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Our senses connect us to the world around us;
they receive information for us. They are also doors

to our inner world, for who is inside receiving the
information? Our senses can be used as wonderful
techniques for meditation.
In this issue we have many opportunities to learn
methods for experiencing the power of our senses:
In Reawaken your Senses, Osho tells us that usually
we seek sensation to feel more alive when we cannot
feel our senses but this kills our senses. He tells us
how we are disconnected from our senses, through
lifetimes of repression. But all is not lostthere are
ways to connect again and become a streaming energy.
How to Love Again gives us simple tantric exercises
for becoming more in touch with our senses, and
Knowing through the Senses gives us three techniques
to experiment with.
Osho tells us that there is a fragrance within, the
fragrance of the atman, the soul. This reminds me of
a story he told once of his childhood. In The Messiah,
he tells us that his father brought a Sufi mystic home,
thinking that perhaps he could help them. As a young
boy, Osho just sat in his room doing nothing all day
and this worried his parents.
The Sufi came and he went around smelling the
walls of the room Oshos father said, My god, I
brought him to bring you to your senses. He seems
to be far gone.
After smelling the walls of the room the Sufi mystic
then went over to Osho and started to smell him.
Now it was too much. Oshos father tells the Sufi that
he had asked him to come because his boy was a little
eccentric and now he is confirming his eccentricities.
The Sufi said, I can smell the room and I can
smell him. It is the smell of silence, the fragrance of
silence.You should feel blessed that you have got such a
son. I had to smell both to see whether this fragrance
belongs to his presence. It belongs to his presence,
this room is full of his presence. Dont disturb him.
Exploring our senses seems to be a journey
without limits, from the gross to the most subtle
the fragrance of silence.
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SHORT N SHARP
If you are feeling stuck, that

simply means that you have
to explore new ways, new
directions, new dimensions;
and they are always there!
The feeling of stuckness is

coming because you still
have ambition left in the
mind. That ambition is
creating the frustration
that nothing is improving
but there is nothing to
be improved! Look at life.
Everything is so delighted,
right this moment. So be
delighted.
If people can dance a little

more, sing a little more, be a
little more crazy, their energy
will be flowing more, and
their problems will by and
by disappear. Dance to
orgasm; let the whole
energy become dance and
suddenly you will see that
the stuck energy in the
head is moving all around,
creating beautiful patterns,
pictures, movement. When
you dance there comes a
moment when you melt and
merge with the cosmos; the
boundaries are mixing.
Help, Im Stuck!
Sometimes it feels like nothing we do works. How can we get on track again?
People are almost dead because they are

stuck.They go on seeking the same thing
again and again. One should be in search
of the new.The very search renews you,
rejuvenates you. Ask for something
more, seek something new, grope for
the unfamiliar and the unknown.
your food, enjoy the woman you love,

enjoy your work, enjoy your sleep, and forget
all about the future.
Enjoy
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Delight in the fact of your being. Enjoy the way you

are and enjoy the world thats available to you.Then
each moment becomes a diamond in itself. For one
month, live in the moment, and even if you feel
stuckness, let it remain there. Nothing is to be done.
All excerpts are from OSHO books
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Are You Available for Love?

Afraid to commit? Waiting for the perfect lover? Living in the past or
dreaming about the future can make it hard for love to find you.
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I want an intimate relationship, but I cant commit myself easily.

I hold back, feeling that maybe it isnt quite right for me. I would
like to go really deep with someone but I am just not able to do it.
Dont wait for the quite right, otherwise it never comes, and
dont wait for a very deep relationship, otherwise it never happens. It

is as if a person just wants to be in the deepest point in the river but
you have to go from the shallow, you have to enter the shallow river
first.You cannot just jump into the deepest; the deepest is far away.
So whatsoever is available, dont miss it! By missing it again and
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again you will miss the deeper points, the deeper
possibilities. And each relationship is a step towards a
higher relationship. That higher relationship may
happen with the same person or with another person.
This relationship will help you to go into that.
Be committed not to
an individual lover, but
to love itself. If you
become committed to a
person rather than to
love, you lose the track
and you kill love. It
doesnt mean that you
have to change partners
all the time just dont
become attached to the
one youre with. Love
can grow deeply with
just one person, but that
depends on many things.
For example, the person may be capable only of a
certain depth. Up to that depth it will be easy to flow
in love with him; beyond that he will not be able to
go with you. Then you have to move with deep
gratitude to this person, because he made even this
much available.
Each love helps small loves, big loves, all help

and life consists of a thousand things. The day you
really fall deeply in love, all your loves of the past will
be involved in it. Even small things: you were passing
along a road and you saw a small boy standing there.
He smiled, you smiled and then you went on and
nothing else happened. That too will be there when
you fall in a deep love that smile will be there
because it is part of you.
Dont wait for the quite right, otherwise it never
comes. Take hold of any opportunity that comes by
and use it. Maybe this person can grow. Your love
may help him to go deeper. Together you may be
able to go very far. Go as far as possible, and remember
that the other person is not the point.When you find
that the relationship has become stuck and stale you
can move; it was not a commitment at all.
The ultimate commitment is towards love, and
everything has to be used as a jumping board for it.
This idea that it is not quite right, or maybe it is not
going to be that deep, is dangerous. The energy that
has been released in you, if it is not used, will become
stuck; sooner or later it will disappear. Energy not
used disappears; energy used grows, becomes bigger
and bigger.
Excerpted from This Is It, Osho
You are the creator of your life. It can have tremendous

meaning, beauty, joy but you will have to create it
in your heart, and you will have to spread it all over the place.
You will have to create something in yourself, only then
will you find it in existence.
Ive seen the movies and Ive read the novels and the poetry.
Now I want to have the experience! How can I find someone who I can
love completely and who will love me the same way?
First one has to learn to accept oneself. And
dont demand perfection in the other. Be human;

dont ask for inhuman perfections. You have been
given very romantic ideas about love, and that has
been the calamity. You are looking for romantic,
poetic ideas. People are not ideas of some dreamer,
poet; people are real people. And you are living on
poetry! You think of the other in such ways that
nobody can fulfill; everybody will fall short.
And just think: you wanted somebody to accept
your love but did you accept somebodys love? No,
you were looking for a perfect lover. But when you
are looking for the perfect lover, remember the other
is also looking for the perfect lover. You both have
been conditioned by the same society, by the same
romantic ideas.
You have been fed on foolish poetry which has no

relationship with reality. In fact, my own experience
is this: that poets are the last people from whom you
can learn about love the last persons.Your so-called
poets have nothing to do with love. They have not
known love themselves; their poetry is simply a
substitute for the love that has been missed by them;
their poetry is their dreams, their poetry is not based
on their experience.
Their poetry is sick, it is pornographic. It triggers
your imagination, it gives you fantasies. And real
people are real people! Nobody is here to fulfill your
fantasies. Drop your fantasies and you will see the
world is full of beautiful people.
And if you want to be accepted, first accept yourself, and then accept somebodys love. Fulfill these
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conditions and you will be accepted. And dont ask
for the impossible.
You must have lived in a very negative mind; this
is the mind of negativity. Be a little more positive. It
depends on you how you look at life; it totally
depends on you. You are the creator of your life. It
can have tremendous meaning, beauty, joy but you
will have to create it in your heart, and you will have
to spread it all over the place.You will have to create
something in yourself, only then will you find it in
existence. Existence echoes you.
Excerpted from Philosophia Perennis, Osho
I love roses, but I am also attracted to other flowers.

Why only roses and why only flowers? Love
should be unaddressed. Love need not be oriented

towards the other. Love oriented towards the other is
not true love; love as relationship is not true love.
Love as a state of being is true love. One can love a
woman, one can love a man, one can love ones
children, one can love ones parents, one can love roses,
one can love other flowers, one can love a thousand

and one things but these are all relationships.
Learn how to be love! So it is not a question of to
whom your love is addressed, it is simply a question
of your being loving. Sitting alone, still love goes on
flowing. Absolutely alone, still, what can you do? Just
as you breathe...you dont breathe for your wife; it is
not a relationship.You dont breathe for your children;
it is not a relationship.You simply breathe! it is life.
Just as breathing is life for the body, love is the life of
the soul one is simply love! And then only does one
know that love is divine.
Jesus says:God is love. I say to you:Love is god.
Then it is not a question of god having many other
qualities. In fact god disappears love itself becomes
god. Love is the real thing. God is the name given by
the theologians to something they know nothing
about. There is no god; the whole existence is made
of the stuff called love.
But if you love the word god, its perfectly okay; you
can call it god. But remember always it is love, and
you will know this love only when love has become
a state of your being, a simple state of your being.
Excerpted from Be Still and Know, Osho
I only feel good when Im in love. Ive had many girlfriends but my latest
girlfriend left me and Im shaken about this.
You have still not learned the mystery of love.
You have not yet become mature about it.You have

very childish notions about it.
The first thing: whenever love is beautiful it is
going to finish soon. Only ugly things have a long
life; beautiful things disappear very soon. The more
alive a thing is, the sooner it disappears.This is one of
the lessons of maturity. If you want a thing to be permanent, to go on forever and ever, then you are not
really searching for love; you are searching for security.
Security is not love. Love is insecurity.You would
like to cling to a woman and you would like a woman
to cling to you. Clinging is not love. Yes, it will be
very secure, and you can depend on it. But that is
what is creating the trouble for you. With me,
nothing is secure.
A mature person cannot promise even about
tomorrow. A mature person can only say, This
moment I am feeling love for you. I am flowing
towards you. But one never knows what will happen
in the next moment. Whatsoever the next moment
brings we will have to accept. You seem to be in
difficulty because of this. You want somebody to
cling to you.That will give a very good food for your
ego a woman clinging to you.
My own understanding is this: if you have enjoyed
love with a woman, really enjoyed, and the love has
been a great fulfillment to you, once the woman is
gone you will fall in love with another woman
immediately because now you know what beauty
love is. Then you will always remain in love. It does
not mean that you will remain in love with one
person but you will remain always in love, because
you know the beauty of it.You will feel grateful to the
woman because she has shown you the beauty of it.
I would like to have a very free milieu for love,
absolute freedom for love. So whenever two persons
are feeling good they are together...but only if it is
there. If it remains forever, good. If it disappears one
day then you owe it to the other to tell the truth
that it has disappeared. Maybe you tell it with tears.
You never wanted to finish it but it has finished. And
you cannot do anything; you are helpless.You have to
move away with no grudge, with no complaint.
It is not love that is creating trouble for you; it is
the ego.You feel hurt.That ego has to be dropped. Be
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in love with love. Women come and go, men come

and go; love remains. Love is eternal.
Excerpted from Only Losers Can Win in This Game, Osho
I keep hoping I will meet someone who will

sweep me off my feet.
Maturity happens when you start living without hope. Hope is childish. You become mature
when you dont project hope into the future. In fact,
you are mature when you dont have any future;
you just live in the moment because that is the
only reality there is. In the past, religion used to
talk about the hereafter. Those were the childish,
immature days of religion. Now religion talks about
herenow; religion has come of age.
When I say drop all hope, I mean be so intense in
the moment that there is no need for the future.
Then there is a turning, a transformation. The very
quality of time changes for you; it becomes eternal.
What can you do with hope? In fact, what can
you hope for? You cannot hope for the new. You
can only hope for the old, that which has happened
before maybe with a little modification here and
there, a little more decorated. But hope is nothing
but the past. You have lived something, you have
experienced something and you hope for it, again
and again. It is a repetition; it is circular. Hope means
simply projecting the past into the future.
You loved a man yesterday, you want to love the
man tomorrow also. And you know that yesterday
was not a fulfillment, hence the hope. Yesterday was
not enough, hence the hope. You missed something
yesterday. Now that missed gap is torturing you; it is
creating agony. You hope that again tomorrow that
man will be available to love you, and tomorrow you
will really love. But between yesterday and tomorrow
is today. If you really want to love, then why not be
herenow, today?
Excerpted from The Beloved, Osho
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MEDITATION OF THE MONTH
Be a Witness, Not a Judge

