changing leaves won’t help, pruning the branches won’t help.

Change your roots, change your very soil.

Experience

is a radical change in your life; you cannot be the same.You will have to go through a million and one transformations.You will have to pass through fire. Only then whatsoever is there which is ugly and useless will be burned, and you will come out as pure gold.

Change Big Time

Information seems to be cheap. Transformation seems to be arduous.Transformation means you will have to go through a great inner revolution.

Information requires no revolution in you, no radical change in you; you remain the same, but you become more and more knowledgeable.

Want to take things slow and easy? Not this month! It’s time to do something radical.

. being f o e r co Love is a radical change in your inner most

If you become happy, if you drop your miseries, it will be a radical change in your life-style.

Do whatsoever you want to do, but you will end in the same way. Everything ends in misery, everything ends in death. All your efforts are doomed because you don’t do the fundamental thing that can bring a radical change. You don’t create consciousness. That is the only radical transformation of life: from misery to bliss.

You do everything else except meditate.

The moment you accept something totally, the very acceptance brings a revolution, a radical change.

The old society is simply stupid.We need a radical change and we need it soon, before the old society explodes into a nuclear war.

All excerpts are from OSHO books

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Responding to questions about relationships, Osho explores the difference between surrender and dependency, surrender and giving in, and surrendering to a person or surrendering to love.

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“Is there a difference between surrender and dependency?”

The difference is absolutely clear. Surrender is out of love, dependency is out of fear. Dependency is a relationship in which you are hankering for something, desiring something; there is a motive.You are ready to become dependent – that’s what you are willing to pay for something. Surrender has no desire in it. It is sheer joy, it is trust. It is unmotivated.

It is like falling in love. In fact it is exactly falling in love – a love that knows no bounds, a love that is totally different from what you ordinarily call love.Your love is a kind of dependency.You become dependent on the person you love because in fact you don’t love.

You are simply finding somebody to cling to; otherwise you feel very lonely. You want to avoid your loneliness. You want somebody to fill your inner black hole, your emptiness.

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RELATING Real love is not an escape from loneliness; real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one would like to share – happiness always wants to share. It is too much, it cannot be contained.

Like the flower cannot contain its fragrance, it has to be released.

Surrender is the highest form of love, the purest form of love. You will not feel dependent because there will be no clinging in it. You will not feel dependent because it is not out of loneliness that you have surrendered. If you have surrendered out of loneliness then it is not surrender at all, then it is something else.

Another thing: surrender always happens, it is not a doing. How can you do surrender? If you do it, it is not surrender.You are the doer, then it can be taken back any moment. Surrender happens; the doer is not found. You simply find yourself melting into somebody, into something.

You may find yourself melting into a sunset, and it is surrender. You may find yourself melting into the starry night, and it is surrender. You may find yourself melting into a woman or man, and it is surrender. You may find yourself melting into music, and it is surrender.

Surrender has many dimensions, but the taste is the same: you simply find yourself melting. You simply find yourself no more; a kind of egolessness is felt.

You are – in fact you are very much – and yet you are not. Presence and absence both together; surrender is paradoxical. Presence, because the ego is not there, so you are just awareness; and absence because the ego is not there, so you cannot say “I am.”

Dependency is ugly, surrender is beautiful.

Dependency will make you feel reduced, surrender will make you feel enhanced, expanded. Dependency will create reaction in you to revolt. Surrender will bring more and more trust.

But the distinction is delicate. Once known it is not difficult but if you have not experienced it yet, then surrender will look like dependency because dependency is what you know.

Excerpted from The Book of Wisdom, Osho

Surrender happens, it is not a doing.

How can you do surrender? If you do it, it is not surrender.

You are the doer, then it can be taken back any moment.

Surrender happens; the doer is not found.

You simply find yourself melting into somebody, into something.

“I’m in a relationship with a beautiful, powerful woman and we both definitely don’t want to surrender to each other. I remember you saying, ‘Don’t surrender to a person, surrender to love.’ What does it mean to surrender to love? I’m in quite a mess.”

I can understand; you are really in a mess and

there is no way out. I have heard that there are three rings of love: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffering.

Your question makes it clear that you have not understood what I mean when I say, “Don’t surrender to a person, surrender to love.” Love is never a relationship – this is your problem. Relationship is bound to be bondage. In a relationship either you have to surrender or the other has to surrender. And you yourself are recognizing that you are in relationship with a beautiful, powerful woman, “and we both definitely don’t want to surrender to each other.”

Then just live in coexistence. Live the way all poor husbands are living. Show the world that your wife is so surrendered to you. Who is preventing it? You just have to tell a lie and there is no mess – and you surrender to the powerful and beautiful woman. But remember, the moment a man surrenders to a woman he loses dignity in her eyes. She starts looking here and there for someone who has the guts not to surrender. And you don’t seem to have guts.

There is no need to surrender to each other.

Surrender to love means: enjoy in the happiness of the other, rejoice in the being of the other, be in tune with each other, dance in harmony. And relationship is not love at all; it means love has ended and relationship has begun. It begins very soon after the honeymoon – mostly in the middle of the honeymoon. It is not easy to live with another person whose life-style is different, whose likings are different, whose education and culture is different, and above all the other happens to be a woman. Even their biology is different!

One thing you have to understand clearly: it is the man who longs for domination, and it is the woman who dominates. This is what I call coexistence: live and let live. More than that is all imagination. If you really had known what love is....

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The basic thing is not to create a relationship.

Stand aloof as the pillars of a temple stand aloof, but support the same roof. Don’t destroy the individuality of the other, enhance it if you can; otherwise, at least leave it as it is – uninterfered with. Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love.

The moment you create a relationship you are entering into a contract, a business deal. Love disappears, it becomes law. Now you are not very far away from the divorce court – unless you are a person who loves to be dominated, who likes to be henpecked. Then you have got a perfect woman.Then don’t make any fuss, simply surrender. Declare, “I am a henpecked husband. I am your poor servant; you are my master.

You order and I will follow.” Actually that is what is happening all over the world but nobody says it.There are many things which are not asserted in society.

When I say surrender to love I am saying that loving is enough, don’t make it a relationship.

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“Everyone wants to do their thing – but sometimes our ‘things’ conflict. I am always giving in for the sake of harmony, and then I wind up feeling resentful. Harmony just doesn’t seem to be my thing.”

First, if conflict is your thing then let it be so.

Then don’t try to impose any false harmony on top of it because false harmony will never be satisfying. It is ugly. A true conflict is far more beautiful than an imposed harmony, because deep down the conflict continues. You are deceiving nobody, and you have to suffer the consequences.

If conflict is your thing and you allow it, then that is harmony for you – because you will be in harmony with your nature.When you relax and you do your thing, whatsoever it is – whatsoever, I say – then you are in harmony. So the first thing is that you are not to impose anything upon yourself.

Let there be conflict.Whatsoever happens, happens.

What can you do? The conflict has to be accepted with great respect.You would like to have no conflict but this liking is your ego. Relax and let the conflict be there.

Whatsoever happens, there should be a total acceptance of it – both of the act and of the consequence.

If the conflict brings misery then that has to be accepted. You have to flow with the river wherever it leads. If it goes south, good; if it goes north, good; if it does not go anywhere, good; if it drowns you, good. This is total trust.

You say, “I am always giving in.” Then you are not in a let-go. If you give in, you are giving in against yourself. Never give in. There is no need. It is better to be defeated, it is better to be cursed than to give in.To give in means that you are reluctant but still you are doing it – for harmony’s sake. But harmony is missing from the very beginning.

If you give in to your wife she will never forgive you, if you give in to your husband he will never forgive you, because your whole being will vibrate with antagonism. You will say something in words, it will be on your lips but your being will deny it, contradict it. And that is what is being broadcast continuously – from your eyes, from your face, from your gestures, from everything. Your words cannot hide it. So nothing is attained by it.You give in, you lose your inner harmony, but no outer harmony is created out of it. Outer harmony comes only when there is an inner harmony.

If you are angry, then be totally angry. Risk all.

Then you will be in harmony.This will be difficult to understand but let me say it: if you are really angry with your wife she will be more happy than when you give in – because you are authentic. Who does not love an authentic person? Now she can trust you: when you are angry, you are angry – you are not false, you are not pseudo. And when you are loving, you

are loving – you are not false, you are not pseudo.

Now you are reliable.

You are always giving in for harmony’s sake. You are not true. First be in harmony with yourself. That means, allow whatsoever is to be the case.This is your life, live it – and live it in all the climates. A man’s life should be a rainbow, an orchestra – not a single note.

The storm is needed as much as silence. Anger is needed as much as compassion. Life needs all the polarities.

When you love a person, when you respect a person, when you see the person is true and authentic, there is less and less conflict. Conflict is a consequence of two false persons being together. When two true persons live together, conflict by and by disappears because they start understanding each other, and there is no possibility of any confusion. Everything is clear, transparent. Then without risking any of your inner harmony, the conflict disappears.

But the first step is to be in inner harmony with yourself. Only then can you be in harmony with others.

If you have not attained an inner harmony how can you attain the outer? The basic thing is missing.

Excerpted from Tao:The Pathless Path, Osho

“I love my partner but I notice that I have a lot of fear about being in love.”

Have you ever observed how you always feel fear whenever you are in a love relationship or whenever love stays? Whenever you love you are open and vulnerable, and who knows how to believe in the other?

You may have known the other for many years but that makes no difference. You don’t even know yourself, how can you know the other? The other is a stranger.

And to allow the other to enter into your intimate life means to allow him to hurt you. In love you give the other person complete power over you. Surrender means total power has been given to the other. How can you give that? You are afraid.

You would like to have control of your life. Not only that, you would like to control the other’s life also.

Hence the continuous quarrel between husbands and wives and lovers. The conflict is: Who will dominate whom? Who will possess whom? It has to be settled first.

This is not surrender but domination – just the opposite.

Whenever you dominate a person there is no fear.

Whenever you love a person there is fear, because in love you surrender and you give total power to the other. Now the other can hurt, the other can reject, the other can say no.

Excerpted from And The Flowers Showered, Osho

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If you are always giving in for harmony’s sake, you are not true. First be in harmony with yourself. This is your life, live it – and live it in all the climates.

A man’s life should be a rainbow, an orchestra – not a single note. The storm is needed as much as silence.

Anger is needed as much as ompassion.

Life needs all the polarities.

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MEDITATION OF THE MONTH

Put mindstuff in such inexpressible fineness above, below and in your heart.

If knowledge is important then the head is the center; if childlike innocence is important then the

Back to the Heart Center Feeling helps us melt into existence.

heart is the center. The child lives in the heart; we live in the head.The child feels; we think. Even when we say that we feel, we think that we feel. Thinking becomes primary for us, feeling becomes secondary.

Thinking is the tool for science, feeling is the tool for religion.

You must start to be a feeling organism again. And both the dimensions are different. When you think, you remain separate; when you feel, you melt.

Think about a flower, a rose flower. When you think, you are separate, there is a gap, a distance, a space. For thinking, space is needed; for thoughts to move, distance is needed. Feel the flower and the gap disappears, the distance drops. Because for feeling, distance is the barrier.The closer you come, the more you feel. A moment comes when even closeness appears to be a sort of distance – and then melting happens. Then you cannot feel the boundaries of where you are and where the flower is, of where you end and where the flower begins. Then boundaries melt into each other: the flower enters you in a way, you enter the flower in a way. Feeling is losing the boundaries; thinking is creating the boundaries.That is why thinking always insists on definitions, because without definitions you cannot create boundaries.

Thinking says define first, and feeling says don’t define. If you define, feeling stops.The child feels; we think. The child comes close to existence, he melts and allows the existence to melt into him. We are isolated, imprisoned in the head. We are like islands.

This sutra says to come back to the heart center.

Start feeling things. It will be a great experiment if you start feeling things. Whatsoever you do, give a certain amount of your time and energy to feeling.

You are sitting here, you can listen to me – but that will be part of thinking.You can also feel me here but that will not be a part of thinking. If you can feel my presence, then definitions are lost. Then really, if you come to a moment of feeling, you don’t know who is speaking and who is listening. This can happen

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right this very moment. Then the speaker becomes the listener and the listener becomes the speaker.

Then really they are not two, rather they are two poles of one phenomenon: on one pole is the speaker, on another pole is the listener. But these are just poles, isolated.They are not real.The real thing is just in-between these two – the life, the flow. Whenever you feel, something other than your ego becomes important. Object and subject lose their definitions.

A flow, a wave, exists – on one pole the speaker, on another pole the listener, but the life is the wave.

Head gives you clarity, and because of this clarity much confusion has come into being because the head defines clearly, marks boundaries, makes maps.

With reason, everything is clear-cut: no vagueness, no mystery is allowed. All that is vague is rejected, only the clear is real. Reason gives you a clarity and because of clarity, a great misunderstanding arises.

Clarity is not reality. Reality is always unclear, vague.

Concepts are clear, reality is mysterious; concepts are rational, reality is irrational.

Words are clear, logic is clear. Life is not clear.

The heart gives you a melting vagueness. It reaches reality more intimately but it is not clear. And because we have chosen clarity as the goal, we have been missing reality. You must have unclear eyes to enter reality again. You must be vague, you must be ready to enter into something which cannot be conceptualized, into something which is not logic, into something which is staggering and real, staggering and alive.

Clarity is dead. It remains fixed. Life is a flux, nothing is fixed, nothing remains the same the next moment. How can you be clear about it? If you insist too much on clarity you will lose contact with it. That is what has happened.

Excerpted from The Book of Secrets, Osho

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INTERVIEW Mayo: Our main work is to put OSHO books in Dutch into the mainstream market in Holland and

the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium.We sell directly to bookshops, the book trade and distributors, so that everybody can get access. We also advertise in monthly magazines with a main focus on spirituality.

For the English books we also have customers in Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Italy, but this is a rather small part of our work. Once in a while we also sell to places like Thailand, Hong Kong, South Africa, the United States and Brazil. On our website, osho.nl, we are contacted by people from all over the world.

