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If yes, then read on, we will tell you about the great Indian leader, the mystical inspirer who comprehended the highest secrets of life, the founder of a qualitatively new religious and cultural movement, Osho. The biography of this person deserves special attention. Although the great sage himself said that he had no biography, and over the past thirty-two years he was an absolute nothing. In the article you will read the most outstanding, interesting and surprising facts from the life of the great mentor.

Biography of Osho: Osho's golden childhood and youth

In the small Indian village of Kuchvade, in the state of Madhya Predesh, on December 11, 1931, a boy was born, who was named Chandra Mohan Jain. This is the official name of the future spiritual leader. His father was a textile trader. And over the next few years, ten more children were born into their family in succession. Chadra Mohan Jain was the eldest.

In his book “Glimpses of a Golden Childhood” Osho describes his village as a place where there was no post office or railway. He writes that there was a beautiful lake and small hills, the houses were covered with thatch. And the only brick house in the entire village was the one where Rajneesh himself was born, but this house was also small. There was not even a school in the village, for this reason Osho did not study until he was nine years old. And these years were the most valuable. Fifty years later, this village has not changed, there is no hospital or police, but no one gets sick there. Some people from these places have never seen a train or even a car in their lives, but they live quietly, blissfully and happily.

Your first seven years of life Osho lived with his dearly beloved maternal grandfather and grandmother. He was so attached to them that he called his grandmother mom. And he called his real mother “babi”, this term means “older brother’s wife.” His family belonged to the Jain religious community. The Jainism religion preaches non-violence, non-harm to all living things in the world, the main thing is the self-improvement of the soul to achieve omniscience and eternal bliss. It was the relatives who came up with the nickname Rajneesh or Raja for the boy, which means king.

When the boy was seven years old, death took away a very close and beloved person - his grandfather. It was a hard blow. Osho lay motionless on the sofa for three days, hoping to die. When this did not happen, he concluded for himself that death was impossible. The boy began to follow funeral processions in order to understand the essence of death, but this brought him nothing.

And at the age of fifteen he lost his girlfriend (cousin Shashi), she died of abdominal type. These deaths successively had a very strong impact on Rajneesh's mental state. He suffered from depression, headaches, melancholy, and tortured himself by running twenty kilometers a day and long meditations.

Osho studied well at school, but often clashed with teachers, skipped classes, disobeyed and provoked his classmates in every possible way.

Later in his literary works, Osho openly writes that he hates teachers, at least in the old sense. He even beat his teachers. In his youth, he was distinguished by arrogance and selfishness, impudent views, denial of all social norms and rules.

Education and work.

• Osho went to school at the age of 9.
• At the age of 19, Rajneesh began his studies in philosophy at Hitkarine College, but as a result of a conflict with one of the teachers, he left this educational institution, continuing his studies at Jain College.
• At the age of 24, Osho graduated from college, and a couple of years later, having received a diploma with honors, he emerged from the gates of Sagar University with a Master of Philosophy.
• Until 1966, Rajneesh taught philosophy to students, at the same time traveling around the world and giving speeches, preaching his views. There were conflicts with the leadership because of its too free atheistic views, denying any conventions, traditions and requirements of social norms.
• After 1966, Osho began to actively present the art of meditation to the world, preaching the full joy of physical life and enlightenment through meditation.

Meditation and absolute enlightenment.

From early childhood, Chandra conducted experiments on his own body, studying its endurance and other capabilities. He dived into the whirlpool funnel, reached its source and swam to the surface. I walked along a thin path over the abyss. He claimed that during such experiences his mind stops, and then complete clarity and awakening sets in.

In addition, he practiced various types. And so, as a result of these researches, at the age of 21, the young man first experienced “satori” (a state of absolute enlightenment, happiness). This is an experience that cannot be described in words. Buddha called this state “nirvana.” Osho himself believed that he died that night, and then was reborn again, and now he is a completely different person than he lived before.

Rajneesh experienced the effects of all possible meditations and created a new technique, “dynamic meditation,” which involves the use of loud music and random movements.

Osho first organized such a meditation in 1970 near Bombay. It was an incredible, shocking sight. People ran, jumped, shouted, screamed, and tore off their clothes. The point of this technique was relaxation, that is, in order to completely relax and free your mind, you first had to get a lot of tension, so that in the second part of the meditation, complete relaxation would be an intoxicating contrast.

The connection between sex and superconsciousness.

In 1968, Osho moved to Bombay and was invited to hold a conference on the theme of love. There, the sage proclaims his views on sexuality, explaining that sexual energy, when transformed, develops into meditation and love. And sexual satisfaction contributes to the release of kundalini energy. This is energy “coiled into a snake” that “lives” at the base of the spine in the area of ​​the coccyx.

Osho denies the need to suppress sexual desires, because, in his opinion, during forced abstinence, love and meditation are not possible. And accordingly, it is not possible to achieve superconsciousness and personal inner freedom.

He had a negative attitude towards marriage and having children, but preached free love and loneliness. He was loyal to drugs and alcohol.
With such views, he provokes anger and indignation of the public, and conversations on the topic of “love” have to be held in a narrower circle in the central park of Mumbai. Subsequently, based on these conversations, Osho’s most popular book, “From Sex to Superconsciousness,” was published. They even began to secretly call him “Sex Guru.”