Our way of perceiving is based on
comparing and judging: this is good and
that is bad; this is right and that is wrong.
Practicing with this Tantric exercise will
help you to see what is real.
The purity of other teachings is an impurity to us. In reality, know nothing as pure or impure.
Tantra says existence is non-dual, it is one,
and all distinctions are man-created all distinctions,

remember. Distinctions as such are man-created.
Good-bad, pure-impure, moral-immoral, virtue-sin
all these concepts are man-created.They are attitudes
of man; they are not real.What is impure and what is
pure? It depends on your interpretation. What is
immoral and what is moral? It depends on your
interpretation.
Tantra says dont divide. Be undivided; only then
will you be victorious. How to be undivided? You
dont condemn, dont say this is good and that is bad.
Just withdraw all conceptions of purity and impurity.
Look at the world, but dont say what it is. Be ignorant, dont be too wise. Dont label; remain silent,
non-condemnatory, non-justifying. If you can remain
silent about the world, by and by this silence will
penetrate within. And if the division is not there outwardly, the division will disappear from the inner
consciousness, because both can exist together.
But this is dangerous for society.That is why Tantra
was suppressed. Nothing is immoral, nothing is moral;
nothing is pure, nothing is impure.Things are as they
are. A real Tantrica will not say that a thief is bad; he
will say that he is a thief; that is all. By using the word
thief there is no condemnation in his mind. Thief is
just a fact, not a condemnation. If someone says that
Here is a man who is a great saint, he will say,
Okay! He is a saint. But there is no evaluation in it.
He will say, Okay! He is a saint and that man is a
thief just like this is a rose and that is not a rose,
this tree is high and that tree is low, night is dark and
day is light.
But this is dangerous. Society cannot exist without
condemning one thing and without appreciating the
other. Society exists on duality. That is why Tantra
was suppressed. It was thought to be anti-social, but
it is not. That very attitude of non-duality is not
anti-society, it is transcendental; it is beyond society.
Try this. Just move in the world without any values,
just with natural facts: someone is this, someone is
that. And then, by and by, you will feel a non-division
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within yourself. Your polarities will be coming

together.Your bad and your good will merge into one,
and you will become one unity.There will be nothing
pure, nothing impure. Know the reality.
Tantra says: What is basic for others is poisonous
for us. For example, there are teachings which are
based on non-violence. They say violence is bad,
non-violence is good. Tantra says that non-violence
is non-violence, violence is violence; nothing is good
and nothing is bad.
There are teachings which are based on celibacy
brahmacharya. They say that brahmacharya is good,
sex is bad. Tantra says sex is sex, brahmacharya is
brahmacharya. One is a brahmacharyi and one is not.
But these are simple facts; no values are attached to
them. Tantra will never say that the celibate is good
and that the one who is into sex is bad. Tantra
accepts things as they are.Why? Just to create a unity
within you.
This is a technique to create a unity within you,
to have a total existence within, undivided, nonconflicting, not opposed. Only then is silence possible.
One who is trying to move to some place against
something can never be at peace. How can he be?
One who is divided within himself, fighting with
himself how can he win? It is impossible. You are
both, so who is going to win? No one is going to
win, and you will be at loss because you will dissipate
your energy in fighting unnecessarily. This is a
technique to create a unity in yourself. Allow valleys
to disappear; dont judge.
If you are non-judging, not taking any moral
standpoint, simply observing facts as they are, not
interpreting them according to yourself, you are
transformed completely. Now there is no need for
you to be judged by any divine power there is no
need! You have become divine yourself; you have
become god yourself. Be a witness, not a judge.
Excerpted from
The Book of Secrets, Osho

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together with all these bodywork sessions,
is a dynamite starter-package.
Every morning, after the six oclock
OSHO Dynamic Meditation, there are a
variety of OSHO morning classes that are
all wellness-oriented. They range from
The OSHO Multiversity features courses, trainings,

sessions, meditations and classes, all based on the
OSHO vision. A worldwide team of outstanding,
experienced facilitators offers a vast array of transformational techniques ranging from traditional Eastern and
Western methods to the newest developments from
all over the world.
Garimo is the coordinator
during the busy winter season.
We asked her how what
the Multiversity has to
offer can contribute to a
persons well-being.
I think wellness and wellbeing have

to do with being whole. Many people
come to the Meditation Resort to clear

things out of the way that hinder their
wellbeing, or to find back parts of themselves that have remained dormant and
unintegrated, and the Multiversity can be
of tremendous help in that.
For some this may be oriented in their
body. So let me talk first about the enormous
variety of OSHO individual bodywork
sessions we have available. These range
from all the Eastern techniques that India
is well-known for, like Ayurvedic massage,
Indian head massage and Yoga, to all the

East Asian bodywork such as Japanese and
Taiwanese massages and Shiatsu. We also
have all the Western body-oriented therapies, from Esalen-style or Swedish-style
massage to the beautiful bodywork that was
developed here, like OSHO Rebalancing
and other deep tissue work.
When people first arrive they often
carry stress from their working life, or
from living in a very fast-paced modern
city. So they want some relaxation. The
combination of OSHO meditations with a
sauna and a wonderful swimming pool,
Yoga to Zen martial arts: things like Tai

Chi and Chi Gong or Zen Archery, where
you learn a martial art as an art to center
yourself on the inside.You find peace, the
stillpoint inside your own body, something
that becomes an anchor so you feel
grounded and well in yourself. There is
also a class called Gurdjieff Movements based
on the movement meditations of George
Gurdjieff done to meditative music. All
these classes are wonderful to learn to
move with the knocks that you get from
life and be at ease inside at the same time.
Then we have a great variety of OSHO
courses.That means a full-day from nine
oclock in the morning until four oclock
in the course room, and includes the
OSHO Dynamic and Kundalini Meditations
and the Evening Meeting plus occasional
night-time sessions as well. The OSHO
meditations are the vital part that make all
the other methods so effective.The courses
range from one day to as long as three
months.We also offer trainings for people
who want to learn OSHO massage or
other kinds of wellness methods.
Multiversity courses and methods approach your issues in many different ways.
If your stress is particularly in the mind, or
if it is easiest for you to de-stress starting
from the mind, we would advise a different
package for you than if you are tense and
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tight in your body or sense a burden on

your heart. In the end, you will feel well
when you feel whole inside yourself.
Thats when youre relaxed, when you can
enjoy your life, when you have tons of
energy to actually live your life totally
your day, your work, everything.
So different people use different methods.
Even what you call traditional therapy is
very much a wellness method. If you find
yourself reacting all the time during your
work day or ask yourself, Why do I
always get so upset with this or that
particular type of person or situation? it
may have something to do with what
happened in your early childhood how
you were brought up or stopped from
being yourself by your teachers or your
parents and so forth.When you do a therapy
that helps you to unburden from that,
bringing awareness to those patterns so
that you can let them go, thats a therapy
and wellness method all in one.
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When a person comes with a sense of not
feeling well but is not clear about the
problem, how can they make the best
choice from all these possibilities?
First of all, when people arrive they attend

a Welcome Morning, where they are
given an overview of everything that is
available in the Meditation Resort. Also,
not everybody comes here because theyre
not feeling well. Many people want more
out of their life, and they are excited to
make new discoveries.
Then, the Multiversity has a one-to-one

personal orientation service for anybody
who would like to use it, free of charge.
Its in the Multiversity Plaza and open
every morning and afternoon. People can
sit down with somebody who can tune in
with them, and who knows our program
very well.
My experience is that its not that
people do not know what is happening
inside them.This is an environment where
they dont need to pretend, where we all
acknowledge that we have some things
that are not working well in our lives. So
the moment they sit down with somebody
who says, Tell me, what is your problem,
your issue, what are the things that you
might want to work out or give attention
to while youre here? they recognize that
little corner inside where they feel, Aha;
heres where I get stuck; this area inside

myself feels a little dead or ill at ease.
If this doesnt happen, its easy enough
to read somebodys energy. Human beings
are not so very different from each other;
what has gone wrong with us has very
much to do with the kind of mold that is
in place in our society. Even though you
immediately recognize that people from
Italy are different than those from China,
Japan or India, the patterns or habits or
things that were stuck with are where our
society did not give us what we needed.
Our problems and their solutions have
basically the same roots; we just need to
come to a point where we can see where
we are limiting ourselves.
Thats where the Multiversity programs
come in to help us. So whether you call it
Primal or Bringing Your Life in Balance or
Deep Tissue Massage, these are all just
different ways. The moment someone
touches your body you might become
aware that there is a tension, and that with
the right touch it relaxes and lets goand
that gives you a feeling of wellbeing.
The touch comes together with your
noticing it thats the alchemical formula
of awareness.
I have a great appreciation for what the

different facilitators contribute and what
they themselves are turned on to.They are
excited about what theyre offering and
want to make it available and I see that
is what works for the people who come
here.We have a wonderful office team and
support team in the Multiversity; it makes
the whole environment work so smoothly.
It is fun, alive and helpful.
What I like very much is the creativity
of my job: its always developing.There are
so many different types of people and
methods, and with all the different time
lengths and packages, I almost have to be
in the moment! Ive always had the feeling
that my job is a form of Martial Arts. In
Aikido, as I understand it, you move with
the energy that comes. If you face it headon its going to clash with you, but if you
learn how to move with the energy and
let it in, you absorb it, help it to move and
let it go again. This is for me very much
what my work is about. The only way to
do everything and not go crazy with so
much input is to be completely out of the
way, respond, let go and move on. It is a
joy to watch myself in the middle of all
that: it is such a happening.
How is it for you to be in a role like this,

to have such a big job and responsibility?
The main thing is I love my work. I really

love this dimension of all these different
methods, courses and trainings. For me
its a very creative environment. Some
people are born painters and musicians
and Im not. I got involved in what was
called the Human Potential Movement out
of my own interest earlier in my life,
before I discovered Osho. Then I also
discovered its limits: Humanistic Psychology is not existentially rooted in the
witnessing consciousness beyond our body,
mind and heart. So I love the type of work
that is being offered here, where in the
context of discovering our pure nature,
the witnessing consciousness, all the wellness methods have a place.
Of course I also get feedback from

the facilitators. I know they mostly love
working with me and I love working with
them. I love it even when my buttons are
pushed or my patterns are triggered. Its
the challenge of letting the work come
first, just letting anything I feel be there
without it interfering in my function or
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the function that I have towards that

person. It is a great opportunity that Ive
had for years now to really let my work
time become a meditation, an awareness
technique. I love to see how it immediately
pays off in the quality of my work and my
experience of working.
At the same time I have to say that its
not natural for me to be so on all the time,
so I have to space it. I am here for the
winter season and the time needed to
help create next winters program.Then I
love to have a period to do something
completely different. I take a few months
to have a much quieter life; I like that too.
When I leave here I will spend a few
months in Germany with my life partner,
cooking, cleaning and shopping. I do take
work with me from OSHO International,
but I can do that in my home office.
Ive learned to look at the balance I need
to create in my life. I think thats different
for all of us. What works for you would
probably not work for me. I appreciate the
OSHO approach to life so much for that;
it has really helped me to see that there is
nobody else in the world like me. So it is
my responsibility to have the intelligence
to create a life that suits this particular
person thats how the best will come out
of me also. I am so grateful for this environment to have shown me that.
Marga, Anuprada
Please see pages 65-67 of this issue as well as
osho.com/multiversity for more detailed
information about OSHO Multiversity Courses,
Trainings and Sessions.
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Osho on
Not Knowing
Transcending both knowledge and ignorance.
Zen says: if you can drop philosophizing, there

is a hope for you. The moment you drop philoso-
phizing you become innocent like a child. But

remember; the Zen emphasis on not knowing does
not mean that it emphasizes ignorance. Not knowing
is not ignorance; not knowing is a state of innocence.
There is neither knowledge nor ignorance; both have
been transcended.
An ignorant man is one who ignores; thats how
the word comes. The root is ignoring. The ignorant
person is one who goes on ignoring something
essential. In that way the knowledgeable person is the
most ignorant person, because he knows about heaven
and hell and he knows nothing about himself. He
knows about god, but he knows nothing about who
he is, what this consciousness inside is. He is ignorant
because he is ignoring the most fundamental thing in
life: he is ignoring himself. He is keeping himself
occupied with the non-essential. He is ignorant full
of knowledge, yet utterly ignorant.
Not knowing simply means a state of no-mind.
Mind can be knowledgeable, mind can be ignorant.
If you have little information you will be thought
ignorant; if you have more information you will
be thought knowledgeable. Between ignorance and
knowledge the difference is that of quantity, of degrees.
The ignorant person is less knowledgeable, thats all;
the very knowledgeable person may appear to the
world as less ignorant, but they are not different, their
qualities are not different.
Zen emphasizes the state of not knowing. Not
knowing means one is neither ignorant nor knowledgeable. One is not knowledgeable because one is
not interested in mere information, and one is not
ignorant because one is not ignoring one is not
ignoring the most essential quest. One is not ignoring
ones own being, ones own consciousness.
Not knowing has a beauty of its own, a purity. It is
just like a pure mirror, a lake utterly silent, reflecting
the stars and the trees on the bank. The state of not
knowing is the highest point in mans evolution.
Knowledge is introduced to the mind after physical
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birth. Knowing is always present, like the heart

knowing how to beat or a seed knowing how to
sprout, or a flower knowing how to grow, or a fish
knowing how to swim. And it is quite different from
knowing about things. So please make a distinction
between knowledge and knowing.
The state of not knowing is really the state of
knowing because when all knowledge and all
ignorance have disappeared you can reflect existence
as it is. Knowledge is acquired after your birth, but
knowing comes with you. And the more knowledge
you acquire, the more and more knowing starts
disappearing because it becomes covered with
knowledge. Knowledge is exactly like dust and
knowing is like a mirror.
The heart of knowing is now. Knowledge is
always of the past. Knowledge means memory.
Knowledge means you have known something, you
have experienced something, and you have accumulated your experience. Knowing is of the present. And
how can you be in the present if you are clinging too
much to knowledge? That is impossible; you will
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have to drop clinging to knowledge. And knowledge

is acquired: knowing is your nature. Knowing is
always now the heart of knowing is now. And the
heart of now...?
The word now is beautiful. The heart of it is the
letter o which is also a symbol for zero. The heart of
now is zero, nothingness.When the mind is no more,
when you are just a nothingness, just a zero Buddha
calls it exactly that, shunya, the zero then everything
that surrounds you, all that is within and without is
known but known not as knowledge, known in a
totally different way. The same way that the flower
knows how to open, and the fish knows how to
swim, and the child knows in the mothers womb
how to grow, and you know how to breathe even
while asleep, even in a coma, you go on breathing
and the heart knows how to beat. This is a
totally different kind of knowing, so intrinsic, so
internal. It is not acquired, it is natural.
Excerpted from Ah,This! Osho
See also osho.com/osho
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Cover Story
Living inYour Senses
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We can read about the senses,

discuss them, repress them, argue
about their relevance, whatever.
This months feature on the senses is
full of practical ways you can
enhance your EXPERIENCE of them.
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Living in Your Senses

