This is the inner alchemy - a problem disappears if you accept it, and a problem grows more and more complex if you create any conflict with it. Yes, fear is there, accept it, and suddenly you will feel it has disappeared, says Osho, the Zen master.
The history of the world has been like a pendulum. It has never been the whole world progressing together in all the dimensions of life. At the time of Gautam Buddha, the East was at the very peak of its glory, richness, wisdom, and the West was still barbarian. There was no progress, no evolution. After Buddha, the East started declining and the West started progressing...
Neurosis has never been so epidemic in the past as it is now. It is almost becoming a normal state of human mind. It has to be understood.
The past was spiritually more healthy, and the reason was that mind was not fed so many things simultaneously; the mind was not overloaded...
A disciple asks Osho:
Modern man, in this industrialized age of speed, hurry, activity and tensions, feels completely exhausted after a day's work. In this situation it becomes difficult for him to have inner silence and stillness.
Please explain what are the reasons and what is the way?
Globalization in its literal sense is the process of the transformation of things or phenomena into global ones. It can be described as a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and function together. This process is a combination of economic, technological, sociocultural and political forces...
The word “globalization” first appeared in the early sixties. Since then, it has gone through different perceptions. According to some experts it is "the most abused word of the 21st century." No word seems to have meant so many different things to different people. Although, primarily it is seen in terms of global economic and material achievement, Osho has gone far beyond it and has presented...
Whatever argument there is for or against ‘globalization’ is immaterial. We have it. We are stuck with it. I liken it to a huge hot air balloon, generously adorned with many fancy colors and advertisements. All to make it look good, safe and endearing and who wouldn’t want a ride on this beautiful chariot?
“The world is being poisoned very slowly. The rivers are being polluted, the oceans are being polluted, the lakes are dying. Nature is being destroyed. We are exploiting the earth so much that sooner or later we will not be able to live on it. We are not behaving well with nature.
Our whole approach is wrong, it is destructive. We only take from the earth, and we never give anything back. We only exploit nature. The ecology is broken, the circulation is broken; we are not living in a perfect circle, and nature is a perfect circle: if you take from one hand and you give from another, you don't destroy it. But we are doing it: we only go on taking, and all the resources are being spent.” OSHO The Book of Wisdom # 24
Guru Purnima was celebrated with meditations at Osho World galleria on July 16, 2008. Swami Chaitanya Keerti facilitated the meditation session in the evening at 6.30 pm. It was a combination of meditation and celebration where the gathering meditated to beautiful music and discourse of Osho. The event concluded with celebration music and dance.
Osho Guru Purnima Meditation Camp was conducted at Oshodham from 18th to 20th July, 2008. The camp was facilitated by Swami Chaitanya Keerti. Dynamic, Kundalini and Nadbrahma meditation were conducted during the camp among other meditation techniques.
We could be clinching deals or cleaning toilets… If we do it without complaint and with whole-hearted acceptance, it becomes uplifting. But most people live in misery; they don’t like their work or find it below their dignity...
Today (July 18) will be a full moon night and all disciples will celebrate in reverence to their guru. Full moon nights are considered helpful for deep meditation, as many meditators, chef being Gautam Buddha, attained Enlightenment on such a night. July’s full moon night has become most significant, however, for it is dedicated to the guru...
Life creates situations. Like them or hate them but you have to live them. You can’t escape. Accept them intelligently. Say, you choose to travel with friends and expect a good time but then realise it was a bad idea! You repent. The trip becomes a bitter memory. If you think about it repeatedly, you keep inviting the bitterness back...
Tantra says accept whatsoever you are. You are a great mystery of many multidimensional energies. Accept it, and move with every energy with deep sensitivity, with awareness, with love, with understanding. Move with it! Then every energy becomes a help. And then this very world is nirvana, this very body is a temple – a holy temple, a holy place...
This is the inner alchemy - a problem disappears if you accept it, and a problem grows more and more complex if you create any conflict with it. Yes, fear is there, accept it, and suddenly you will feel it has disappeared, says Osho, the Zen master.