In 1970, the guru held his meditation camps and initiated the first group of selected people into “neo-sansyan”. They must completely renounce the world, all their property and personal life, and take a vow of celibacy. They wear red clothes, beads and medallions with the image of the mentor himself.

Moving to Pune

In 1974, the great sage moved to live in the city of Pune. There he organizes an ashram (a refuge for his followers). Hundreds of people from all over the world come there to listen to Osho's talks. He touches on the themes of human consciousness, spiritual development, enlightenment, and explains the essence and meaning of the religions of the world. Based on his conversations, more than a thousand books have been published by authors from different countries.

Osho followed the path of forming a new man, Zorba the Buddha. This is the one who, accepting and enjoying all the gifts of life (Zorba), cultivated in himself a higher spiritual consciousness (Buddha). Every day the master held very beautiful conversations with his students and followers.

American commune.

For several years, Osho suffered from asthma and diabetes, his condition worsened significantly in 1981. Then he was taken to the USA for treatment. The great sage fell into silence. Rajneesh's followers organized the Rancho Rajneeshpuram commune on the territory they purchased. Osho lived there for four years with his students.

Gradually, Rajneeshpuram grew to a whole city of about five thousand people. And the desert area has turned into a real green oasis. Every summer, admirers of Osho’s philosophy from all over the world came there. It was a daring, unprecedented attempt to create a transnational communist society. During the five years of its existence, not a single child was born in the commune.

Researchers of the biography of Osho Rajneesh note that by the end of 1982, his fortune reached two hundred million dollars (due to various seminars, meditation practices, conferences and lectures), which were not subject to taxes (Osho hated taxes. There was a case when he was still working professor, he was offered a salary increase, but the sage refused, citing the fact that he did not want to pay taxes). In addition, his fleet consisted of about one hundred Rolls Royces; his followers wanted to increase their number to three hundred and sixty-five, one for each day of the year. The mentor owned four more airplanes and one helicopter.

During the period of silence of the great teacher, the assistant to his personal secretary, Ma Ananda Shila, took over the management of the commune. Osho himself lived as a guest, practically never leaving home and not participating in the management of the commune. In addition, he begins to have more and more health problems.

During Sheela's reign, disagreements and contradictions arise in the commune, causing some students to leave Rajneeshpuram. And the top management, led by Sheela, use illegal methods: drugs, poison, weapons, bioterrorism.

In 1984, Osho suddenly ended his vow of silence and began to talk.

According to one version, Osho himself claims Shila as other followers who disappeared from Rajnipuram. The FBI begins an investigation, finds a cache of weapons, drugs and even a secret passage at the ranch in case an escape is necessary. According to the testimony of the residents of the commune, all this was arranged by Sheela and her assistants. They were detained in 1985 and later convicted.

Opponents of Rajneesh's teachings adhered to the version that the teacher himself was the organizer of all the chaos that was happening in the commune, and Sheela was his accomplice.

Rajneesh himself is facing 34 charges, of which he admits only two - illegal emigration (he entered American territory on a tourist visa). Moreover, they are detaining him without a warrant and without an indictment.

In his conversations, the educator was sincerely perplexed as to how the US authorities could bring 34 charges against a man who spent four years in captivity, in complete silence. The mentor is sentenced to 10 years of suspended imprisonment, a fine and is required to leave the United States as soon as possible. During the 12 days Osho spent in American prisons, in his opinion, he significantly undermined his health and they even tried to poison him with thallium (a highly toxic heavy metal).

Osho's reputation was ruined, especially in the west. As a result, twenty-one states refused entry to the educator. Rajneesh's organization was classified as a destructive sect. In the USSR, his movement was strictly prohibited.

Travel around the world.

In 1986, the mystic goes on a journey around the world. Having visited the countries of Greece, Switzerland, England, Ireland, Canada, Holland, Uruguay, from most of which he was expelled (except Uruguay), he returns to Bombay. There his followers again began to gather around him in large numbers, and the master returned to Pune, where he organized the International Osho Commune. Conversations, celebrations, and the creation of new meditation practices began again.

Death of Osho

Rajneesh loved the Himalayas, he believed that this was the best place to die. It's wonderful to live there, but it's the best place on earth to die. He sincerely believed that death for him would not be a complete stop, death would be a holiday, a new birth.

Osho left his bodily shell in 1990 in Pune.

According to eyewitnesses, on January 19 he became ill, he refused medical help, his intuition told him that the Universe itself knew when and who should leave. He knew that he was about to die, quietly closed his eyes and left this world.

There are several versions of his death. Some believe that he died of a heart attack, others say that from AIDS, oncology or drugs.
But this is not the main thing, the main thing is that after the death of Rajneesh, the attitude towards his philosophy changed in India and throughout the world. He has come to be considered a very important spiritual teacher, and his teachings are revered and studied in many countries.

The Osho Times International magazine is published twice a month; it is published in nine languages ​​(Russian is not among them). Osho meditation centers and ashrams continue to operate in many countries around the world. In Moscow there are several Osho meditation centers (for example, the “Winds” center), founded by his followers.

Names during life.

During his life, the great mentor changed his names several times.

Basic commandments of Osho.