Your eyes cannot see; you see through them.
Knowing
through the
Senses
Here are three different
techniques that you can practice
to experience the power of
your senses. Cant decide
which one to do? Try one
at a time for three days in a
row, and then continue with
whichever is your favorite.
The seer is hidden behind. The eyes are just the

opening, the windows.You hear through the ears.The
hearer is hidden behind. The ears are just receptive
organs.
I touch you. The hand is not touching you. I am
touching you, through the hand. The hand is just
instrumental. There can be two types of touch
when I really touch you and when I avoid touch. I
can touch your hand and avoid touch. Try this, and
you will have a different, a distant feeling. Put your
hand on someone and withdraw yourself. A dead
hand is there, not you. If the other is sensitive, he will
feel a dead hand. He will feel insulted.You are showing
that you are touching, but you are not touching.
Women are very sensitive about it; you cannot
deceive them.They have a greater sensitivity of touch,
so they know.The husband may have brought flowers
and he may be saying I love you, but his touch will
show that he is not there.Women have an instinctive
feeling when you are with them and when you are
not with them. When you are present in your hand
in your totality, when your center of being has come
to the hand, then the touch has a different quality.
The senses are just
doors, receiving stations,
mediums, instruments,
receptors.You are hidden
behind. While hearing
music, dont forget yourself, dont lose yourself in
the ear. Remember the awareness that is hidden
behind. Be alert!
While seeing someone.... Try this. You can try it
right now, looking at me. What is happening? You
can look at me by the eyes, and when I say by the
eyes, it means you are not aware that you are hidden
behind the eyes.You can look at me through the eyes,
and when I say through the eyes, then you are
standing there behind the eyes, looking through the
eyes, just as someone looks through a window or
specs. Suddenly you will feel a change in the quality.
Your focus changes; eyes become doors.This becomes
a meditation.
When hearing, hear through the ears and remain
aware of your inner center. When touching, touch
through the hand and remember the inner one who
is hidden behind. From any sense you can have a
feeling of the inner center. Every sense goes to the
inner center.This knower is different from the senses.
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Every sense reports to this knower. In this knower, in

the center, everything falls, fits and becomes one.This
is miraculous.
I am one, outside you.Your senses will divide me.
Your ears report if I say something, your nose reports
if there is some odor, your eyes report if I can be seen,
if I am visible. They will divide me into parts. But
somewhere within you, I will become one. Where I
become one within you is your center of being.That
is your awareness, and that awareness will open the
doors for self-knowledge.You cannot know yourself
in any other way.
Remain with the awareness; keep in the awareness;
remain alert. It is difficult in the beginning.We go on
falling asleep, and it seems arduous to look through
the eyes. Not only will you feel a strain; the person
you look at will also feel a strain. If you look at
someone through the eyes, he will feel as if you are
trespassing on him, as if you are doing something
unmannerly. If you look through the eyes, the other
will become aware suddenly that you are not behaving
properly, because your look will become piercing,
your look will go deeper. If it comes from your depth,
it will penetrate to the others depth.
Your senses divide me into parts. Your ears

report if I say something, your nose reports
if there is some odor, your eyes report if I
can be seen. But somewhere within you
in your center of being I become one.
That is why society has built-in a security: dont
look too deeply into anyone unless you are in love. If
you are in love, you can look deeply into the other.
You can penetrate to the very depth because the
other is not afraid. The other can be totally naked,
the other can be vulnerable, the other can be open to
you. But ordinarily, if you are not in love you are not
allowed to see directly, to see penetratingly.
First try it with objects a flower, a tree, the stars
in the night.They will not feel trespassed on and they
will not object. Rather, they will like it and will feel
very good and appreciated. First try with them, then
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with loving persons your wife, your child. Sometimes take your child into your lap and look at him
through the eyes. The child will understand more
than anyone else because he is still uncrippled by
society, still natural. He will feel deep love if you look
through the eyes; he will feel your presence.
Look at your lover or beloved and then, by and by,
as you get the feel of it, you will be able to look at
anyone because then no one will be able to know
that someone has looked so deeply. And once you
have this art of always standing alert behind your
senses, the senses cannot deceive you. Otherwise the
senses deceive you.
If you can look through the senses and remain
alert, by and by the world will appear to you as
illusory, dream-like, and you will be able to penetrate
to the very substance of it.
Excerpted from The Book of Secrets, Osho
There is a fragrance within which we do

not know. Perhaps that is the real fragrance.
But our noses are filled with the fragrance
outside and it does not occur to us that
there is a fragrance within, the fragrance of
the atman, the soul.
You sit with your eyes closed, but what you

see are external things. You see the world out-
side, and not anything that is within you. Close your

ears and the sounds you hear are of the outside
world.You withdraw your attention from the outside
and yet it keeps running outward.
When you close your eyes, pictures appear before
the minds eye because of old habits. If you stop
taking interest in these pictures, you will find that
they will get less and less. They appear because you
call them. No guest comes to the mind unless invited.
Nothing can force itself into the mind; your invitation is necessary.
It is quite possible that you have forgotten your
invitation; or that you have changed your mind
afterwards; or that you have no idea when and how,
in which unconscious moment you extended the
invitation. But the fact remains that whatever comes
to your mind is what you have called. Not a single
happening of the mind takes place for which you are
not responsible.
When you close your eyes and begin to see things,
it is because of your interest in them. Stop being
interested in them. Let the pictures come and watch
them disinterestedly, become passive. Keep looking; it
does not matter, it doesnt hold your attention. In this
way the interest, the appeal, will be lost.The old habit
will continue to produce the film, but you will no
longer be interested.
As your disinterestedness increases, the pictures will
become less and less. You will begin to notice the
intervening gaps. Then suddenly you will find that
your attention is focused on your own self.Your light
falls on you. It is the same light that illumined the
outside world for you. When the outside world no
longer exists, the light of the lamp begins to fall on you.
Close your ears and sit. Outside noises will fall on
your ears.You will hear bits of your past conversation
with your friends; some long forgotten song will come
to your mind and you will actually hear it. Listen to
everything disinterestedly. Do not begin to hum the
tune to yourself even in your mind. Be passive; do
not react to these stimulants. After a few days, the ears
will become silent.There will be no sound. And that
day, for the first time, you will hear the sound of the
silence within.
Each sense can be turned inwards. Take fragrance
for instance.There is a fragrance within which we do
not know. Perhaps that is the real fragrance. But our
noses are filled with the fragrance outside and it does
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not occur to us that there is a fragrance within, the

fragrance of the atman, the soul.
All your senses can be experienced within because
they are a two-way traffic. The senses are joined to
you within and also joined to the world outside. But
we use the senses as one-way traffic.We only take the
news of the outside world from them, not of the
inside world.
Just as we can see the vast skies above, the moon
and the stars, the flowers and trees, and the multitude
of faces which are all an experience of the great
expanse outside, so we can also experience the
profound expanse within. But for this, we have to
transform our attention.The outgoing mind has to be
called back; it has to come back home.
Excerpted from The Way of Tao, Osho
Use the senses as minimally as possible.

If you look, you will find that you are using
them absolutely unnecessarily. Ninety-nine
per cent of their usage can be stopped;
one per cent will be enough. And you will
be surprised, when you use your senses as
minimally as possible they become very sharp.
The whole energy becomes concentrated.
When you dont go on looking at anybody and everybody, then suddenly you
look at a rose flower and your eyes are
clear, without any clouds. Otherwise you
go on seeing so many things that the rose
flower is just one of those things. Your eyes
are dusty, the rose cannot flower for you.
You look at your child but you have a
screen of so many experiences on the eyes,

your eyes are already filled. How can you
see the face of your child? Otherwise you
would have seen the face of the divine
there. How can you see the rose flower?
Otherwise the rose would have disappeared, and you would have seen the
flowering of the divine.
Your eyes will become fresh, clean, very
perceptive if you dont use your senses
unnecessarily. The more you use them the
more your senses are bored, tired. They
lose sharpness, they lose sensitivity; they
become very dull.
Excerpted from
Tao:The Three Treasures, Osho

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The world appears to be gross only
because we cannot feel the subtle.
Look at these trees. You never look, you
never feel the life within the growth!
The tree is just a body. Something else
something invisible is growing in it.
And because of it, the tree grows.
The inner is growing and because of it,
the outer is growing.
ReawakenYour Senses
Overuse, disuse, misuse we have learned so many ways to deaden our
greatest asset. Our senses are the gateway to paradise, but the door is shut.
How can we unlock the door?
We live for sensations, we hanker for sensations.
We go on seeking newer and newer sensations; our

whole life is an effort to obtain new sensations. But
what happens? The more you seek sensations, the less
sensitive you become.
It looks paradoxical. In sensations, sensitivity is lost.
Then you ask for more sensations and the more kills
your sensitivity more. Then you ask for even more,
and finally a moment comes when all your senses
have become dull and dead.
Man has never before been so dull and dead as he
is today. He was more alive before because there were
not so many possibilities to fulfill so many sensations.
But now science, progress, civilization, education have
created so many opportunities to move further and
further into the world of sensation. Ultimately you
turn into a dead person; your sensitivity is lost. Taste
more foods stronger tastes, stronger foods and
your taste will be lost. If you move around the world
and go on seeing more and more beautiful things,
you will become blind; the sensitivity of your eyes
will be lost.
Change your love object every day your girlfriend or boyfriend, your wife or husband and your
sensitivity to love will die. You are moving in a
dangerous terrain.You will never move in depth; you
will only be moving on the surface, the periphery.
The more things you experience, the less your
capacity to experience becomes. In the end, when
everything around you has gone dead, you ask for the
divine, you ask for bliss, you ask for truth. A dead man
cannot experience the divine. To experience the
divine you need total sensitivity; you need aliveness.
The divine means the ever-alive, ever-young,
ever-green. If you want to meet the divine, you will
have to be more alive. How to do it? Dont seek
sensation; seek sensitivity, become more sensitive.
The two are different. If you ask for sensations, you
will ask for things; you will accumulate things. But if

you ask for sensitivity, the whole work has to be done
on your senses.You are not to accumulate things.You
have to deepen your feelings, your heart, your eyes, your
ears, your nose. Every sense should be deepened in such
a way that it becomes capable of feeling the subtle.
We cannot even feel the gross, and we must become
capable of feeling the subtle. The world appears to
be gross only because we cannot feel the subtle. The
invisible is hidden in the visible. Look at
these trees. You look at the gross: the
body of the tree. You never look, you
never feel the life within. The growth!
The tree itself is not growing.The tree is
just a body. Something else something
invisible is growing in it. And because
of it, the tree grows.The inner is growing and because of it, the outer is growing. But you look only at the tree. Only
the outer is seen.
Look around you. Look into your friends eyes.You
only look at the eyes, not at the one who sees through
them. Touch your friends body.You touch only the
gross; you never feel the subtle within. Only the body,
the external, is felt because your senses have become
so dull that they cannot feel the inner, the invisible.
Ask for less sensation and grow in sensitivity.When
you touch, become the touch.When you see, become
the eyes. When you hear, your whole consciousness
must come to the ears. Listening to a song or listening
to the birds, become the ears. Forget everything else
so it is as if you are only the ears. Come to the ears
with your total being. Then your ears will become
more sensitive.
When you are looking at something a flower or
a beautiful face or the stars become the eyes. Forget
everything else, as if the whole rest of your body has
gone out of existence and your consciousness has
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become just eyes.Then your eyes will be able to look

more deeply, and you will become capable of looking
at the invisible also.The invisible can also be seen, but
you need more penetrating eyes to see it.
Think about the world less and about your senses
more.When you dont ask for sensations they become
purified.When you ask for more and more sensations,
you are killing your senses.
Excerpted from The New Alchemy: To Turn You On, Osho
You have senses but you have lost sensitivity.
Your senses are almost dull, dead. They are there, but
energy is not flowing in them; they are not alive limbs
of your being. Something has deadened within you,
has become cold, blocked. It has happened to the
whole of humanity because of thousands of years of
repression. And thousands of years of conditioning
and ideologies which are against the body have
crippled you.
You see but you dont see deeply.You see only the
surface of things. You touch but your touch has no
warmth; nothing flows in and out from your touch.
You hear also. The birds go on singing and you say,
Yes, I am hearing. And you are not wrong you are
hearing but it never reaches to the very core of
your being. It does not go dancing within you; it
doesnt help a flowering, an unfolding within you.
These senses have to be rejuvenated. These senses
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are the only doors and windows through which you
will reach the divine so dont deaden them. Make
them more alive. Let them vibrate, pulsate; let them
flow like a stream.You can experience it. If your hand
is streaming with energy you will feel a tingling
sensation, you will feel something inside the hand
is flowing and wants to make contact, wants to be
connected.
When you love a woman or a man and you take
her hand in your hand, if your , this love is not going
to be of any use. If your hand is not jumping and
throbbing with energy and pouring energy into
your woman or into your man, then this love is
almost dead from the very beginning. Only a
streaming love can become a source of blissfulness, of
joy, of delight. But for that you will need to have
your senses streaming.
Everybody had it as a child.Watch a child running
after a butterfly. He is streaming, as if any moment
he can jump out of his body. Watch a child when
he is looking at a rose flower. See the light that
comes to his eyes. He is streaming. His eyes are almost
dancing on the petals of the flower.This is the way to
be: be riverlike.
People think that if you want to master your senses
you have to make them almost dead. But then what
is the point? You can sit on the corpse. If the body
When you take your beloveds hand,

if your hand is not streaming, throbbing
with energy, this love is not going to be of
any use. Then this love is almost dead
from the very beginning. Only a
streaming love can become a source of
blissfulness, of joy, of delight.
feels too strong, fast; make it weak, and then you start
feeling that you are the master. But you have killed
the body. Dead things will not be of any use.
You have forgotten the subjectivity, the inner
quality of your senses. You see things, but you
never see your seeing. You hear the songs, but you
never hear the subtle vibration that goes on within
you, the sound of your being.
You have kept company with objects so long that
you have forgotten your subjectivity. You have
remained focused outwardly so long that you have
forgotten that you are a person.This long association
with objects has completely destroyed your image of
yourself.You have to come back home.
You have repressed your senses, your body. But you
were helpless. You were brought up in such a way
that nobody allowed your senses freedom. In the
name of love, repression continues. The parents, the
society go on repressing. They teach not to accept
yourself. Everything has to be channelized into
conformity.Your wildness has to be thrown into the
dark part of your soul and a small corner has to be
clean, like a drawing room where you can see people,
meet people, live and forget all about your wilder
being, your real existence.
Your parents are not responsible either, because
they were brought up in the same way. So nobody is
responsible. But once you know it and you dont do
anything, then you become responsible. Now you
know how you have destroyed your senses and you
know also how to revive them. Do something.
Unblock yourself. Start flowing again. Start connecting
again with your being. Start connecting with your
senses again.
You are like a disconnected telephone line. Everything looks perfectly okay, but the line is disconnected.
Your eyes are there, your hands are there, your ears are
there but the line is disconnected. Reconnect it. If it
can be disconnected, it can be reconnected. Others
have disconnected it because they were taught in the
same way, but you can reconnect it.
All my meditations are to give you streaming
energy. Thats why I call them dynamic methods.
Old meditations were just to sit silently, not to do
anything. I give you active methods because when
you are streaming with energy you can sit silently,
but right now first you have to become alive.
Excerpted from
Yoga:The Path of Liberation, Osho
What Are You Looking For?

