“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
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. As Osho explains: “All the scriptures of all the religions have given man a strange licentiousness over nature, over animals and birds. That has culminated in destroying many species of animals, birds. It has destroyed millions of trees for no reason."
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. Why are they the “mafia of the soul”? Well first let’s look at the current state of the world they have created on a global level. There...
Imagine if suddenly the astronomers discover a planet, within reaching distance, just like Earth. How excited everyone would be. Let’s say it has oceans and lakes, with a good temperature for humans, has mountains and valleys, with plants and wonderful wild animals like lions and elephants. The only thing missing are humans. Wow! Think of...
Donald Trump offers another speech full of lies and distortions to convince American voters that “crooked Hilary” is a “world-class liar.” Another male chauvinist beating his chest and pumping his fists to persuade a gullible populace, Wilhelm Reich’s “Little Man,” with the usual rhetoric, essentially declaring that I am your man – follow me and...
Our human minds are by definition extremist organizations. A quick check of our own mind will show how the thoughts and emotions swing from one extreme to the other – from “for” to “against” and from “love” to “hate” – on a dime. George W. Bush’s dictum for his crusade against “terror,” that, “You’re either...
