A Cup of Tea (155) Love. Things go on changing without. You must mirror them, you must reflect them, but remember always that the mirror remains the same. Mirroring does not change the mirror. Do not be identified with mirroring. Remember yourself as the mirror – that is what is …...Read More

Rashid shows a selection of paintings which will be exhibited at the Gallery Different in London (Drawn In, 2-5 October 2024). Foreword to the catalogue by Paula Marvelly ‘Painting is not an obsessive pursuit,’ I would tell my students. ‘Good work comes from deep relaxation.’ Now my words come back …...Read More

An elderly man hobbles into a brothel… …and tells the madam he would like a young girl for the night. Surprised, she looks at the ancient man and asks how old he is. ‘I’m 90 years old,’ he says. ’90?’ replies the woman. ‘Don’t you realize you’ve had it?’ ‘Oh, …...Read More

Ageh Bharti meets by chance an old fellow-student with whom he’d taken photos of Osho in the Jabalpur days Maybe you remember the story I told in my book, Blessed Days with Osho, (which story was also reproduced in Osho News under the title, Child-like simplicity), where I recall how …...Read More

(26 January 1952 – 16 August 2024) Bodhi Rainer Pollet by Sushma “What is more important: love or the movie in your head?” he used to ask me. He always chose the former. Bodhi Satto (Rainer Pollet) left his body on Friday, 16 August 2024. He was a lover of …...Read More

Avikal’s article subtitled, About Liberation and Fulfillment Who am I? Perhaps no other question sits deeper in the unconscious of a human being than this one. We do not recognize its presence. We subconsciously avoid acknowledging it. We even forget it exists. And yet, it sits there, its presence, unavoidable. …...Read More

A handwritten dedication by Osho to Jayshree Gokhani from Dwarka, Gujarat, on the opening page of his book Satya Ka Sagar, Shunya Ki Naav (सत्य का सागर, शून्य की नाव) What appears is all a dream. Know the one who is witnessing. That is the truth. With love to Jayshree. …...Read More

“God is the ocean you are in, because God is another name for life.” Beloved Osho, “Excuse me,” said the ocean fish, “you are older than I, so can you tell me, where do you find this thing they call the ocean?” “The ocean,” said the older fish, “is the …...Read More

Five Germans in an Audi Quattro arrive at the Italian border. The Italian customs agent stops them and tells them : “It’sa illegala to putta 5 people in a Quattro.” “Vot do you mean it’z illegal?” asks the German driver. “Quattro meansa four,” replies the Italian official. “Qvattro is just …...Read More

– 7 September 2024 In the 70’s, Prabhu was one of the first western sadhus we had come across in Goa and at the ashram in Pune. He was originally from what was then Yugoslavia (a Communist country), to which he couldn’t return without getting thrown into jail, possibly because …...Read More