Cant find what you want? Perhaps youre looking in the wrong direction.
Or starting with the wrong question.
All our senses are extrovert. The eyes open outwards, the hands move, spread outwards, the legs
move into the outside, the ears listen to the outside
noises, sounds. Whatsoever is available to you is all
opening towards the outside; all the five senses move
in an extrovert way. And the seeker is inside.
This dichotomy has to be understood. The seeker
is inside but because the light is outside, the seeker
starts moving in an ambitious way, trying to find
something outside which will be fulfilling.
It is never going to happen. It has never happened.
It cannot happen in the nature of things because
unless you have sought the seeker, all your search is
meaningless. Unless you come to know who you are,
all that you seek is futile.Without knowing the seeker
how can you move in the right dimension, in the
right direction? It is impossible. First things should
be considered first.
Dont go on stumbling in darkness. Focus your
attention on the object.What are you really searching
for? Sometimes you want one thing and you go on
searching for something else, so even if you succeed
you will not be fulfilled. Have you seen people
who have succeeded? Can you find bigger failures
anywhere? You have heard the proverb that nothing
succeeds like success. It is absolutely wrong. I would
like to tell you, nothing fails like success.
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A successful man is always thrown back to himself

in the end. Then he suffers the tortures of hell
because he wasted his whole life. He searched and
searched, he staked everything he had, now he is
successful and his heart is empty and his soul is
meaningless. There is no fragrance in his life, there is
no benediction.
So the first thing is to know exactly what you are
seeking. I insist upon it because the more you focus
your eyes on the object of your search, the more
the object starts disappearing. When your eyes are
absolutely fixed, suddenly there is nothing to seek;
immediately your eyes start turning towards yourself.
When there is no object for search, when all objects
have disappeared, there is emptiness. In that emptiness
you suddenly start looking at yourself. Now there is
nothing to seek, and a longing arises to know this
seeker. The question, Who is this seeker? has
become important to you.
If all seeking has stopped and you have suddenly
become aware that now there is only one thing to
know: Who is this seeker in me? What is this energy
that wants to seek? Who am I? then there is a transformation. You start moving inwards.
Excerpted from The Art of Dying, Osho
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How to Love Again

This article contains many simple exercises to bring your senses
back to life, and your love life too.
Tantra teaches: be loving towards your body,
befriend your body, revere your body, respect your

body, take care of your body it is a gift.Treat it well,
and it will reveal great mysteries to you. All growth
depends on how you are related to your body.
The second thing Tantra speaks about is the senses.
The religions are against the senses. They try to dull
the senses and sensitivity. And the senses are your
windows into reality. So eyes have not to be closed,
eyes have to be opened rightly. Eyes have not to be
destroyed. Ears have not to be destroyed because all
these sounds are divine. These birds are chanting
mantras. These trees are giving sermons in silence.
Tantra teaches that the senses are the doors of

perception.They have been dulled.You have to drop
that dullness, your senses have to be cleansed. Your
senses are like a mirror which has become dull
because so much dust has gathered upon it.The dust
has to be cleansed.
Others say: Dull your senses, kill your taste! Tantra
says: Taste the divine in every taste. Others say: Kill
your capacity to touch. Tantra says: Flow totally into
your touch, because whatsoever you touch is divine.
It is a total reversal of the so-called religions. It is a
radical revolution from the very roots.
Touch, smell, taste, see, hear as totally as possible.
You will have to learn the language because society
has made you forget.
Each child is born with beautiful senses. Watch a
child. When he looks at something, he is completely
absorbed. When he is playing with his toys, he is
utterly absorbed.When he looks, he becomes just the
eyes. Look at the eyes of a child. When he hears, he
becomes just the ears.When he eats something, he is
just there on the tongue. He becomes just the taste.
See a child eating an apple. With what gusto! With
what great energy! With what delight! See a child
running after a butterfly in the garden. He is so
absorbed, in such a tremendous, meditative state
and without any effort. See a child collecting seashells
on the beach as if he were collecting diamonds.
Everything is precious when the senses are alive.
Everything is clear when the senses are alive.
Later on in life the same child will look at reality
as if hidden behind a darkened glass. Much smoke
and dust have gathered on the glass; everything looks
dull and dead.You look at the tree and the tree looks
dull because your eyes are dull. You hear a song, but
there is no appeal in it because your ears are dull.
You can hear the Tantric mystic poetry of a Saraha
and you will not be able to appreciate him, because
your intelligence is dull.
Reclaim your forgotten language. Whenever you
have time, be more in your senses. When you are
eating, dont just eat, try to learn the forgotten
language of taste again. Touch the bread, feel the
texture of it. Feel with open eyes, feel with closed
eyes. While chewing, chew it you are chewing the
divine. Remember it! It will be disrespectful not to
chew well, not to taste well. Let it be a prayer, and
you will start the rising of a new consciousness in
you.You will learn the way of Tantra alchemy.
Touch people more.We have become very touchy
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Touch a tree. Touch a rock. Swim, and

feel the water again as the fish feels it.
Dont miss any opportunity to revive
your senses. There are a thousand and
one opportunities the whole day. There
is no need to have some separate time
for it. The whole day is a training in
sensitivity. Use all the opportunities.
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The Tantra vision is one of the greatest

visions ever dreamed by man. It is a
religion without the priest, a religion without
the temple, a religion without the organization, a religion which does not destroy the
individual but respects individuality tremendously, a religion which trusts in the ordinary
man and woman. And this trust goes very
deep.
Tantra trusts in your body. No other religion trusts in your body. And when religions
dont trust in your body, they create a split
between you and your body. They make you
enemies of your bodies, they start destroying
the wisdom of the body. Tantra trusts in your
body. Tantra trusts in your senses. Tantra
trusts in your energy. Tantra trusts in you,
in toto. Tantra does not deny anything, but
transforms everything. This is the map to
turn you on, and to turn you in, and to turn
you beyond.
The first thing is the body. The body is
your base, it is your ground; it is where you
are grounded. To make you antagonistic
towards the body is to destroy you, to make
you schizophrenic, to make you miserable,
to create hell. You are the body. Of course
you are more than the body, but that more
will follow later on. First you are the body.
The body is your basic truth, so never be
against the body. Whenever you are against
the body, you are going against existence.
Whenever you are disrespectful to your
body you are losing contact with reality,
because your body is your contact. Your body
is your bridge. Your body is your temple.
Tantra teaches reverence for the body, love,
respect for the body, gratitude for the body.
The body is marvelous. It is the greatest of
mysteries.
Excerpted from The Tantra Vision, Osho
about touch. If somebody is talking to you and comes

too close, you start moving backwards. We protect
our territory. We dont touch and we dont allow
others to touch; we dont hold hands, we dont hug.
We dont enjoy each others being.
Go to the tree, touch the tree.Touch the rock. Go
to the river, let the river flow through your hands.
Feel it! Swim, and feel the water again as the fish feels
it. Dont miss any opportunity to revive your senses.
And there are a thousand and one opportunities the
whole day. There is no need to have some separate
time for it. The whole day is a training in sensitivity.
Use all the opportunities.
Sitting under your shower, use the opportunity
feel the touch of the water falling on you. Lie down
on the ground, naked, feel the earth. Lie down on
the beach, feel the sand. Listen to the sounds of the
sand, listen to the sounds of the sea. Use every
opportunity only then will you be able to learn the
language of the senses again. And Tantra can be
understood only when your body is alive and your
senses feel.
Free your senses from habits: habits are one of the
root causes of dullness. Find out new ways of doing
things. Invent new ways of loving. People have fixed
habits. Even while making love they always make it
in the same position. Find new ways of feeling.
Each experience has to be created with great
sensitivity. When you make love to a woman or a
man, make it a great celebration. Each time bring
some new creativity into it. Sometimes have a dance
before you make love. Sometimes pray before you
make love. Sometimes go running in the forest, then
make love. Sometimes go swimming and then make
love.Then each love experience will create more and
more sensitivity in you, and love will never become
dull and boring. Find new ways to explore the other.
Dont get fixed in routines. All routines are anti-life;
routines are in the service of death.
You can always invent there is no limit to
inventions. Sometimes a small changeand you will
be tremendously benefited.You always eat at the table;
sometimes sit on the lawn and eat there. You will
be tremendously surprised; it is a totally different
experience. The smell of the freshly-cut grass, the
birds hopping around and singing, the fresh air, the
sun rays, and the feel of the wet grass underneath.
It cannot be the same experience as when you sit on
a chair and eat at your table. All the ingredients are
different.
Sometimes try eating naked, and you will

be surprised. Just a small change nothing
much, you are sitting naked but you will have
a totally different experience, because something new has been added to it. If you eat with
a spoon and fork, sometimes eat with bare
hands.Your touch will bring some new warmth
to the food. A spoon is a dead thing. When
you eat with a spoon or a fork, you are far
away. That same fear of touching anything
even food cannot be touched. You will miss
the texture, the touch, the feel of it. The food
has as much feel as it has taste.When you eat
with your hands, your touch is contributing. It
will be more tasty. It will be more human,
more natural.
Find out new ways in everything. Tantra
says: if you can go on finding new ways every
day, your life will remain a thrill, an adventure.
You will never be bored.You will always be
curious; you will always be on the verge of
seeking the unknown and the unfamiliar.Your
senses will remain clear, because when you are
always on the verge of seeking, exploring,
finding, searching, you cannot become dull,
you cannot become stupid.
Psychologists say that by the age of seven,
stupidity starts; a child becomes dull, he stops
learning. You will be surprised to know that
the average mental age is twelve years. People
dont grow beyond that, they are stuck there.
Thats why you see so much childishness in
the world. Just insult a person who is sixty
years of age, and within seconds he is just a
twelve-year-old child. And he is behaving
in such a way that you will not be able to
believe that such a grown up person could be
so childish.
People are always ready to fall back. Their mental
age is just skin-deep, hidden behind. Just scratch a
little, and their mental age comes out. Their physical
age is not of much importance. People die childish;
they never grow.
Tantra says: Learn new ways of doing things, and
free yourself of habits as much as possible. And Tantra
says: Dont be imitative, otherwise your senses will
become dull. Dont imitate. Find out ways of doing
things in your own way. Have your signature on
everything that you do.
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Food has as much feel as it has taste.