During his lifetime, Osho was against any rules or postulates. Once, when asked by a journalist about the Ten Commandments, the sage formulated the following for fun:

1. Never follow any commandments unless they come from yourself.
2. Life is the only god, and there are no other gods.
3. The truth is within you, there is no need to look for it in the outside world.
4. Love is nothing more than prayer.
5. The path to realizing the truth is to become nothing. Nothingness is the goal of enlightenment.
6. You need to live here and now.
7. Wake up. Live consciously.
8. There is no need to swim - you need to float.
9. Try to die in every moment, so that in every moment you can be new.
10. There is no need to look for anything. You need to stop and see. It is what it is.

The main ideas of his movement are the third, seventh, ninth and tenth commandments. It’s worth thinking about; they really have a deep meaning.

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Chandra Mohan Jan, aka Asharia Rajneesh, aka Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, aka Osho (Chandra Mohan Jai, Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh or Osho, 12/11/1931 - 01/19/1990) - Hindu mystic and spiritual teacher who has gathered many followers all over the world. His teachings preach the importance of meditation, attention, love, creativity and humor - all qualities, according to Osho, that are deliberately suppressed in people by traditional beliefs, religion and moral standards. Osho's principles greatly influenced the development of Western New Age; After the death of the mystic, the popularity of his teachings only increased.

Chandra Mohan Jain was born in the house of his mother's parents in Kuchawad, a small village in the Raise district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Chandra was the eldest of eleven children of a cloth merchant. Parents up to the age of seven left the child in the care of grandparents; according to Osho himself, this had a significant influence on his development - his grandmother gave him almost unlimited freedom, without trying to control him with norms, prohibitions or attempts to provide an education.

At the age of seven, Osho experienced the death of his beloved grandfather; the boy went to Gadarwara to visit his parents. It was difficult for him to bear the passing of a loved one; at the age of fifteen, Chandra again had to face death - his cousin Shashi died of typhus. It was these two tragedies that gave Osho his incredible preoccupation with issues of death; This concern lasted most of his childhood and youth.

At school, the boy established himself as a talented, although prone to rebellion, person; among other things, he performed excellently in debating matches. In his youth, Chandra became an atheist; for some time he was interested in hypnosis and collaborated first with the socialists, and then with two independent Indian movements at once - the Indian National Army and the Rashtriya Swayamsweak Sangh - the National Organization of Volunteers.

Since the beginning of 1988, Osho has concentrated his efforts mainly on Zen Buddhism. In December 1988, the mystic announced that he no longer wanted to be called Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh; in fact, it was then that the name Osho was born.

His health had deteriorated greatly by this time. The last time the mystic spoke in public was in April 1989; Subsequently, at public meetings, he only sat silently, surrounded by his students.

Shortly before his death, Osho stated that one of his listeners, who regularly attend evening meetings in the Pune ashram, was exposing him to some kind of black magic. The search for the villain began; they were not successful.

Osho died on January 19, 1990; he was fifty-eight years old at the time of his death. The cause of death, as officially stated, was heart failure. The ashes of the mystic were buried in one of the main buildings of the Pune ashram; the epitaph read: "OSHO. Never born. Never died. Only visited this planet in the period from December 11, 1931 to January 19, 1990."

In 1951, at the age of nineteen, Osho entered Hitkarini College in Jabalpur. After a series of conflicts with teachers, he was asked to leave the institution; Chandra found a new refuge for himself at D. N. Jana College in the same Jabalpur.

Spiritual enlightenment overtook Osho on March 21, 1953. Chandra at that moment went out to the Bhanvartal garden in Jabalpur for the night, sat under a tree and meditated. Some higher power showed him one specific tree; meditation under it gave Osho spiritual wisdom.

Over the next years, Jan was a simple professor of philosophy, traveling around India in the sixties with a course of lectures. He actively protested against socialism, Mahatma Gandhi and the bureaucratic religious system; In addition, Osho actively preached a freer approach to human sexuality - this earned him the title of a kind of “sex guru”, first in India and then throughout the world. In the seventies, the mystic found refuge for some time in Mumbai; It was there that he began to actively recruit students. The new movement became known as "neo-sannyasins". Chandra actively interpreted religious dogma and the writings of mystics and philosophers from around the world. In 1974, he moved to Pune, where he founded a new ashram - which, among other things, was attended by many Western seekers of wisdom. The ashram offered a number of fundamentally new healing techniques, which were a logical development of the ideas of the Human Potential Movement, as presented for Western listeners. Very soon people started talking about the ashram all over India, and then abroad; The reason for the success, among other things, was the soft policy of the state towards such organizations and the oratorical talent of Osho himself. By the end of the seventies, however, even the tolerant Indian government was unable to tolerate the activities of the guru calmly.

In 1981, Osho moved to the USA; His followers also followed him. They settled in a newly created community, later called "Rajneeshpuram" in Oregon. About a year later, the community leadership began to have problems with the locals - the main cause of conflict was land rights. Both parties behaved quite aggressively during the proceedings. Many uncomfortable questions were also raised by the fact that the spiritual leader of the community had a huge collection of Rolls-Royces. In 1985, the Oregon commune was closed - facts were revealed confirming the repeated commission of a number of serious crimes by the leadership of Rajneshuparam - for example, their involvement in a biological attack (food poisoning) in Dulles was proven. Soon Osho himself was arrested; he started having problems with the immigration service. As part of the plea deal, the guru was deported from the United States. Twenty-one countries around the world refused him entry; After traveling for some time, Chandra returned to Pune. It was there that the great mystic died. At the moment, his ashram is still functioning under the name "Osho International Meditation Resort".

