He conducts intense day meditation camps where he introduces a number of new, seemingly bizarre, techniques he has developed specifically for the stresses of modern living. So I have created cathartic techniques as a preparation for meditation, to remove that rock. Once it is removed, then you can begin the right meditation. There are techniques which you can experiment with to find the one which clicks for you.
Those techniques are all variations of one fundamental theme — the foundation that runs through them all is witnessing. In April , he introduces his now-famous revolutionary meditation technique, Dynamic Meditation , which begins with chaotic breathing and uninhibited movement and catharsis, allowing people to connect to and throw off their accumulated stresses and tensions.
This is followed by energetic jumping designed to hammer awake unused levels of energy. He says that we have far more energy than we normally use — it just needs to be aroused. This is followed by a period of silence and stillness, where all the energy that has been awakened is turned inside, allowing a peace to descend which creates a distance from the mind and an expansion of consciousness.
This meditation technique is so powerful and successful, it has been adopted by psychotherapists, medical doctors, teachers and other professionals around the world. In July, , Osho moves to Mumbai , and sets up the first foundation to make his work and vision available — the Jivan Jagruti Kendra Foundation. There he begins to develop a vision he has long held dear — a revolutionary idea for a totally new kind of society , where communes will replace family, meditation and personal experience will replace religious beliefs, and meritocracy will replace politics.
He reasons that people are limited by the ideas and beliefs they unconsciously learn from their families, so it is time to do away with the nuclear family and allow children to have imprints from many adults, especially adults who are meditators, and thus hopefully more conscious and aware. Osho moves to Pune, where he establishes the Shree Rajneesh Ashram to put into practice this vision.
The Ashram grows exponentially, and within just a few years over one hundred thousand people pass through its gates. There are over permanent residents, from all over the world, living and working in the Ashram.
And thousands of visitors come for shorter stays. It is a vibrant, intense and exciting place. The day begins at 6am with Dynamic Meditation, followed by an Osho discourse at 8am. It ends with evening darshan with Osho, followed by Music Group, where everyone celebrates with singing and dancing.
During the day, the residents work and the visitors either meditate or do workshops. The people who come are young and well educated, and disillusioned with the life they had been expected to live. They want something more — they feel there has to be more to life than the rat race. Therapists and psychologists from all over the world come to visit, and many stay. Read some of their accounts here.
During these seven years Osho gives a minute discourse every morning, alternating each month between Hindi and English. A huge Buddha Hall is built to accommodate the thousands who come every morning to listen to him.
His discourses offer insights into all the major spiritual paths, including Yoga, Zen, Taoism, Tantra and Sufism. These discourses are collected into over 6 00 books and translated into 50 languages. Osho himself designs the covers for his books.
Here is how these talks are described by contemporary journalists. In the evenings, he answers questions on personal matters such as love, jealousy, aloneness, meditation, fear and death. Alongside meditations and dancing and listening to Osho, the ashramites work — in the kitchen, as cleaners, as handymen, in the book publishing or audio departments, in the carpentry shop, in the medical centre, fashioning robes, in the jewellery or pottery centres, in the music and theatre departments or leading workshops.
The Ashram activities are described by journalists here. It is located in Koregaon Park, a quiet, leafy suburb of Pune inhabited mostly by wealthy, conservative Brahmins and Parsees. The streets begin to fill with orange-clothed young people, walking between their homes and the Ashram, laughing, singing and gasp hugging and kissing. The locals are outraged, and use their considerable influence to stir up the media and the local authorities against the Ashram.
At the same time, the Ashram is running out of space. As more and more people arrive, it rents and buys every available property in the area, but it is still overflowing. A search is started for a much larger estate in another part of India, but without success. Around this time, Osho develops a degenerative back condition, a result of years of travelling around India by train. On the recommendation of his personal doctors, he t ravels to the US for possible back surgery.
The same year, his American disciples purchase a 64,acre ranch in Oregon and invite him to visit. He eventually agrees to stay in the US and allows an application for permanent residence to be filed on the basis of being a religious teacher.
The US government refuses to accept that Osho is a religious teacher and rejects his application. Instead they initiate one of the most intensive investigations ever conducted against one man. The 64, acre ranch is basically a wasteland in the central Oregonian high desert.
It is twenty miles from the nearest shop. It has one old farmhouse. Kit homes for volunteer workers sannyasins are trucked in and installed almost daily. Thousands of overgrazed and economically unviable acres are reclaimed for a huge vegetable farm and the raising of stock and chickens. A herd of Holstein cows provides the community with milk, butter, cheese and yogurt. They also keep bees for honey and even boast a vineyard.
Within three years the community is incorporated as the city of Rajneeshpuram , providing services to the now residents. Annual summer festivals are held which draw 15, additional visitors from all over the world. People who contribute get a card of the equivalent value, similar to a debit card, which they can use to spend anywhere in the city.