When you eat with your hands, your
touch is contributing. It will be more tasty.
It will be more human, more natural.
Excerpted from The Tantra Vision, Osho

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Real love happens only when your five senses are in harmony, like
In a Few Words
an orchestra. When you love a woman, you love her sound, you love
her touch, you love her smell, you love the way she walks, you love
the way she looks at you, you love her totality. And this totality can
only be glimpsed through all the senses.
These small messages are reminders of the importance of

using our senses fully.
Ordinarily much energy is dissipated and you are exhausted. When you
simply sit, not doing anything, you become a silent pool of energy, and
the pool goes on becoming bigger and bigger and bigger. It almost
comes to a point where it is overflowing...and then you feel sensuous.
You feel a new sensitivity, sensualness, even sexuality...as if all the senses
have become fresh, younger, alive...as if the dust has fallen from you and
you are being cleansed with the shower.
Enhance your senses. Become more alive in your senses. Let your
sensitivity be total.
To the person who is asleep, the five senses bring only impressions
from the outside. To the person who is awake, these same five senses
start pouring his love, his energy, his compassion, into the world.
You have to learn how to see, and you have to learn how to be, and you
have to learn how to hear, and you have to learn how to touch.You have
to learn how to smell, how to taste. And then you will be surprised
existence comes through all the senses. Be more sensitive less of belief,
less of the head, and more of sensitivity. Be more alive in your senses.
You are so much occupied, your senses are so full of information;

they are not empty and available. Your senses are not very sensitive.
Scientists used to think that our eyes, ears, nose and our other senses
and the mind were nothing but openings to reality, bridges to reality.
Now they say our senses and the mind are not really openings to reality,
but guards against it. Only two percent of reality ever gets to you
through these guards; ninety-eight percent of reality is kept outside.
And the two percent that reaches you has to pass through so many barriers,
it has to conform to so many mind things, that by the time it reaches
you it is no longer itself. Meditation means putting the mind aside so
that it no longer interferes with reality, and you can see things as they are.
If you use your senses for the outer journey, you will reach objects.
If you use your senses for the inner journey, you will reach the subject,
the knower. Through the outer the object, the known. Through the
inner the knower, the subject, the self. But both are just a part.
Reality consists of both.
Use all your senses, use them at their optimum; then you will really live
and your life will be aflame with energy and vitality.
If somebody attains to truth, we say he is a great seer. Why seer?
Truth can be heard, truth can be tasted, truth can be smelled. Why do we
just call him a great seer? Because we are eye-oriented. And this is a very
unbalanced state. Each sense has to be given its total freedom, and all the
senses should merge into one great current of awareness, sensitivity.
There are ear-oriented people who can enjoy sound and singing,
but their eyes are dull. And the same with the other senses. Each
person has devoted his energy to one sense, and that has become
a dominating factor. Particularly eyes have become very important,
and eighty percent of your energy is devoted to the eyes. Other
senses suffer badly because only twenty percent is left for all other
senses. The democracy of your senses is lost.
Senses should remain alive not only that: your senses should fall in a
deep inner rhythm and harmony, they should become an orchestra.
Only then can truth be known. And when your senses are totally alive
and merging into each other, you become a pool of energy. And out of
this wholeness arises the self, the atman, your authentic being.
Buddha says: The first blessing is that you are born as a man,
the second blessing that you are born with six senses.
Now use this opportunity; become more and more sensitive.
There should be a democracy in your being, in your body. All the senses
should be allowed to speak, and you should listen to all.
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TANTRA
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The Way of Acceptance
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move with every energy with
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Tao believes in spontaneity not in cultivating virtues,

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Excerpted from Tao: The Golden Gate, Osho
ZEN
Its History and Teachings

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It has no nonsense around it, no rituals, no chanting, no
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BUDDHA
His Life and Teachings
Buddha simply means one who is awakened. Gautam

Buddha is the most famous awakened person but that
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There have been many buddhas before him and there
have been many buddhas after him and as long as
every human being can become a buddha, new buddhas
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has the potentiality, it is only that you are waiting for the
right time. Some day, tortured by the outside reality, in
despair of having seen everything and found nothing,
you are bound to turn inwards.
Gautam Buddhas personal name was Siddhartha.
Gautama is his family name so his name was Gautama
Siddhartha. Buddha is not his name, it is his awakening.
Excerpted from Bodhidharma: The Greatest Zen Master, Osho
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IMPRESSIONS
Nature Celebrates
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IMPRESSIONS
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IMPRESSIONS
Nature is a celebration.
Look all around.
The world is celebrating.
The world is not sad.
The world is an utterly
beautiful song
and the dance continues.
Become part of this dance
and trust your nature.
Osho
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WORKING LIFE
Lutsia has visibly flowered during her time on the
Residential Program. Her quiet self-assurance has
helped her to do increasingly responsible jobs.
Ive worked in many departments here. Now Im coordinating the Work-as-Meditation office where new
workers are assigned their jobs. When I first arrived
here that would have seemed completely impossible.
Its incredible what has happened for me at the
Meditation Resort!
While working, work

so totally that you
forget the whole
world, so that only
the work remains, not
even you; you are
also gone, forgotten.
So deep down you
are involved in the
work that the work
becomes a great
meditation, a great
transformation.
Vairagyas calm presence has

been part of the Meditation
Resort for some time now. He
takes care of advertising for the
OSHO Times and is also a highly
skilled bodyworker who gives
sessions in the Multiversity. His
work is his passion.
I love my work. I am always discovering new things

about myself. I do two very different things, both
requiring alertness. My job for the OSHO Times
challenges me to be aware that the outer world is as
necessary as the inner one.This is balanced beautifully
by the bodywork, where I need to be sensitive to my
clients and their inner world, as well as my own.
Tell me about your OSHO Times work.
Osho
All my skills are really tested in my job. English is

a difficult language for me, but it has gotten better
because I have to use it to communicate with others.
I am always speaking with people, discussing their
work, listening to them, what they want to do, hearing their job experience in the world. I write emails,
schedule and conduct meetings and even prepare
minutes from those meetings. Because Ive done
many jobs, I have a great deal of personal experience
and have a good overview of what is required. This
gives me an insight into what work might be good
for a newcomer.
Recently Ive learned how to mix the high-energy
dance music that begins the Evening Meeting. Ive
never done anything like that before. Its quite a
challenge to do a sound-check and then to mix a live
band. I can be very self-critical. But its really fulfilling
when I see people dancing with so much joy. I feel
so blessed to be part of all this.
What have you discovered about yourself here?
That the most important thing is to watch, to be

aware. The big difference between working here
compared to outside is not the job itself, but that

the entire Meditation Resort reminds me to watch:
people remind me, the Evening Meeting reminds me,
the courses we do on the Residential Program
remind me.
I have noticed that when I have a problem in the
workaday world, it comes up again and again. Here
when an issue arises, I remember to take some distance
and watch what is happening. Ive let go of many
things. A problem arises, I recognize it, see it for what
it is, take some action and it disappears. Its so simple!
This is the place where I can really change, so that
problems dissolve and never come back.
For me the Meditation Resort is like a school
where I can learn. Once I get the point of something,
once it becomes my experience, it remains with me.
When I go back home I feel I can create my life the
same as it is here. It was not possible for me to discover
this before I came because there were so many things
distracting me. Here everything reminds me to learn,
to watch, to take some action.
I often think about why I am here. There are so
many billions of people in the world and here am I,
experiencing this wonderful gift of being on the
Residential Program. Im very thankfulgrateful to
existence for offering this to me and grateful to
myself that I took this opportunity. I feel very good.
Im really happy.
I contact and liaise with current and potential advertisers. Our readers are interested in a high-quality life,
both inner and outer, and they go for the best. So we
promote only excellent products. Businesses love to
advertise in the magazine because of its extraordinary
content and beautiful design, as well as the diversity
of its unique, global readership.The great response to
the ads speaks for itself.
Readers keep this magazine as a collectors item,
looking at it over and over again.They often put it on
a coffee table, or by their bedside to read before going
to sleep. I cant imagine any other magazine that is
read by so many different nationalities.
The OSHO Times contains a message for the
whole of humanity how to improve all aspects of
our lives and grow in consciousness.
way of taking responsibility for my own

personal growth.
Working here is totally different than
anywhere else.The hierarchy present in the
world doesnt exist. Everyone is a unique
individual and valued for that: there is no
one higher or lower just because they have
been meditating longer or are in charge of
a particular department.
My life is becoming richer and richer all the time.
Im discovering the inner blocks that have been
preventing me from being myself. Many are specific
to the culture I was born into. Because the Meditation
Resort is such an international environment, I can
see and release them easily. It may not be comfortable
when my conditioning clashes with that of someone
from another culture, but it is a priceless opportunity
for growth.
Is there anything else youd like to add?
Recently Ive been noticing my mind come in very

strongly, with judgments and projections. Its becoming
increasingly clear to me that I cannot possibly get a
true picture of a situation unless I put my projections
to one side. Otherwise I am seeing everything
through a filter.
We are all meditating, all looking at ourselves and
seeking to grow. That makes me feel safe and warm.
It inspires and supports me to put my issues on the
table without fear of being condemned. There is no
need to hide here; I can be myself in this oneness.
Devendra, Almasta
And your bodywork?
I do Holistic Massage, Core Integration and Foot

Reflexology, all of which create a rhythm in the body,
mind and heart. These methods find blockages and
remove them on both the physical and psychological
levels. The sessions help people relax and accept
themselves the way they are, and help them go deeper
into meditation.
When I give a session it is always fresh and new,
never routine and mechanical. I may be the tool or
channel for some healing, but this heals me at the
same time. In fact I see myself in every client.
What is your experience of working here?
It truly is Work as Meditation! It enhances my life in

so many ways. In fact, its not really work at all; its a
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Generally seekers set about suppressing thoughts without bothering to

understand the process of how they are born. This can certainly bring
madness, but not liberation. Thoughts are not the problem, the birth of
thoughts is the problem. How they are born is the question. If we can stop
their coming into being, if we can exercise thought birth-control, then the
thoughts that have already been born will disappear in a moment.
How to start meditating
Osho
To be without thoughts is meditation.
When there are no thoughts, it is then

that we come to know the one hidden by
our thoughts. When there are no clouds
the blue sky is revealed. My friends, there
is a sky within you as well. Remove the
cloud of thoughts so that it can be seen,
so that it can be known. This is possible.
When the mind is at rest and there are
no thoughts in it, then in that silence, in
that deep thoughtlessness, in that choiceless state truth is seen.
What can we do to bring this about?
A very simple thing has to be done but
you will find it very difficult because you
have become very complex. Something
that is possible even for a newborn baby
has become impossible for you.You have
to look at the world and at yourself in the
same way as a newborn baby looks. The
baby simply looks and does not think. He
just sees. And just seeing is wonderful.
This is the secret key that can unlock the
gate of truth.
I am seeing you. I am just seeing you.
Do you follow me? I am just seeing you;
I am not thinking. And then an unprecedented calm, a living silence descends
within. Then everything is seen and
everything is heard but nothing within

moves. There is no reaction inside; there
are no thoughts. There is only darshan,
only seeing.
Right-seeing, right-awareness is the
method for meditation. You have to see,
only to see all that is without and all that
is within as well. There are objects without, thoughts within.You have to look at
them without any purpose whatsoever.
There is no purpose, there is only seeing.
You are a witness, an uninvolved witness,
and you are simply seeing.This observing,
this watchfulness, gradually leads you into
peace, into utter emptiness, into thoughtlessness. Try it and find out. As thoughts
dissolve, consciousness awakens and comes
to life. Just casually stop for a while anywhere, anytime. Just look and listen and
be a witness to the world and to yourself.
Dont think, just be a witness and then
see what happens.Then let this witnessing
spread. Let it pervade all your physical
and mental activities. Allow it to be with
you continuously.
If there is witnessing, you will cease to
be and you will see that which you really
are. The I will die and the self will be
attained.
This series of talks comes from Oshos first

meditation camp in Rajasthan. He answers
fundamental questions about what meditation is, and how we can begin and sustain
it in our lives. Osho introduces us to the
world of meditation with precision, thoroughness, humor, and compassion. Here is
someone who not only knows, but also
knows how to convey what he knows. His
genius in full flight, he points us as far as
one can with words toward the inner world
of the self, toward the zone of silence.
You know nothing except thoughts.

Thoughts are your whole world. And he
who lives in thoughts alone is a worldly
man.To know something beyond thoughts
is the beginning of becoming religious.
Osho
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I would have loved not to

be associated in any way
with the word religion. The
whole history of religion simply stinks. It is ugly and
it shows the degradation of man, his inhumanity,
and all that is evil. And this is not about any one
single religion, it is the same story repeated by all the
religions of the world: man exploiting man in the
name of god. I still feel uneasy being associated with
the word religion. But there are a few problems: in life
sometimes one has to choose things that one hates.
In my youth I was known in the university as an
atheist, irreligious, against all moral systems.That was
my stand, and that is still my stand. I have not changed
even an inch; my position is exactly the same. But
being known as an atheist, irreligious, amoral, became
a problem. It was difficult to communicate with people,
almost impossible to bridge any kind of relationship
with people. In my communing with people, those
words atheist, irreligious, amoral functioned like
impenetrable walls. I would have remained so for me
there was no problem but I saw that it was impossible to spread my experience, to share.
The moment people heard that I am an atheist,
irreligious, amoral, they were completely closed.That
I dont believe in any god, that I dont believe in any
heaven and hell was enough for them to withdraw
from me. Even very educated people because I was
a professor in the university, and I was surrounded by
hundreds of professors, research scholars, intelligent,
educated people simply avoided me because they
had no courage to defend what they believed; they
had no argument for themselves.
And I was continually arguing on street corners, in

the university, in the panwallahs shop anywhere that
I could get hold of somebody. I would hammer religion
and try to clean people completely of all this nonsense. But the total result was that I became like an
island; nobody even wanted to talk with me, because
even to say hello to me was dangerous: where would
it lead? Finally I had to change my strategy.
I became aware that, strangely, the people who were
interested in the search for truth had got involved in
religions. Because they thought me irreligious, I
could not commune with them; and they were the
people who would be really interested to know.They
were the people who would be ready to travel with me
to unknown spaces. But they were already involved
in some religion, in some sect, in some philosophy;
and just their thinking of me as irreligious, atheistic,
became a barrier. And those were the people that I
had to seek out.
There were people who were not involved in
religions but they were not seekers at all. They were
just interested in the trivia of life: earning more
money, being a great leader a politician, a prime
minister, a president. Their interests were very mundane. They were no use to me. And they were also
not interested in what I had to offer to them because
it was not their interest at all.
The man who wants to become

the prime minister of the country is
not interested in finding the truth.
If truth and the prime ministership are both presented to him, he will choose the prime ministership.
He will say about truth, There is no hurry. We can
do that the whole of eternity is available but the
opportunity of the prime ministership may or may
not come again. It rarely comes, and only to very,
very rare people, once in a while.Truth is everybodys
nature, so any day we can find that. First let us do that
I hate the word religion. I have always

hated it, but I had to talk about religion.
But what I was talking about under the
cover of religion was not the same as
people understood by religion. Now
this was simply a strategy. I was using
their words god, religion, liberation,
moksha and giving them my meaning.
which is momentary, temporal,