December 11, 1931 - January 19, 1990

Osho was born on December 11, 1931 in Kushwad (Central India). His family loved him very much, especially his grandfather, who gave him the name “Raja”, which means “king”. He spent his entire childhood in his grandfather's house. His father and mother took him in only after the death of his grandfather and grandmother. Before school, the boy was given a new name: Rajneesh Chandra Mohan.

His biographer writes: “The birth of Rajneesh was not an ordinary event. This was the birth of a man who had previously come to Earth in search of truth. He traveled innumerable ways, passed through many schools and systems. His previous birth was 700 years ago in the mountains where his mystical school was located, which attracted many students of different traditions and beliefs from many different countries. Then the Master lived 106 years. Before his death, he began a 21-day fast, which was supposed to lead him to enlightenment. But he had a choice - he could take one more birth before his final disappearance into eternity. He looked at his family of disciples: among them there were many who had stopped on their path and needed help. He also saw the great potential that was to arise from the synthesis of East and West, body and soul, materialism and spirituality. He saw the possibility of creating a new man - a man of the future, completely cut off from the past. He, who had come so close to the ultimate achievement, for which he had worked hard for many lifetimes, decided to incarnate again in a human body. Because of his pure love and compassion, he promised his disciples to return and share his truth with them, to help them bring their consciousness to a state of awakening.”

This promise determined his entire life. From early childhood he was interested in spiritual development, studied his body and its capabilities, and constantly experimented with various methods of meditation. He did not follow any traditions and did not seek teachers. The basis of his spiritual search was experiment. He looked very closely at life, especially at its critical, extreme points. He did not believe in any theories or rules and always rebelled against the prejudices and vices of society. “Courage and fearlessness were the wonderful qualities of Rajneesh,” said his childhood friend. He loved the river very much and often stayed on it at night, swimming in the most dangerous places and diving into whirlpools. He later said: “If you fall into a whirlpool, you will be caught, you will be pulled to the bottom, and the deeper you go, the stronger the whirlpool will become. The natural tendency of the ego is to fight it, because the whirlpool looks like death. The ego tries to fight the whirlpool, and if you fight it in a rising river or near a waterfall, where there are many such whirlpools, you will inevitably disappear, because the whirlpool is very strong. You won't be able to overcome it.

But the whirlpool has one phenomenon: on the surface it is large, but the deeper you go, the narrower the whirlpool becomes - stronger, but narrower. And almost at the very bottom the funnel is so small that you can very easily get out of it without any struggle. In fact, near the bottom, the funnel itself will throw you out. But you will wait for the bottom. If you fight on the surface, if you do anything for it, you cannot survive. I have tried with many whirlpools: this experience is wonderful.”

The experience in the whirlpools was similar to the experience of death. Little Rajneesh had an early brush with death. When he was five years old, his younger sister died, and at the age of seven he experienced the death of his beloved grandfather. Astrologers predicted that he would face death every seven years: at seven, fourteen and twenty-one. And although he did not die physically, his experiences of death during these years were the deepest. This is what he experienced after the death of his grandfather: “When he died, I felt that it would be a betrayal to eat. Now I didn't want to live. It was childhood, but something very profound happened through it. For three days I lay and did not move. I couldn't get out of bed. I said: “If he died, I don’t want to live. I survived, but those three days were a death experience. I died then, and I came to understand (now I can talk about it, although at that time it was only a vague experience), I came to the feeling that death is impossible...”

At the age of 14, knowing about the astrologer's prediction, Rajneesh came to a small hidden temple and lay there awaiting his death. He did not want her, but he wanted to face his death consciously if it did come. Rajneesh asked the priest not to disturb him and to bring him some food and drink once a day. This extraordinary experience took place over the course of seven days. Actual death did not occur, but Rajneesh did everything possible to “become like a dead man.” He went through several scary and unusual experiences. From this experience he learned that once death is accepted as a reality, its acceptance immediately creates a distance, a point from which one can observe the flow of events in life as a spectator. This lifts him above the pain, sadness, anguish and despair that usually accompany this event. “If you accept death, then there is no fear. If you cling to life, fear will be with you.” Having gone through the experience of the deceased being intensely and meditatively, he says: “I died along the way, but I came to understand that there is still something immortal here. One day you will accept death totally and you will become conscious of it.”

The third time this happened was on March 21, 1953, when Rajneesh was 21 years old. On this day, enlightenment happened to him. It was like an explosion. “That night I died and was reborn. But the person who is reborn has nothing in common with the one who died. It is not a continuous thing... The person who has died has died totally; there is nothing left of him... not even a shadow. The ego died completely, completely... On that day, March 21, a personality who had lived many, many lives, millennia, simply died. Another being, completely new, completely unrelated to the old, began to exist... I became free from the past, I was torn out of my history, I lost my autobiography.”

At this point, Rajneesh's story effectively ends. The man, whose name was Rajneesh Chandra Mohan, died at the age of 21, and at the same time a miracle happened: a new enlightened man was reborn, completely free of ego. (It should be noted that enlightenment is not a concept that can be explained in known logical terms. It is rather an experience that transcends any verbal description. Buddha, the most famous Enlightened man on earth, called it “nirvana.”)

