Short reviews by Madhuri of books by authors: Burton Silver and Heather Busch, Pico Iyer, Celia Imrie, Joseph Wambaugh, Marina Chapman, Bernie Chowdhury, Joe Tusker The Last Dive A Father and Son’s Fatal Descent into the Ocean’s Depths by Bernie Chowdhury A fascinating book about cave-diving and wreck-diving, and the …...Read More

“When we experience our lives through this lens of personal insufficiency, we are imprisoned in what I call the trance of unworthiness. Trapped in this trance, we are unable to perceive the truth of who we really are.” ~Tara Brach Breaking free from the trance of unworthiness is a key …...Read More

Divakar (Marc Itzler) writes, “Society has become more sensitive and more discerning. We now ask more of ourselves. We demand a higher standard of self-awareness, of values, of behaviour.” The air is thick with it. A choking, cloying, cloud of guilt. A dense fog of shame and self-doubt. Men are …...Read More

Answers given by 2nd-grade school children to the following questions Why did God make mothers? She’s the only one who knows where the scotch tape is. Mostly to clean the house. To help us out of there when we were getting born. How did God make mothers? He used dirt, …...Read More

Paintings by Nataraj (Angelo Saka) Why did I start this project, why was it so important for me, so that I even painted over older paintings? I left home at a very young age. I was only 14 when I left our village to pursue my studies in the capital, …...Read More

Osho, What do you have to say about the law of karma? “I have very little to say about it – but it will still take two and a half hours! “The law of karma, in the first place, is not a law. That word gives it an aroma as …...Read More

In this excerpt, Osho talks on a line from Mabel Collins’ work, Light on the Path Store in your memory the melody you hear. There are moments, rare, unique, but still there are moments when you come nearer to the melody of existence. Situations may be different, but the melody …...Read More

A story from Arjava’s memoir, Still… Here and Now: Growing Wings in Osho’s Garden I love India and Indians. Place me on an Indian train, in an airport or supermarket and I swear I will make friends with someone within minutes. Perhaps I am one quarter German, one quarter Indian, …...Read More

By Dr. Archan Mehta Viv: Man, happy birthday, But I can’t believe you are Past 70 now and presumably A shadow of your former self. Viv: Man, you will never Know what your swagger Meant to this tiny boy Growing up in a crude, Rustic, feudal village, Which claimed to …...Read More

“Ever tried, ever failed, no matter. Try again, fail again, fail better.” ~Samuel Beckett I felt an enormous sense of relief when I discovered that he was a total mess! I’m talking about one of the most revered Buddhist monks of our time. I learned this from a short autobiography, …...Read More