Brief Bio:
1931 - 1953 Early Years
December 11,1931: Osho is born in Kuchwada, a moderate village in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India.
He’s the firstborn of 11 children of a Jaina textile merchant. Write ups of His early days depict Him as autonomous and rebellious as a child, questioning all cultural, spiritual and ideological beliefs. As a youth He experiments with meditation methods.
March 21, 1953: Osho gets enlightened at the age of 21, whilst majoring in philosophy at D.N. Jain college in Jabalpur.
1953 - 1956 Education
1956: Osho gets His M.A. from the University of Sagar with 1st class Honors in Philosophy.
He is the All-India Debating prizewinning and Gold medalist in graduation.
1957-1966 University prof and Public Speaker1957: Osho is appointed as a prof at the Sanskrit College in Raipur
1958: He is charged prof of Philosophy at the University of Jabalpur, where He taught till 1966.
A powerful and passionate debater, He also trips widely in Republic of India, addressing to large audiences and challenging orthodox spiritual leaders in public debates.
1966: After 9 years of teaching, He exits the university to commit Himself altogether to the upraising of human awareness. He begins to address gatherings of 20,000 to 50,000 people in the open-air maidans of India’s metro cities on a regular basis. Four times a yr He carries vivid ten-day meditation camps.
In 1970, the fourteenth of April, He introduces His revolutionary meditation method, dynamic Meditation, which commences with a time period of uninhibited movement and catharsis, accompanied by a period of silence and motionlessness. Since then this meditation method has been used by psychotherapists, doctors, instructors and other masters around the world .
osho 1969 - 1974 Mumbai Years
Late 1960’s: His Hindi talks become available in English translations.
1970: In July, 1970, He moves to Mumbai, where He lives until 1974.
1970: Osho - at this time addressed Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh - commences to induct seekers into Neo-Sannyas or discipleship, a path of dedication to self-exploration and meditation which doesn’t involve renouncing the world or anything else. Osho’s interpreting of ‘Sannyas’is a radical divergence from the conventional Asian viewpoint. For Him it is not the material world that needs to be renounced but our past and the conditionings and belief systems that each generation levies on the next. He carries on to conduct meditation camps at Mount Abu in Rajasthan but stops accepting invitations to speak throughout the nation. He commits his energies altogether to the rapidly increasing group of sannyasins around Him.
At this time, the first Westerners start to arrive and to be initiated into Neo-Sannyas. Amongst them are major psychotherapists from the human potential movement in Europe and America, looking for the next step in their own inner growth. With Osho they experience new, original meditation methods for present-day man, synthesising the wisdom of the East with the science of the West.
1974 - 1981 Poona Ashram
During these 7 years He gives a 90 mins discourse almost every morning, alternating every month between Hindi and English. His preachings offer insights into all the major spiritual paths, including Yoga, Zen, Taoism, Tantra and Sufism. He also talks on Gautam Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu, and other mystics. These discussions have been collected into over 600 volumes and translated into fifty languages.
In the evenings, during these years, He responds to questions on affairs such as love, jealousy, meditation. These ‘darshans’ are amassed in 64 darshan diaries of which 40 are printed.
1981: He develops a chronic back condition. In March 1981, after giving regular discourses for nearly 15 years, Osho commences a three-year period of voluntary public silence. In view of the potential need for emergency operation, and on the recommendation of His personal doctors, He moves to the U.S. This same year, His American adherents purchase a 64,000-acre ranch in Oregon and invite Him to visit. He finally agrees to stay in the U.S. and permits an application for permanent residence to be filed on His behalf.
osho 1981 - 1985 Rajneeshpuram
A model rural communerises from the ruins of the key Oregonian high desert. 1000s of overgrazed and economically unviable acres are recovered. The city of Rajneeshpuram is incorporated and finally provides services to 5,000 occupants. Yearly summer festivals are held which draw 15,000 visitors from all across the world. Very quickly, Rajneeshpuram becomes the biggest and most debatable spiritual community ever opened up in America.
Resistance to the commune and new city keeps pace with its success. Answering to theosho anti-cult fervor which pervades all levels of American societyduring the Reagan years, local, state and federal political leader make provocative speeches against the Rajneeshees. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), the Treasury Department, and the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Agency (ATF) are only a couple of the agencies spending billions of dollars in taxpayers’ money whilst harassing the communewith baseless and unproductive probes. Similar costly campaigns are carried on in Oregon.
October 1984: Osho ends three and one half years of self-imposed silence.
July 1985: He resumes His public discourses each morning to thousands of seekers gathered in a two-acre meditation hall.