Different Dutch Publications

Are there other OSHO activities or events that you take care of?

Mayo:We organize book festivals to promote OSHO

books and present new editions to a wider audience.

Again this is mainly for the Dutch books.

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OSHO Books

Abhivandan: That started with the international launch of Body Mind Balancing, because for the first time a guided meditation CD was included with the book. This was a rather hot topic on the Dutch as well as the international book market. We were very fortunate that OSHO International had recorded it in sixteen languages. So we toured through Holland

in Holland

Mayo

and Belgium with Garimo, who facilitated the meditation, to promote it.

What are you promoting right now?

A: Our last book was a translation of a compilation from Satyam Shivam Sundaram called Passionate Living, which we launched and which is still selling well.

Also translations of Returning to the Source, and Seeds of Wisdom. Book publishing is seasonal work, like agriculture, with the momentum of moving from one season to the next.

Are you involved in the basic work of publishing?

For more than twenty years, Abhivandan and Mayo from OSHO Publikaties in Holland have been publishing Dutch translations of OSHO books. They also import and sell the books in English and other languages, as well as OSHO meditation CDs and DVDs. Prem Hanny, translator

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A: Yes. Mayo does the designing, especially for the book covers.We get proofs from the printer to check the printing, the translation, the editing….

First we have to decide which title we want. So we look into the marketplace and try to feel what kind of OSHO book will fit in with current trends in Dutch society. Because being in the market means that you have to bring a title that people are interested in.

This pre-work is very important in publishing. For example, October is the “month of passion” in the June 2008 17

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INTERVIEW Dutch book trade, when a book for the following spring has to be considered. In October 2007 we were already ready with the Passionate Living compilation, which proved to be a hit.

Now we are trying to find something again.These days it looks like the market might respond to Seeds of Wisdom. It is rather rare among Osho titles because it consists of personal letters written by him.

Do you have any special plans for the future?

A: To keep on going and stay in the market. No bookshop in Holland wanted an OSHO book when we began, and now there are about eighty shops which have the books regularly. From an absolute no to eighty bookshops is a good development, but we can still go further.

The last few years has seen a enormous change in the book trade; it has become a so-called best-seller culture. The bookshops want to sell what is easiest, and that makes it harder to stay in the market with Osho, who is actually a very steady good-selling author.

There was a certain peak in selling OSHO books about two or three years ago. Now that seems to be slowly going down again, and we have to be very aware that this doesn’t continue. The bookshop owners look very closely at OSHO Times how much time a book stays on the shelves. If it is just for couple of days then it is good and they re-order. But if it is two weeks they don’t re-order any more, and you lose space on the shelf.

So we are under pressure to produce best-selling titles, and at the same time to try to find new and interesting presentations, like the recent English book Compassion which includes a DVD talk. Again and again we have to see that we make all that happen.

What are the best sellers?

M: The translation of Emotions has been selling well

since its release five years ago. An even older title of course is the OSHO Zen Tarot, which has been the backbone of our whole business for fourteen years already! From the very beginning it was a best-seller, and people’s interest has been steadily increasing.

Another good seller is the Dutch translation of Tantra: The Supreme Understanding. This is a book

which has been on the market in Holland for more than thirty years, and it is very well received. People are continuously interested in it, and we take care that we always have copies in stock.

Meditation: The First and Last Freedom, both in English and Dutch, is another basic book which everyone wants. It is used in different kinds of trainings in Holland, so we keep it on hand. Others are the translations of The Mustard Seed, Hsin Hsin Ming, the OSHO Chakra Book, The Perfect Way and This Very Body the Buddha. And of course Body Mind Balancing, which continues to sell very well.

There are also certain OSHO classics that people repeatedly ask for. It is part of my joy as an OSHO publisher to keep these available. So about six years ago we decided to bring out The Book of Secrets again.

For a small company like us it was a big thing, and expensive to translate and publish. But we said okay; we want to have it.

What about the internet?

A: Yes; this is an exploding development! The last five years we have our own successful webshop.There we basically present everything people can buy with us.

Every time a new book comes out, I see the cover hundreds of times while stapling the catalogues together, and the feeling of fulfillment goes deeper and deeper.

M: For me this work is my connection with Osho.

There is an increasing response. At the moment the internet expansion is taking away from our bookshop sales, so a balance has to be found.

Bookshops have to work hard to compete with internet shopping even in a city like Amsterdam, where there is a bookshop around every corner.

People prefer to stay at home and order via computer. Of course on internet you have to present your goods very well, and this is a new challenge for us: the better the presentation, the more customers you attract.

I’m so happy that I can do it because while working, I’m hearing him again and again. That is the most touching thing. It’s not a job; I just have a feeling that “this is it” in my heart. It gives me the possibility to stay centered. I cannot imagine anything else which would be so all-round satisfying for me, on every level.

Of course with a job like this, where I am very much in the marketplace, I constantly have to remind

What kind of people read Osho?

M: My own experience is that our readers are anywhere between twenty and eighty-five years of age.

Maybe the biggest percentage is women between thirty-five and fifty-five. Women especially love the OSHO Zen Tarot because of course the cards and intuitive stuff appeal more to the female mind.

It seems much more difficult to reach men. Also, most book presentations appeal more to women than to men. The book trade knows that women are the majority of buyers, so of course they use that approach in their sales.

That means that for the men there is less motivation to go into a bookshop and buy. But there are quite a few men buying OSHO books through internet, where I know that they’re coming back to read another book and yet another.

Do you have any touching stories about your work?

A: I think the most touching story is that after twenty-five years we’re still doing it! And it’s not work. I consider it my meditation and my passion.

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myself that after all it’s just a game. That gives me the possibility to watch myself inside. It’s the most challenging and beautiful work I can imagine.

I want to share a very touching experience. For years there was absolutely no way to bring OSHO books into the Scheltema bookshop in Amsterdam, one of the biggest in Holland. Finally with great difficulty we introduced a few. Then there was a change of buyer, who saw that the OSHO books stayed for only three days before being sold, so she had to have more.

One day we looked and there was the translation of This Very Body the Buddha on a pedestal in the middle of the huge Scheltema display window!

And nowadays they keep twenty to twenty-five OSHO titles.

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Saying Yes to Life Understanding the background of saying yes or no helps us to be free in our responses.

“What stands in the way of my saying yes to life?”

It is difficult to say yes to life because you have

been taught to say no. And the conditioning is very ancient. And not only is the conditioning there which does not allow you to say yes, there is some inner mechanism also that does not allow you to say yes.

When a child is born he is a yes-sayer. Slowly, slowly, as he starts feeling himself as an individual, the no arises.When the child starts saying no you can be certain this is the time when the ego is born. The ego cannot exist without saying no, so each child has to say no. It is an inner necessity for becoming an individual. If the child goes on saying yes to everything he will never become an individual, he will not have any definition to his being. How will he be able to define? Yes gives you no definition, no gives you definition. When you say no, you know it is I saying no. When you say yes, there is no I in it.

Life and you remain one when you say yes.When you say no you demark a line, you assert. That is the meaning of the Biblical story of Adam disobeying god, saying no. It is a must, otherwise Adam would never have become separate from god. He would never have had any individuality; he would have remained vague, a kind of cloud, nebulous. He had to say no, he had to disobey, he had to rebel. And remember, this is not something that happened in the past and happened only once; it happens with each new Adam, with each new child of man. Each child lives in the Garden of Eden for a few months, a few years, and then slowly, slowly he has to deny, he has to rebel, he has to disobey. The father says,“Don’t do this!” and he has to do it just to say,“I am myself.You cannot go on ordering me like that. I’m not a slave.

I have my own preferences, I have my own likes and dislikes.” Sometimes the child even does something which he does not much like to do, but he has to do it because the father is saying don’t do it.

There is a time, a season to say no, and there is a time to learn to drop unnecessary no’s. Otherwise

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you will never attain to the unity with the divine. Just see the point: no helps you to become separate from your father, your mother, your family, your society. It is good – as far as it goes, it is good – but then one day you have to learn to say yes to existence. Otherwise you will remain always separate, and the separation creates misery, the separation creates a kind of struggle in life, a fight. Life becomes a war. And life should not be a war, it should be a relaxed joy.

So one has to say yes one day.What stands in the way of your saying yes is that you are afraid of losing your ego.You stand in the way, your ego stands in the way. And it was good that it helped you to get rid of your past heritage, history, your parents, your family, your church. It is good. Its work is finished; you are no more a child! Now don’t go on fighting. Just don’t go on carrying the old habit of saying no, otherwise you will remain childish.

See the paradox: if a child never says no he will never grow, and if a grown-up man goes on saying no

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he will remain childish. One day you need to say no with your total heart, and one day you need to drop the no too.

It is not always right to say yes. No has its own utility. One should not be addicted to it, that’s all. No is not bad in itself. There are moments when you have to say no, there are moments when you have to say yes. One should be free to say yes or no; that’s what I have been telling you. One should not be addicted to either. A free person is one who looks at each situation and says yes or no – whatsoever the response is, whatsoever he feels like in that moment.

That yes and no should not come from the past, should not come from the memory. It should not be a reaction, it should be a response.

Excerpted from The Wisdom of the Sands, Osho

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Memories

Your brain records everything – things that are worth remembering as well as those that are better forgotten. This month we look at how we can be in charge of this amazingly vast storage system, instead of being overwhelmed by it.

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“I feel life is very boring. What should I do?”

As it is, you have already done enough. You have

made life boring – some achievement! Life is such a dance of ecstasy and you have reduced it to boredom.

You have done a miracle! What else do you want to do? You can’t do anything bigger than this.

You must have a tremendous capacity to ignore life.You must be ignoring the birds, the trees, the flowers, the people. Otherwise, life is so tremendously beautiful, so absurdly beautiful, that if you can see it as it is you will never stop laughing. You will go on giggling – at least inside.

Life is not boring, but mind is boring. And we create such a strong mind, like a China Wall, around ourselves that does not allow life to enter us. It disconnects us from life. We become isolated, encapsulated,

The only way to remain unaffected is to cling to your past, to your experience, to your knowledge, to your memories, to your mind. Then you cannot see that which is; you go on missing the present. Miss the present and you live in boredom. Be in the present and you will be surprised that there is no boredom at all.

Start by looking around a little more like a child.

Be a child again! That’s what meditation is all about: being a child again – a rebirth, being innocent again, not-knowing. Go to the seashore and again start collecting seashells. Start running after butterflies again. Make sandcastles Don’t live as if you know.You know nothing! The moment you know something, boredom disappears.

Knowing is such an adventure that boredom cannot exist. Just look around with a little more clarity, with a little more transparency...and life is hilarious!

Excerpted from Ah,This! Osho

The majority of people don’t find any surprise anywhere. And each moment there are surprises and surprises because life is never the same. It is constantly changing, and it takes such unpredictable turns.

How can you remain unaffected by the very wonder of it?

How to Let Go of Boredom Living in the past is boring. The memories we collect are like a wall that keeps us isolated from the joy of the present moment.

windowless. Living behind a prison wall you don’t see the morning sun, you don’t see the birds on the wing, you don’t see the sky in the night full of stars.

To make life boring one has to be religious; one has to be very scholarly. One has to know Christianity, Hinduism, Islam. One has to learn much from the Vedas and the Koran and the Bible.You must be very well-informed. A man who is too well-informed, too knowledgeable, creates such a thick wall of words – futile words, empty words – around himself that he becomes incapable of seeing life. Knowledge is a barrier to life. The poorest man in the world is the man who lives behind a curtain of knowledge.

In fact, the majority of people don’t find any surprise anywhere. And each moment there are surprises and surprises because life is never the same; it is constantly changing, and it takes such unpredictable turns. How can you remain unaffected by the very wonder of it?

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Memories “Why do we forget the beautiful moments in life?”

Man’s memory is not very great. He forgets easily.

You have all been children. How much do you remember the innocence that you had? A strange fact discovered by psychologists is that if you go backwards trying to remember, you only reach to the age of four, at the most to the age of three. But those three or four years in the very beginning were the best – no responsibility, no worry, no tension. Life was simply a sheer joy, but people don’t remember it.

It seems the best in us is not recorded. Perhaps it is a biological strategy that you should forget it. If you remember, then for your whole life you will feel you are missing. You are missing because you have seen the most beautiful moments, and now everything will be dull, pale, dead. It will not have that luster, that joy, that liveliness. Perhaps it is a strategy of biology not to record those beautiful moments.

Even in later life the mind functions in a very strange way: it records everything that is miserable very quickly. Somebody has insulted you – you will never forget it. So many people have respected you, you have forgotten. One person has insulted you and you cannot forget.

It seems that the ugly, the dark, the humiliating, the tragic have a priority as far as remembrance is concerned. All that is good, all that is beautiful is simply forgotten; they leave no marks on your memory. The mind is not interested in taking note of the flowers; it is interested in taking note of the thorns. Anything that hurts, it immediately takes note of. Who cares about a flower?

Just watch your mind and you will be surprised that you remember your enemy more than you remember your friends. You can forget your friends, but you cannot forget your enemies.This is your insane mind.

A saner mind will look at things from just the opposite direction. It will count the blessings, it will count all that is beautiful, it will keep note of all it has to be grateful for. And then naturally the life of such a person will become a life of blessings, surrounded by beautiful experiences. It is only a question of changing a small structure in your mind.

Start collecting all that is happening to you that is beautiful. And it is happening to everybody. Anything that is not beautiful is not worth remembering, not worth collecting.Why make yourself burdened with rubbish when you can be full of flowers and fragrance?

You have to make a little change in your natural biological mind. Meditation can do it very easily.

One of the essential parts of meditation is to look at the good side of things, to look at the good side of people, to look at the good side of incidents, so that you are surrounded with everything good.Surrounded with all beautiful things, your growth is easier.

But people are strange....You may do one thousand favors for a person and do just one unfavorable thing.

