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.
LATEST ARTICLES
The Inner Is as Real as the Outer
9 min read Could you say something about silence and celebration and life? In the west, celebration is associated with the American idea of having a good time which is synonymous with noise, loud music, watching movies, smoking, sex, and release of energy as such, while silence and serenity are automatically associated with boredom and excessive accumulation of energy which results in tension...
East and West: The Inner vs the Outer
8 min read Osho, Could you say something about silence and celebration of life? In the West, celebration is associated with the American idea of having a good time which is synonymous with noise, loud music, watching movies, smoking, sex, and release of energy as such, while silence and serenity are automatically associated with boredom and excessive accumulation of energy which results in...
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Your Brain Is Not for Thinking
5 min read “Your Brain Is Not for Thinking” is described as “a surprising lesson from neuroscience” in an article in the New York...
Will Meditation Help Me to Be Happy?
4 min read “Many people come to me and they say they are unhappy, and they want me to give them some meditation....
Why Don’t I Want to Be Alone?
2 min read In a world getting busier by the minute it can be very appealing to get away from it all, to...
Why Does Poverty Exist?
2 min read “The Catholic idea is relief for the poor. The idea of the buddha will be: there is no need for any poverty in the world. Poverty is man-created, and it is in our hands to destroy poverty." Osho
Why Are We so Idiotic?
4 min read "Almost ninety percent of idiots are trained. Ten percent are born. And the ten percent are born because of those ninety percent who have been trained." Osho
Why Are Men so Afraid of Women?
5 min read “Man’s function in reproduction is almost nil. This inferiority has created the greatest problem – man started cutting the woman’s wings.
OSHO INSIGHTS
You’re Not Whole, Yet
2 min read Man Has Been Taught Never to Cry, Never Weep – Because Tears Are Feminine “Man has been taught to be...
You Cannot Breathe Tomorrow
3 min read Decision Is Good When It Comes out of Life in the Moment It is bad when it comes only out...
You Are Emotional – and It’s Natural
3 min read Many changes in the last year that I’ve been away, very many. A lot of anger has come up. I’m...
Wu Wei: Action of Non-Doing
2 min read Doing Nothing Is Allowing Something to Happen through You “Action is not creativity, inaction also is not creativity. Creativity is...
Witnessing Is the Art of Transcending the World
5 min read Osho, It feels that to be a witness is also a kind of thought. So what is the difference between...
Without Meditation the World Is Hell
3 min read Turn Inside – Find Your Inner Treasure For those who have looked inside and found their inner treasure, life becomes...
SEX GURU
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...
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...
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.
Meditation – a Deep Sexual Orgasm
3 min read “In deep meditation, a sexual orgasm happens – not with someone outside you, but with your own polar opposite within…...
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
A Workout for Your Consciousness
3 min read “A COURSE IN MEDITATION”— 21 simple chapters so you can learn how to meditate and integrate meditation into your daily...
Open Your Life to Unlimited Ecstasy
3 min read Be more sensitive. And you cannot be sensitive in one dimension. Either one is sensitive in all dimensions or one...
Make Contact with Your Body It Is the Door Towards the Divine
2 min read Being in contact with the body means a deep sensitivity… “You may not even feel your body – it happens...
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...
Melt into the Oceanic Energy of the Other
2 min read “Go to the sea, there are millions of waves. You never see the sea, you always see the waves, because...
Move from the Head to the Heart
2 min read It is not thinking about the wine that can make you intoxicated, it is the wine. You can go on...
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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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."
It's the conditioning that kills. A child using weapons as result of his conditioning.
It’s the Conditioning That Kills, Stupid!
7 min read It is so clear that if we have been conditioned to fight against ourselves, to be at war with our own nature. Unless this changes, we are bound to live in conflict with ourselves, with others, and with the natural world around us.
Media
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.
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...
The Award Winning Documentary “Wild Wild Country” was at the Center of a Copyright Infringement Case filed in Federal Court in Los Angeles, California.
Osho International Foundation Copyright Infringement Case with Netflix Resolved
11 min read The Award Winning Documentary ‘Wild Wild Country’ was at the Center of a Copyright Infringement Case filed in Federal Court in Los Angeles, CA. The matter has been resolved, OIF’s attorneys dismissed the case. All six episodes include now updated credits.
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.
Full Multilingual Transcription Of AAJA’s Questions and Osho Press Office’s Answers Regarding Tapoban
13 min read The following press release is an excerpt from an article that was originally published by the Nepal AAJA Foundation in Kathmandu and answers to the subsequent questions that were sent by AAJA to the Osho International meditation resort Press Office.
Transcription of Anshu Gurung Interview with Aaja Containing Harassment Allegations against Swami Anand Arun
15 min read On Oct 22, 2018, the Nepal office of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) published a video containing allegations of sexual harassment made by former Osho Tapoban attendee Anshu Gurung against Swami Anand Arun.
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