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Swami Vivekananda died at the age of 38 weighing 120 kg and diagnosed with diabetes mellitus.

Ramakrishna: died at the age of 45 with a diagnosis of throat cancer.

Suffered from hallucinatory-paranoid syndrome

Sri Swami Sivananda: diabetes and obesity.

Sri Aurobindo- had tuberculosis and nephritis, died of CRF.

Moriheya Ueshibu, creator of aikido, died at 74, liver cancer.

Masutatsu Oyama, creator of Kyokushin karate, died at 71, lung cancer.

Carlos Castaneda, died at age 73, liver cancer.

Gurdjieff died at age 72 due to a serious car accident.

Sri Chinmoy- died of a heart attack on Thursday at the age of 76.

Sri Ramana Maharishi died at 71 from cancer

Blavatsky died at age 60 during a flu epidemic

She suffered from dropsy, thrombophlebitis, asthma, frequent bouts of hallucinations

Rudolf Steiner lived only 64 years

Krishnamurti died of cancer.

Roerich died at 73 due to severe lung disease

Helena Roerich died after a long and serious illness at the age of 76.

Suffered from chronic catarrh of the stomach, coronary heart disease

Porfiry Korneevich Ivanov Suffered from binges, cancerous

disease, thermoneurosis.

Idries Shah lived 72 years suffered two extensive

heart attack.

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And now Osho:

If faith can move mountains, why can't you heal your own body?

I don't have any body. Feeling that you have a body is absolutely wrong. The body belongs to the universe, you don't have it, it's not yours. So if the body is sick or if the body is healthy, the universe will take care of it. And the meditating person should remain a witness to whether the body is healthy or diseased. Wanting to be healthy is part of ignorance. The desire not to be sick is also part of ignorance. And this is not a new question - it is one of the oldest questions. It has been asked about Buddha, it has been asked about Mahavira, ever since there have been enlightened people, the unenlightened have always asked this question.

Look... Jesus said that faith can move mountains, but he died on the cross. He could not move the cross. You, or someone like you, must have been there, waiting. The disciples waited because they knew Jesus, and he said many times that faith can move mountains. So they expected some miracle to happen - and Jesus just died on the cross. But that was the miracle, he could be a witness to his own death. And the moment of witnessing one's own death is the greatest moment of being alive.

The Buddha died of food poisoning. He suffered continuously for six months and at the same time there were many disciples who were waiting for him to perform a miracle. But he suffered quietly and died quietly. He accepted death. There were disciples who tried to cure him, they gave him many medicines. The great physician of those days, Jivaka, was the personal physician of the Buddha. He usually accompanied him wherever he went. People must have asked many times, "Why is this Jeevaka walking with you?" But that was out of Jivaka's own attachment. Jivaka went with the Buddha because of his own attachment, and the disciples who tried to help the Buddha's body stay alive longer in this world, if only for a few more days, were also attached. For the Buddha himself, sickness and health were one and the same.

This does not mean that the disease does not cause pain. Causes! Pain is a physical phenomenon, it will happen. But it will not disturb the inner consciousness. The inner consciousness will remain undisturbed, it will remain as balanced as ever. The body will suffer, but the inner being will remain only a witness to all this suffering. There will be no identification - and this is what I call a miracle. This is possible through faith. And there is no mountain greater than identification - remember. The Himalayas are nothing, your identification with your body is a bigger mountain. You can move or not move the Himalayas by faith, it doesn't matter, but your identification can be destroyed. But we can't imagine anything we don't know, we can only think according to our minds. We think according to where we are, the way of thinking remains the same. Sometimes my body is sick, and people come to me and say, "Why are you sick? You shouldn't be sick, an enlightened person shouldn't be sick." But who told you that it is? I have never heard of any enlightened person who was not sick. Disease belongs to the body. It has nothing to do with your consciousness or whether you are enlightened or not. And sometimes it happens that enlightened people get sick more than unenlightened ones. There are reasons for that. Now that they do not belong to the body, they do not cooperate with the body, deep down they have torn themselves away from the body. Thus the body remains, but the attachment and the bridge are broken. Many illnesses are due to separation. They stay in the body but no longer cooperate with it. That is why we say that an enlightened person will never be born again - because now he can no longer bridge to any body. The bridge is broken. While still in the body, he is actually already dead.