He will forget one thousand favors and remember that one unfavorable thing.That he will carry for his whole life. This is how people are living: in revenge, in anger, in despair, feeling rejected by life, feeling like outcasts of existence. You are collecting the wrong things. Life is full of both.

You can see that one day is sandwiched between two nights, and you can also see two beautiful days sandwiching one small night. Choose how you want to feel: to be in heaven or hell. It is your choice.

Excerpted from Beyond Enlightenment, Osho

Boredom is the consciousness of repetition.

Because animals cannot remember the past, they cannot feel bored.They cannot remember the past, so they cannot feel the repetition. The buffalo goes on eating the same grass every day with the same delight.

You cannot. How can you eat the same grass with the same delight? You get fed up.

Hence people try to change. They move into a new house, they bring a new car home, they divorce the old husband, they find a new love affair, but again that thing is going to become repetitive sooner or later. Changing places, changing persons, changing partners, changing houses, is not going to do anything. And whenever a society becomes very bored, people start moving from one town to another, from one job to another, from one wife to another. But sooner or later they realize that this is all nonsense

because the same thing is going to happen again and again with every woman, with every man, with every house, with every car.

What to do then? Become more conscious. It is not a question of changing situations; transform your being, become more conscious. If you become more conscious you will be able to see that each moment is new; but for that, a tremendous energy of consciousness is needed.

Your wife is not the same. You are in an illusion.

Go back home and look again at your wife – she is not the same. Nobody can be the same. These trees are not the same as they were yesterday. How can they be? They have grown. Many leaves have fallen, new leaves have come. Look at the almond tree. How many new leaves have come! Every day the old are falling and the new are coming. But you are not that much conscious.

Either have no consciousness – then you cannot feel repetition – or have so much consciousness that in each repetition you can see something new.These are the two ways to get out of boredom.

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Excerpted from Ancient Music in the Pines, Osho

You function through memory; you don’t see that which is. You go on seeing that which you have seen before. You go on interpreting the present in terms of the past. You go on imposing something which is not there. You go on seeing things which are not, and you go on not seeing things which are.

Memory has to be put aside. Memory is good, use it, but truth has never been known through memory. How can you know truth through memory? You have never known truth in the past.

You will have to put all memory aside. You will have to say to your mind, “Keep quiet. Let me see without you! Let me look only with clarity, not with clouded eyes, no thoughts, no beliefs, no scriptures, no philosophies, no religions.”

Mind never encounters the truth. The ways of the mind and the ways of the truth are absolutely separate. It is a separate reality. Hence the insistence of all the mystics of the world to attain to a state of no-mind. That’s what meditation is all about: a state of no-mind, a state of non-thinking – yet fully aware, luminous with awareness.

When there is not a single thought your sky is clean of all clouds, and then the sun shines bright.

And remember: truth never becomes a memory.

Even when you have known it, it never becomes a memory. Truth is so vast, it cannot be contained by the memory. Whenever it will be there again – and you will know it – it will again be new.

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Falling in Love Again Do you fall in love again and again only to find yourself with the same type of person? Or perhaps again and again you see that you don’t trust enough to love anyone.

Your unconscious memories are controlling your love life.

What does it take to make a fresh start?

“I have fallen in love with a woman I divorced two years ago. How is it possible?”

Man is almost a machine. Man is not yet man; he

functions unconsciously, he lives in sleep. Hence everything is possible. In fact, you always fall in love with the same woman, even though you apparently fall in love with somebody else.The type is the same because your liking is the same, your mind is the same, your choice is the same.

Just watch people, watch their love affairs and you will be surprised. It is always the same man or the same woman. Yes, with a different face or with a different mask, different clothes, different shape and size…but these differences are not real differences.

Unless you are new, how can you fall in love with somebody new? Who is going to choose? The same mind will like the same type of face, the same eyes, the same color, the same shape, the form, the way the woman walks, the way she talks. Again within a few days you will be tired, just as you were tired before.

Again you will find you are trapped, imprisoned, and the woman will also find the same thing. But man lives in such an unconscious state that you cannot expect more than that.

Right now love simply drags you downwards. In the beginning you feel great, but only in the beginning.

That is just infatuation. You are hoping something new is going to happen. In the beginning you are

excited, it seems a great adventure. But soon you find it is the same old, rotten thing – nothing special, nothing new.The partners have changed but the game is the same – and played with the same violence, with the same ugliness.

It is not only you who have fallen in love with the same woman; everybody is doing that. In the ordinary, unconscious state of humanity more than that cannot be hoped for.

You must have been suffering from loneliness and, finding the same woman again, you may have thought it is better to be with her than to be lonely. And you must have forgotten all the miseries. People’s memories are very short.

And this has to be understood: the mind tends to forget the miserable part; it tends to remember the pleasurable part. That is one of the strategies of the mind to remain in control, to remain your master. It always tends to forget the misery; it goes on magnifying, enhancing, decorating the pleasurable part. Reality is totally different, but the mind lives in imagination.

Your memories are not reliable at all because your memories are fictitious.You just think how beautiful it was, you have forgotten all the misery; you have chosen only a few moments that may have been beautiful. There must have been a few moments which were beautiful, but only a few moments, few and far between. And they cannot be as beautiful as you were thinking; otherwise what was the need to divorce the woman? The misery must have been much more, the pain must have been too much, unbearable. You must have suffered too much; the woman must have suffered too much. It is not a question of the woman being at fault or you being at fault; it is simply that two unconscious people being together are bound to create misery for each other.

If you cannot be happy alone, how can you create happiness for anybody else?You yourself are not happy; how can you give happiness to the other? You can give only that which you have.You are miserable.You can pretend that you are not miserable, but for how long? The honeymoon cannot last forever. Within a week, or at the most two weeks it is finished, and then you know that you are both miserable people.

And when two miserable people live together, misery is not only doubled, it is multiplied.

But you forget all that. Later on you efface those parts which were miserable, you preserve the beautiful moments. And not only do you preserve them, you go on decorating them, painting them again and

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again. Slowly, slowly they have no relationship with reality. Your past is fictitious, your future is fictitious; only your present is real. But you don’t live in the present at all. Either you live in the past or you live in the future.

Excerpted from

The Dhammapada:The Way of the Buddha, Osho

“I need to trust so badly. How can I find the courage to trust?”

People who trust themselves can trust others.

People who don’t trust themselves cannot trust anybody. Out of self-trust, trust arises. If you are distrustful about yourself, then you cannot trust anybody. Because if you don’t trust yourself, how can you trust your trust? It is going to be your trust. So it is a deep question about yourself. And who are these people who cannot trust themselves? Something has gone wrong somewhere.

First, these are the people who don’t have a very good self-image. They are condemnatory towards themselves. They always feel guilty and always feel wrong. They are always defensive, always trying to prove that they are not wrong, but they feel deep down that they are wrong.These are the people who have somehow missed a loving atmosphere.

Psychologists say that the person who cannot trust himself is bound to have some deep-rooted problem with the mother. Through the mother the child becomes aware of the world. The mother is the window from where he enters existence. And by and by, if there exists a beautiful relationship between the child and the mother, a response, a deep sensitivity, a deep transfer of energies, a flowering, then the child starts trusting others also. Because he knows the first experience was beautiful, there is no reason to think

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Memories that the second is not going to be beautiful. There is every reason to believe that the world is good.

If in your childhood there was a deep milieu of love around you, trust will arise. Trust will become your natural quality. Distrust will be exceptional. One man deceives you and tries hard to destroy your trust.

Maybe trust in that man is destroyed, but you will not start distrusting the whole humanity.You will say, “This is one man, and there are millions of men. Just for one man, why distrust all?”

But if basic trust is lacking – something has gone wrong between you and your mother – then distrust becomes your basic quality.Then ordinarily, naturally, you distrust. There is no need for anybody to prove.

You distrust man, and then if somebody wants you to trust him he will have to work hard, very hard. And even then, you will trust him conditionally. And even then, that trust will not be very comprehensive. It will be very narrow; it will be arrowed at one person.That is the problem.

In the old times people were very trusting. In fact, if somebody wanted to become a great skeptic, doubting, then great training was needed. People were simply trustful because love relationships were very, very deep. In the modern world love has disappeared.

Children are born into families where the father and mother are not in love.

Children are born and the mother does not care, is not bothered about what happens to them. In fact, she is annoyed because they are disturbing her life.

Women are avoiding children, and if they happen it seems like an accident. And there is a deep negative attitude. The child gets that negative attitude; he is poisoned from the very beginning. He cannot trust the mother.

If the child has been deep in love with the mother and the mother has showered her love, that is the beginning of all trust for the future. Then the child will make more loving relationships with women,

I Forgot Tension prevents our memory from functioning efficiently.

And the biggest tension – the ego – prevents us from remembering the most important thing of all.

will make more loving relationships with friends, and finally one day will be able to dissolve himself completely into existence. But if the basic link is missing then the foundation is missing. Then you try hard, but it becomes more and more difficult.

If you feel it difficult to trust, then you have to go back. You have to dig deep into your memories.

You have to go into your past.You have to clean your mind of the past impressions. You must be having a great heap of rubbish from your past; unburden it.

This is the key to do it: if you can, go back not just as memory but as a reliving. Make it a meditation.

Every day, in the night, for one hour just go back.

Try to find out all that has happened in your childhood. The deeper you can go the better – because we are hiding many things that have happened, but we don’t allow them to bubble up into consciousness.

Allow them to surface. Going every day, you will feel deeper and deeper.

If you can reach to the point where you were born, and you can relive that moment, it will be of deep agony, pain. You will almost feel as if you are being born again. You may scream as the child screamed for the first time.You will feel suffocated as the child felt suffocated when for the first time he was out of the womb – because for a few seconds he was not able to breathe. There was great suffocation; then he screamed and the breath came and his passages became open, his lungs started functioning.

You may have to move to that point.

From there you come back. Go again, come back, every night. It will take at least three to nine months, and every day you will feel more unburdened, more and more unburdened, and trust will arise simultaneously, by the side. Once the past is clear and you have seen all that has happened, you are free of it.

This is the key: if you become aware of anything in your memory, you are freed from it. Awareness liberates, unconsciousness creates a bondage. Then trust will become possible.

Excerpted from The Beloved, Osho

Everything is part of something bigger. Ultimately we are

part of one organic unity; we are rooted in existence. But our whole effort, our whole education, our whole so-called religion, culture, all give us the idea that “You are separate.”

Even the so-called religions – which go on talking about dropping your ego on the one hand – on the other hand go on nourishing and feeding your ego. “Be virtuous, be knowledgeable, and you will be respected – not only here but even after death, in the other world too.

You will go to paradise, to heaven.

And those who are not virtuous will fall into hell.” As if we are separate!

Buddha has said: “The moment I became enlightened, the whole existence became enlightened with me.The moment I became enlightened I came to know that I am not separate. And if I am enlightened, the whole existence is enlightened.

Because there is no separation anywhere, there is no other possibility.”

And Buddha is right; the same is my experience. I see you all as enlightened – not only you but the trees and the mountains too. The whole existence is enlightened!

But man has one privilege: he is free to choose. He is free to forget who he is; he is also free to remember it.

Think over the word remembering.

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again of the family that existence is.

Re-member means that we suddenly learn the language that we had forgotten. It is like a name forgotten: you see somebody on the road, you recognize him, you feel that you know who he is but you cannot remember his name. You have forgotten, although you can remember this much, that you have known him before.The name is just on the tip of your tongue.

The harder you try the more difficult it becomes, because whenever you try to do something very hard you become closed.Your consciousness becomes narrower and narrower.

And it becomes more and more difficult in such tension, in such anxiety, to remember.

Then you drop the whole project, thinking that it is not possible.You forget all about it.You start listening to music or you go into the garden and you sit under a tree, or you start doing something else, sipping tea or talking to somebody…and then suddenly from nowhere the name surfaces. This is the whole secret of enlightenment: it happens in relaxation, it happens in a deep state of rest.

Ego means tension, unnecessarily carrying a load of anxiety. The moment you rest, the moment you relax, you know that existence is already going, moving, reaching towards higher peaks. And you are part of it.

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Memories Through meditation the mind is not destroyed; you simply start transcending it. It remains a storehouse. When you need something, you go into the storehouse, bring that something out and use it. A storehouse is not a living room, but you have made it one.

The Past Is Just Too Much The mind records all our experiences – for lifetimes! It’s quite a lot to have to carry around. We can learn to access what we need when we need it, and forget the rest.

“You said that to live moment to moment one must throw away one’s dead past and memories. Does it mean that all memories have to be dissolved and destroyed to transcend the mind? One needs a strong mind and an intense and sufficient accumulation of memories to function in this world.”

To die to the past does not mean that you will not be able to remember it. It does not mean

that all your memories will be dissolved or destroyed.

It only means that now you do not live in those memories, you are not identified with those memories. You are freed from them. They will remain but now they will just be a part of your brain, not part of your consciousness.

The brain is a mechanism, just like a tape-recording machine. The brain goes on recording everything, and your memories cannot be destroyed unless the brain is destroyed. But that is not the problem. The problem is that your consciousness is filled with memories. Your consciousness goes on identifying itself with the brain, and the brain is always stirred by your consciousness. Then memories go on flooding you.

When it is said, “Die to the past,” it means do not be identified with the brain. You can use the brain; then it is just an instrument. When you will need it you will use it. And you will need it.You will have to go back home; you will have to remember where you live, where your house is, what your name is.You can use these memories – but use them, do not be used by them. That is the problem.

While you are here you need not think about the house where you live in your town, but you go on thinking about it.You need not remember your wife while you are here and she is not here.When you go back home you must recognize that she is your wife, but there is no need to be bothered with her now.

The mind must not go on functioning unnecessarily.

It must not bring in the past; it must not flood the present with the past.

The memory remains. It is not being destroyed.

Through meditation the mind is not destroyed; you simply start transcending it. It remains a storehouse; you need not live in it. If you live in it then you are mad. When you need something, you go into the storehouse, bring that something out and use it. A storehouse is not a living room, but you have made it one.