With the pooling of labour and capital, everything is re-invested to create a continually growing and self-sustaining system. Roads, dams, lakes, a shopping mall, office buildings, restaurants and a cafeteria to feed over a thousand people at a sitting are built, all by sannyasins working voluntarily. A University of Oregon study found that the sannyasins were mostly young and highly educated. Moreover they are all, as far as I know, bright and competent.
Hell, no. This is all cream, with no dregs. And not a hippy in the whole bunch. Rancho Rajneesh from dead brown to flourishing green. They run the healthiest herd of dairy cattle in the district, produce scores of vegetable varieties to feed up to 15, people at a time, and from a new vineyard, they are on the brink of standing their first bottle of home-made wine. They also construct a meditation university , a boutique, bookstore, post office, city hall, fire station and shopping mall with a book shop, jewellery store , beauty salon, deli, cinema, pharmacy and liquor store.
Read reports of contemporary journalists here. Reporters are particularly captivated by the environmental policies instituted at the ranch. Very quickly, Rajneeshpuram becomes the largest spiritual community ever pioneered in America.
Scholars from every Christian denomination Catholic, Baptist, Church of England, Presbyterian, Quaker, Lutheran and Orthodox , Jewish Rabbis, Zen temple priests, Buddhist scholars and professors of religion from all over the world write in his favour. As do major figures from the worlds of science, medicine, psychology, sociology, business and the arts.
See excerpts from some of their letters here. He is a teacher and author of exceptional abilities, having brought into the history and understanding of religion a fertile new insight and illumination. I am convinced that in the spiritual tradition here is a mind of intellectual brilliance and persuasive ability as an author. He has given me new comprehensions of Christian, Buddhist, Taoist, Sufi, and Hindu teachings, mystical practice, and historical significance. I believe him to be a major force for religious consciousness in our time.
An interesting fact the letters reveal is that the authors, professionals from varied fields, each consider Osho to be an expert in their own field. From the normally insular world of religion, religious figures are unanimous in praising Osho. He has not only studied the religions of the world but perceived and been able to communicate the spirit or inner essence of them all.
While his roots remain in the East, he is not seeking to promote the dominance of any one religion over others. As Ted L. My ninety Rolls Royces have shocked millions of people around the earth. Can you see the joke? In India he blasts all the sacred cows of religion and religious superstition, including Gandhism and Mother Teresa.
Tensions came to a head in , when a Hindu fundamentalist attempted to assassinate Rajneesh. Facing ongoing pressure from government authorities and traditional religious groups, in Rajneesh fled to the United States with 2, of his disciples, settling on a square-mile ranch in central Oregon, which he named Rancho Rajneesh.
There, Rajneesh and the sannyasins started building their own city, called Rajneeshpuram. Disapproving neighbors contacted local officials in an attempt to close down Rajneeshpuram, asserting that it violated Oregon's land-use laws, but Rajneesh was victorious in court and continued to expand the commune.
As tensions between the commune and the local government community increased, Rajneesh and his followers soon turned to more drastic measures to achieve their ends. After several of his commune leaders fled to avoid prosecution for their crimes, in , police arrested Rajneesh, who was himself attempting to flee the United States to escape charges of immigration fraud. During his subsequent trial, Rajneesh pleaded guilty of immigration charges, realizing that a plea bargain was the only way he'd be allowed to return to India.
After pleading guilty, Rajneesh returned to India, where he found the number of his followers had significantly decreased. In the coming months, he searched unsuccessfully for a place to reestablish his ashram. He was denied entry into numerous countries before returning again to India in During the next few years, he continued to teach and renamed himself Osho, but his health began to decline.
On January 19, , he died of heart failure at one of his few remaining communes in Pune, India. Following his death, the commune was renamed the Osho Institute, and then later the Osho International Meditation Resort, which is currently estimated to attract as many as , visitors a year. Osho's followers also continue to spread his beliefs from one of the hundreds of Osho Meditation Centers that they have opened in major cities across the globe.
We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Thus, people are more neurotic and perverted with anger, aggression, crime, etc. This is because it is the same energy that has taken an alternate manifestation due to centuries of suppression. Now the most important meaning of sex has to be understood. It was only in moments of lovemaking that human beings realized for the first time that so much bliss was possible.
Those who meditated on this truth, those who reflected deeply upon the phenomenon of sex, of lovemaking, saw that in moments of lovemaking, at the climax, the mind becomes empty of thoughts.
For a moment, all thoughts disappear. This emptiness of the mind, this disappearance of thoughts, is the cause of the showering of divine bliss. They had discovered the secret. They had also discovered the secret that if the mind could be freed from thoughts through some other process, the same bliss can be attained.
