Is Outer Beauty Just a Reflection of Your Inner?

Osho, What is the criterion of beauty, and is the appearance of outer beauty always just a reflection of the inner? “The outer beauty comes from a different source than the inner. The outer beauty comes from your father and mother: their bodies create your body. But the inner beauty …...Read More

Book theft stories, or My bosom hides a thief

Dhyan Tarpan plunges into the world of books It is said that bookshops in Iraq leave their books out all night because, according to them, ‘readers do not steal and thieves do not read.’ Is it really so? Such a saying must have emerged out of a general ‘sacred feeling’ …...Read More

Meditation is an individual revolution

“It is an appeal to the individual soul: You take responsibility in your own hands. Don’t be contented, because there is so much more potential in you.” Beloved Osho, Waduda and I are leading a group called “meditation in the marketplace” which includes teaching people how their minds create their …...Read More

Rashmi Bharti awarded Jamnalal Bajaj Award 2024

Co-founder of Avani from Uttarakhand, recipient of the award for ‘Application of Science and Technology for Rural Development’, announced in Free Press Journal, 14 November 2024 Jamnalal Bajaj Awards 2024: 4 Social Workers Honored For Contributions To Education, Health, Women’s Welfare, And Gandhian Values * Mumbai: The 46th Jamnalal Bajaj …...Read More

Osho Music & Meditation Festival in Jabalpur

8-15 December 2024 at the Osho Home Ashram, includes Osho Tantra-Prana meditation retreat with Keerti and excursions to natural wonders like the marble rocks. Updated with article in The Pioneer, December 5, 2024 A celebration of our Master’s birthday with a live in concert with Hariprasad Chaurasia, tabla maestro Ojas …...Read More

From Prison to Pune, or The Leaving of Liverpool

An event that catapulted Christo to the feet of the Master In 1972 Toxteth, with its bomb-damaged streets and struggling immigrant population, was an area I knew well. Since taking up my job at Walton Jail, Toxteth had become my home, as well as the area from which most of …...Read More

Prashanta

(22 October 1949 – 24 October 2024) Our beloved Anand Prashanta (David Leek) left his body 2 days after his 75th birthday, after a 10-year journey with Alzheimer’s. Prashanta took sannyas in 1978 and spent time in Poona 1 and on the Ranch. In 1985 he helped Anuradha close down …...Read More

Professors in a plane

A group of professors of Engineering were called on a mission and were sitting in a plane, ready for departure. When the doors closed and the plane was about to take off, the professors were informed that the plane they were sitting in was built by their students. All professors …...Read More

Wadud’s special: a bioenergetic exercise for groups

Madhuri remembers an exercise from the School of Mysticism I’m pretty sure we did this in the Osho Mystic Ring training, in the School of Mysticism. So I’ve only done it once, but it was a doozy! It’s a bit like Wadud’s Past Life accessing technique, but in that one …...Read More

The End of Belief and Our Habitually Closed System of Thinking

We live on an amazing speck of rock about four and a half billion years old in a vast universe about ten billion years older. Despite or because of some amazing chance events and near catastrophes, it has taken most of that time for us to emerge as an extraordinary …...Read More