After this event, Rajneesh's external life did not change. He continued his studies at Jabalpur College in the philosophy department. In 1957 he graduated from Saugar University, receiving a diploma with honors, a gold medal and a Master of Philosophy degree. Two years later he became a lecturer in philosophy at Jabalpur University. He was loved by students for his humor, sincerity and uncompromising desire for freedom and truth. During his 9-year university career, Osho traveled throughout India, often traveling 15 days a month. A passionate and skilled debater, he constantly challenged orthodox religious leaders. Addressing an audience of 100 thousand, Osho spoke with the authority emanating from his enlightenment, he destroyed blind faith to create true religiosity.

In 1966, Osho left the university department and devoted himself entirely to spreading the art of meditation and his vision of a new man - Zorba the Buddha, a man who synthesizes the best features of East and West, a man who is able to enjoy a full-blooded physical life and is able to simultaneously sit silently in meditation, achieving peaks of consciousness.

1968 Osho settled in Bombay and soon the first Western seekers of spiritual truth began to come to him. Among them were many specialists in the field of therapy, representatives of humanistic movements, wanting to take the next step in their growth. The next step, as Osho said, was meditation.

Osho experienced his first glimpses of meditation as a child, when he jumped from a high bridge into a river, or walked along a narrow path over an abyss. There were a few moments when the mind stopped. This caused an unusually clear perception of everything around him, his presence in it, and complete clarity and separateness of consciousness. These experiences, experienced repeatedly, aroused Osho's interest in meditation and prompted him to look for more accessible methods. Subsequently, he not only tested all the meditations known since ancient times, but also came up with new, revolutionary techniques specifically designed for modern man. These meditations are commonly called “dynamic meditations” and are based on the use of music and movement. Osho brought together elements of yoga, Sufism and Tibetan traditions, which made it possible to use the principle of energy transformation through the awakening of activity and subsequent calm observation.

Osho first demonstrated his morning dynamic meditation in April 1970 at a meditation camp near Bombay. That day everyone was stunned and fascinated at the same time. Indian journalists were amazed to see the participants screaming, screaming and tearing off their clothes - the whole scene was fatal and very intense. But just as strong was the tension in the first, intense stage, just as deep was the relaxation in the second part, leading to complete peace, unattainable in ordinary life.

Osho explained: “For 10 years I worked continuously with the methods of Lao Tzu, that is, I continuously studied direct relaxation. It was very simple for me and so I decided that it would be simple for anyone. Then, time after time, I began to understand that this was impossible... I, of course, said “relax” to those whom I taught. They understood the meaning of this word, but could not relax. Then I decided to come up with new methods of meditation that first create tension - even more tension. They create such tension that you become simply crazy. And then I say “relax.”

What is “meditation”? Osho spoke a lot about meditation. Based on his conversations, many books have been compiled, in which all aspects of meditation are discussed in great detail, from the technique of execution to explanations of the subtlest internal nuances. Here is a short excerpt from the “Orange Book”.

“The first thing you need to know is what meditation is. Everything else will follow. I cannot tell you that you should do meditation, I can only tell you what it is. If you understand me, you will be in meditation and there is no should. If you don't understand me, you won't be in meditation.

Meditation is a state of “no-mind”. Meditation is a state of pure consciousness without content. Usually your mind is too full of nonsense, just like a mirror covered with dust. The mind is a constant bustle - thoughts move, desires move, memories move, ambitions move - it's a constant crush. The day comes, the day goes. Even when you are sleeping, the mind is functioning, it is dreaming. It's still thinking, it's still worrying and sadness. He prepares for the next day, continues his underground preparations.

This is the state of non-meditation. Just the opposite is meditation. When there is no crowd and thinking has stopped, no thought moves, no desire is held back, you are completely silent... such silence is meditation. And in this silence the truth is known, never again.

Meditation is a state of “no-mind”. And you will not be able to find meditation with the help of the mind, because the mind itself will move. You can find meditation only by putting the mind aside, becoming cold, indifferent, unidentified with the mind, seeing the mind passing by but not identifying with it, not thinking that “I am it.”

Meditation is the realization that “I am not the mind.” As this awareness goes deeper and deeper, little by little there appear moments-moments of silence, moments of pure space, moments of transparency, moments when nothing is held in you and everything is permanent. In these moments you will learn who you are, you will learn the secret of existence.

A day is coming, a day of great bliss, when meditation becomes your natural state.”

Elsewhere Osho says: “Only meditation can make humanity civilized, because meditation will release your creativity and remove your tendency to destroy.”

Being an enlightened person, Osho realized more clearly than others the fragility of the current existence of humanity on Earth. Constant wars, savage treatment of nature, when more than a thousand species of plants and animals die out every year, entire forests are cut down and seas are dried up, the presence of nuclear weapons of enormous destructive power - all this puts man on the line beyond which there is complete extinction.

“Life has brought us to a point where the choice is extremely simple: only two paths, two possibilities. Humanity will either commit suicide or decide to meditate, to be in peace, tranquility, humanity, love.

Live naturally, live peacefully, turn inward. Spend some time alone and silently observing the inner workings of your mind.

