"The man who is completely deprogrammed is my revolution. Start with the individual and release his intelligence, don’t give him any program, just make him free."
To Be Authentic Means to Be Totally Factual
How Do I Relate to Others?
The Art of Witnessing – Illness and the Fear of Death
Change Yourself for a Golden Future
Does Evolution Naturally Lead to Freedom?
Stop!
A Web of Interdependence – Cutting through the False Division of Free Will vs Determinism
Be a Hollow Bamboo
The End of History – and All Who Sail in Her
Use Hypnosis to Prevent Disease and Maintain a Healthy Mind
A Revolutionary Approach to Consciousness
Fear as Passive Anger - How fear turns into anger
God Is the Greatest Lie
Hara Centering Meditation
The Benefits of Meditation
Ball and Chain – Society Destroys the Human Spirit
The Origin of OM
Turn Your Anguish into a Witnessing Consciousness
Moving into Oneness
What Now, Adam?
Talking to the Sky
Food Is Sacred
Can Positive Thoughts Bring Enlightenment?
How Do I Find Inner Peace?
Death – the Secret of Life?
Use This Time of Crisis to Be Transformed
To Look Is Not to See
Priests & Politicians – the Mafia of The Soul - 2021
Beyond Right and Wrong
Overwhelmed?
The Death of DJ Avicii
Should Men Be Allowed to Serve in the Military?
Simply Trust!
Finding Buddhahood in a Box of Cornflakes
Living with Anger
The Rebel at the Center of the Cyclone
We Are Living in a Hypocrite Society
Meditation – The Psychology of the Buddhas
Moving into Intimacy
Don’t Just Sit There!
ABC - a Meditator’s Perspective
The Humble Wants to Be on the Side of Truth, the Egotist Wants the Truth to Be on His Side
When Is It Time to Break up a Relationship?
Modern Day Alchemy
Is Meditation Enough?
Why There Is No Progressive Alternative to Fascism
Selfish Contentment
Just Dance on the Wild Side
Faith Is out of Date
Today’s Children Are Tomorrow’s World – So, Keep Your Hands Off!
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The Rebel at the Center of the Cyclone
"Personality is your enemy. It is in the hands of those who are exploiting you, who are destroying you. My work is exactly deprogramming. I simply deprogram you and leave you alone, to yourself"
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AI at a Crossroads – Human Extinction Edition
AI's human extinction scenario is a prisoner's dilemma that can only be solved if super intelligence is modeled on the consciousness of our interconnected humanity
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Use This Time of Crisis to Be Transformed
Use this time of crisis, use this door, this opportunity, and be transformed. That's why my emphasis is on individual revolution.
Feminine Qualities Belong to the Future
"It is the long condemnation of feminine qualities that have gone deep into the blood and the bones of women. It is man’s conspiracy to prove himself superior to women – which he is not." Osho
What Does It Mean to Be Authentic?
"If you have an authentic life you don't need the priest; you are so fulfilled, you are so blissful that no paradise can become in any way an improvement on it."
Why Women Are More Courageous Than Men
Osho says courage comes more from the heart than logic. Love, vulnerability, and emotional openness require deep courage.
The Sickness of Man’s Mind Is Created by the Family
Osho on the family: "It is the basic unit of the old society; unless the family disappears the old society will continue because its basic unit is intact."
Why Is No-Mind So Relevant to Today’s World?
Use the Wisdom of the Body to go from Mind to No-mind. To be in the present is the only way to experience the herenow.
OSHO INSIGHTS
Insomnia Is a Way of Life and Not a Disease
Roughly Fifty Million Americans Suffer From So-Called Insomnia After the common cold and headache, insomnia ranks third in why people...
Cathartic Release Goes Hand-In-Hand with Meditation
Prajakta Mali says meditation helps her manage stress and emotional intensity. Osho explains cathartic meditation helps release suppression and reconnect with deeper awareness.
Can Positive Thoughts Bring Enlightenment?
Osho, do positive thoughts bring happenings too, like wishing for enlightenment? “That is too much to ask from positive thoughts...
Is It You Who Speaks?
Osho says most people lose their inner voice to conditioning. With awareness, you can separate borrowed voices and rediscover your own truth.
Running as a Great Meditative Exercise
When you are running your breathing naturally goes very deep and it starts massaging the Hara – which is in fact the center from where meditative energy is released.
Death – the Secret of Life?
Osho urges us to live with total intensity, where love, life, and death merge into one transformative experience beyond fear and hesitation.
SEX GURU
Sex Is the Very Basic Problem
"Sex is the basic problem. All the habits that man has created are basically sex-oriented. That's why no society allows total sexual freedom."
