3 min read "The true freedom certainly comes after choiceless awareness, but after choiceless awareness the freedom is neither dependent on things nor dependent on doing something. The freedom that follows choiceless awareness is the freedom just to be yourself. And you are yourself already, you are born with it; hence it is not dependent on anything else. Nobody can give it to you and nobody can take it from you. A sword can cut your head but it cannot cut your freedom, your being."
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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.
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...
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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.
OSHO INSIGHTS
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...
Accept Yourself – Tension Blocks Totality
5 min read Osho,When I am relaxed, I lose awareness. When I am alert there is a subtle tension. And when I become aware...
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...
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 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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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.
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."
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.
The Urgent Need for a Psychiatrist in the White House
4 min read And the even more urgent need for meditation… Slowly, but only slowly, there is some kind of understanding that perhaps...
Media
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.
Swiss Government Dismisses All Accusations Against Board of Directors of Osho International Foundation
4 min read Complainant Doestch Misled Swiss Authorities For an update to this article, please read: “EU Intellectual Property Office Affirms OSHO Trademark”...
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.
EU Intellectual Property Office Affirms OSHO Trademark
15 min read On appeal from an earlier decision, the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) once again confirmed on 23rd September 2015 the validity of the European Trademark “OSHO,” as well as ownership of the trademark by Osho International Foundation, Switzerland.
The European General Court – a branch of Court of Justice of the European Union – Makes Final Decision on OSHO Trademark and confirms ownership by Osho International Foundation
Europe’s Highest Court Confirms OSHO Trademark/Lovemark!
34 min read In this article we will look at the legal case findings, its implications, and provide background about the necessity of protecting Osho's name, original work, and the OSHO trademark.
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.
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