From this developed the systems of yoga and of no-mind that gave birth to meditation, to prayerfulness. At the root of all this is the experience of lovemaking. Thus, human beings came to experience that the mind can be stilled, that the mind can be freed of thoughts without going into sex and that the same bliss that happens in sex can be attained.
Moreover, one can be in the experience of lovemaking only for a limited time because it is dissipation and release of energy, but one can remain in the experience of meditation continuously. One who attains to meditation experiences the same bliss around the clock which a couple experiences in the moment of orgasm. However, there is no basic difference between the bliss of the two. What is the central element in the normal life of human beings? What is at the core of human beings? Leave human beings aside for the moment, even if we look at the animal or vegetable kingdom, what will we find at the core of everything?
What is a plant doing in essence? Its whole energy is directed towards producing new seeds. Its entire being is occupied with forming new seeds. What is a bird doing? What is an animal doing? If we look closely into nature, we will find that there is only one wholehearted process going on. It is one of continuous creation, of procreation, of continuous resurrection of life in newer and newer forms.
Flowers are nurturing seeds, fruits are nurturing seeds. What will the seed do? The seed will grow into a new plant, into a new flower, into a new fruit.
This way, life is an infinitely non-ending process of procreation. The same is the case in human beings. This labeling has given a kind of condemnatory feeling in humans about it. Nevertheless, in humans also, a constant effort to procreate life goes on.
But what is this sex energy? Long-long-ago there were only rocks, mountains, rivers, and oceans on this earth. What were these longing for? They were striving to produce better life-plants. Ever so gradually, plants came into existence. The life-energy had manifested itself in a new form. But the plants were also not content with themselves.
Their inner urge and striving was also for something higher. Then animals and birds came into being. Earth remained full of them for ages, but human beings were still nowhere in sight. Yet human beings were always there, inherent in the animals and birds, striving to be born. In due course, they came into existence. Now, the human being is ceaselessly eager to create new life. However, the meaning of this lust in its basics is only this much, that human beings do not want to just end on themselves; they want to go on furthering life.
This is because of the same inherent force that existed in other life forms, to produce better beings. Certainly, the soul of human beings is striving for a better human being, a superior being. However, how will a better human being take birth? Instead of respecting sex, religions have called it names.
The truth is that there is nothing else more important in human life than this urge. However, it has been covered up and suppressed. People have turned their backs on this powerful life energy without trying to understand it.
This has made them even more badly obsessed with sex, leading them to hasty acts like rape and perversions. Majority of mental illnesses are due to repression of sex. Despite the passive attitude of parents, teachers, and religious leaders toward sex, man is not able to successfully ignore sex.
Man has developed intense curiosity to watch a nude body of women. What is the attraction? What is this mighty pull? The sexual desire in the very core of humans is actually not a sexual desire.
That is why after every sex act, they feel remorseful. They think about how to be free of it, because they find nothing in it. Perhaps the attraction is of something else.
This something is that in their normal life, humans are unable to reach the depths of their being except in the experience of sex.
Deep down, two things happen to them there. First, in the moment of orgasm, the ego vanishes. The second thing that happens is that for a while there is no time there. Timelessness emerges. There is no past, no future; there is only the present. So there is an unconsciousness urge to experience this egolessness and timelessness, which are mystic experiences.
Thus, though it appears superficially that there is craving for the body of opposite sex, the craving is for something else, for the taste of egolessness and timelessness. Behind this craving is an attempt at soul searching. So the root of spiritual realization is nothing but sex. Sex is the energy. It is the only energy the living beings have got. The energy can be transformed, it can become a higher energy. The higher it moves, the lesser and lesser sexuality remains in it.
There is an end peak where it becomes simply love and compassion. This ultimate flowering is the divine energy, but the root remains sex.
This energy cannot be killed. No energy can be killed — energy can only be transformed. Further, we cannot create energy too.
Creation and destruction are both beyond human beings. Now, even scientists agree to this — not even a single atom can be destroyed. Religions aimed at becoming absolutely free from sex. That created madness.
The more you fight, the more you suppress, the more sexual you become. And then sex moves deeper into the unconscious. Whatsoever we do, sex comes in. Nobody is playing tricks. If you suppress sex, you are the devil. Then start an excessive indulgence in sex. The polarity has changed, but the problem is as it is. So sex has to be transformed, neither repressed nor madly indulged. This energy is mysterious till it is used only as a biological reproductive force.
It becomes divine once it is freed from biological bondage. This divine energy is nothing but the love of Jesus or compassion of Buddha. Most of the humanity has failed to get out of this trap of powerful sex energy successfully. What is needed is an alert, conscious, mindful being? One should not allow sex to become an unconscious force.
Sexual experience should be made a meditative experience. For example, if we have newly learnt car driving, we will be very careful every moment while driving.
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