Sex, Love, and Sleep – Being in the Present Moment?
Man got the idea of samadhi from two things: sex and sleep. because in both these moments, time disappears, time stops, the mind stops.
Orgasm Is Freedom and the Root of Meditation
A man like Gautam Buddha is living every moment of his life in orgasmic joy – it has nothing to do with sex.
The Reality Is: There Is No Vaginal Orgasm
"Just being a scientist does not mean that you have gone beyond your male chauvinistic ideas.They still want to emphasize the fact that for sexual pleasure the woman is dependent on the man."
Meditation – a Deep Sexual Orgasm
Sex and meditation share a deeper orgasmic dissolution where ego disappears. Osho explains this inner merging of opposites as a spiritual union beyond body, fear, and individuality.
Sex Is Natural, Sexuality Is Not
Sex is natural; obsession and repression create sexuality. Accepted simply and consciously, sex can deepen into love.
MEDITATION 101
Eat and Drink Consciously
Eat and drink consciously. Osho says most people consume mechanically. Slow down and become aware so every bite becomes meditation, alive and fully present.
Use This Meditation Technique to Rechanneling Your Sex Energy
This practice releases stored tension, allowing blocked energy to flow naturally, bringing relaxation, vitality, and a deeper experience of sexual energy.
Use This Meditation Technique to Transform Sex into Ecstasy
In The Cypress in the Courtyard, Osho describes love as deep presence, where meditation, touch, and silence dissolve two people into a shared, flowing energy beyond desire.
Use Your Sadness and Transform It
Sit with sadness instead of escaping it. When fully felt with awareness, it dissolves and reveals a deeper silence within you.
The Art of Listening
Listen to What Comes, Don’t Repress “In the twenty-four hours of a day you need to be silent for an...
Four Steps to Awakening: From Misery to Bliss
"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
“And the moment you are no more conditioned, you will not ask what is the goal of life. Your...
He Was Not a Thief. He Was a Kleptomaniac.
“In my university days, I used to happen to partner with a student who was a kleptomaniac. He was...
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Pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, May 1934. Photo credit: Alamy
What’s Wrong with Hannibal Lecter?
What kind of society do we live in that produces Hannibal Lecters and genocidal leaders we elect and then worship? Osho offers us a practical guide to a sane world.
Healing: Osho’s Non-Freudian Primal Therapy and the Return to Original Innocence
Non-Freudian Primal Therapy is the embodied process of undoing the belief the organism learned – somatically and emotionally – that its natural being is wrong.
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Confused about the State of the World?... The Invisible Blindness
The calamity of the modern world is that every nation is run by politicians. We are caught in an almost invisible loop. Everything is framed by the belief systems we accept as truth.
Pain and Trauma – The Medicalization of Sadness
Psychiatry is being used as a political tool of compliance. Depression, anxiety, low self-worth, or existential emptiness are appropriate responses to a genuinely malfunctioning societal structure. The entire system is the real pathology, not the child.
A Fallacious Premise: Born in Sin
"We have not developed a single psychotherapy because we know psychotherapies can’t heal. They may help you to accept your wounds, but they can’t heal."
Consciousness at the Crossroads – AI and the Revival
"What is needed is not the discovery of something new but the remembering of something we have forgotten. In that sense, AI may serve as consciousness's most powerful via negativa."
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When Life Is a Continuous Celebration, Every Day Turns into a Festival!
When life is a continuous celebration, every day turns into a festival. Celebration need not be on preset days only but just a way of life.
Bombay High Court Agrees with Foundation:
The April 25th clarification clearly states that visits to the Osho International Meditation Resort and Osho’s bedroom are only possible “in accordance with the rules, conventions and traditions” of the meditation resort.
Osho “Lovers” Hate Osho’s Guidance
The prime motivation for the protests is that this offers its leaders an opportunity to display their long-standing animosity against the management team. In the past, these same people have invented endless rationalizations to provoke a rent-a-crowd phenomenon.
The Traditional Mind Wants to Turn Osho into a God They Can Worship
For many sannyasins, symbols have become more important than the message. The master is a device, a means for our growth, not a god to be worshiped.
Sheela Silverman in her self-appointed role of “Pope." She invented “a religion” based on her complete misunderstanding of Osho’s insights on the poison of organized religion — and then appointed herself its pope.
Sheela’s Crimes and Deceptions – A Documented Summary
Sheela's documented crimes and deceptions include conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, assassination plots, kidnapping and poisoning.
General Meeting – Buddha Hall – May 1989
"We are not just a religious center, religiousness will be our very atmosphere, but we are now going to make a greater expansion."
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