Sept. - Oct. 1985: The Oregon Commune is Destroyed
September 14: Osho’s personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and numerous members of the commune’s management abruptly leave, and a whole pattern of nonlegal acts they’ve committed - including poisoning, incendiarism, wiretapping, and attempted murder - are exposed. Osho asks for law enforcement functionaries to investigate Sheela’s law-breakings. The authorities, however, see the investigation as a golden opportunity to demolish the commune altogether
October 23: A U.S. federal grand jury in Portland secretly indicts Osho and 7 others on relatively minor charges of immigration fraud.
October 28: Without warrants, Fed and local functionaries arrest at gun point Osho and others in Charlotte, NC. While the other people are discharged, He is held without bail for 12 days. A five-hr return plane trip to Oregon takes 4 days. En route, Osho is held incommunicative and pushed to register under the pseudonym, David Washington, in the Oklahoma County jail. Subsequent events suggest that it is likely that He was envenomed with the heavy metal thallium while in that jail and the El Reno Federal Penitentiary.
November: Emotions and publicity swell aroundosho Osho’s immigration case. Fearing for His life and the well-being of sannyasins in volatile Oregon, attorneys agree to an Alford Plea on two out of 35 of the original charges against Him. According to the rules of the plea, the defendant maintains innocence while saying that the prosecution could have convicted him. Osho and His attorneys maintain His innocence in the court. He is fined $400,000 and is deported from America.
Among others, U.S. Attorney in Portland, Charles Turner, publicly concedes that the government was intent on destroying Rajneeshpuram.
1985 - 1986 World Tour
December 1985: The Indian government attempts to isolate Him by canceling the visas issued to his personal household staff.
January-February: He travels to Kathmandu, Nepal and speaks twice daily for the next two months. In February, the Nepalese government refuses visas for His visitors and closest attendants. He leaves Nepal and embarks on a world tour.
February-March: At His first stop, Greece, he is granted a 30-day tourist visa. But after only 18 days, on March 5, Greek police forcibly break into the house where He is staying, arrest Him at gun point, and deport him. Greek media reports indicate government and church pressure provoked the police intervention
During the following two weeks He visits or asks permission to visit 17 countries in Europe and the Americas. All of these countries either refuse to grant Him a visitor’s visa or revoke His visa upon His arrival, and force Him to leave. Some refuse even landing permission for His plane.
oshoMarch-June: On March 19 He travels to Uruguay. On May fourteenth the government has scheduled a press conference to announce that He will be given permanent residence in Uruguay. Uruguay’s President Sanguinetti later accepts that he received a telephone call from capital of the United States the night before the press conference. He is told that if Osho is allowed to stay in Uruguay, the six billion dollar debt Uruguay owes to the U.S. will be due immediately and no further loans will be granted. Osho is ordered to leave Uruguay on June 18th.
June-July: During the next month He is deported from both Jamaica and Portugal. In all, 21 countries had denied Him entry or deported Him after arrival. On July 29,1986, He returns to Mumbai, India.
1987 - 1989 Osho Commune International
oshoJanuary 1987: He returns to the ashram in Pune, India, which is renamed Rajneeshdham. The Indian government resumes its policy of denying visas to known friends of Osho.
July 1988: Osho begins, for the first time in 14 years, to personally lead the meditation at the end of each evening’s discourse. He also introduces a revolutionary new meditation technique called The Mystic Rose.
January-February 1989: He stops using the name “Bhagwan,” retaining only the name Rajneesh. However, His disciples ask to call Him ‘Osho’ and He accepts this form of address. Osho explains that His name is derived from William James’ word ‘oceanic’ which means dissolving into the ocean. Oceanic describes the experience, He says, but what about the experiencer? For that we use the word ‘Osho.’ At the same time, He came to find out that ‘Osho’ has also been used historically in the Far East, meaning “The Blessed One, on Whom the Sky Showers Flowers.”
March-June 1989: Osho is resting to recover from the effects of the poisoning, which by now are strongly influencing His health.
July 1989: His health is getting better and He makes two appearances for silent darshans during the Festival, now renamed Osho Full Moon Celebration.
August 1989: Osho begins to make daily appearances in Gautama the Buddha Auditorium for evening darshan. He inaugurates a special group of white-robed sannyasins called the “Osho White Robe Brotherhood.”All sannyasins and non-sannyasins attending the evening darshans are asked to wear white robes.
September 1989: Osho drops the name “Rajneesh,” signifying His complete discontinuity from the past. He is known simply as “Osho,” and the ashram is renamed “Osho Commune International.”