Be in the present and whenever the past is needed, use it. But do not allow it to go on continuously overflooding you. That overflooding by the past makes your consciousness dim and dull. When you are not identified with the mind you will have a very clear memory.

You do not have a really good memory because you are not your own master. Your mind is just a mad mechanism. When you need to remember something, it will not come and when you do not need it, it goes on coming.You cannot be the master if you become identified with the slave. If you become too much attached to the slave, the slave will start mastering you.

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I am emphasizing that you should ignore the mind. In the East we have been aware that the conscious mind is not the only mind.

Below it, there is the unconscious mind; then below that is the collective unconscious mind.

Then below that is the cosmic unconscious mind. Above it, there is the superconscious mind; above that there is the collective superconscious mind; above that there is the cosmic superconscious mind. And when I say mind, I mean this whole range. They are one entity, one rainbow. Ignore them all. There is no need to remember.

Many people are in madhouses because by some accident their collective unconscious has broken up and released its memories.

Now their conscious mind is not capable of holding those memories, the weight is too much; that’s what is driving them mad.

For example, the woman who is your wife now may have been your mother in your past life. If this memory comes to your mind you are going to be in trouble. How are you going to behave with your wife – as your mother or as your wife? Just being your wife was enough; just being your mother was enough too – now she is both. You will be crushed because you cannot have a sexual relationship with a woman who is your mother...the whole inhibition of thousands of years. And how will you manage your wife? Because she has no remembrance, she is going to say, “You are crazy, just forget all about it.” But you cannot forget about it.

Nature has a beautiful arrangement: with each death a thick layer of forgetfulness comes over your memories. You are carrying all the memories of all your lives. But a small human being finds it so difficult to live with a small conscious mind of one life; if so many lives burst upon him, he is bound to be insane. It is a natural protection.

Excerpted from Beyond Enlightenment, Osho

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Memories A master is always more efficient. When he wants to remember, he remembers; when he doesn’t want to remember, he doesn’t remember.When he says to the mind, “Function,” it functions. When he says, “Stop,” the mind stops. Then there is total vacuum – void. Then there is no cloud.

It is just like your legs: when you want to walk you use your legs. But if you go on moving them while just sitting or standing – if you use them constantly – when the time comes to walk you will feel tired.

You are already tired.While sitting there is no need to use the legs.While not talking there is no need to use words. Do not verbalize within.

Dying to the past means becoming master of your mind. Then you will be more efficient. But that efficiency will be of a totally different quality. There will be no effort in it. Now whenever you want to remember, you have to make an effort because your brain is so tired, continuously working. There is no stop for it, no relaxation.

Even while you are asleep, the body is resting but the mind continues to work. Dreaming, it is working – constantly working. It is a miracle that you are not mad. Or maybe you are already mad but you are not aware; or maybe, because everyone is mad like you, you cannot compare and you cannot know what is happening to you.

Don’t be afraid, your efficiency will be increased.

And the quality will be different because there will be no effort.When you need to, you can use your mind.

It is just an instrument; just like your hands and legs, it is a physical part of you. When I say to die to the past, I mean do not get so attached to the brain.

And once you are free from your mind, no one can make a slave of you. Otherwise, everyone is trying to manipulate you to make you a slave.

So-called religions have done that. They go on manipulating your mind.When you were just a child they were trying to teach you that you were a Hindu or a Christian or a Catholic or a Protestant. They went on teaching you from the very childhood when you didn’t know anything; when you were not alert;

when you were not aware; when you couldn’t recognize what is true and what is false. When you could not think, they started to teach you, to condition you.

They made a Christian out of you or a Hindu or a Jaina or a Mohammedan.These are slaveries. Society has played a trick on you. When you were not fully alert they conditioned your mind.

Die to the past, be alive to the present, to the moment you are in. It will not destroy your mind.

Really, it will give a rest to your restless mind. Your efficiency will grow, and there will be no effort.You will not need to remember. You will simply remember because this is the functioning of the mind; you need not make any effort.

Remembering is a mechanical functioning of the memory. If you are really interested in a person you will remember the face even after many lives. You cannot forget them because there is no question of forgetting. The mechanical part of your brain just goes on recording everything. The only thing that is needed is your interest.When you are interested your mechanism is focused on the person; it records just like the lens of a camera.

If you forget things it is because you are not interested. If you forget things it is because your mind is confused. If you forget things and cannot remember and are not efficient, it means that while you are seeing a face, your many memories inside go on moving. Your mirror is not vacant; your lens is already overcrowded.

Someone is saying, “My name is Ram,” and you nod your head, yes, as if you have heard. But your mind is filled with so many things, you have not heard. And then you say, “Why have I forgotten the name?” Really, you never heard the name.You were not interested in the person – not so interested that your mind became silent.

Whenever you are interested the mind is silent – your whole being is open. The memories go on being recorded, and whenever you need something it will come up. But it is not so easy with you.

Because your mind is so much filled, whenever you need something everything gets entangled.

Everything penetrates, trespasses every other thing.

Nothing is clear; only confusion is there. Because of that confusion you are not efficient.You will be more efficient without any effort, if you become alert to the moment and do not allow the past to go on overburdening you.

You do not have a really good memory because you are not your own master.

A master is always more efficient. When he says to the mind, “Function,” it functions.

When he says, “Stop,” the mind stops. Then there is a total vacuum – void.

Then there is no cloud.

Excerpted from The Supreme Doctrine, Osho

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In a Few Words What things are worth remembering?

Always remember:

Always remember, always and always: “I am the witness.” Don’t get identified with any content; otherwise you will be falling into error. If you become identified with any content, howsoever beautiful and spiritual it appears, you have gone wrong, you have gone astray.

To be festive, and to remain in a festive dimension continuously, is to be in meditation. Then you enjoy whatsoever happens. In health you enjoy activity; when you are ill you enjoy relaxation.

Don’t waste time, because who knows, there may be no time left – this may be the only moment. Behave as if this is the last moment. If you can exist each moment as if this is the last, great energies will be released in you.

You will become integrated. You will become a soul, you will not remain just a body.

Peace is not the goal.The goal is ecstasy. Unless you can dance, unless you can abandon yourself in dance, unless your dance can become a deep orgasm, unless you can bloom, don’t stop yourself somewhere in the middle of the journey.

When you see somebody doing something wrong, somebody committing an error, rather than jumping on him, look into yourself.

What you are doing? If you can watch and everybody’s error becomes a remembrance of your own errors, your life will be transformed.

Then everybody will become a teacher to you. Then the whole of life becomes your master.

Never to judge the past by present standards. That is not compassionate.

Never feel guilty about anything.

Life should be a continuous celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then you can grow up, you can blossom.

Transform small things into celebration.

Whenever there is a choice choose the unknown, the risky, the dangerous, the insecure.

Whenever you feel exhausted, the source of energy is within.

Close your eyes and go in.

The other person’s wife is far more beautiful than your own wife, far greener – just as the lawn of the neighbor looks so green that you want to chew it. The neighbor’s wife also, you want to chew.

Happiness is the criterion. Whatsoever you do, be happy, that’s all.

Don’t be bothered whether it is perfect or not.

The ultimate goal is freedom – freedom from all crutches, freedom from all props, freedom from every discipline, doctrine, method.

Freedom from all: that’s the goal.

Don’t be serious. Enjoy your gossiping, enjoy the small things of life, the small joys of life. They all contribute to the enrichment of your being.

Whatsoever we know and whatsoever we can ever know is bound to remain relative. To remember it will give you compassion. To remember it will make you liberal. To remember it will make you more humane.

To remember it will help you to understand other viewpoints.Truth is vast – simple but vast, as vast as the sky. The whole universe contains it, and the universe is unlimited, infinite.

Whatever is natural to you is your destiny. What others are doing is good for them.You need not impose yourself on them, and you need not allow them to impose themselves on you.

Just sincerity is not going to help. You can be very honest, very sincere, very arduous.... But if you are on a wrong path, all your sincerity will lead you not to the goal you wanted to reach but exactly to its opposite.

Whenever I use the word love I use it as a state of being, not as a relationship. Relationship is only a very minor aspect of it.

The fresh, the present has to be totally lived, and anything that hinders has to be dropped.Whatever you see in the world is your own projection.

When you are beyond mind and all projections have dropped, then you see the world as it is. It is just unimaginably beautiful. The moment you go beyond your mind, you suddenly reflect reality. Within the mind you project reality; you don’t reflect.

Nobody can exploit you unless you are ready to be exploited, nobody can deceive you unless you are ready to be deceived. The responsibility is yours, so be alert, be reasonable. Don’t be a fool; otherwise somebody is bound to become your guru. Then don’t go on shouting and crying and making a fuss about it that you have been exploited.You wanted to go to nirvana very cheap. You are afraid of freedom, you are afraid of growing, you are afraid of facing life as it is.

All excerpts are from OSHO Books.

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All those who have insisted that truth can be communicated only in silence have all used words. This is a shame, but nothing can be done about it. Words have to be used to make you silent. While listening to me you become silent. That silence is significant, and that silence will give you glimpses of truth.

Excerpted from My Way:The Way of the White Clouds, Osho

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Veet Mano is involved in a video publishing company in Russia, a project together with OSHO International Foundation.

Here he speaks of the ins and outs of producing their recently released series of sixteen OSHO Talks – with subtitles in Russian.

I am so happy that the OSHO DVDs in Russia now have their Russian subtitles. It will help people to see Osho and understand him at the same time. The DVDs also include the option of English subtitles for people wanting to learn English, or without subtitles for those who already know English. For someone whose second language is English, these English subtitles are very helpful.

Being part of this project gives me much joy, because I know how helpful it is for people to see Osho on DVD. We took a lot of care with the translations and subtitles, and the outcome is very beautiful. All the subtitles are only visible on the screen as long as Osho speaks. During the silent gaps – which Osho insists are so important – there are no visible subtitles. So the integrity of the original talks is kept as much as possible.

I got involved in the project in two different ways. First, I was once at a large Ojas Osho camp in the Ural Montains near Ekaterinenburg. It was a month-long camp, and people watched a DVD of an Osho discourse during the evenings.

This was not so easy, as every minute the DVD would have to stop so the translator could translate. Another variant didn’t Sasha work well either. Someone had made a crude voice-over translation DVD in which Osho’s words were translated into Russian while he was speaking. But then the words needed to be minimized to make room for the translator, and we missed the tremendous energy of Osho’s own voice. So neither solution Agni was satisfactory.

A few months later in Moscow a friend of mine, Ojas, asked me to help him develop good quality DVDs with the best quality translation. I said yes, and Horosho Ltd. was formed. The Russian Keerti

translation of the word Horosho means good, and we all love this name.

As the work began, many other friends began to get involved in the project. Usha from Moscow agreed to take on the responsibilities of General Director. And Sasha from Perm started the delicate work of putting subtitles in the DVDs with precision timing, so that at almost every moment when Osho is silent, you can enjoy the silence without subtitles; they only appear when he speaks. Keerti and Agni from Kaazan do the artwork for the DVDs and the covers, which are made in the highest quality DJ packs.

They look really modern and beautiful.

Usha at bookstore in Moscow

Each DVD starts with a text by Osho to remind listeners that these are not “lectures” to transmit knowledge or information – but that sitting through these talks is a meditation, an opportunity to become silent. We have seen that this is important for people’s understanding.

Like any work which has good results, there are a lot of details, Paying attention to each little detail makes such a big difference when you look at the project as a whole.

It is more than worth all the work we have put into it.

Sitting with friends who are so happy to see the DVDs and

OSHO Books in Leningrad

hearing their comments about the beautiful translation and quality, I know things are moving in the right direction.

An incredible look of contentment comes to people’s faces when they understand something meaningful from Osho.

After the production of the first 15,000 DVDs (3000 each of five different titles), our next challenge was to have them successfully enter the distribution system. In Russian-speaking countries and areas, this works much differently than in other places in the world.

Creating a large distribution system is an exciting challenge. Two very large distribution companies and one of the largest online internet shops are working with us, as well as several agents who work in specific cities or regions to introduce OSHO DVDs to the appropriate stores. We also have our own website, oshodvds.ru, where people can watch five minute samples of each DVD and purchase them directly. Good news is that soon people will be able to purchase the DVDs by opening the main Osho website www.osho.com and going to the shop section.

The DVDs are becoming available all over Russia, from Moscow and St. Petersburg in Western Russia all the way to Vladivostok in the Far East. It is great that now they are also available even in Russian-speaking stores in Israel, which is home to about one million Russian-speaking Israelis. The whole project continues to be a tremendously interesting and creative work, bringing our team into many new adventures.

VIDEO TITLES God Is Not a Solution but a Problem Evolution, creation and freedom God Is a Puppeteer On freedom and responsibility Love and Hate Just two sides of the same coin The Sutra Is Long, the Night Is Short Teachers, scholars, masters and contemporary Zen Where Nothing Is Right and Nothing Is Wrong Is there a universal right and wrong?

There Is No God But I have found something far more significant What Is Meditation?

Existence Is Not Just Matter Opening to the mysteries of existence The Death Penalty Not punishment but revenge The Philosophy of Nonviolence About turning the other cheek Watchfulness, Awareness, Alertness Exploring higher states of consciousness Repression: The Basic Strategy of All Religions From magical religions to pseudo-religions The Miracle of Meditation The secret of transformation The Broken Family A blessing in disguise Is There Any Point in Living?

Conscience – a coffin for consciousness What Is More Important To Be Thyself or to Know Thyself?

Look for news about the English-language release in the on-line catalog at www.osho.com/shop and in the monthly OSHO newsletters.

For more information, please see www.oshodvds.ru

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Whirling Meditation You are whirling in a dervish meditation? Whirl, whirl as fast as you can, but remain a witness inside and go on seeing that the body is whirling.

The faster the body goes, the deeper you feel that your center is not moving.

The body moves like a wheel, you stand still just in the middle of it.

Osho

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Have you seen anything in life which is not a miracle?

