“The politicians have been selling hope for thousands of years, the priests have been selling hope. And it is strange that after such a long time, they are still doing business.” – Osho
7 min read Why is it time for the “Old Man” to move over? Basically, old men, particularly white old men, hold most of the power on the planet. So let’s look at the current state of the world they have created. There is increasing talk that we are in greater danger now than during the cold war....
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."
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, because the people have been trained to believe, not to question."
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."
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.
6 min read In March 2018, Netflix released their docuseries on the story of the creation and destruction of the city of Rajneeshpuram, “Wild Wild Country.” Watched by millions around the world, it has since won the 2018 Emmy award for “Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series.” An untold part of the story is how a small group of...
5 min read Dear Madam President, a book by Hillary Clinton’s former Communications Director, Jennifer Palmieri, was at the top of the Amazon bestseller list. In it Palmieri argues that all the confusion, admiration, hate, love, acceptance, and rejection experienced by the Clinton campaign presents an opportunity to reimagine what it means for women to be in leadership...
3 min read Nelson Mandela, the legendary South African leader, was once asked how he kept himself from hating his tormentors. Mandela answered, “Hating clouds the mind… leaders can’t afford to hate.” I wish more politicians had this wisdom. It was an enigma for everyone close to him how he did not carry any malice or grievance against...
4 min read And the even more urgent need for meditation… Slowly, but only slowly, there is some kind of understanding that perhaps politicians are not the most intelligent people to handle planet Earth and our future, and that perhaps they are a very real danger to our survival. In the U.S. the latest President, Donald Trump, is...
6 min read It’s nearly thirty years since Francis Fukuyama published his landmark essay “The End of History,” and yet here we still are. History has not ended, and liberal democracy has yet to prove itself the “final form of human government.” Here’s an OSHO Times article from that time in which Osho makes a clear statement on...