fleeting. This beautiful dream
may not happen again. Reality is
not going anywhere, but this
dream is fleeting.
Their interest was in dreaming,
imagination. They were not my
people, and communication with
them was also impossible because
our interests were diametrically
opposite. I tried hard but these
people were not interested in
religion, not interested in truth,
not interested in anything that is
significant.
The people who were interested were either Christians or Hindus, Mohammedans,
Jainas, Buddhists: they were already following some
ideology, some religion. Then it was obvious to me
that I would have to play the game of being religious;
there was no other way. Only then could I find people
who were authentic seekers.
I hate the word religion. I have always

hated it, but I had to talk about religion. But what I
was talking about under the cover of religion was not
the same as people understood by religion. Now this
was simply a strategy. I was using their words god,
religion, liberation, moksha and I was giving them
my meaning. In this way I could start finding people;
and people started coming to me.
It took a few years for me to change my image in
peoples eyes. But people only listen to words, they
dont understand meanings. People only understand
what you say, they dont understand what is conveyed
unsaid. So I used their own weapons against themselves. I commented on religious books, and gave a
meaning that was totally mine.
I would have said the same thing without commenting it would have been far easier because then
I would have been directly speaking to you. There
was no need to drag in Krishna, Mahavira and Jesus,
and then make them say what they had never said.
But such is the stupidity of humanity, that the same
thing that I had been saying before, and they were
not ready even to hear it.... And now thousands
started gathering around me because I was speaking
on Krishna.
Now, what have I to do with Krishna? What has
he done for me? What relationship have I got with
Jesus? If I had met him while he was alive I would
have said to him, You are a fanatic and you are not
in your senses. I cannot say that the people who want
to crucify you are absolutely wrong, because they
have no other way to deal with you.
So this was the only way.
Excerpted from From Personality to Individuality, Osho
To listen to the complete talk go to
osho.com/audiobook
The
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LoveChange
Change
The Future
Future Belongs
Belongsto
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Those
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This Beautiful
Earth
Any improvement we make upon nature to benefit

ourselves easily disturbs its natural balance.
The very framework of science is to conquer

nature. That is the very terminology of science
conquest of nature.We have to overpower nature and

we have to destroy all mysteries of nature, and we have
to find all the keys of power, wherever it is. But the
very idea takes you away from nature, makes you
antagonistic to it and becomes destructive.The ecology
of the earth has been destroyed by this power seeking.
In the outside, in the inside both the natural
rhythm of life is disturbed.
I have heard:
A very unusual idea occurred one day to Frederick
of Prussia. He was in the country when he saw some
sparrows eating some grains of wheat. He started to
think and reached the conclusion that these small
birds consumed a million pecks of wheat a year in
his kingdom.This cannot be allowed.They have to be
either conquered or destroyed.
Since it was difficult to exterminate them, he
promised a price for each dead sparrow. All Prussians
became hunters and soon there were no more sparrows
in the country. What a great victory.
Frederick of Prussia was very happy. He celebrated
the event as a great conquest over nature. The king
was very happy until the following year when he was
told that caterpillars and locusts had eaten the crops
because without sparrows the whole rhythm of life
was destroyed. Sparrows go on eating caterpillars and
locusts.There being no sparrows, the whole crop was
destroyed by caterpillars. Then it was necessary to
bring in sparrows from abroad. And the king said,
I certainly have made a mistake. Nature knows what
it is doing.
Excerpted from The Discipline of Transcendence, Osho
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OSHO International Meditation Resort is a unique experiment, an opportunity

for individuals to experience a radical approach to meditation and silence.
It is a place for the evolution of Zorba the Buddha someone whose feet
can dance on the ground and whose hands can touch the stars in an environment beyond nations, races and religions. The international language
is laughter and silence. This is a place to be alone together, where each can
learn from the other while respecting everyones unique individuality.
DAILY MEDITATION INTENSIVE

in OSHO AUDITORIUM
6:00
OSHO Dynamic Meditation: Oshos most popular active meditation
8:00
The Art of Listening: an OSHO talk on audiotape

Vipassana: silent sitting, watching the breath
A selected OSHO Meditation
OSHO Nadabrahma Meditation: a meditation using breath and sound
OSHO Kundalini Meditation: another potent active meditation
technique to still the mind
The Evening Meeting of the OSHO White Robe Brotherhood.
This two-hour meditation meeting begins with dancing and
celebration. This is followed by sitting silently, first to music and then
to the sound of Osho speaking a videotaped talk that provides an
opportunity to experience silence with no effort.
10:30
12:00
14:45
16:15
18:45
in OSHO CHUANG TZU

7:30
15:00
Silent sitting
Silent sitting
Silent sitting (sometimes with music)
21:30
A selected OSHO Meditation
13:45
Being Here
for more information visit
osho.com/meditation
Theo grew up on a farm with 600 pigs in northwest

Germany. He studied business administration and
later spent eleven years working as a consultant
for a company in Europe.
So what made this successful businessman drop
everything to go globe trotting by motorcycle?

Pune, India
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OSHO International Meditation Resort is an AIDS-free zone. On your arrival
you will be required to take an AIDS (HIV) test in the resort.
The activities at the OSHO International Meditation Resort are designed

for the benefit of adults; the environment is not geared towards children
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Children of school age are only allowed during their school holidays.
Those under 12 can only come into the Meditation Resort between
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Minors between the ages of 12 and 18 will only be admitted if they are
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growth programs and/or Work as Meditation program).
All visitors under 18 need to be accompanied by a parent at all times.
International visitors need to bring a passport and Nationals should
present a birth or school certificate.
Welcome Morning: Daily

This is an introduction to the Meditation Resort, including a step-by-step
experience of OSHO Active Meditations and Evening Meeting. At this time
you can ask any questions you may have, meet other participants from
around the world, and get information that will assist you in making the
most of your time here. You will also learn more about the process of
personal and cultural conditioning and see how the Multiversity and
the meditations in OSHO Auditorium support you to go beyond those
limitations to a more authentic lifestyle.
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For more information please contact: OSHO International Meditation Resort

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Life as a business consultant means good money,

nice car, nice house, parties, but something was
missing. I did not know where to search for it. I read
about a man who wanted to drive around the
world on a motorbike, and I thought thats a great
space to find my inner answers. So I wrote to him,
we met, I quit my job and we started the trip.
How did you arrive here?
After traveling 27.000 km through 20 countries

in eight and a half months I arrived in India.
These months were full of impressions and after
all this time I needed a place to calm down, to let
all these impressions settle. I met people who told
me about silent places, and they were all talking
about this place. So I came, and I spent a really
good time at the New Years Eve Party before
starting the more quiet part of my visit.
What did you do in the quiet part?
I really enjoyed the quiet sitting meditation.
Also I participated in a hypnosis course, where the

facilitator managed in a beautiful way to bring us
into a trance, and to create a great feeling of being
interconnected with the other course participants.
How did you find the ambience of the Meditation
Resort?
Everything is here that I needed to recover from

the outside world. After biking through Iran,
Pakistan and India as a low budget traveler I was
really longing for the simple things that have a
totally different value if you have missed them for
a long time. Organic and tasty food, salad you can
eat safely, nice rooms, beautiful architecture, and
the impressive pyramid where the Evening Meeting
meditation takes placethen theres the park,
swimming pool, sauna, tennis, internet.
What are you taking away from here?
I am taking a deep relaxation and a lot of energy

to go on with my trip. Many good and practical
ideas about how to create even more happiness in
life. I found some more pieces of myself, pieces I
would have never found in the hassle of traveling
or working. And I found a very good place to
come back to for joy and relaxation!
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H a ppin ess
for Breakfast
Seventy members of the Godowon Foundation

of Korea recently participated in a three-day
Meditation Intensive at the OSHO International
Meditation Resort.
The foundation started in 2001 when the director,
Mr. Godowon, opened a website to write morning
letters to a few friends to encourage them to start
their day with happiness. This has slowly developed
into a daily message about happiness and well-being
which reaches over two million members.
In 2005 after visiting the OSHO Meditation Resort

in Pune, Mr. Godowon took back many ideas to
create a similar place in Korea. He wanted to give his
members an experience of something original in
India. By chance he met Soo Hee Cho, a Korean
dancer who is a frequent visitor to the Meditation
Resort. She helped organize the next visits, first in
2006 with 60 members, and again this year.
He is very impressed with the natural environment
of the Meditation Resort, the way it is set up, and
particularly the OSHO Active Meditation techniques.
He likes the freedom, celebration, and the opportunity
to be non-serious, and is enthusiastic about bringing
meditation into daily life.
The group is educated and financially comfortable,
and its members are very sincere about inner discovery. They stayed at the OSHO Guesthouse and
participated as totally as possible in the Meditation
Intensive. Amazed to feel so relaxed so quickly, they
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saw their bodies changing and their breathing

becoming easier.
Mrs. Heekyoung Park, who works as a government
social worker, said: For ten years I wanted to come
to India to learn meditation, and now I could make
it through the Godowon Foundation. Here I feel I
have found the rope, I just have to pull it. I was most
surprised by the dance meditation in Buddha Grove.
I couldnt believe that people can dance in the
daytime without drinking alcohol!
Mrs. Manjeong Han and Mr. Heemun Park, a
middle-aged couple who are retired school teachers,
have run their own guesthouse since their retirement.
What strikes them about the OSHO
Guesthouse is that the facilities are minimal no TV, no phone, no newspapers.
That makes meditation easy. They are
touched by the natural beauty of the
environment here, as well as the openness of
the people.So many foreigners together,
and everybody is friendly; everybody
meets each other easily.
Ms. Sungeun Kim, a dance therapist,
said OSHO Active Meditations are opening a new door for her.While doing them
she discovered many new dance movements. She felt free because there is no
technique, no rigid form of dancing, and
she found herself going deeper inside.
The Meditation Resort has given Mr.
Godowon a lot of inspiration for his
work. It appears to be his dream come true, and he
wants to share this dream with other people in Korea.
This year he plans to begin to develop his own
meditation center on the 600,000 sq. meters of land
he has available in a beautiful mountainous area in
the countryside outside of Seoul.
The Korean visit was widely covered by the Pune
press. Indian Express published the news together
with a photo of a meditator dancing ecstatically in
their national edition, which serves Mumbai and
Delhi as well.
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WELLNESS
Two meditations to activate your chakras and make you feel like a million dollars!
Jump Start
Your Energy
Search for Your Inner Spring

Basho wrote:
Loathe to let spring go,

Birds cry, and even fishes eyes
Are wet with tears.
Excerpted from Christianity and Zen, Osho
Painting by Tulika
The spring is going away. The birds are crying and

even fishes eyes are wet with tears.What is Basho saying?
Just as spring is so much loved by the trees and the
birds and the fish.... You dont know your inner
spiritual spring. It has not come yet, you have not
invited it. And the outer spring comes and goes,
comes and goes, comes and goes, but the inner spring
only comes and never goes.
It is eternal spring.
Its flowers are flowers of eternity.
Once you are enlightened you are enlightened
forever. There is no way of going back. How much
more splendorous and how much more miraculous
will be the inner spring! Even the outer is so great; the
inner is not only quantitatively great, it is qualitatively
great too.
The search for truth is the search for the inner spring.
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WELLNESS
Can you tell us about the second stage of the meditation: sitting in silence?
Chakra Breathing Meditation works with the fiery

power of the breath. Breathing vigorously into each
chakra cleanses and energizes them, and makes
them come alive. We asked Premin, who loves to use
this meditation in her OSHO Multiversity Courses, to
tell us more about it.
Chakra Breathing helps your energy to move easily;
you experience your body in full flowing mode.The

first stage is three rounds of vigorous breathing,
which brings continual changes to the energy centers
of your body. You get everything moving, become
more aware and your blood flows faster.
Usually our centers are focused on the outside: we
watch whats out there with our eyes and ears. Once
the awareness turns inwards, with the help of the
breath, we start feeling the energy moving into the
centers inside the body.This can bring us back to our
natural ecstatic state of being.
In what way do the various centers feel different?
I believe that thats very personal for everybody; it is

best left up to the individual. The chakras are inside
the body, and they have an opening to the outside.
Its really about tuning into the chakra and breathing
This is always the mysterious part of all OSHO

meditations. Its very hard to talk about this silent
stage, because its beyond the mind.
For the last fifteen minutes we just sit quietly and
watch inside. In my experience, when we work with
the chakras and connect them, sitting up keeps the
channel between sky and earth open; it goes through
you. You can actually feel that connection, that
movement. When you lie down, you change the
direction. When you sit, its easy to just be, what we
call in meditation.
I understand that you do this meditation in
Awareness Intensive: Who Is In? Does it have a special
purpose there?
We do different active meditations in the Awareness

Intensive, and this one is to really move the energy
through the different chakras. Its another way to see
Who Is In? by putting your awareness inside the
chakra and moving it up. It helps to move the energy
if it gets stuck in the process.
Premin, Anuprada
This is a one-hour meditation in two

stages, which uses the breath to open
and energize the energy centers. Eyes
are closed for the whole meditation.
OSHO Chakra Breathing Meditation
into it, and then having your own experience of it.