The possibility of love, the possibility of ecstasy and the possibility of godliness‌miracles abound.

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If your heart starts really throbbing with feeling, you can ask a bird – and the bird is ready to reveal its secret.

You can ask existence – and existence is ready to reveal its heart.

That heart is the ecstasy, the final liberation.

All excerpts are from OSHO books.

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■ Do you want to learn to use your work time also as time for personal growth and meditation? Do you want to enhance your life while enhancing the quality of your work?

■ The Program offers understanding, experience, resources, and methods to radically change your work & life.

Courses, seminars and training sessions are interspersed at strategic moments. All this in a playful atmosphere.

■ All methods offered, based on OSHO insights, have passed the test of time and practice.

■ On completion you qualify for renewed participation in the scholarship-based Residential Program.

For more information or to apply: visit www.osho.com/residentialprogram or mail to workmedtraining@osho.net

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WORKING LIFE Recognizing that making money was not enough, David sold his business to focus on “finding himself.” He had been miserable all his life, and a chance reading of an OSHO book led him to the Meditation Resort, where he found a new verve for life.

I can see that I am changing since I’ve been on the Residential Program. I’m much more aware and generally much happier. And when I feel sad and down I don’t have to react and make everyone else’s life a misery too!

I work in Events. I have quite a structured day, yet there is still space for spontaneity. There is plenty of opportunity to get involved. For example, in a recent Variety Show there were no comedy acts on the program, so four of us dressed up as ballerinas. I was nervous because it was the first time I’d done anything like this but we had a great time, and the audience loved it!

I meet so many people from all around the world. It’s a totally different quality of connection than in my old business life – very much in the here and now. Although I have a busy schedule I always make time for friends. That’s a big, big change for me.

I used to live my life by my hand-held organizer, always in the next task. Now I don’t even wear a watch – such freedom! I like to stop and watch the trees swaying in the breeze and feel part of this beautiful world.

What are you discovering?

Myself! Whenever something comes up, rather than seeing it as an inconvenience, I’m learning to experience it as an opportunity for growth. It’s quite a step forward for me to even be talking to you. Before I came here I saw everything in business terms – so I would never reveal much about myself.

Now I am more trusting, and I can be

vulnerable. As I share with you I can feel a tear coming to my eyes.

I used to see time simply in terms of money. Now a moment is worth much more than any amount of money. A quiet moment cannot be measured in dollars – only in awareness.

opens my heart – that’s already triggered by seeing everyone dressed in white robes. It’s wonderful to listen to Osho speaking every evening. I always learn something about myself – even though when I leave, most of the time I can’t remember what Osho has said.

And is it working to make meditation part of everyday living?

Unfulfilled in her job of training staff for a mobile phone company, Mojud dropped everything and came to Pune after seeing a short television program about Osho.

When I first came to the Meditation Resort I wanted to do my own thing, so I went to the meditations in the OSHO Auditorium and enjoyed the nightlife.

This was great but not quite enough for me. The people who were working here seemed to be shining.

I thought, “I’ve come to make some changes,” so I decided to let go and jump into the Work as Meditation program.

How is it to be working here?

I love it. I’m cashier for the Multiversity. I meet a lot of people, and it’s wonderful to see them change within a short time. When they first arrive most people check out the courses and sessions on offer at the Multiversity. They come to me to pay, and they’re often quite shy. It’s uplifting to see how different they become after a few days here: warm, smiling, open-hearted.

I’ve become aware of how much I’ve been holding on to old, destructive patterns and how reluctant I am to give them up. It is such a struggle to let go.

And I judge myself continuously, even about struggling! I’ve found the most important thing is to do the meditations. When I meditate, the mind drops away and everything just solves itself. It’s amazing how simple it can be.

The Evening Meeting

I’ve discovered a passion for being involved, and my day is very full. There are challenges of course.

People tend to be much more authentic and expressive than I am used to, so there can be clashes. But through open discussion we come to a better understanding and can make new working arrangements to solve whatever conflicts come up. We all look inside, at ourselves to discover what it is that is causing our emotional reactions.

Is there anything else you’d like to add?

I love the AUM meditation that happens once a week. It’s very active and social – such a great way to really connect with people. It has helped greatly in letting go of my troubles.

Now that I’m coming to the end of my Residential Program, I see how much it offers. It’s very intense, but what I didn’t realize at the time is that it’s also a lot of fun. When I go home to Vienna I’m taking a new awareness with me, and I’ve made a pact with myself to meditate every day.

What I learned in the Multiversity Courses Fast Track toYourself and Inner Skills for Work & Life is helping a lot.

I’m working on remaining aware in all my activities throughout the day. This integrates meditation into my whole life, instead of it just being something I do in OSHO Auditorium or Chuang Tzu. I like to sit and simply drink tea while watching the afternoon sun on the bamboos. When a leaf falls from a tree it puts me into a beautiful state of meditation. Every leaf falls in a different and unique way. Some seem to just drift slowly, some spin round and round, and some shoot like an arrow straight to the ground. A falling leaf – so simple and natural, yet so profound.

Almasta

Andy joined the program to find out how to make meditation intrinsic to his daily life.

Now that I’m living and working here I really feel a part of things.There’s so much going on that I wasn’t aware of when I was only a guest. It’s amazing to experience everything this beautiful place has to offer.

Initially I worked in the Multiversity, preparing posters for the courses. Now I’m a photographer for the OSHO Times – which I love.

Music and celebration is a big part of the Meditation Resort. I’ve discovered that I really love to dance, and recently I’ve been helping with the mixing of the live music for the weekly Sannyas Celebration. I also play the recorded music for the Evening Meeting when there is no live band. I get to beat the big drum at the end of one of the meditation stages: that happens to be my favorite!

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“It is time, ripe time for a Zen manifesto. The Western intelligentsia have become acquainted with Zen, have also fallen in love with Zen, but they are still trying to approach Zen from the mind. They have not yet come to the understanding that Zen has nothing to do with mind.”

Osho

THE ZEN MANIFESTO Freedom from Oneself

My effort is to make you really clear that all these

intellectuals may have written very beautiful books – I appreciate their scholarship, I appreciate their articulateness of expression, but they are not men of Zen, to say nothing of masters of Zen. Hence this manifesto is absolutely needed to make the whole world clear that Zen is not a mind affair. It is a no-mind space.

I told you that all the religions are saying, “Drop the ego.” Zen goes beyond the ego and beyond the self.

Except Zen, no religion has come to the point of going beyond the self, beyond the atman, beyond your spirit, beyond your individuality. It is absolutely a single man’s contribution to human consciousness – Gautam the Buddha’s.

Zen is the ultimate flowering. Slowly, slowly improving the image of Gautam the Buddha, each master has contributed something, a new dimension to it. Gautam Buddha is the only person in the whole history of mankind who said,“Just dropping the ego will not help.

It can be easily dropped if you drop god.” He dropped god, the ego disappeared. The moon disappeared. The reflection disappeared. He went away from the mirror, the mirror was empty. His reflection in the mirror disappeared. He had been fighting with the reflection.

I have heard about an ugly woman – she was so neurotic about mirrors, because only mirrors made her aware that she was ugly. Otherwise, without mirrors, as far as she was concerned, she was beautiful.Wherever she would see a mirror – even in somebody else’s house – she would immediately break it. The reason was that mirrors made her look ugly.

Those poor mirrors had nothing to do with her ugliness. She was ugly, but she was forcing the responsibility on the mirrors, fighting with the mirrors.

That is the essence of all your religions: fighting with

the mirrors, with the shadows, trying to drop the ego without dropping god. The ego is just a reflection of a lie in the small pond of your mind.

Gautam Buddha dropped the idea of god and was amazed that as god disappeared, the ego disappeared. It was just a reflection of god. Hence my effort to remove god – without removing god you cannot remove the ego. It is the shadow, in the small pond of your mind, of the ultimate lie. Then, as the ego disappeared with god, Buddha came to understand that even self has to disappear.

There are religions which have god, ego, and the self: Judaism, Christianity, Mohammedanism, Hinduism.

And there are religions which don’t have god – Taoism, Buddhism, Jainism – but they have the self. Because they don’t have god, the ego disappears on its own.

Now their whole effort is how to make their self pure, pious. Now a different kind of effort starts.

Buddha is the only man who said,“If there is no god and there is no ego, the self is also arbitrary, artificial. As you go deeper in your interiority, you suddenly find yourself disappearing into the oceanic consciousness. There is no self as such.You are no longer, only existence is.”

Hence, I call Zen essentially freedom from oneself.

You have heard about other freedoms, but freedom from oneself is the ultimate freedom – not to be, and allow the existence to express itself in all its spontaneity and grandeur. But it is existence, not you, not me. It is life itself dancing, not you, not me.

That is the Zen Manifesto: freedom from oneself.

Excerpted from The Zen Manifesto, Osho

“I’ve enjoyed my trip aboard The Zen Manifesto, and hope you will too. If a few million of us try to make the leap from intellect to non-being, at least some of the time, we can achieve Osho’s mission ‘to change the world.’”

Robert Rimmer

Osho takes on the Western Zen establishment with compassion, wit and urgency.

In his responses to questions about D.T. Suzuki, Thomas Merton, Paul Reps, Alan Watts, and Nancy Wilson-Ross, he gives the reader a tangible experience of the limits of the intellect, and a chance to experience of the breakthrough into consciousness, into no-mind, that exists beyond the limits of intellectual understanding.

“Zen’s tremendous job is to get you out of the prison of mind. It is not an intellectual philosophy; it is not a philosophy at all. Nor is it a religion, because it has no fictions and no lies, no consolations. It is a lion’s roar.And the greatest thing that Zen has brought into the world is freedom from oneself.”

Osho

DETAILS Title: The Zen Manifesto Author: Osho Subject: Experiencing Zen Publisher: Rebel Books Pages: 384 ISBN 81-7261-213-3 ISBN 978-81-7261-213-9

For a list of overseas distributors visit: www.osho.com/shop To order within India contact: OSHO Multimedia and Resorts Pvt. Ltd. 17 Koregaon Park, Pune 411 001 Tel: +91 (20) 6601 9981 email: distribsale@osho.net

From April 2008 onwards, OSHO Books, Magazine, CDs and DVDs of OSHO Talks, Meditations and Music etc. can be ordered from OSHO Multimedia and Resorts Pvt. Ltd. 17 Koregaon Park, Pune 411001 Tel: +91 (20) 6601 9981 email: distribsale@osho.net

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The Future Future Belongs Belongsto toTho Those Expecting me to be extraordinary is just your ego. You want to be a disciple of an extraordinary man.

There is a sannyasin who goes on writing to me again and again – “Why, Osho? You look very ordinary to me.” I have not answered him yet, but now the right moment has come to answer. I don’t look ordinary, I am ordinary.

But what is his problem? I’m not worried by my ordinariness, I’m immensely happy with it. So why is he is in trouble? His trouble is that he wants me to be very, very extraordinary – a man of miracles or something. Some nonsense is in his mind. He wants me to be stupid – to produce ash or Swiss watches or do some miracles. He is in search of a magician, not of a master.

This search is of the ego. He wants me to be very extra-ordinary so that his ego can feel very good that it has surrendered to an extraordinary man. If by my touch I cure people, if by my touch I make dead people alive, then he will be very happy: this is the man to surrender to. But then you will not be surrendering to me. It will be your ego-trip. You will feel very good and satisfied that you are the disciple of such an extraordinary man.

A master is ordinary. A master is a normal man – a regular. A master is so ordinary that he has no kind of ego in him. All extra-ordinariness is a kind of ego.

A master is simply nobody. His ordinariness is a nobodiness. Only people who suffer from inferiority seek extraordinariness. If one has come home there is no search for extraordinariness, there is no search for speciality.To be ordinary is so extraordinarily beautiful.

But I can understand his trouble. He wants to have an ego trip through me. So he is disturbed – Osho is not doing any kind of miracles. He is a sannyasin, but what kind of surrender is this? This is not surrender.

Just the other day his woman came and she was crying and she was saying, “What to do, Osho? He puts me on such a high pedestal. He almost thinks of me as if I am a goddess, and then he makes me feel guilty because I am a human being. If I don’t behave like a goddess, then he makes me feel guilty.” While she was relating her misery and story I was thinking, “So he is doing that to you too.” That’s what he wants to do with me and to me. He wants to put me on a high pedestal – to be a miracle man or something extraordinary that doesn’t happen.

Once he has put me on a high pedestal he will be in control. Then he will be powerful over me because he will have the control. If he wants to take me off the pedestal – it is his pedestal, he can. That’s what he is doing to his woman too. First he puts her on a high pedestal and then he tortures her. He becomes powerful.

How the ego goes on playing tricks! You have to watch. On the surface it looks just the opposite – that he is such a humble man, and he puts his woman in such a high place that she is a goddess.You will think he is very humble. He is not. He is very tricky; he is

being very political. And he may not be consciously doing it; it may be just his unconscious ego trip. Once you have put the woman up as a goddess, you are powerful. Then she cannot be human, then you can find faults with her, and then she will be afraid of you. Afraid, because you can put her down any time.

That is what he wants to do with me too.

Now see the game. Even the disciple wants to become powerful over the master. If I am ordinary, then he is no longer powerful, then he cannot put me anywhere lower than I am. I am just on plain ground – where can he put me down to? Then he has no power. Otherwise he can come and say,“Osho, you are so high, don’t do this, don’t say that.”

I have been watching this. For these twenty years I have come in contact with millions of people and this has been one of my observations – that everybody wants to control the master.

People have been suggesting all kinds of things to me: “You should not do this, you should not be that, you should not say that, you should not comment on this” – so many advisors. And they all think they love me, and they all think they are followers, disciples.

They are just helping their master to have a good public image. And they go on saying, “We don’t say that you are wrong. We are just saying it because of the public image”….

Now this sannyasin wants to put me on a high pedestal, then he becomes powerful.Then if I want to remain on the high pedestal I have to look to him.

Where is he? Otherwise I will not be on that high pedestal. Who will put me that high?