1990 Osho leaves His body
January 1990: During the second week in January, Osho’s body becomes noticeably weaker. On January 18, He is so physically weak that He is unable to come to Gautama the Buddha Auditorium. On January 19, His pulse becomes irregular. When His doctor inquires whether they should prepare for cardiac resuscitation, Osho says, “No, just let me go. Existence decides its timing.” He leaves His body at 5 p.m. At 7 p.m. His body is brought to Gautama the Buddha Auditorium for a celebration, and is then carried to the burning ghats for cremation. Two days later, His ashes are brought to Osho Commune International and placed in His samadhi in Chuang Tzu Auditorium with the inscription:
OSHO
11 December 1931 - 19 January 1990
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“I don’t think about the future at all, it is irrelevant. My whole effort is how to beautify this present moment, how to make people more celebrating, how to make people more joyous, how to give them a little glimpse of blissfulness, how to bring laughter to their life.”
- Osho
Osho On Ego
The ego is the core of one’s ignorance of the Self. All violence is born there; it is born within the ego. A man feels that he is everything and that the rest of the world exists for him alone. He sees himself as the center, as the focal point for all existence. The exploitation that is born of this egoism is what violence is.
Osho On Sex
IF SOMETHING IS PRECLUDING YOU TO MEDITATE OR THINKING AND REACHING YOUR GOD, IT MAY BE SEX. IT THAT HAPPENS THEN GO AHEAD AND DO IT. DO IT SO MUCH THAT IT CEASES TO BE AN ISSUE. THIS THEORY CAN BE APPLIED TO ANYTHING WHICH PRECLUDES YOU FROM MEDITATION. EXCESS OF SEX WILL DRIVE YOU AWAY FROM IT, TOWARDS THE MEDITATION.
Osho on Death:
Death cannot be the enemy, because it is part of existence. Existence has given birth to you. Existence is mothering you. And when you die, you simply go back to your original source, to rest and to be born again. There is no need to be afraid. YOU will not die, you will only disappear like a snowflake in the pure air. Your form will disappear into formlessness, the river will disappear
into the ocean, but it will not cease to exist. It will even become wider, vaster, it becomes ceanic.
Osho on Relationships
Buddha says the greatest joy in life is freedom: freedom from all prejudices, freedom from all scriptures, freedom from all concepts and ideologies, freedom from all desires, freedom from all possessiveness and jealousy, freedom from all hatred, anger, rage, lust… in short, freedom from everything, so that you are just a pure consciousness, unbounded, unlimited. That is the greatest joy, and it is possible — it is within everybody’s grasp. You just have to grope for it a little. The groping will be in the dark, but it is not far away. If you try, if you make an effort, you are bound to find it. It is your birthright.
The Dhammapada: The Way of The Buddha Vol. 6
An alive relationship is always changing. It has many climates, many moods. It has many surprises. A dead relationship remains stagnant. It is repetitive, it is the same, but then it is no more a relationship. Then you are not two persons, you are two things together. Of course two things never quarrel. The quarrel arises when two persons enter.
Darshan Diaries – A Rose Is A Rose
Be together but don’t ask for absolute togetherness. Avoid the absolute; everything is relative. Be a little more free and your relationship can go a long way, mm? Because if you are not creating trouble for him and he is not creating trouble for you, then there is nothing to disturb your relationship.
Darshan Diaries – The 99 Names Of Nothingness
Each relationship is a mirror. It reflects you. How can you know yourself without the mirror? There is no way. Others’ eyes become mirror-like, and when somebody loves you, that mirror is very, very sympathetic towards you; very, very happy with you; delighted with you. In those delighted eyes you are reflected and for the first time a certain acceptability arises.
Dang Dang Doko Dang
First be, then you can relate — and remember, to relate is beautiful. Relationship is a totally different phenomenon; relationship is something dead, fixed, a full point has arrived. You get married to a woman; a full point has arrived. Now things will only decline. You have reached the limit, nothing is growing any more. The river has stopped and it is becoming a reservoir. Relationship is already a thing, complete; relating is a process. Avoid relationships, and go deeper and deeper into relating.
The Book Of Wisdom
No relationship can satisfy, because every relationship begins with great hope, and that is not possible to be fulfilled. Yes, that hope can be fulfilled, but it can be fulfilled only when you have fallen in love with the whole. No part can fulfill it. When you have fallen in love with the total, when the merger happens with the total, only then will there be contentment. There will be nobody who is contented, there will be simply contentment. And then there is no end to it.
The Book Of Wisdom
Every relationship is only an arrow towards the ultimate relationship; it is a milestone, it is not a goal. Every love affair is just an indication of a bigger love affair ahead — just a little taste, but that little taste is not going to quench your thirst or satisfy your hunger. On the contrary, that little taste will make you more thirsty, will make you more hungry. That’s what happens in every relationship. Rather than giving you contentment, it gives you a tremendous discontentment. Each relationship fails in this world — and it is good that it fails; it would have been a curse if it was not so. It is a blessing that it fails.