In the beginning, people might not feel the
center, and thats fine. You can imagine it for a little
while or put your hands there, and just wait until it
opens. Slowly that happens; you only need patience.
What is different in each area is what gets touched
by your energy and comes to your awareness. Just
imagine that your awareness is in the second chakra
and your sensuality gets touched, or your heart opens
in the fourth, and feelings of love and compassion
or pain come.
First stage: 45 minutes
Stand with feet firmly on the ground,

shoulder-width apart. Allow the body to
be loose and relaxed. With mouth open
and jaw loose, take deep, rapid breaths into
each of your energy centers, starting with
the lowest. A bell signals when to move
your breath up into the next.Your breathing should become faster and gentler as
you move upwards through each of the
centers.You can make any gentle movement
that will support your breathing. At the
seventh center, there are three bells. Now
in your own time, let your breathing
slowly fall back through all the centers.
This is repeated three times.
Second stage: 15 minutes
Sit down, keeping your eyes closed. Be

silent and watch whatever is happening
within.
Locations of the chakras:
1. Sex center
2. Hara: below the navel
3. Solar plexus: just below the ribs
4. Heart center
5. Throat center
6. So-called third eye: middle of the forehead
7. Crown
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Chakra Sounds Meditation is very soft. It uses the

vibrations of sound to open up and harmonize the
chakras. Here the body is like a musical instrument,
vibrating on the inside, with little or no outer movement. The first stage is three cycles of singing in
harmony with the music, standing or sitting. The
second stage is sitting or lying down in silence.
Aditi tells us about her experiences both as
participant and facilitator.
When I began this meditation I was surprised. It was
a very powerful experience to have the sound working
on my body. I felt full of my own voice.There was no
thinking: I became the sound. My voice became
stronger in each of the three singing cycles. It opened
up my throat, and I got into contact with my own
energy and power through my voice.
Over the years the experience has changed and
deepened: now the heart chakra feels strong, and my
next challenge is to move from the heart to the throat
to get that clearer.
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How is it to be a facilitator?
For me, when Im facilitating I feel half-in, half-out.

In the beginning I had a bit of trouble to start singing
the tone for the participants.Then I got more confident and tried singing it without a mike, which made
it more relaxed.When my heart opened up, it became
totally easy I could have gone on forever. I do
the meditation with open eyes, to watch what is
happening in the hall.
When people are experienced in Chakra Sounds,
they just go for it. New people are often shy. In a
group, the voices of the older ones support them. As
the second cycle begins the new people overcome
their shyness, and the whole hall starts to vibrate with
sound.The participants really start to be in harmony
with each other, and all the voices together create
natural overtones without anyone trying to mold
their mouths to create them. In this way everyone
can relax and resonate deeply.
And the silent stage, after people have gone totally
into singing and feeling the vibrations?
There is absolute silence; it goes very deep. Because

it happens here in the evening, everything is dark and
it is amazingly beautiful this bit of darkness, this

deep silence, no coughing at all in spite of the cold
floor. I like it very much.
After the meditation finishes, people are still.
Usually no one comes to ask questions. I have a lot
of respect for each persons own meditative space, so
I always sit quietly and give people room to come
back in their own time. They just get up, get their
things and go all very silently.
Aditi, Anuprada
OSHO Chakra Sounds Meditation
Individual sessions of 1 1 hours each are available

throughout the day. They cover a wide variety of approaches
which fall under the general headings of Bodywork, Therapy and
Counseling, and Energywork and the Esoteric.
Tarot
Let the Tarot cards support you in looking at what is happening in your life
now what is clearing out and where it is all going.The session may begin
with a short energy reading before using the cards.You can come with or
without a question.
A soft, one hour meditation in two

stages. The same seven chakras are
used as in Chakra Breathing. Music
and vocal sounds are used to open and
harmonize the chakras in the first
stage, and the second stage is in silence,
watching within.
Ayurvedic Yoga Massage
First stage: 45 minutes
This stimulating massage uses strokes with the hands and feet and special oil
and powder to release tensions from muscles and joints.Yoga-based stretches
open the body and allow your vital energy to flow. It is a most effective way
to release blocks, relax muscles and align the body. It can bring back your
vitality, relieve chronic tension, improve blood and lymphatic circulation
and bring awareness to old habits and holding patterns in the body.
Stand or sit comfortably, keeping your

back straight and body loose. Close
your eyes and listen to the music for a
moment. Let your jaw drop, making
the sound aw, and sing any tone which
harmonizes with the music in the first
chakra, the sex center. As the music
changes, move up to each following
center and harmonize with the new
music. After the crown, come down
center by center. This happens three
times, with a pause between each
cycle. Feel the sounds pulsating inside.
You can change your body position at
any point.
Japanese Facial Massage:

In this session, traditional East Asian medical concepts combined with
massage techniques help release energy and stress locked in the facial, head
and neck muscles.The nervous system and blood circulation are stimulated,
improving lymphatic flow, toning the muscles and energizing the energy
flow in the face. This improves the appearance of the facial tissue, as well as
relaxing the body-mind.
Energy Reading
Second stage: 15 minutes
After the last cycle, sit or lie down.

With closed eyes, be silent and watch.
The next Multiversity Course Awareness Intensive:
Who Is In? will be on 22 25 May. The OSHO
Chakra Breathing and Chakra Sounds Meditations
are regularly offered in OSHO Auditorium. CDs
of the meditations can be ordered via osho.com.
Your issues and their potential are reflected energetically inside your body.
An Energy Reading explores what is going on in your chakras and subtle
bodies, and awakens you to the depth inside.You can bring any topic: work,
meditation, creativity, relating. Couples can use this process to bring light to
polarities, understand habits and bring new harmony.
These are only a few of the many sessions regularly available at the OSHO Multiversity.
For more information on the full program see osho.com/multiversity.
See also osho.com/activemeditations

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Art with Heart
OSHO Reiki 1st Degree
In this course you will be encouraged to enter the very

essence of creativity through your heart. A wall-size canvas
with lots of stunning acrylic colors and brushes are available
for your heart to express itself. Be ready for a big surprise.
Even Picasso will be jealous of you!
In this soft, non-intrusive, hands-on healing art, the practitioner becomes a channel
for universal life force energy.
This helps to create a meditative space in both the
practitioner and the receiver.
Participants open to this
energy through an initiation,
which can then be transmitted at any time.
1 3 May
Self-Hypnosis for Meditation

Following Oshos guidelines,
this course uses a guided
meditation to deepen your
silence in meditation. Selfhypnosis can also be used
for healing, to be more
relaxed and playful amid the
tension of the market place,
or in your own creative,
unique way. Meets in the
early morning, one hour a day for seven days.
26 27 May
Com ing soon
A one-day course to help

you experience your seven
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You will find out in which
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you can expand, and how
to bring them from complexity to harmony.
12 May
Awareness Intensive: Who Is In?

Based on traditional Zen techniques and designed to
penetrate beyond your habitual masks and pretensions, this
course focuses your total
energy into the search for who
you really are. Residential, in
silence and isolation.
22 25 May
These courses take place on the same dates every month.
OSHO Mystic Rose

Three weeks, three hours a day. The first week is
laughter, the second crying, and the third is silent
witnessing.
To go deeper into your own

meditation as well as develop
your skills and confidence in
sharing OSHO meditations.
Prerequisite: interview.
Chakra Journey
O S H O M E D I TAT I V E T H E R A P I E S
OSHO Meditation
Training
10 16 May
Every month the Multiversity offers processes designed

by Osho for the contemporary man, to cut through
layers of conditioning straight to the center of his
being. The OSHO International Meditation Resort,
with its unique blend of relaxation, meditation
and celebration, is the ideal place to experience this
transformation.
it is a very fundamental technique, fresh and unused

it cuts away all the past repressions of humanity
11 31 May
OSHO Born Again

Seven days, for two hours a day. The first hour is for
entering your childhood. The second hour is sitting in
silent meditation.
a great experiment to achieve your lost childhood

rediscovering the moments of wonder and joy
17 23 May
22 26 July
OSHO No-Mind
Primal Rebirth
A lot of our questions, difficulties, hurts and pain are related
to the first seven years of our life, when the blueprint is
formed for who we unconsciously decide to become as adults.
In this course we find the way back to our true selves.
Seven days, two hours a day. Using gibberish

speaking in any language that you do not know to
empty out all the garbage of the mind.
its crazy but will relieve you of much heat and steam
after one hour you will feel tremendously quiet
3 9 May
11 15 August
OSHO Reminding
Yourself of the Forgotten
Language of Talking to
Your BodyMind
Ayurvedic Yoga Massage Training: Basic Skills

Vigorous, deep massage work based on the ancient Indian
science of Ayurveda, combined with Yoga stretches. It can
relieve back and neck pain and many other chronic holdings
in the body. At the end of the training you will be able to
give a full session. Prerequisite: interview.
16 22 August
Using hypnosis, you first connect and make friends

with your body/mind; then you begin a healing
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Awareness Intensive: Satori

A powerful process dedicated to the search of our innermost
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Family Constellation
Opening to Feeling: Breath
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OSHO Meditation Training
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24 30 May
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IN THE NEWS
IN THE NEWS
A Cure for Love

Is there a cure for love sickness?
Researchers at the University of
Alabama and Tabriz Medical University in Iran found that melatonin and
vasotocin might just do the trick.
Intense romantic love is associated
with specific physiological, psychological and behavioral changes, including
euphoria, obsessiveness, and a craving
for closeness with the target.
Some researchers believe such love is a specific
emotion, separate from the physical sex drive, which
works through parts of the brain associated with the
reward system, and that the brain chemical dopamine is
heavily involved.
The key is the pea-sized pineal gland, which produces
melatonin. This hormone plays a key role in a 24-hour
cycle. It has also shown anti-dopamine activities in part
Bird Brain
Last winter, a bird known as a bar-tailed godwit took flight
from Alaska and headed south. A day later, it was still
flapping its way over the Pacific. An airplane pilot would
have a hard time staying awake after 24 hours of flight.
The Federal Aviation Administration allows pilots to fly just
eight hours in a row. But the godwit kept flying for an
additional week. After eight days and 7,200 miles, it
landed in New Zealand, setting a record for nonstop flight.
If they spend so many hours flying, said Ruth M.
Benca of the University of Wisconsin, where do they find
the time to sleep?
Bird sleep is so mysterious that scientists are considering
several answers, all intriguing. The godwit may have
managed to stay awake for the entire journey. Or it may
have been able to sleep while flying. Or, as Dr. Benca and
Jolly Fat
of the brain, while a second
hormone, arginine-vasotocin, also
has a key role in romantic love.
The researchers suggest that
giving the two hormones may be
a cure for non-returned romantic
love.
Excerpted from The Independent
The romantic young man turned to the beautiful young

girl in his bed and asked, Am I the first man you ever
made love to?
She thought for a moment and then said, You could
be I have a terrible memory for faces.
Osho
other scientists suspect, its brain may have been in a

bizarre state of semi limbo that they do not understand.
Bird brains produce patterns of electrical activity that
look strikingly like human brains during sleep, a remarkable
similarity considering that birds and their brains have been
on a separate evolutionary course from mammals for 300
million years. But similarities reach just so far.
The amount of sleep birds need can change drastically
through the year. Birds may be able to put parts of their
brains to sleep while keeping others awake. They may be
able to adjust sleep in the course of minutes, even seconds.
By figuring out the mysteries of bird sleep, scientists hope
to understand some universal rules of sleep.
Like humans, birds typically get some sleep every day.
A pigeon usually sleeps through the night, for example,
and has a few naps during the day. Why birds and
mammals should sleep so much has long puzzled
scientists. Some researchers have even argued that sleep is
something that animals do when they have nothing else
on their agendas.
Carl Zimmer
Excerpted from The New York Times
Ever since Falstaff, fatness has

been associated with jollity.
According to psychologists at
Lakehead University in Canada,
the jolly fat hypothesis might
actually be true, at least among
women. Not only have they
found a link, they suggest a
mechanism too: estrogen. They
put forward the idea that body
fat protects women against
negative moods. In other words,
the fatter a woman is, the less depressed she gets.
In the two-part research, the team looked at Body Mass
Index (BMI), a measure that takes into account both
weight and height, and compared it with mood in a group
of young women. They found that the higher the BMI
and body size, the lower the number of symptoms of
depression, anxiety and negative mood. In fact, the most
depressed were all thin, while the largest were the least
miserable.
For explanations, the psychologists turned to biochemical
All fat people smile and laugh and look jolly, because
that is their way of defending themselves. They cannot
run if there is some fight, so they go on creating an
atmosphere of friendliness around them so no enmity
arises. Their laughter is false. And whenever a fat
person reduces his weight, his laughter disappears.
Excerpted from Nothing to Lose But Your Head, Osho
Measuring Merriment
Japanese professor and communications expert Yoji Kimura
believes laughter is a weapon that in healthy doses can
end the worlds wars. He just needed find a way to measure
it, so he has invented a machine to chart out laughter
and a new unit of aH to calculate it.
We have found that children laugh more freely,
releasing 10 aH per second, which is about twice as much
as an adult, says Kimura, a professor at Kansai University
in Osaka.
Adults tend to calculate whether its appropriate to
laugh and under those restraints they eventually forget
how, he said. Laughing is like a restart function on a
A bird is just asleep, as if dead, as if just dead matter, but

the sun comes up and the bird is on the wing. Is it the
same bird? It is a different phenomenon. Something
has touched and the bird has become alive. Everything
was silent, and now everything is singing.The morning
is a song.
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research that suggested the possibility of a link between estrogen

and mood, and the brain chemical, serotonin, the target of widely
used antidepressant drugs. They
say very potent estrogens are
primarily found in fatty tissues,
suggesting that women with
higher body weight may have
higher levels.
Excerpted from The Independent
Excerpted from The Ultimate Alchemy, Osho
computer. Laughing freely is very important in the course

of human evolution. I believe there is a circuit in the
human brain that creates laughter through these steps to
the stage of overflowing, Kimura said confidently.
Understanding this mechanism is the door to resolving
one secret of human beings.
To measure laughter, he attaches sensors on the skin of
a tested subjects stomach, particularly the diaphragm, and
detects muscle movements. The machine looks 3,000
times a second at electric elements normally produced in
the body. I have a theory that humor detected in the
brain gets directly discharged through the movement of
diaphragm, By checking the movement of the diaphragm
and other parts of the body, Kimura says it will be possible
to see if a person is only pretending to laugh, while also
distinguishing different types of laughter such as derision
and cynicism.
Excerpted from Times of India
Laughter brings some energy from your inner source