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Remember, expecting me to be extraordinary is just your ego. You want to be a disciple of an extraordinary man, then your ego will feel very, very enhanced, fulfilled. I am ordinary, and I am absolutely ordinary. I don’t look ordinary – that is again a trick.

He is asking me “Why do you look so ordinary?” He is not saying “You are ordinary.” He cannot believe that I am ordinary. Maybe I’m just pretending to be ordinary, then there is some hope for him. Some day or other I will show my extraordinary miracles.

You are hoping against hope. It is not going to happen. I am simply ordinary. It is not that I am pretending or playing a game of being ordinary. I am ordinary. And because I am ordinary there is a possibility for you to surrender. And I’m not going to do anything that can give you any notion that I am extraordinary, I am not going to do anything. Only then will your surrender be true.

If you can surrender to an ordinary man, the ego will disappear….

Those who are here with me and who are really connected with me will know what I am talking about. Why this hankering for the extraordinary?

There must be some kind of inferiority complex in him, so he’s seeking some superior being. If he cannot be superior, at least he can be the follower of a superior being.

Excerpted from Sufis: The People of the Path, Osho

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This Beautiful Earth Man has lived in dependence, and man has desired and fought for independence, but nobody looks into the reality – that dependence and independence both are extremes. Reality is exactly in the middle; it is interdependence.

Everything is interdependent. The smallest blade of grass and the biggest star both are interdependent. This is the whole foundation of ecology. Because man has behaved without understanding the reality of interdependence, he has destroyed so much of the organic unity of life. He has been cutting his own hands, his own legs, without knowing.

Millions of trees are being cut every day. Scientists are giving warnings that if all trees disappear from the earth, man cannot live. We are in a deep interexchange. Man goes on breathing in oxygen and throwing out carbon dioxide; trees go on inhaling carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen. Neither you can exist without the trees, nor can the trees exist without you.

Life is interwoven in a thousand and one ways.... Because many trees have disappeared, so much carbon dioxide has gathered in the atmosphere, that it has raised the temperature on the whole earth by four degrees. There is a possibility that if the eternal ice of the Himalayas starts melting, then all the oceans will rise twenty feet higher, and will drown almost the whole earth.They will destroy all your cities – Bombay, Calcutta, New York, London and San Francisco.

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Such is the interdependence that when your first astronauts reached to the moon, we became aware for the first time that the whole earth is surrounded by a thick sheet of ozone. It has been because of this ozone blanket that life has become possible on this planet, because ozone does not allow in the death rays that come from the sun.

It allows in only the life rays. But in our stupidity to reach to the moon, we have made holes in the blanket. Each time a rocket goes beyond the atmosphere of the earth, it creates great holes. Now scientists are saying that these death rays will increase the rate of cancer by almost thirty percent.

The stupid politicians are not listening. And if you call them stupid, then you are jailed, you are punished; false allegations are made against you. But I don’t see what else to call them.

Life is a deep interdependence.

Excerpted from

The Golden Future, Osho

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OSHO International Meditation Resort is a unique experiment, an opportunity for individuals to experience a radical approach to meditation and silence.

It is a place for the evolution of Zorba the Buddha – someone whose feet can dance on the ground and whose hands can touch the stars – in an environment beyond nations, races and religions. The international language is laughter and silence. This is a place to be alone together, where each can learn from the other while respecting everyone’s unique individuality.

DAILY MEDITATION INTENSIVE in OSHO AUDITORIUM 6:00

OSHO Dynamic Meditation: Osho’s most popular active meditation

8:00

The Art of Listening: an OSHO talk on audiotape Vipassana: silent sitting, watching the breath A selected OSHO Meditation OSHO Nadabrahma Meditation: a meditation using breath and sound OSHO Kundalini Meditation: another potent active meditation technique to still the mind The Evening Meeting of the OSHO White Robe Brotherhood.

This two-hour meditation meeting begins with dancing and celebration. This is followed by sitting silently, first to music and then to the sound of Osho speaking – a videotaped talk that provides an opportunity to experience silence with no effort.

10:30 12:00 14:45 16:15 18:45

in OSHO CHUANG TZU 7:30 15:00

Silent sitting Silent sitting Silent sitting (sometimes with music)

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A selected OSHO Meditation

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Being Here

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Shunyam, one of the leading ladies of art in Holland, finds OSHO Meditations the greatest phenomenon that has ever happened to her.

She has visited the Meditation Resort many times and loves its flexibility, its ability to continually change and create space for new people.

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Every six months everyone needs to re-register with a valid photo ID. OSHO International Meditation Resort is an AIDS-free zone. On your arrival you will be required to take an AIDS (HIV) test in the resort.

The activities at the OSHO International Meditation Resort are designed for the benefit of adults; the environment is not geared towards children and minors. We recommend that parents come alone, without their children. If you are traveling with children, please note that: Children of school age are only allowed during their school holidays.

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Welcome Morning: Daily This is an introduction to the Meditation Resort, including a step-by-step experience of OSHO Active Meditations and Evening Meeting. At this time you can ask any questions you may have, meet other participants from around the world, and get information that will assist you in making the most of your time here. You will also learn more about the process of personal and cultural conditioning and see how the Multiversity and the meditations in OSHO Auditorium support you to go beyond those limitations to a more authentic lifestyle.

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many things happening, all at great speed. I could never predict it. Wherever I am, I find that the other is always a mirror: that’s mind-blowing!

Every moment, everything is a gift.

OSHO Meditations have changed me totally.

They’ve made it possible for me to live outside in the world and still have inner space. As for my painting, they have taught me to get out of the way, and this has led to an immense flowering.

I can just let everything go. My paintings only come when I am not there; I myself am amazed to see what comes out.

How is it for you to be in the Meditation Resort?

I love that everything is open and flexible here: that jump-starts my transformation by confronting me with things I thought I knew, or

wanted to stay the same because then I feel safe.

I’m reminded of the old saying,“You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.” I have to break old patterns and fears in order to create space for living in the here and now.

I especially like seeing all the young people here, from the whole world, hungry for awareness.

They are already very mature and recognize the shortcomings of ordinary life. They are more daring, less afraid and take more risks than we did, asking the question, “Is this all there is?” much earlier in their lives.You can see that their intelligence has increased and their development is going towards a quantum leap.

What would you suggest to people coming here for the first time?

Enjoy being here! And go for all the courses to throw the garbage out.They are very helpful for breaking old patterns and expectations. The Multiversity is the main thing here, the biggest gift; all the possibilities exist.

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Dying – Yet Full of Life Another haiku by Basho:

Dying cricket – How full of Life, his song.

The cricket is dying, but is still singing....

Dying cricket – How full of Life, his song.

This should be the situation of every alert and aware person. Even dying, full of life, full of song – and then there is no death.

Excerpted from Hyakujo:The Everest of Zen,

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WELLNESS

Working with the Energyof Beliefs If we look at what isn’t working in our life, we will find a negative belief behind it – a belief that we have probably been carrying around with us since childhood. We can move beyond these outof-date limitations and take our lives back into our own hands.

Ekanta talks about how her sessions help people let go of the old ideas that restrict their lives. She uses an approach that is both simple and effective.

don’t behave right. For any number of reasons, we find we are not lovable, not good enough.

When we are small and dependent on others we internalize these messages and we start believing them. From these moments onwards we vibrate them, we keep them alive and we make them come true again and again.

How do our beliefs affect us as adults?

How did you get interested in this way of working?

I started the work with beliefs about three years ago when I did the OSHO Energy Work and Healing Training: The Power of Love at the Multiversity. Once I experienced this work myself, I was fascinated by this opportunity to let go of self-destructive judgments which limit my life – some even to the extreme of creating or supporting physical illness. What a relief!

How do we get these unwholesome beliefs?

We all are born full of joy – loving ourselves just the way we are. We have no thought that something could be not OK with us. While we are growing up we slowly pick up ideas from our environment – from parents, then teachers, the church, the media – that something should be different, that we are just not right the way we are, that we don’t look right, we 60 OSHO TIMES

Imagine you have the thought in your mind: “I will never find the right partner.” You might try hard to come closer to a man or a woman and in some way, at some point you sabotage yourself so you can say to yourself: “See it’s true, I will never find the right partner.”

Or imagine Saturday night – party time – and as you reach the party the thoughts start kicking in: “Oh, maybe I’m not dressed right. Maybe I chose the wrong outfit. I should have washed my hair, and anyhow I have nothing to say and no one will be interested in me anyway.” You can easily predict how this evening is going to continue.

Living in this way is negative, self-destructive and unhealthy. It continues because most the time these beliefs run us from the unconscious – the voices are speaking to us below the level of our awareness. We are not watching our thoughts. And if we are hearing what is running through our minds, we don’t recognize it as a belief we have learned; we think it is the truth. Until we see that this is what is happening we don’t have a choice. When we become aware of a belief it loses its hold on us.

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INDIV IDU OSHO SESS AL IONS

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WELLNESS Mind is all your beliefs collected together. Openness means no-mind; openness means you put your mind aside and you are ready to look into life again and again in a new way, not with old eyes.

The mind gives you old eyes, it gives you again ideas: “Look through this.” But then the thing becomes colored; then you don’t look at it, you project an idea upon it. Then the truth becomes a screen on which you go on projecting.

Look through no-mind, look through nothingness, shunyata. When you look through no-mind your perception is efficient, because then you see that which is. And truth liberates. Everything else creates a bondage; only truth liberates.

Excerpted from The Heart Sutra, Osho

The following is a selection of OSHO Trainings, Courses and Individual Sessions that deal with letting go of beliefs, using many different methods:

OSHO Energy Work and Healing Training: The Power of Love Alchemy of the 5th Chakra: Dropping Beliefs Human Design: Dropping Beliefs Goodbye to the Inner Judge Dehypnosis and Self-Hypnosis Hypnosis for Healing Wounds from the Past Dissolving Beliefs For more information see osho.com/multiversity.

Individual sessions of 1 – 1 ½ hours each are available throughout the day. They cover a wide variety of approaches which fall under the general headings of Bodywork, Therapy and Counseling, and Energywork and the Esoteric.

Craniosacral Balancing in Craniosacral Biodynamics In these sessions, practitioners use a delicate and effective touch to sense powerful inner tides that allow a person to come to a new inner balance.

This supports health and restores and regulates the body-mind. A deep effect is created in the individual as a whole, helping to deal with specific complaints and increasing the overall well-being at the same time.

How can a session help?

Chakra Balancing

In a 60 or 90 minute session we unwind a belief by bringing awareness to real situations in the past where this belief was active. First the client is supported in finding the main belief related to his issue – the one that is most charged. You can think of it as the root, like the root of a tree that feeds many branches. A root belief can be feeding the person’s thoughts and behaviors in many different situations.

Once the main belief is identified, the client is guided back by the session giver to the moment where he or she internalized this particular belief. The client is supported to remember situations where the belief was confirmed.

To support this unwinding process we work in the client’s energy field, keeping our awareness in the fifth chakra. We vibrate compassion while we use sounds and gestures to help break the grip of the beliefs.When the belief leaves the person’s body-mind system, it is often accompanied by their spontaneous laughter.

The belief loses its power; it has no grip on them once they see that it does not even belong to them.

When we “erase” these life negative ways of thinking, what shines through is a yes for ourselves, for others and for life itself. Living becomes a celebration, a dance, a joy…every day, each moment.

Gandha

Chakra Balancing helps the body’s natural flow of energies. By using bodywork combined with energy work the chakras are cleared, allowing energies to flow freely. This supports you in your meditation and in your daily life.

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Aura-Soma Color-Care-System Consultation® As a tool for consciousness, the colors of Aura-Soma reflect who we are back to us. The colors that most attract us can reveal which life lessons we are learning now as well as over our lifetime. They are a beautiful aid to meditation, helping to bring the light of consciousness into the less conscious parts of ourselves.

Core Integration This powerful system of deep bodywork brings together postural alignment, movement education and awareness. It restores the body’s natural state of balance by means of deep tissue bodywork, stretches, joint mobilization and reeducating the body. It improves the vertical connection of the main body parts – head, shoulders, chest, pelvis and legs – resulting in more flexibility, muscle relaxation and energy flow.

These are only a few of the many sessions regularly available at the OSHO Multiversity.

For more information on the full program see osho.com/multiversity.

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JUNE HIGHLIGHTS

I N N E R A N D O U T E R T R A N S F O R M AT I O N

A SELECTION OF OSHO COURSES AND TRAININGS

Enhance your life inside and out with unique OSHO Courses and Trainings

Com ing soon

Loving Yourself This course introduces you to simple, practical techniques that you can use in your daily life to reconnect with the fact that you are lovable – just as you are.

2 – 3 June

Family Constellation: Beyond Family By recreating the structure or constellation of our family, we can clearly understand unresolved dynamics that have been affecting us to this day.

15, 19 – 21, 26 – 27 July, 6 – 8 August

Disappear into the Painting

Awareness Intensive: Who Is In?

Become absorbed in the process of creation and you are no longer there as an ego. With no motivation, no search for rewards or recognition, you are absolutely fulfilled. Get the knack, and it will effortlessly change your life.

6 – 8 June

20 – 23 July, 14 – 17 August

Osho Meditation Training Go deeper into your own meditation as well as develop your skills and confidence in sharing OSHO meditations.

Prerequisite: interview.

Reconnecting to our bodies and feelings, we open to love and respect for ourselves and others. We use techniques which focus on the senses and bring our awareness to the heart.

27 – 29 July

10 – 12 June

Primal Rebirth

Osho Born Again Training For people who love the OSHO Born Again process, who would like to deepen their own experience of it and learn to facilitate it.

17 – 23 June

OSHO Reiki 1st Degree In this soft, hands-on healing art, the practitioner becomes a channel for universal life force energy. A meditative space is created in both practitioner and receiver. Participants open to this energy through an initiation.

7 – 8, 26 – 27 June

OSHO Mystic Rose Three weeks, three hours a day. The first week is laughter, the second crying, and the third is silent witnessing. ● ●

Opening to Feeling

This course deals with the move from mind to no-mind.