The Book Of Wisdom
Relationship means something complete, finished, closed. Love is never a relationship; love is relating. It is always a river, flowing, unending. Love knows no full stop; the honeymoon begins but never ends. It is not like a novel that starts at a certain point and ends at a certain point. It is an ongoing phenomenon. Lovers end, love continues. It is a continuum. It is a verb, not a noun. And why do we reduce the beauty of relating to relationship? Why are we in such a hurry? — because to relate is insecure, and relationship is a security, relationship has a certainty. Relating is just a meeting of two strangers, maybe just an overnight stay and in the morning we say goodbye. Who knows what is going to happen tomorrow? And we are so afraid that we want to make it certain, we want to make it predictable. We would like tomorrow to be according to our ideas; we don’t allow it freedom to have its own say. So we immediately reduce every verb to a noun.
The Book Of Wisdom
Relationship is ugly, relating is beautiful. Relationship is one thing, interdependence totally another. Relationship means you are separate; you are independent and so is the other, and you decide to relate. Relationship is not interdependence, it is a contract between two independent persons. Hence all relationships are false, because basically independence is false. Nobody is independent — and if you are not independent how can you relate? With whom can you relate?
The Book Of Wisdom
A musical oneness… such a deep love that it consumes your ego. There are not two persons in relationship but only a harmonious whole, an energy field.
Beyond Enlightenment
That must be the basic responsibility of every alert being: Before I move in any relationship I must be unburdened. I should not carry a hangover; only then can I help the other to grow. Otherwise I will exploit, and the other will exploit me! Otherwise I will try to dominate and the other will try to dominate me. And it will not be a relationship, it cannot be love, it will be a subtle politics.
And The Flowers Showered
And we are so bothered about these things which are NOT. You are too bothered if you are ugly. You are too bothered if you are beautiful. The worry is created by something which is not. A relative thing is NOT. It is just a relationship, as if you have drawn a design in the sky, a flower of air. Even a bubble in water is more substantial than relativities. Who are you if you are alone? Nobody. Somebodiness comes in relationship with somebody.
And The Flowers Showered
But as you become more and more aware of MANY people, as you become related to many people, one thing becomes absolutely clear to you: that ALL men are alike — almost alike — so are all women. Then settling starts. Then you start settling with one woman, with one man, in a more intimate relationship.
Ah, This!
There are two types of relationship: one is of fight, fear, hatred — this creates ego — the other is of love, compassion, sympathy. These are the two types of relationship. Wherever love is, fight ceases, ego drops. This is why you cannot love. It is difficult, because to love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to be.
A Bird On The Wings
Between the friend and the enemy there is not much difference. With the friend your relationship is love-hate, and with the enemy, your relationship is hate-love. That’s the only difference — just the difference of emphasis. Love on top and hate hidden behind it — it is friendship. Hate has come on top and love has gone behind it — it is enmity.
I Say Unto You
I am against all kinds of relationships. For example, I don’t like the word “friendship,” but I love the word “friendliness.” Friendliness is a quality in you, friendship again becomes a relationship.
The Hidden Splendour
Osho’s Jokes
“What’s the best way to teach a girl to swim?” a friend asked Mulla Nasrudin.
“First you put your left arm around her waist,” said the Mulla. “Then you gently take her left hand and…”
“She’s my sister,” interrupted the friend.
“OH, THEN PUSH HER OFF THE DOCK,” said Nasrudin.
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Osho’s Famous Discources
- Kundalini Meditation
- God is Dead, Zen is the only living truth(Ironically his devotees named him as God! when he kept teaching that there is no god)
- Sambhog se samadhi kii oor - (Read only if you understand the difference between Sex talks and Sexual talks)
- Dynamic Meditation
- Love knows no Fear
- Philosophia U?ltima
- The Flowering of Meditation
- Innocence Regained
- Accept Yourself
- A Joke Of A Marriage
- Abundance
- Are Human Beings Some Cosmic Joke
- Be a Joke Unto Yourself
- Being Alone
- Beyond Psychology
- Change You Not Game
- Change
- Collectivity
- Communion With Pain
- Conditioning
- Drugs And Meditation
- Courage
- Enlightenment
- From Misery to Enlightenment
- Happiness
- How to Avoid Taking Yourself Too Seriously
- Intimacy
- Listen To The Wind
- Making A friend of Your Mind
- Misunderstandings Are the Key to Humor
- Natural Sex Is the Best Sex
- Questions Only You Know the Answer To
- The Foolishness of Intellect
- The Law Of Karma
- The Goal is Here
- The Mystery between the Sexes
- What Is The Art Of Living Totality
- What Is The Ego
- The Everest of Zen
- No Footprints in the Blue Sky
- The Lion’s Roar
- The Empty Mirror
- The Flowers Of Eternity
- Philosophia Perennis Vol 1, 2
- Returning to the Source
- The Book of Wisdom
- The Diamond Sutra
- The Rebellious Spirit
- Vigyan Bhairav Tantra
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