14 min read These people like Mother Teresa, who have been helping the poor for centuries, are really the causes for poverty continuing. The poor cannot be helped the way Mother Teresa is helping. This is not help, this is politics.
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Everything Changes – Except the Awareness That Everything Changes
7 min read Mind wants certainty and time is always uncertain. Only the awareness that everything changes can wash away the illusion of permanence.
We Are Living in a Hypocrite Society
3 min read "Once, a great philosopher was asked: 'What do you think of civilization?' The philosopher said, 'It is a good idea, but somebody has to change the idea into a reality. Civilization has not happened yet. It is a dream of the future.'
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Is Democracy Possible without Economic Equality?
3 min read Until there is economic equality, political equality is just talk; equality will be just a plaything in the hands of a few people. Democracy cannot be complete until an atmosphere of economic equality also emerges.
The Ultimate Polarity: Meditation and Love
4 min read "This is the ultimate polarity: meditation means the art of being alone, and love means the art of being together.... In meditation you breathe in, in love you breathe out. And with love and meditation together your breath is complete, entire, is whole."
Become a Dancing Energy
2 min read A sannyasin who is going to the West says: I feel a bit scared of going back. Scared to lose...
Listen to Your Own Heart – Be Yourself, Be Original, Be Unique
2 min read Listen to your own heart and follow it wherever it takes you. Buddha is Buddha, Krishna is Krishna, and you...
Moving into Oneness
10 min read Love Is the Greatest Alchemy “There is only one possibility for sanity to exist in relationships so they don’t turn...
Moving into Intimacy
2 min read Using Our Senses to Move Deeper in Intimacy “All that is beautiful is inner, and the inner means privacy. Have...
OSHO INSIGHTS
Anger Management – Play with Desire
5 min read Don’t take anything seriously...not even yourself. And then you will see anger simply has not happened. There is no possibility of anger. And anger is certainly one of the great leakages of your spiritual energy. If you can manage to be playful about your desires, and still be the same whether you succeed or you fail.
Drop Expectations and Enjoy Life
3 min read "A man who has no expectations cannot be bad. He can only be natural, and whatsoever is natural, is good. To be natural is to be good." Osho
Go beyond Duality Take Responsibility for the Reality You Are Creating… Its All You!
3 min read Positive thinking can be defined as a discipline that trains the mind to change a perceived reality by repeatedly making...
What Now, Adam?
3 min read Liberation for Men Is as Important as Liberation for Women “Man needs a new psychology to understand himself,“ says Osho,...
Change Yourself for a Golden Future
4 min read The man who is himself, unburdened of the past, discontinuous with the past, original, strong as a lion and innocent as a child, he can reach to the stars, or even beyond the stars; his future is golden.
Darkness Heightens Sensation – Senses Without Hierarchy
2 min read “In Darkness, Everything Else Disappears Because You Cannot See. “Only you and the sound are there. That’s why, in all...
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Orgasm Is Freedom and the Root of Meditation
11 min read A man like Gautam Buddha is living every moment of his life in orgasmic joy – it has nothing to do with sex.
Love or Mutual Masturbation!
5 min read “In India, we have pictured Shiva as Ardhanarishwar: half-man, half-woman.” “That is the only symbol of its type all over...
Sex Is Natural, Sexuality Is Not
4 min read Sex Is Beautiful, Sexuality Is Ugly, and the Difference Has to Be Understood. “Sex Is a Natural Phenomenon. Sexuality is...
The Reality Is: There Is No Vaginal Orgasm
4 min read “One of the most significant findings was that women have a capacity of multiple orgasm. A man has the capacity...
MEDITATION 101
What Is Meditation?
< 1 min read “Meditation is a state of no-mind. “Meditation is a state of pure consciousness with no content. Ordinarily, your consciousness is...
Eat and Drink Consciously
< 1 min read “We eat very unconsciously, automatically, robotlike. If the taste is not lived, you are just stuffing. Go slow, and be...