Topics include how easy it is to learn and use self-hypnosis, how “problems” are really just misunderstandings, and what is the difference between hypnosis and meditation.

O S H O M E D I TAT I V E T H E R A P I E S These courses take place on the same dates every month.

Based on traditional Zen techniques, this course penetrates beyond our habitual masks and pretensions and focuses our total energy into the search for who we really are. Residential, in silence and isolation.

22 – 26 July

Dehypnosis and Self-Hypnosis

Every month the Multiversity offers processes designed

by Osho for the contemporary man, to cut through layers of conditioning straight to the center of his being. The OSHO International Meditation Resort, with its unique blend of relaxation, meditation and celebration, is the ideal place to experience this transformation.

A lot of our questions, difficulties and pain are related to the first seven years of our life, when the blueprint is formed for who we unconsciously decide to become as adults. In this course we find the way back to our true selves.

it is a very fundamental technique, fresh and unused it cuts away all the past repressions of humanity

11 Jun – 1 Jul

OSHO Born Again: Course and Training Seven days, for two hours a day. The first hour is for entering your childhood. The second hour is sitting in silent meditation. ● ●

a great experiment to achieve your lost childhood rediscovering the moments of wonder and joy

17 – 23 Jun

OSHO No-Mind Seven days, two hours a day. Using gibberish – speaking in any language that you do not know – to empty out all the garbage of the mind. ● ●

it’s crazy but will relieve you of much heat and steam after one hour you will feel tremendously quiet

3 – 9 Jun

11 – 15 August

OSHO Reminding Yourself of the Forgotten Language of Talking to Your BodyMind

Ayurvedic Yoga Massage Training: Basic Skills Vigorous, deep massage work based on the ancient Indian science of Ayurveda, combined with yoga stretches, which can relieve back and neck pain and other chronic holdings in the body. At the end of the training you will be able to give a full session. Prerequisite: interview.

16 – 22 August

Awareness Intensive: Satori A powerful, residential process dedicated to the search of our innermost being. Using modern koans such as “Who is in?” and others, these days are a single-pointed, passionate quest to experience a glimpse of the witnessing consciousness.

Residential, in silence and isolation. Prerequisite: interview.

3 – 10 September

2 – 3 Jun 3 – 5 Jun 3 – 9 Jun 6 – 8 Jun 7 – 8 Jun 10 – 12 Jun 10 –16 Jun 11 Jun – 1 Jul 14 Jun 14 – 15 Jun 17 – 23 Jun 20 –22 Jun 24 – 30 Jun

Using hypnosis, you first connect and make friends with your body/mind; then you begin a healing process by communicating with your unconscious. ●

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can be used for weight control or dealing with migraines and any other body aches and pains for anything out of natural balance in the body

24 – 30 Jun

OSHO Dynamic Meditation Booster Seven days: starts from the 25th of each month

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26 – 27 Jun

Loving Yourself Inner Skills for Work & Life OSHO No-Mind Disappear into the Painting OSHO Reiki First Degree Dehypnosis and Self-Hypnosis Self-Hypnosis for Meditation OSHO Mystic Rose Fast-track to Yourself Opening to the Heart OSHO Born Again: Course and Training Art with Heart OSHO Reminding Yourself of the Forgotten Language of Talking to Your BodyMind OSHO Reiki First Degree

PREVIEWS 15, 19 – 21, 26 –27 Jul, 6 – 8 Aug Family Constellation: Beyond Family 16 – 18 Jul, 3 –5 Aug Opening to Feeling: Breath 20 – 23 Jul, 14 – 17 Aug Awareness Intensive: Who Is In? 22 –26 Jul OSHO Meditation Training 27 –29 Jul Opening to Feeling OSHO No-Mind: Course and Training 3 – 9 Aug 8 – 10 Aug Reliving Past Lives: Living the Present 9 – 12 Aug Tantric Meditation: Watching the Fire 11 Aug A Day for the Body 11 – 15 Aug Primal Rebirth 12 –14 Aug Tantra Experience 16 – 17 Aug Intuitive Tarot 16 – 22 Aug Ayurvedic Yoga Massage Training: Basic Skills 17 –19 Aug True Feminine Nature 19 – 21 Aug Opening to Self-Love 20 – 22 Aug Tantra: Breath of Life 22 – 25 Aug Finding your Voice, Finding your Song 23 Aug MaleFemale Polarity 23 – 25 Aug Opening to Intimacy 26 – 28 Aug Demystifying Death 27 Aug Bringing Meditation in Your Daily Activities 28 – 30 Aug Tantra for Women Dates and programs are subject to change.

For an up-to-date listing of programs visit osho.com/multiversity.

email: multiversity@osho.net or write to: OSHO Multiversity OSHO International Meditation Resort 17 Koregaon Park, Pune 411001, India Tel: +91 (0)20 6601 9999, ext. 312

for full program visit

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Shortage of Food or Shortage of Intelligence?

Feed the world?

We are fighting a losing battle, UN admits The United Nations warned yesterday that it no longer has enough money to keep global malnutrition at bay this year in the face of a dramatic upward surge in world commodity prices, which have created a “new face of hunger.”

In the last several months, the world press and internet have been full of news about a global food shortage that threatens the lives of millions.

Everything from a growing world population to bio-fuel is being blamed, and fiery international debates are springing up.

Osho’s insight invites us to look at the broader picture and think out of the box.

Julian Borger The Guardian, 26 Feb 08

UN agency chief warns of food crisis “civil war” UN food agency chief Jacques Diouf on Friday warned of civil war in some countries because of global food shortages and called for a revamp of the international food system. The head of the Food and Agriculture Organization said on France 24 television that international leaders had failed to act on warnings from his agency leading to what he called a predictable catastrophe.

PARIS (AFP) 25 April 08

World Bank Chief Calls for Immediate Action on Deepening Global Food Crisis AP 14 April 08

IMF head warns food shortage could topple governments AP 20 April 08

Nations should disappear from the world.

They are one of the causes of poverty, sickness, war, destruction and misuse of technology, science and the energy that man produces.

We need one world. If we want to be rich, we need only one world. No political lines on the earth.

Then it will be very easy to see.

There was a time in Soviet Russia they were using wheat instead of coal in their railway lines, in their engines; because they had a bumper crop of wheat; wheat was cheaper than coal, and they don’t have many mines for coal.

The whole East was dying hungry; they cannot eat coal.They have mines of coal, but they cannot eat coal. But the wheat was being used as coal. If it was one world things would have been simple. Shift the coal where it is too much and useless, and send the wheat where it is needed, don’t burn it; it is not something to be burned when people are hungry.

Just a few months before in Europe, they drowned millions of tons of food in the ocean. And just close by in Nigeria, in Ethiopia, people were dying. In Ethiopia people are dying in thousands because they have no water, no food – and in Europe you are drowning food, fresh food, in the ocean. In fact, one hundred thousand dollars are being wasted just in drowning it – because you need labor to drown the food.

If the world was one, Ethiopia would not have died the way it has died. And it has been happening always.... America goes on destroying its crops, drowning its food in the ocean, but will not give it to those who are dying. For the simple reason because if you start giving food,then your own economy suffers.

Then the prices come down and no country wants – particularly people who are holding the markets don’t want – the prices to come down.

And why they should bother about Ethiopia?

Ethiopia or no Ethiopia – it makes no sense to Europe.

It is good if it is finished: one problem is solved.

We need one world. Just the idea of one world

means tremendous energy involved in preparation for war – nuclear weapons, atomic energy, millions of the best minds humanity has ever produced – all the scientists, all the technologists, are freed to do some creative work.

If they can manage atomic energy to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki, if they can manage nuclear weapons to destroy the whole world, why they cannot manage with the same energy, to produce more food? To produce better clothes? To produce better houses? To produce a totally new kind of world which has never been dreamed of, which is now possible. Unpolluted, ecologically sane....

There is enough food in the oceans; just our

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scientists have to work on it. Very nourishing food can be found from the oceans. And ultimately as science goes deeper into it, there is bound to come a time when science can create synthetic food – just as synthetic clothes, just as everything man can make – which will be better, far more improved than nature.

Man can live at least three hundred years very easily.

It is possible if he just gets the right kind of food, and if the whole scientific world changes its direction from death to life. Things are very simple. We have just not explored.

If you look at the past you can understand it.There was a time when man lived only on hunting. He had no idea that fruits can be eaten, that crops can be grown. If anybody had said that, he would have been thought crazy. Because people had never done that; they had all lived on hunting. And to live on hunting was a very difficult process because some day you may get food, and some day you may not. It was all accidental.

But as the population grew they had to listen to the dreamers who said these fruits can be eaten, that crops can be grown.... And that was a tremendous revolution – from hunting to cultivation.

And we are still hanging there. Standing in my window I see it every day, and I feel so sad. One couple is working since I have come – they may have been working long before – with their hands, preparing the ground to sow the seeds. They have not even come to use bullocks or horses; they are living almost fifty thousand years back.In the middle of Kathmandu, where you have all the contemporary technology available, the whole day from morning to evening they are preparing the ground just by their hands. It will take months to prepare that which could have been done with bullocks or horses within a week, which could have been done by a tractor just in a few hours. But perhaps they have no idea.

We have to bring science, technology, to every field of life, in every possible way. Reduce the population, destroy nations, destroy religions, and the world would be as rich as you cannot dream. It is a very simple phenomena.

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IN THE NEWS Buddha Bar In Japan, a group of Buddhist monks have secured a regular spot at a jazz bar where they seek to enlighten and entertain.

Chippie Sound Music Bar is tiny and full of smoke – not incense, though, but cigarette smoke. There is cold beer on tap and a cool crooner on the stereo, not normally where you would expect to find a trio of monks. But Hogen Natori and his two friends believe this is as good a place as any to spread the word about Buddhism.

As they make their way to the stage they ring a small bell. The small crowd falls silent. Then the chanting begins and strangely haunting melodies fill the space. It is Shomyo chanting, a style of Buddhist chant found only in Japan.

This is what you might call Buddhism-lite though. It is performance, not preaching.

After their first session on the stage, which lasts about 20 minutes, they sit down with the audience for a drink and a chat. One of the monks gets a bag of balloons out of his pocket and starts sculpting balloon flowers for some of the older ladies sitting around the room. “Many Japanese don’t want to come to temple,” Hogen Natori says. He is

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Animal therapy works on a simple principle: take the help of a pet to help yourself. A stroll with a dog in tow can, at times, help patients with depression connect back with the big bad world. For the elderly with failing memory and rapidly deteriorating cognitive skills, pets can keep tenuous connections alive.

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IN THE NEWS standing behind the bar where he has lit up a cigarette as he chats with the drinkers. “They think Buddhism is very difficult and deep and serious, but Buddhism is much more than that – exciting, funny even. I want to spread this kind of teaching.”

The monks say that their decision to perform in bars like this has upset some Buddhists. One woman told them they should not “lower themselves” in this way. It is time to get back on stage for the second half. Again silence, and then again the haunting chants of a bygone age, the three shavenheaded monks in their grey robes kneeling in front of us, sharing their faith with the drinkers.

Chris Hogg Excerpted from BBC NEWS

Priests are not sincere about religion. They use

religion. Religion is, at the most a profession. And the audience is not interested in enlightenment, the audience is seeking entertainment.

Enlightenment is just the opposite.You will have to seek a space within yourself where it becomes impossible to forget yourself; where even if you want, it is not possible to forget; where self-remembering becomes a constant flame.

Excerpted from Come Follow To You, Osho

expectations.” Pune-based clinical psychologist Minal Lonkar Kavishwar, who has been into pet therapy for over four years, explains, “Animals never judge us according to our deeds or financial status. Their unconditional acceptance fulfils our primitive requirement for love and acceptance and that is what has a positive psychological impact on affected people.”

Excerpted from Times of India

When people become incapable of loving human

beings they start loving pets, animals – because a dog is always good to you. Dogs are such great politicians; they know your stupidity.They know – whenever you come they start wagging their tails.The poor dog is just trying to be a diplomat, and you enjoy it.

You have fallen from your humanity.

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The Revolution, Osho

Moderate Message A weekly consumption of up to fourteen drinks, classified as a glass of wine, a bottle of beer or a single measure of spirits, offers great health benefits, a 20-year study of almost 12,000 Danish men and women has concluded. The healthiest were those who were moderate drinkers and moderately or very physically active. Their risk of dying from heart disease was about half that of inactive nondrinkers.

According to Martin Grønbaek, of the University of Southern Denmark in Copenhagen, “A weekly moderate alcohol intake reduced the risk of all-cause mortality among both men and women, whereas the risk among heavy drinkers was similar to nondrinkers.” In the study, published in the European Heart Journal, a team led

by Professor Grønbaek, Berit Heitmann and Jane Pedersen, analyzed data collected by the Copenhagen City Heart Study.

Ms Pedersen said: “The lowest risk of death from all causes was observed among the physically active moderate drinkers and the highest risk among the physically inactive non and heavy drinkers.”

Mark Henderson Excerpted from Times Online

Man has been taught to cultivate self-

restraint since time unknown! Therefore there are many lessons in moderation but the extremes in life far exceed these lessons. Since thousands of years there have been discussions on temperance and self-control but man has failed to be moderate and normal. Why is this so? Try to suppress something and you find yourself bound hand and foot to it.

Excerpted from

The Beginning of the Beginning, Osho

Master of Wisdom The Master of Wisdom award in the field of Meditation was recently conferred on Devendra, as a representative of OSHO International Meditation Resort, by Media Trust of India in New Delhi.

A grand function was held at India Habitat Centre, organized by P. K. Arya of Media Trust and hosted by the Astro Research Foundation, to honor those who have contributed to reinstate the traditional knowledge of India. It took place in the presence of luminaries from the fields of meditation, astrology, numerology, Tantra and the like. The well-known Indian Classical Dancer, Jitendra Maharaj was among the celebrated guests.

