Save Osho's Legacy, India

12/12/2023

"It is not only with you, but with everybody exactly the same. You are what you are seeking. You are standing at exactly the place towards which you have been traveling - for seven years, seventy years or seven hundred years. You reality is within you; it is not somewhere else. But to understand the point, sometimes it takes years. You knock on many doors before you come to your own door, and then you are puzzled, because this is the house you had left and this the house you have been searching for"

- Osho, You are what you are seeking, Beyond Enlightenment.

11/12/2023

Friends,

Osho Basho will NOT be sold.

It has been a magical few days for all the Sannyasins across the world. The Hon'ble Jt Charity Commissioner has rejected the sale application and has also called for a special audit into the accounts of Osho International Foundation Trust.

The deliberate financial mismanagement by the Trustees cannot remain veiled for long.

We are grateful to the Hon’ble courts for taking cognizance of the devotees and disciples of Osho, who have been raising their voice against this sale and against their several wrongdoings.

Died #

03/07/2023

Let's Celebrate & Meditate this Guru Purnima. Love to all ❤

23/06/2023

Anything that one can be sad about is a life unlived.
You go on dragging yourself without living–that is unfortunate. You are vegetating; you are not singing the songs that you have come to sing, you are not dancing the dance that is lying in your potential, fast asleep; you are not bringing your intelligence to its peak.

You will be surprised that even our so-called great geniuses only use fifteen percent of their intelligence. Eighty five percent of their intelligence remains unused. And this is about our great geniuses–talented people use near about ten percent, and the common masses use not more than seven percent. One wonders, if people were using their intelligence to its full, the world would be a totally different place–far more alive, far more rich, far more beautiful.

The only thing that one should be sad about is that you are not living, but just passing time. Death is not something to be sad about–if it comes to a fulfilled life, if it comes to a life a crescendo, its climax, it has a beauty of its own.

I want my people to live totally, and to live intensely, to burn their life’s torch from both ends together. If they can manage to live a total and intense life in each of their acts, their death will be something of a greater beauty than their life has ever been–because death is the highest peak, the last touches of the painter on the painting.
That’s why I have been saying that death should be celebrated just as life should be celebrated. Both are natural, both are gifts.

Osho, The Razor's Edge
Ch 12: God is also seeking you.

20/06/2023

I say unto you; do not be too much concerned with what I say, but be concerned with what I am.
What I say is only the circumference, what I am is the center.
When a disciple is ready to join with the center of the Master, initiation happens. It is an entry into the house of the Master.
The doors are opened for the disciple to come in because the disciple has opened his heart for the Master to come in. It is on both sides an opening -- availability, vulnerability.
And when both sides are open -- the Master's side is always open, even to those who are not open; it is only a question of the disciple, because he is continually defending, afraid. That's what the whole society has been teaching him: "Be on the defense, otherwise somebody is going to exploit you. Be alert, don't be
gullible. Keep yourself ready; if somebody is trapping you, you can escape."
If this mind is there then you can't go beyond the stage of the student.
To be a disciple you have to be ready -- knowingly, with your eyes open -- to step into the unknown, dropping all fear, because the Master is the most unknown and unknowable thing in existence. It is not his body, it is not his mind. It is his vibe, his presence -- not his person. And to enter into his presence you have
to drop all your defense measures. That is initiation. It may take any formal structure. That is not essential; that is just to make it visible.

You are given a red robe, a mala; they are not essential. They are just to make your initiation visible to others, because if it is visible to others they will remind you. Standing before a mirror you will be reminded; continuously you will be reminded that you are a disciple and you have to behave like a disciple. It is just an
outer protection.

But the real initiation is something inner, something that triggers in your heart... a moment when the Master's heart and your heart beat in the same rhythm.
When there is a moment when your breathing and your Master's breathing are one, when the two-ness is lost, and one-ness is felt -- that feeling of one-ness with the Master is initiation.

Disciplehood is a necessary condition for initiation.
And as your initiation becomes ripe, as it becomes easier, natural, spontaneous, then comes the fourth category: the devotee.

Between the disciple and the devotee is the bridge of initiation. The disciple is on the other shore, the Master is on this shore. But the disciple is ready to cross the river, to risk his life. To him there is nothing more important that to be with the Master. Whether it is a river of water or fire makes no difference, he is
going to pass through it.
That very decision changes him from a student into a disciple. That very decision, and immediately -- the Master may be on the other shore, but he starts pulsating with him -- a synchronicity arises.
He starts feeling as if he is part of him, not separate. Slowly the bridge is built. More and more your defenselessness, without any effort, just becomes natural to you. The day it becomes natural, you have crossed the bridge:
the disciple disappears and the devotee appears.
That is the highest category in the world of seeking.

Osho, From Misery to Enlightenment
Ch: 3: Initiation, when one and one add up to none.

20/06/2023

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04/03/2023

Snap your finger, slap your face and wake up!
A Darshan Diary

02/03/2023

19/02/2023

Beloved Friends,

ACT NOW before it is too late. Let us come together and express our grievance against the proposed sale of a part of Osho Ashram's land, known as Basho. It is time to collectively STOP the Sale of Osho Basho and of any other part of Osho Ashram land.

Requesting you all to
Write letters/Emails to the following:

1. The Honourable Prime Minister of India.
PMO, South Block, Raisina Hills, New Delhi -110011, India
Email: connect@mygov.nic.in

2. The Honourable Chief Minister of Maharashtra,
Chief Minister's Office, Government of Maharashtra, 6th Floor, Dr. Madam Cama Road, Mantralaya, Mumbai 400032, Maharashtra, India
Email: cm@maharashtra.gov.in

3. The Honourable Charity Commissioner, Mumbai,
Office of the Charity Commissioner, Sasmira Insittute Road,
Worli, Mumbai 400020, Maharashtra
Email: cc.mum-mh@gov.in
Joint Charity Commissioner, Mumbai: jtcc.gmr-mh@gov.in

4. The Honourable Governor of Maharashtra,
Raj Bhavan, Walkeshwar Road, Malabar Hill,
Mumbai - 400035, Maharashtra
Email: governor-mh@nic.in

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