In this inner silence you will experience a new dimension of life. There is no greed, no anger, no violence in this dimension. Love will appear, and in such abundance that you will not be able to contain it, it will begin to pour out of you in all directions.” And meditation gives a person such a state.

In 1974, Osho moved to Pune, where, together with his sannyasin students, he opened an ashram in the beautiful Koregaon Park. Over the next 7 years, hundreds of thousands of seekers from all over the world come there to experience new Osho meditations and listen to his conversations. In his conversations, Osho touches on all aspects of human consciousness, shows the innermost essence of all existing religions and systems of spiritual development. Buddha and Buddhist teachers, Sufi masters, Jewish mystics, Indian classical philosophy, Christianity, yoga, tantra, Zen... Here are a few of his books: “The Mustard Seed. Conversations about the sayings of Jesus”, “Wisdom of the Sands. Conversations about Sufism”, “Buddha: the emptiness of the heart”, “Parables of Zen”, “Tantra: the highest understanding”, “True sage. About Hasidic parables”, “Psychology of the esoteric”, “Book of secrets”, “Priests and politicians (mafia of the soul)”, “The new man is the only hope for the future”, “Meditation is the first and last freedom”, “Meditation: the art of inner ecstasy "

Osho says about his books: “My message is not a doctrine, not a philosophy. My message is a certain alchemy, the science of transformation, so only those who have the will to die as they are now and be born again into something so new that you can't even imagine it now... only a few such brave people will be ready to be heard, because hearing will lead to risk, you will have to take the first step towards revival. This is not a philosophy that you can put on yourself and start bragging about it. This is not a doctrine with the help of which you can find answers to the questions that bother you... No, my message is not verbal contact. It's much more risky. It is nothing more or less than death and rebirth...”

Many people from all over the Earth felt this and found the strength and courage to touch this source and begin their own transformation. Those who are finally confirmed in this decision accept sannyas. The sannyas that Osho gives is different from the traditional one. This is neo-sannyas.

Former sannyasins - people who completely devoted themselves to spiritual practice, went to monasteries or secluded places and studied together with their Master, reducing contact with the outside world to a minimum. Neo-sannyas Osho does not require this. Neo-sannyas is not a renunciation of the world, but rather a renunciation of the madness of the modern mind that creates divisions between nations and races, drains the Earth's resources into weapons and wars, destroys the environment for profit, and teaches its children to fight and dominate others. Modern sannyasins, Osho's students, are in the thick of life, doing the most ordinary things, but at the same time they regularly engage in spiritual practice and, first of all, meditation, combining material life with spiritual life, synthesizing the love of life of the Greek Zorba and the height of spiritual consciousness Buddha. This is how a new man is formed - Zorba the Buddha, a man who will be free from the madness of the modern mind. According to Osho, “a new man is the only hope for the future.”

One who becomes a sannyasin receives a new name as a symbol of commitment to meditation and a break with the past. The name, usually derived from Sanskrit or Indian words, contains indications of a person’s potential capabilities or a specific path. Women receive the prefix “Ma” - an indication of the highest qualities of female nature to cherish and take care of themselves and others. Men receive the prefix “Swami,” which Osho translates as “self-mastered.”

Osho met with his students every day, except for periods when he was ill. His conversations were very beautiful. This is how Swami Chaitanya Kabir describes his meeting with the Master:

“We sit quietly listening; He enters with his hands folded in greeting. The lecture begins with some simple stunning statement. And the morning flows into us. Energy flows around words, Ideas, stories, jokes, questions, Weaving them into a grand symphony, The container of everything. Mocking, great, blasphemous, holy... - And always in contact with our consciousness, At the right moment leading us straight to the center. Themes develop on their own, Taking an unexpected turn, Reflecting in clarity into something opposite And returning back. He speaks until we can no longer hear his words In the deafening growing silence. The surf is roaring everywhere. “That’s enough for today!” He comes out smiling, folded hands send greetings to everyone, we sit.”

1981 For many years Osho suffered from diabetes and asthma. In the spring his condition worsened and he plunged into a period of silence. On the recommendation of doctors, in June of this year he was taken to the United States for treatment.

Osho's American disciples bought a 64,000-acre ranch in Central Oregon and founded Rajneeshpuram there. Osho came there in August. During the 4 years that Osho lived there, Rajneeshpuram became the most daring experiment in creating a transnational spiritual commune. Every summer, 15,000 people from Europe, Asia, South America and Australia came to the festival held there. As a result, the commune became a prosperous city with a population of 5,000 people.

1984 Just as suddenly as he stopped speaking, Osho spoke again in October. He spoke about love, meditation and human unfreedom in a crazy, heavily conditioned world. He accused priests and politicians of corrupting human souls and destroying human freedom.

“I raise my hand against the past of all humanity. It was not civilized, it was not humane. It did not in any way contribute to the flourishing of people. It wasn't spring. It was a real disaster, a crime committed on such a huge scale that we renounce our past, we begin to live according to our own being and create our own future. ...The people gathered around me are learning how to be happier, more meditative, how to laugh more joyfully, live more actively, love deeper and bring love and laughter to the whole world. This is the only defense against nuclear weapons. We are not creating armies here to conquer the world. We are creating a commune of individuals who have their own spirituality, because I want these individuals to be free, responsible, vigilant and conscious people, not allowing anyone to dictate to them, but also not imposing anything on anyone.”