Use This Meditation Technique to Transform Sex into Ecstasy
2 min read Before you move into making love, just sit silently together for fifteen minutes holding each other’s hands crosswise… “Sit in...
Use Your Sadness and Transform It
5 min read Use Awareness to Make Your Sadness Very Very Enriching “You have to work on it. It is easy to escape...
Use This Meditation Technique to Rechanneling Your Sex Energy
2 min read “…Sit straight – on a chair or on the floor – with the spine straight but loose and not tense…...
Four Steps to Awakening: From Misery to Bliss
5 min read "Misery is a state of unconsciousness. We are miserable because we are not aware of what we are doing, of what we are thinking, of what we are feeling."
OSHO VIDEOS
You Can Run but You Can’t Hide
< 1 min read “And the moment you are no more conditioned, you will not ask what is the goal of life. Your whole...
He Was Not a Thief. He Was a Kleptomaniac.
< 1 min read “In my university days, I used to happen to partner with a student who was a kleptomaniac. He was...
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The Mind Is the Real Extremist
6 min read Our human minds are by definition extremist organizations. The only way to save ourselves from our own minds is meditation.
Unpacking Racism – And Throwing Away the Suitcase
12 min read “They would not like everybody to be centered in himself because a man centered in himself cannot be exploited, cannot be enslaved, cannot be humiliated, cannot be forced to grow a cancerous sense of guilt. These are the reasons humanity has not been allowed its growth.”
Society Is One Big Conspiracy Theory
13 min read Every society tells itself fairy tales. About its history, its origins, its great leaders, its glorious past…. Noam Chomsky calls them, “necessary illusions” as he describes them in Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies. Or we can call them “approved conspiracy theories” – or just lies.
Time to Move Over, Old Man
7 min read The main event shaping the human mind on a global and individual level today is the reaction to the slow revolution in who controls the levers of power... Basically, old men, particularly white old men, hold most of the power on the planet.
The Childcare Revolution That Changes Everything
9 min read “Up to seven years, if a child can be left innocent, uncorrupted by the ideas of others, then to distract him from his potential growth becomes impossible…. ” Osho
Democracy — Towards a Democratic Meritocracy
13 min read “We have to find a way… we have to find out why old attempts have failed, and we have to work out new methods, new strategies."
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Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance
2 min read Awareness, says Osho, is the key to being self-directed, centered, and free in every aspect of our lives. In this book, one of the volumes in the popular Insights for a New Way of Living series, Osho teaches how to live life more attentively, mindfully, and meditatively, with love, caring and consciousness.
An Invitation to See Osho
7 min read Osho International Launches a new OSHO TV Channel on Youtube, Exclusive for Members, offering rarely seen or never published content, ongoing series of full-length videos of OSHO Talks with new talks uploaded daily, special collections on various themes and subjects, the first videos in High Definition, with more extras and surprises to come...
General Meeting – Buddha Hall – May 1989
11 min read "We are not just a religious center, religiousness will be our very atmosphere, but we are now going to make a greater expansion."
Sheela and Her Crimes
8 min read In a new Netflix documentary, produced by film director, Karan Johar, “Searching for Sheela”, the producers are happy to whitewash a criminal who continues to spread lies and fake news. The OSHOTIMES offers here excerpts from of a new book, USA v. OSHO: A Legal History of the US Government Persecution of a Minority Religious Community, Oregon 1981-1986 by Philip Niren Toelkes, that highlights Sheela's criminal activities.
Update on Osho International Foundation Aaja Interview Concerning Swami Anand Arun
7 min read In this press release, the Osho Press Office responds to questions regarding Tapoban in Nepal and clarifies that Osho’s message is very simply that of meditation, and that the role Arun is playing has no part in his work.
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Meditation Resort Management Team’s Letter to Maharashtra Governor
5 min read We have been informed that a delegation of Osho disciples have submitted to you what has been described as a memorandum of demands related to activities of OSHO International Foundation, Pune.
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