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.
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God Is the Greatest Lie
13 min read "God is the greatest lie you can ever find, because on that lie thousands of other lies depend. Churches, religious organizations go on multiplying lies upon lies, just to protect one lie."
Anything Based on Belief Is Bogus
12 min read Belief is covering up your ignorance. It never reveals to you the truth; it only gives you certain dogmas, creeds, and you can create an illusion of knowledge through them. But that knowledge is nothing but a delusion. Anything based on belief is bogus.
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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."
Democracy — The Other Fatal Flaws
9 min read “Religion goes on preaching belief and destroys the intelligence of people to question, makes them retarded. And the state goes on exploiting them in every possible way – still managing to keep the people's support..."
Danger: Politicians at Work
Democracy — The Primary Fatal Flaw
12 min read "You are giving so much power to power-hungry people; with your own hands, you are telling them to hang you! This is not democracy. In the name of democracy, these people have been exploiting the masses."
OSHO INSIGHTS
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.
Understanding Loneliness and the Beauty of Aloneness
3 min read Osho, You said the other day that we are born alone, we live alone, and we die alone. Yet it...
Use Times of Crisis to Be Transformed
4 min read Osho, It has been said that in times of great stress – social, economic, religious – that great good is...
Spirituality Includes Everything – Even Politics
2 min read "I look at life in its totality and that total vision is what I call spirituality. Politics is one of the subjects, and so is mathematics, and human rights. Spirituality is not a single category; spirituality means life in its totality." Osho
Understanding the Fear of Death
5 min read “Death is always close by. It is almost like your shadow. You may be aware, you may not be aware, but it follows you from the first moment of your life to the very last moment. Death is a process just as life is a process, and they are almost together, like two wheels of a bullock cart. Life cannot exist without death; nor can death exist without life."
Look as If for the First Time
3 min read We all know what it means to see as if for the first time, but it usually takes something special...
SEX GURU
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...
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...
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...
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 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…...
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...
The Art of Listening
2 min read Listen to What Comes, Don’t Repress “In the twenty-four hours of a day you need to be silent for an...
How to Fall Asleep
2 min read Here’s how to free fall your way to sleep…. Every night sit in a chair and let your head fall...
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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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.
The Coronavirus Meditation
26 min read The reason we are even talking about this new virus, Covid-19, is because none of us wants to die. Or to put it more bluntly, we fear death. Any reminder of our inevitable mortality scares the crap out of us. With the fear comes a kind of blind insanity.
Osho’s Shadow over Covid-19
9 min read Anyone familiar with Osho’s views on what is crippling the contemporary world of humans, and the beliefs they share, will see his early warnings everywhere in this coronavirus pandemic.
A Way to End the Coronavirus Catastrophe
8 min read It is clear that if the world were managed by intelligent people with expertise, instead of the current domination of society by priests and politicians, the outcome of today's COVID 19 pandemic would be very different.
A radical proposal to manage the pandemic more consciously.
Has Anyone Seen Osho?
19 min read Understanding the phenomenon called “Osho” has proved strangely elusive. Perhaps that is inevitable because at root Osho represents the greatest potential paradigm shift in the history of humanity. "Seeing" this is the first step.
Don’t Just Sit There!
21 min read "So I never tell people to begin with just sitting.
"Begin from where beginning is easy, otherwise you will begin to feel many things unnecessarily – things that are not there.
"If you begin with sitting, you will feel much disturbance inside. The more you try to just sit, the more disturbance will be felt; you will become aware only of your insane mind and nothing else. It will create depression, you will feel frustrated. You will not feel blissful; rather, you will begin to feel that you are insane. And sometimes you may really go insane."
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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.
Belief, Doubt, and Fanaticism
< 1 min read In Belief, Doubt, and Fanaticism, Osho brings his unique and often surprising perspective to the religious, political, social and economic...
Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic
< 1 min read “An Indispensable Work for Understanding the Life and Teachings of One of the Most Unusual Mystics and Philosophers of Our...
Enlightenment Is Your Nature
4 min read The Fundamental Difference Between Psychology, Therapy, and Meditation Soon after he first settled in Pune and a community of seekers...
The Colors of Your Life
4 min read “Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular: with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do...
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...
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