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Osho
Rajneesh Chandra Mohan Jain (December 11, 1931 - January 19, 1990), better known during the 1970s as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and later as Osho was an Indian spiritual teacher. He lived in India and in other countries including, for a period the United States. The Sanskrit word Bhagwan means "Blessed one" (historically, it is used to refer to a Hindu god, such as Bhagwan Ram or Bhagwan Krishna or to a spiritually awakened being in Mahayana Buddhism). It is also used to denote individuals who possess a great wealth of spiritual knowledge. 'Osho' is an ancient Japanese term that is used to address a spiritual master in certain Zen traditions. The name "Osho" in this context means "The Friend". It fit how Rajneesh wanted to be known by his followers and lovers. Osho has been described by the Sunday Times of London as one of the "1000 Makers of the 20th Century" and by American novelist Tom Robbins as "the most dangerous man since Jesus Christ." More than a decade after his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to grow, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world. |
YT: Osho: Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy
"Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes: you cannot see the truth. The very desire to find the truth disappears. But if all your belief systems are taken away from you, in the beginning certainly, it is bitter. I know the fear, the anxiety, that will surface immediately which you have been suppressing for millenia. But it is there, very alive, no God can destroy it. Only the search for truth and the experience of truth, NOT a belief is capable to heal all your wounds. To make you a whole being, and the whole person is the holy person to me."
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"Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear."
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"I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life."
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"When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be."
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"Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny - he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered,
some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally - you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you.
The whole intends to do something through you."
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"Mind is very serious, and meditation is absolutely nonserious. When I say this you may be bewildered, because people go on talking about meditation very seriously. But meditation is not a serious thing. It is just like play. Nonserious. Sincere, but nonserious. It is not something like work; it is more like play. Play is not an activity. Even when it is active, it is not an activity. Play is just pleasure. The activity is not going anywhere; it is not motivated. Rather, it is just pure, flowing energy. But it is difficult, because we are so involved in activity. We have always been so active that activity has become a deep-rooted obsession. Even while asleep we are active. Even when we are thinking about relaxing we are active. We even make relaxation an activity; we make an effort to relax. This is absurd! But it happens because of the robotlike habits of the mind.
So what to do? Only nonactivity leads you to your inner center, but the mind cannot conceive of how to be nonactive. So what to do?"
link: Osho's Dynamic/Chaotic Meditation
(fair warning: this is a liberating circuit 6 meditation, which includes catharsis - each stage lasts 10 minutes)
(From The New Alchemy: To turn you on)
Links
Osho Meditations
Osho Quotes: Hilarious & Enlightening
Osho Streaming videos
You may have heard about the many controversies about Osho, I'm definitely not one to defend his ways. I just found what he teached useful & I like his sense of humour ;). About the Rolls Royce situation, which I find hilarious btw, Robert Anton Wilson had this to say: Suddenly Osho found himself with a bunch of disciples, and what do you with those? "A disciple is just an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to." :p What that means is any disciple willing to buy Osho a car had it coming, as they were not busy with their own spiritual development but with foolishness, and the zen way is to make the fool persist in his folly :p.