Awards were given in the areas of Meditation, Astrology, Feng Shui, Palmistry, World Peace, Education, Wellness and Welfare. Some of the prominent awardees were B. B. Puri, Bejan Daruwala, Meena Om, Acharya Vinay Singhal, Padmashree Ravindra Kumar and Avinash Singh Alag. Sri Sri Ravishankar took advantage of the occasion to launch a new spiritual website where people can have access to all these areas of wisdom.

In his address to the media, well represented by top Indian TV channels and major newspapers, Devendra, on

behalf of OSHO International Foundation, agreed that India and the East have a great wealth of knowledge to share with the world.

“However,” he continued, “the reality is that this understanding is not reflected in the individual lives of the people, who experience fundamental problems in their everyday lives. So the ideals espoused by traditional knowledge remain just that: ideals. Meditation is the key which can bring this wisdom into the daily life of every individual. At the OSHO International Meditation Resort in Pune, thousands of people from all over the world are experimenting with this new, creative way of living based on the radical vision of Osho, supported by OSHO meditations.”

I am not interested in changing the society. My

whole interest is in the individual. All social revolutions have failed. Now the time has come to think of the individual, and focus our whole energy on the individual.

The individual is the only hope. If millions of individuals can change through meditation, if they can realize a kind of egolessness, then they will create a society, naturally, spontaneously, which will be classless.

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No Man Is an Island, Osho

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A Zen master is carrying water from the well. A devotee who has heard about him and has traveled far to see him asks him, “Where can I see the master of this monastery?” He thinks this man must be a servant, carrying water from the well; you can’t find a buddha carrying water from the well, you can’t find a buddha cleaning the floor.

The master laughs and says,“I am the person you are seeking.”

The devotee cannot believe it. He says, “I have heard much about you but I cannot conceive you carrying water from the well.”

The master replies, “But that’s what I used to do before I became enlightened. Carrying water from the well, chopping wood; that’s what I used to do before and that’s what I continue to do. I am very proficient in these two things, carrying water from the well and chopping wood. Come with me; my next thing is going to be chopping wood – watch me!”

The man asks, “But then what is the difference? Before enlightenment you used to do these two things, and after enlightenment you are doing the same two things; then what is the difference?”

The master laughs, and tells him, “The difference is inner: before I was doing everything in sleep, now I am doing everything consciously. That’s the difference: activities are the same but I am no longer the same.The world is the same but I am not the same. And because I am no longer the same, for me the world is also no longer the same.”

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Religion Needs Laughter A god who cannot laugh and dance and sing is not worthy of being god.

Send him to hell!

Osho

A young man sitting at a bar sees an attractive girl and offers to buy her a drink.

“Did you say a motel?” asks the girl in a loud voice.

The man is extremely embarrassed and assures her that he only wants to buy her a drink.

“You want to take me to a motel?” she screams.

Everyone turns to look at the young man, and even the bartender tells him to behave himself.

He is so embarrassed that he goes and sits at a corner table.

A short while later the girl comes over to him.

“I must apologize,” she says. “I am sorry to embarrass you so much, because you see, I’m a psychology student and I wanted to take note of your reactions for my psychology thesis.”

“What?” shouts the man.“You must be joking!

Twenty dollars!”

Gloria is early for her appointment with the optician, so she goes into a shoe store to try on some new shoes.

As the clerk bends over to measure her foot, Gloria, who is very shortsighted, sees his bald head, and thinks it is her bare knee showing.

Quickly, she pulls her skirt over it.

Immediately, there is a muffled cry.“Shit!” shouts the clerk, “There goes the electricity again!”

There is a loud clamor of screaming and the noise of smashing dishes coming from the Kowalski house.This goes on for fifteen minutes, when finally Kowalski comes storming out of the house.

“Ah, you’ll be back!” screams Olga, standing in the doorway waving a teapot in the air.

“How long do you think you’ll be able to stand happiness?”

Miss Goodbody’s class goes for a picnic in the woods.

After all the kids have drunk lots of lemonade, several of the girls retire to the bushes to pee and there is trouble with the brambles and the nettles.

Little Ernie walks in amongst them, pulls out his pecker and pees without any trouble.

“Wow!” says little Sally, really impressed, “that’s a handy thing to bring on a picnic!”

Giles Winterbottom, the farmer, takes his small son, Jasper, to market one day.

Winterbottom goes to look at the cows and strokes them, pulls their skin and generally fondles them. “Why do you do that?” asks Jasper.

“Well, you see, son,” says Winterbottom,“if you want to buy a cow, that’s the best way to see if she’s healthy.”

A few days later, Winterbottom is out in the fields when Jasper comes running up and says, “Dad, there’s a traveling salesman in the kitchen, and I think he wants to buy Mom!”

JOKES

Myrtle MacTavish is being treated by her doctor for sore knees.The treatment makes no improvement and Doctor Dingle is puzzled.

“Something is rubbing the skin off your knees as fast as it heals,” he says. “Is it praying?”

“No, Doctor,” replies Myrtle, “it’s my husband.

He insists on having sex on the floor, doggie style.”

Doctor Dingle sends for her husband and tells him, “You know, there are plenty of other positions for sex.”

“No, Doc, there aren’t,” replies the man, “not if you both want to watch television.”

Two French chefs are exploring through darkest Africa looking for some special wild “Herbs de Jongle” for their restaurant in Paris. Just as they enter the deepest, thickest forest, they find their magic herbs, but immediately get captured by Chief Boonga and his cannibal tribe.

The two French chefs are carried to the village among loud drums, singing and dancing, and there they are tied to stakes. The whole tribe gathers to view their new imported dinner, as cannibal chef Spoon-em-Out starts the fire under the cooking pots.

Just then, a crazed cannibal comes dancing wildly out of the crowd. He sways and swirls around the two Frenchmen who are tied to the stake.

Suddenly the drums stop. A deathly hush falls over the village, and the wild man speaks to the two white men.“You are French, are you not?” he asks.

“Oui! Oui!” they reply in unison.

“Good! Then tell me,” says the wild man,“what are your names?”

“I am Pierre Soufflè,” says one Frenchman.

“And this is my friend, Crèpes Suzette – but why do you want to know our names? Can you help us?”

“Ah! No,” replies the wild man, “but now I know what to write on the menu!”

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Mrs. Benzini has been visiting her psychiatrist, Professor Potts, for years and feels that she is not getting any better. One day, she decides to confront the shrink.

“Doctor,” she says, sitting up on the couch, “I come-a every week-a for five years. Nothing change-a.What’s-a going on? You gotta tell me.

What’s-a wrong with me?”

“Well,” replies Potts, “I will be frank with you.

You’re crazy!”

“What?” cries Mrs. Benzini. “Crazy? Crazy? I wanna second opinion!”

“Okay,” says Potts, “you’re ugly too!”

Humphrey Hogbreath wakes up slowly after undergoing a serious brain operation. He is just conscious enough to feel the softness of the comfortable bed and the warmth of gentle hands on his forehead.

“Ah!” gasps Humphrey. “Where am I? In heaven?”

“No, dear,” replies Hilda, his wife,“I’m still right here with you!”

Two caterpillars are crawling across the grass when suddenly a butterfly flies over them.They look up, and one nudges the other one and says, “You couldn’t get me up in one of those things for a million dollars.”

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OSHOTIMES

When we are children, we need someone to take care of us. Otherwise we cannot survive.

But if we are to reach the highest possibility of our consciousness, we need to grow up and take responsibility for ourselves.

On the Path to Mastery Want to be the master of your life? Start with the small stuff. Forget about the superhighways and make a footpath. Forget about your destiny and bring your awareness to your most insignificant problems.

Forget about attaining ultimate bliss, and bring awareness to the way you use your senses, the way you eat, the way you hear….

When the Doer Disappears We are constantly told: don’t just stand there – do something! Yet Buddha would say: don’t just do something – stand there! How can anything ever get done if we are just standing there? What happens to our spontaneity?

Be a Rebel Someone who is the master of himself is a true rebel. He cannot be a sheep, following the crowd. Nor will he be a shepherd. He is simply living his own life.

Master the Body All our emotions express themselves in our bodies. Here are some simple exercises for becoming the master of your emotions.

In the coming months there will be features on: The Roots of Violence

In a Few Words If you’re looking for a master, a guru, a savior you won’t find him out there. Turn around and look inside.

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Questions Lovers Ask

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Osho on… Fear of Change

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Astrology June 2008

Astrology is the science of wholeness, unity, nonduality.

Osho

by Yogaraj

CAPRICORN (December 24 – January 20) The feminine will balance in this time and this is a time to befriend that process.

CANCER (June 22 – July 22) If everyday were a happy day it would get kind of boring. The difficult days can be the most opportune to learn about who you are. Enjoy!

ARIES (March 21 – April 20) Your question of the moment: What is strength?

Seek the answer in the feminine.

To me, strength and vulnerability are not two different things.A really strong person is vulnerable, receptive, fragile, liquid – more like water than like rock. Lao Tzu says real strength should be like water, soft, feminine. One day you will find that the water is still there – the rock has become sand. The water has broken it into millions of pieces. Be soft, feminine, surrendering and that will bring you strength. Osho

TAURUS (April 21 – May 21) The trap of relationship is the dream of relationship.

Step out of the dream and imbibe the warmth of relating.

Relate with people but don’t become part of any relationship. Relating is one thing, relationship quite another. Relating does not take you into any bondage; relationship is a bondage. Love people but don’t be jealous, don’t be possessive.

Relate with as many people as possible but remain free, and let them also be free of you. Don’t try to dominate and don’t allow anybody to dominate you either. Osho

GEMINI (May 22 – June 21) It may feel like your mind is your best friend. It’s not.

Close your eyes and rest. Rest is a true friend.

Repose is food, meditation is food for the soul.

Repose means silence, rest, relaxation, calmness, coolness, collectedness, meditativeness. A state of unoccupied mind, empty, silent, with no idea of any doing, not going anywhere, not rushing anywhere – just being herenow. And to be herenow is tremendously nourishing, because then you are deeply in tune with existence, then music showers on you. Osho

LIBRA (September 24 – October 23) The past and the future – a struggle within the mind.

Transcendence comes from being in the moment.

Every experience is an expansion of consciousness. If there is no suffering you will be poor for it; suffering gives you depth.You will be nothing, just a boring phenomenon. Suffering gives you tone, a keenness. A quality comes to you which only suffering can give, which no happiness can give. A man who has remained always in happiness, in comfort, who has not suffered, will not have any heart. The heart is created through suffering; through pain you evolve. Osho

Meditation can be defined as a transcendence of the mind. Mind is the root cause of all our misery.

Mind means the past, the future, memories and desires. All our thoughts are either memories or desires, and existence is never past, never future; it is always present, always now. In the present what exists is a state of no-mind. It is not mind, it is not thought – it is reality itself. Osho

SCORPIO (October 24 – November 22)

LEO (July 23 – August 23)

Add some yin, add some yang and stir gently to find balance. Without some balance it will feel like you’re upside down.

The collective is supporting a move away from the I to the individual. The difference is night and day.

Only an egoless consciousness attains to individuality. By individuality I simply mean the literal meaning of the word: individual means indivisible, integrated; one who is not many, not a crowd, not multipsychic; one who has attained to unity, become a crystallized being. Ego is a false entity.

It won’t allow you to be authentically real. It won’t allow you to grow. It is a deception, an illusion.You are not separate from existence, but the ego goes on pretending separation. Osho

My approach is neither Eastern nor Western, neither male nor female, neither of action nor inaction. My approach is that of utter balance in you.

Hence I say: Don’t leave the world. Be in the world and yet be not of it. This is what Taoists call wei wu wei, action through inaction, the meeting of yin and yang. It brings enlightenment. Imbalance is neurosis; balance is enlightenment. Osho

When trust arises in an intellectual person it is of tremendous depth because it arises against your own mind. The pull has to be greater than the mind, only then does it arise: it is moving to the opposite polarity. In an intellectual person there is a great need for balance. Once he starts being pulled towards the intuitive, the feminine, the illogical, then a great revolution is on the way.

An intellectual will go to deeper depths of irreason than an ordinary, non-rational person can go. Osho

AQUARIUS (January 21 – February 19) A time for looking back with your awareness in order to see what was, otherwise your past will be your future.

The past can only be understood. Accept it, and once you accept through understanding it is erased because then it becomes just like a nightmare, nothing else. Bring your total awareness to the past. This has been your life. If it was wrong, one has to look at it very deeply, so it is never repeated. The past is meaningful only if you understand it; then you don’t repeat it. They say about history that it has to be learned so we don’t commit the same mistake again and again. Osho

PISCES (February 20 – March 20) SAGITTARIUS (November 23 – December 23) A sense of self may arise – whether the ego takes it up or not depends on your meditation.

VIRGO (August 24 – September 23) Service and work, same or different? If your service can be your work, a time for celebration!

Happiness happens when you fit with your life so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. If you love the work that you are doing, the way you are living, then you are meditative.

A real person takes the courage to move with things that make him happy. If he remains poor, he has no complaint. He says: “I have chosen my way – the cuckoos, the butterflies and the flowers. I am rich because I am happy.” Osho

My effort here is to give you again the feeling of self-trust that is possible only through meditation.

Meditation can help you get rid of all conditionings. It is a process of dehypnotisation. Once you are dehypnotised you wake up for the first time; then suddenly you know that you are immensely valuable, as everybody else is. It is not ego, because you feel the same respect for others.You are not higher than others; suddenly you have known that everyone is esteemed by the universe itself. Osho

Meditation has been described as an understanding.

Now is a time to use the understanding of the mind to let go of mind and dissolve.

My effort here is to make meditation a natural phenomenon. Give to the body what is the body’s need, and give to the mind what is the mind’s need. And then they become very friendly.

If you have not been repressing, if you have honored the mind, respected the mind, if you have not condemned it, then the mind will become silent. Create a friendliness. Take care of your mind and the mind will be helpful. Create friendship, and meditation comes easily. Osho

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