From the very beginning of the experiment to create a commune, federal and local authorities tried to destroy it in any way possible. Subsequently, documents confirmed that the White House participated in these attempts.

In October 1985, the American government accused Osho of violating immigration laws and took him into custody without any warning. He was held in custody for 12 days in handcuffs and shackles and was denied bail. He suffered physical harm in prison. According to subsequent medical examinations, he was exposed to a life-threatening dose of radiation in Oklahoma and was also poisoned with thalium. When a bomb was discovered in the Portland prison where Osho was being held, he was the only one who was not evacuated.

Concerned for Osho's life, his lawyers agreed to admit that he had violated immigration law, and Osho left America on November 14. The commune fell apart.

The US government was not content with violating its own constitution. When Osho, at the invitation of his disciples, went to other countries, the United States, using its influence in the world, tried to influence other countries so that Osho's work would be disrupted wherever he went. As a result of this policy, 21 countries banned Osho and his companions from entering their borders. And these countries consider themselves free and democratic!

In July 1986, Osho returned to Bombay and his disciples began to gather around him again. In January 1987, as the number of people coming to him grew rapidly, he returned to Pune, where by that time the International Osho Commune had been formed. Daily beautiful discourses, meditation weekends, and holidays began again. Osho creates several new meditations. He called one of them, “The Mystical Rose,” “the greatest breakthrough in meditation 2500 years after the Vipassana meditation of Gautama Buddha.” Thousands of people have taken part in the Mystic Rose Meditation, not only at the Pune commune, but also at Osho meditation centers around the world. “I have created many meditations, but this one may be the most essential and fundamental. It can reach the whole world.”

The meditation lasts 21 days as follows: one week participants laugh for 3 hours a day, the second week they cry for 3 hours a day, the third week they silently observe and witness for 3 hours a day. During the first two stages, those involved simply laugh and cry for no reason, passing through layers of stiffness, depression and pain. This clears the space in which silent witnessing will happen later. After cleansing with laughter and tears, it is easier not to identify or get lost in everything that happens: in thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations.

Osho explains: “All of humanity has gone a little “crazy” for the simple reason that no one laughs from the heart, completely. And you suppressed so much sadness, so much despair and anxiety, so many tears - they all remained, covering you, enveloping you and destroying your beauty, your grace, your joy. All you have to do is go through these two layers. Then, while witnessing, simply open clear skies.”

This meditation, like many others, is therapeutic in nature. Scientific research done during and after the Mystic Rose group meditation has shown that participants experience profound and permanent changes in many areas of their lives. They consist of deep inner relaxation, a decrease in psychosomatic illnesses and an increasing ability to feel and express one's emotions in everyday life and at the same time to be detached from these emotions - to become a witness to one's experiences.

Now there are many other therapeutic groups in the Osho International Commune. All of them are united into the Osho Multiversity. As part of the Multiversity: School of Centering, School of Creative Arts. International Academy of Health, Academy of Meditation, Center for Transformation, Institute of Tibetan Pulsations, etc. Each school offers its own program aimed at developing a person’s spiritual qualities. The leaders of the schools are people from different countries who share and support Osho’s views on man and his place in this world.

The Osho Times International magazine is published twice a month, which is distributed throughout the world and is published in nine languages ​​(except Russian). There is an international Osho connection - a computer network between meditation centers and Osho ashrams in different countries.

Osho left his body on January 19, 1990. He was often asked the question, what will happen when he dies? Here is Osho's response to Italian television, transmitted through his personal secretary:

“Osho relies and trusts existence. He never thinks about the next moment. If everything is good at this moment, then the next moment flows from this and will be even richer.

It doesn't want to become a prison like other religions do. He even dropped the word “Bhagwan”, just because one of the meanings of this word is “God”. The moment someone is God, then of course you are a slave, a created being. They can destroy you without asking. Even the stars disappear, but what about human life?

He doesn't want any of this to resemble religion in any way. His work focuses on the individual and his freedom, and in the end it is one world, without any restrictions of color, race or nationality.

You are asking what will happen when Osho dies. He is not God and he does not believe in any prophets, prophecies or messiah. They were all selfish people. Therefore, whatever he can do at this moment, he does. What happens after he leaves he leaves to the will of existence. His trust in existence is absolute. If there is any truth to what he says, it will survive. Therefore, he calls his sannyasins not followers, but travel companions.

He said clearly: “Don't cling to the past. Continue searching. You can find the right person because you have already had a taste.” And this question is strange. Nobody asked what would happen when Einstein died. Existence is so limitless and so inexhaustible that people grow as naturally as trees, unless they are mutilated by society. If they are not destroyed by people for their own purposes, then they will bloom on their own, Osho does not offer any program. On the contrary, he wants everyone to be deprogrammed. Christianity is a program. His job is to deprogram people and make their minds clear so they can grow on their own. Support is welcome, but no demands.

Absurd questions are always asked by people who think that they rule the world, Osho is simply part of the Universe. And everything will continue fine without him. It's not a problem. And he will be happy that there is no religion, and no one will proclaim himself a successor when he leaves. If anyone declares himself his successor, he must be avoided. Such people destroyed Buddha, Christ, Krishna.