to your surface. Energy starts flowing, follows laughter
like a shadow. Have you watched it? When you really
laugh, for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops.
Excerpted from A Sudden Clash of Thunder, Osho
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Gautam Buddha in his past life heard about a man who had
become enlightened. He was not much interested, but curious to
see what kind of phenomenon enlightenment was and what it
did to the man. He set off, and as he came close to the man
something started melting in his heart; something that was hard
and arrogant was disappearing.
And as he came very close, he witnessed himself touching the
feet of the man. He was not touching, he had not even the idea
of touching the feet of the man, but he saw that he was touching
the feet. The man had such a beauty and such a grace that it was
such a joy even to touch his feet.
But the most miraculous thing happened as he stood up: the
man also touched Gautam Buddhas feet. Gautam Buddha said,
What are you doing? You are enlightened. I can feel the peace
that surrounds you. I can feel the light and the fragrance that
you have become. It is absolutely right for me to touch your feet
and surrender myself, but what are you doing? I am an ignorant
man, very stubborn, very egoistic and you are touching my feet.
The enlightened man said to Gautam Buddha, Today you
are asleep; tomorrow you will be awake. Today you are not
enlightened, but enlightenment is your very nature. I dont care
about your arrogance and your ego and stubbornness; they are
not your self-nature. I am touching your feet to remind you that
you are not what you are thinking, and also to remind you that
when in your next life you become enlightened, be respectful of
those who are still groping in the dark.
Now to touch the feet of such a man is a beauty, is a grace, is
a blissfulness.
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Excerpted from Om Shantih Shantih Shantih, Osho
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Laughter Is Religiousness
All these religions in the past are anti-life.
Nobody is for life, nobody is for living, nobody
is for laughter. No religion has accepted a
sense of humor as a quality of religiousness.
Osho
Little Ernies father invites his boss to dinner in

the hope of getting a promotion at work.
Days are spent planning the menu and getting
the house just right, but the effect is ruined
when little Ernie appears on the stairs just as
the boss arrives.
I wanted to see you, says Ernie, because
Mum said you were a self-made man.
I am, smiles the boss, and proud of it!
In that case, says Ernie, why did you make
yourself look so ugly?
Old man Finkelstein is having lunch with his

young grandson, Fagin Finkelstein, the lawyer.
Over brandy and cigars, the old man explains
how he has succeeded in business.
When I arrived in this town, my boy, he
begins,I had nothing but the suit I was wearing
and a small brown parcel which represented my
entire worldly possessions. And now I own
three factories, employ two thousand people,
live in a large mansion and drive a Rolls
Royce.
Amazing, says Fagin. That is some achievement. But, tell me, what did you have in your
brown paper parcel?
Old man Fink puffs on his cigar and says, Two
million in cash!
On his return to earth an astronaut describes

Mars and its men and women inhabitants.The
Martian women have an amazing peculiarity:
their asses are at the front and their tits are at the
back, he states seriously.
But thats horrible! exclaims the reporter.
To look at, yes, replies the astronaut, but its
wonderful for dancing!
Mick Jagger orders an extremely expensive,

custom-made suit, but is very dissatisfied with
the finished garment.
I told you to make the pants tight! he angrily
remarks to the tailor. I want them tight
enough to show my sex.
Im sorry, sir, the tailor protests, but if they
were any tighter they would show your religion!
Moishe Finkelstein pays his bill and starts to get

up from the table.
By the way, sir, says the anxious-looking
waiter,do you believe that history repeats itself?
I certainly do, exclaims Moishe, I know of a
number of cases.
Well, sir, replies the waiter, rubbing his hands
together, one gentleman who was in here
yesterday left me a five dollar tip.
Amazing, says Moishe, reaching for his hat,
perhaps he will be here again tomorrow.
JOKES
Paddy picks up a girl in the pub and then takes

her for a drive in his old Ford car. He stops on
a deserted section of country road, turns to the
girl and begins to make some rather predictable
advances.
Just a minute, the girl declares, pushing him
away. Im really a prostitute, and I have to
charge you fifty dollars.
Paddy reluctantly pays her and they make love.
Later Paddy sits silently at the wheel.
Whats the matter? asks the girl. Arent we
leaving?
Not quite yet, says Paddy. Im really a taxi
driver, and the fare back is fifty dollars.
Paddy is driving along a winding mountain

road in his old Ford car.
Suddenly a sleek sports car going in the opposite
direction almost runs him off the road. And to
make things worse, a young woman driving the
sports car sticks her head out of the window
and yells at him, Pig!
Paddy immediately reacts angrily by sticking
his head out of his car and yelling back at her,
Bitch!
He then rounds the next bend in the road and
smashes straight into a huge pig!
A young actor has just been hired for his first

role in a play being performed on Broadway.
You have only one line, the director tells him,
but it is an extremely important one. When
you hear the sound of guns going off you say,
Hark! I hear the cannons roar! Do you
understand?
Of course, replies the actor confidently,
Hark! I hear the cannons roar! No problem,
Ive got it already.
The following night the theater is packed and
the young actor is striding about backstage
repeating over and over, Hark! I hear the
cannons roar.
Then the audience goes quiet as the play
begins. The director signals for the young man
to go out on the stage and the curtain raises.
Suddenly a loud thundering noise rolls through
the theater. The startled actor spins round and
shouts, Shit! What the fuck was that?
A man is telling friends that he has toured

around the world looking for a perfect woman.
One listener asks him, Did you find her?
He says, Yes, but she was looking for the
perfect man.
Little Rufus has been playing in the woods all

day. Suddenly, he realizes that hes lost and that
its late. He hunts around for a way out, but
finally gives up. Kneeling on the ground, he
holds out his hands.
Please, god, Rufus prays, Im lost. Please
show me the way out of here.
Just then a little bird flies overhead and drops a
load of shit on his outstretched hands. Little
Rufus examines it closely and then goes back
to praying.
Oh! Please, god! he says. I really am lost, so
dont hand me that shit!
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Memories
In the June
OSHOTIMES
Your brain records everything things that are worth remembering as well as those that are better forgotten. This month
we look at how we can be in charge of this amazingly vast
storage system instead of being overwhelmed by it.
How to Let Go of Boredom

Living in the past is boring. The memories we collect are like a
wall that keeps us isolated from the joy of the present moment.
Falling in Love Again

Do you fall in love again and again only to find yourself with the
same type of person? Or perhaps again and again you see that you
dont trust enough to love anyone.Your unconscious memories are
controlling your love life. What does it take to make a fresh start?
I Forgot
Tension prevents our memory from functioning efficiently. And
the biggest tension the ego prevents us from remembering the
most important thing of all.
The Past Is Just Too Much

The mind records all our experiences for lifetimes! Its quite a
lot to have to carry around.We can learn to access what we need,
when we need it and forget the rest.
In the coming
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In a Few Words
What things are worth remembering?
Plus
Be Your Own Master
Surrender to Love
Clinging
Back to the Heart Center
Osho on Totality
Real Renunciation
Questions Lovers Ask
Osho on Saying Yes to Life
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Astrology
May 2008
Astrology is the science of wholeness,

unity, nonduality.
Osho
by Yogaraj
CAPRICORN (December 24 January 20)

Manifesting can be of the conscious mind and
the unconscious mind. Especially in this time, be
conscious of what you wish for.
CANCER (June 22 July 22)

Two parts in play: the out-going and the in-going. The
outer going seeks expansion the inner going seeks
depth. The trick is to celebrate both.
ARIES (March 21 April 20)

A struggle between all aspects feminine, unconscious
and conscious, mother and daughter, lover and nun;
a kaleidoscope of you just for the watching.
My whole effort here is to praise the feminine

qualities. The world needs them. We have to
change the whole gestalt of human consciousness,
make it more surrendering, more receptive; we
have to teach it how to relax. All that is great
happens in a state of let-go. Keep the heart open,
and you become a joyous spirit, you become a
celebration. Osho
TAURUS (April 21 May 21)

Struggle is trying and tiring and in this time struggle
is a door to your creativity.
Energy needs expression, energy needs to be

creative. Otherwise the same energy, coiled up
within you, will become diseased, an illness.
There is no happiness except in creativity. But
creativity is work, with love. A painter paints. He
is not working; he is loving. A dancer dances. If
it is work, he will be tired. But if he really loves
dancing, then the more he moves into it, the
more energy he gets to move further on. Osho
GEMINI (May 22 June 21)
LIBRA (September 24 October 23)

The battle is between the demands of love of work
and love of the lover. If you understand rightly the
winner is love.
Live in the world, but remain centered in

yourself. Your energy goes on returning to
yourself; you are no longer out-going. You have
become in-going, a pool of energy, overflowing.
You can share; you can give in love. If you put
your energy into greed, it never comes back; in
love, it comes back a thousand-fold. If you put
your energy into anger, it leaves you exhausted,
spent. If you use your energy in compassion, it
comes back a thousand-fold. Osho
LEO (July 23 August 23)
Love is power, the purest and the greatest power.

Nothing can be higher than that. But this power
is not a desire to enslave others, not a destructive
force. This power is the very source of creation.
This power is creativity. This power will
transform you totally into a new being. It has no
concern with anybody. Its whole concern is to
bring your seeds to their ultimate flowering. Osho
SCORPIO (October 24 November 22)
Your search will need structure and structure begs

technique. Let technique be your dogma, at least in
this time.
There will be struggle against insecurity and it is

insecurity that will support your understanding of
self-love.
In the ultimate sense meditation is not a

technique; it is an understanding, awareness.
But you need techniques because that final
understanding is very far away from you; deeply
hidden. Right this moment you can attain it, but
you will not, because your mind goes on. This
very moment it is possible and yet impossible.
Techniques are just to bridge the gap. In the
beginning techniques are meditations; in the end
you will laugh. Meditation is a totally different
quality of being. Osho
I teach you self-love because it is only through

self-love that you will be capable of loving others.
Self-love is not against altruistic love, in fact it is
the beginning of it. To love oneself goes against
all the old teachings, traditions, conventions. But
I cant help that, I have to say the truth even if it
goes against the whole of the human past. Love
yourself; then love others. Osho
SAGITTARIUS (November 23 December 23)
VIRGO (August 24 September 23)

As playfully as you can, watch your thoughts and if
you choose to give voice do so carefully, for in this
time you can cut or care. In watching you will care, in
not watching you will cut.
Nobody wants silent moments to ponder on ones

own being; the moment one is alone, fear arises.
You start seeing that all that you think is valuable
is rubbish.You feel that your world is falling apart.
Great panic is bound to arise.You start searching
for some new occupation, entertainment or
intoxicant. But unless one searches for ones own
being nothing ever helps. Osho
Just watch and see the association of thought

how thoughts are linked, chained with each other
and enjoy it, let it be a game. Play it deliberately,
and you will be surprised: sometimes just
enjoying it, you will find those beautiful pauses I
talk about. Go on easily. Awareness will come to
you indirectly. Osho
AQUARIUS (January 21 February 19)

Aloofness through mind is in the way of meeting
compassion of the heart. Let go of ideals for a time
and come back to earth, the feminine.
The mind is only a servant. The master is the

heart, because all that is beautiful grows in the
heart; all that is valuable comes out of the heart
your love, your compassion, your meditation.
Anything that is valuable grows in the garden of
the heart. The heart is the only possibility for you
to be bridged with your being, with existence. It
is the only possibility for songs to arise, for stars
to descend in you, for your life to become a
rejoicing. Osho
PISCES (February 20 March 20)
The male side may feel the need to be seen from the
inside out and if ignored, you will meet the male from
the outside in. Both will be interesting.
To ponder means to consider something deeply and

thoroughly. This is time when deep self examination
will support your hidden gifts. Ponder!
The problem with desire is this: if you dont get

itwhich is almost inevitable because you ask
for the impossible; it cant happen in the nature of
things, hence you feel frustrated when it doesnt
happen. And if at all it happens by some miracle,
some accident, then too it is not going to fulfill
you or make you contented because the moment
it happens, again your mind starts asking for more
or by the time it happens you are no longer
interested in it. Osho
How can reality be male or female? How can it

be divided into the outer and the inner? The
reality is one. This door from one side it is an
entrance, from another, an exit. It depends on
where you are. People are wasting their energy
in the objective world. Meditation teaches them
how to come in. Once you have come in, you
know that there is no out and no in. You can be
in the marketplace and meditate; then divisions
disappear. Osho
The pull is out of dreams of bliss and into reality and

in reality you will see the dream for what it is, an
eternal escape from true bliss this moment.
Dance, sing, create music, paint, sculpt, or

whatsoever you feel like doing. Find out what is
your innermost joy and do it! Doing means:
bring it from the invisible to the visible. Make the
dream exist on the earth; let it become actual.
That is the greatest joy there is. Real bliss is
attained only when you are able to bring
something from the unknown to the known,
when you make, create, when you transform a
dream into reality. Osho
See also
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I Am Not Your Father Figure
It is good that you feel you are lost,
because it opens a new dimension for search.
It is good that you feel you are alone, abandoned,
because that means you have to go inwards
and be acquainted with your own interiority.
You cannot see your father figure in me.
I dont want anybody to see a father figure,
a leader, a prophet, a messiah in me,
because these are the people who have been
keeping you enslaved for centuries.
So I am not your father figure,
I am not your leader,
I am not a prophet.
And I do not know you at all.
Excerpted from From Death to Deathlessness, Osho
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