Everything he can do, he does. There is no specific plan that needs to be implanted in your mind. This creates fanatics. Every individual is unique, so no program can make humanity happy, because then they wear other people's clothes and shoes that don't fit them. All humanity is like clowns.

The people who remain interested in his work will simply carry the torch. But they will not impose anything on anyone, neither with bread nor with sword. He will remain a source of inspiration. for us. And this is what most sannyasins will feel. He wants us to grow on our own...Qualities like love, which no church can be built around, like awareness, a quality that no one can monopolize, such as celebration, joy, a fresh childlike perspective. He wants people to know themselves, regardless of anyone else's opinion. And the path leads inward. There is no need for an outside organization or church.

Osho is for freedom, individuality, creativity, for making our Earth even more beautiful, for living in this moment, and not waiting for heaven. Do not be afraid of hell and do not be greedy for heaven. Just be here in silence and enjoy while you are. Osho’s whole philosophy is that he strives in any way to destroy everything that later becomes slavery: authorities, groups, leaders - all these are diseases that must be completely avoided.”

Osho did not write books. All published books are recordings of his conversations with his students. The energy of the listeners, their preparedness and interest determined the direction of the conversation. These conversations reflect the relationship between the Master and his students, their mutual penetration.

“These words are alive. They contain the beat of my heart. This is not a teaching. My words are a knock on your door so you can get home. Accept my gift."

Modern man is constantly in a state of doing something, absorbed in worries, plans, ideas, expectations - and there is simply no place in him where he can stop and take a break. The mind is racing and it is difficult for it to remain balanced. It is like a pendulum, now to the right, now to the left. The mind moves from one extreme to the other; it cannot be whole because it consists of polarities. Intelligence is not simplicity, it is complexity, it is madness. When a person is balanced, the mind disappears.

Indian philosopher Chandra Mohan Rajneesh(Hindi) or Osho invites us to put aside our mind and our logical thinking, and become an empty vessel. Then we'll get rid of ours ego and he will come enlightenment.

To be empty you don't have to do anything. There is something inside us soul and to get to it, you need to let go of your critical mind. There is no need to think about how to achieve emptiness; this will only lead to confusion. Osho uses contradiction as a technique with which you can reach any personality type. It shocks us out of our comfortable cages so that we can awaken, realize and change. As soon as the mind begins to doubt, it loses its confidence, and this is the starting point of falling into emptiness.

“You came to me. You took a dangerous step. It’s risky, because next to me you can get lost forever. I look like an abyss.”, warns Osho. But, Without losing yourself, you can't get anything worthwhile. Man is his own obstacle. He is so full of himself that nothing can penetrate him. Its doors are closed. When he frees himself from himself, he opens himself. This is what they call Tao.

Usually a person lives in memories of the past or in anticipation of the future, only occasionally touching the present. Osho shows us the door behind which "true life" and the discovery of the world of eternity within oneself. He insists on personal experiences of truth, which he places much higher than knowledge and beliefs borrowed from others. He said: “My message is not a doctrine, not a philosophy. My message is a kind of alchemy, a science of transformation, so only those who can die as they are and be reborn so renewed that they cannot even imagine it now... only those few brave souls will be ready to hear, for to hear is to take risks.".

Numerous lectures and conversations by Osho are recorded on video and in books, which are original revelations of existence. The most famous of them are " About Men", "mustard seed", "About the Woman", "Love. Freedom. Loneliness", "Kyosan. True Zen Master", "Dhammapada. Stars are born from chaos", "In search of the miraculous"The depth and clarity of his thoughts amaze and captivate from the first words heard.

Osho said about himself that he came to wake up a person, and not to teach. He believed that words and conversations have no value, and only the empty spaces between spoken words are valuable. Words is just a tool to help open emptiness. And the paradox is that when you are empty you are filled. If you are full of yourself, you cannot accept anything from outside. "Your minds are so small that they cannot perceive the divine." Empty yourself of suffering, anger, ego, jealousy, torment, pain, pleasure, Osho urges. Blessing is only possible in emptiness. Only the whole can achieve bliss, the part never. And wholeness is achieved through emptiness, which can be comprehended in meditation. Meditation- this is going beyond the limits of the mind. Meditation is getting closer to your essence.

"A man of our time," Osho said, - is so burdened with the frozen traditions of the past and the burdens of everyday life that he must go through a process of deep purification before he can hope to enter into a thought-free, relaxed state of meditation.".

Osho popularized and adapted Sufi whirling and dhikrs for modern people. Moreover, he suggested more than 100 types of meditations, including kundalini meditation, nataraj, nadabram and others. Osho's most famous practice was Dynamic Meditation.

Dynamic Meditation- this is an explosion, this is a splashing out. This is a celebration, dance, joy and gratitude to the world. Meditation covers the body, the heart, the mind, and what is beyond our mind. Enjoying the state of no-mind is a great harmony within a person.

Osho believed that mental health is a movement towards what is natural, what is behind us. Throughout life, a person identifies himself with a certain form. Osho teaches you to be beyond form. There is only one truth - the truth of joy, life and happiness. Understanding this gives freedom. When "The clock stops, time disappears: and with this stopping of the clock, the mind disappears. If time has stopped, where are you? The boat is empty".