The Buddha attained enlightenment when he was about forty. He died when he was eighty, so he lived another forty years. On the day of his death, Ananda wept and said, "What will become of us? Without you we will fall into darkness. You are dying and we have not yet become enlightened. Our own light has not yet been lit and you are dying. Don't leave us!" The Buddha is said to have said to him, "What? What are you talking about, Ananda? I died forty years ago. This existence was only a ghostly existence, a shadow existence. It continued somehow, but there was no power in it. It was only inertia." from the past." If you pedal a bicycle, and then stop pedaling it, do not cooperate with the bicycle in any way, then at one time it will continue to move simply by inertia, on the energy that you gave it in the past.

The moment one becomes enlightened, cooperation is interrupted. Now the body will take its course. It has momentum. It has received a push from many past lives. It has its own lifespan that will end, but now, since it no longer has inner strength, the body tends to hurt more than usual. Ramakrishna died of cancer, Ramana died of cancer. This was a great shock to the disciples, but due to their ignorance, they could not understand it.

One more thing needs to be understood. When a person becomes enlightened, that will be his last life. Therefore, all past karmas and their entire extent must be realized in this life. Suffering - if he has something to suffer for - will become intense. There is no hurry for you, your suffering will be distributed over many lifetimes. But for someone like Ramana, this life is the last. All that is from the past must be completed. Everything will be intense, all karmas. This life will become a condensed life. It is difficult to understand, but sometimes in one moment you can suffer the suffering of many lives. In an instant, the intensity becomes like this... because time can be condensed or stretched.

You already know what happens so that you sleep and dream, and when you wake up again you know that you slept for only a few seconds. But you had such a long dream. In one single dream, you can even see a whole life. What happened? In such a short period of time, how could you have such a long dream? There is not only one layer of time, as we usually understand, there are many layers of time. Sleep time has an existence of its own. Even during waking hours, time continues to change. It may not change according to the clock because the clock is a mechanical thing, but psychological time goes on changing. When you are happy, time passes quickly. When you are unhappy, time slows down. One single night can be an eternity if you suffer, and the whole life can become one moment if you are happy and blissful.

When a person becomes enlightened, everything has to be completed, this is the closing time. Many millions of lives must be completed and all bills must be paid because there will be no more chance. After his enlightenment, an enlightened person lives in a completely different time, and whatever happens to him is qualitatively different. But he remains a witness. Mahavira died of stomach pain, a kind of ulcer - he suffered for many years. His students must have been in trouble because they created a story around it. They couldn't understand why Mahavira should suffer, so they made up a story that says something about the disciples, not about Mahavir. They say that one man, Goshalak, who possessed a very evil spirit, was the cause of Mahavira's suffering. He threw his evil force at Mahavira, and Mahavira absorbed it only out of compassion - that's why he suffered. This does not say anything about Mahavir, but something about the predicament in which his disciples found themselves. They cannot imagine Mahavira suffering, so they had to find the cause somewhere else. Once I suffered from a cold - this is my constant companion. Someone came to me and said, "You must have taken on someone else's cold." It says nothing about me, it says something about him. It's hard for him to imagine me suffering. So he said, "You must have someone else's cold." I tried to dissuade him, but it is impossible to dissuade students. The more you try to dissuade them, the more they believe they are right. In the end, he told me, "Whatever you say, I'm not going to listen. I know. You took on someone else's illness."

What to do? The health and disease of the body is its own business. If you want to do something about it, you are still attached to it. It will run its course, you don't have to worry too much about it. I am only a witness. The body is born, the body will die, there will be only witnessing. It will remain forever. Only witnessing is something absolutely eternal – everything else goes on changing, everything else is a flux.

Moscow 2002

BBK 84.5 ID 096

096 Life and death.

Moscow, Nirvana, 2002, 320 p. ISBN 5-94726-004-2

Osho, also known as Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh, is the enlightened master of our time. "Osho" means "like the ocean", "blessed".

The book "Life and Death" is a series of Osho's talks about death in a meditation camp in the Indian city of Dwarka.

“...If there is no death, then we actually never die, whether we realize the truth or not. The world does not consist of those people who die and those people who do not die. No, it's not. In this world, no one ever dies. However, there are two kinds of people. The former know that there is no death, while the latter do not know. And that's the only difference."

“First of all, you need to understand that the victory over death does not mean the conquest of death. Victory over death simply means that you will know that there is no death. The knowledge that there is no death is what it means to conquer it. You don't have to conquer death. As soon as a person learns that there is no death, our battle with death with its endless defeats immediately stops.

I remember the first time I realized that I would have to die someday. I was then nine years old, and I was so frightened that my stomach ached and I developed a fever. My mom was trying to figure out what I ate so I went to bed. I couldn't tell her what it really was. I knew that no one could help me, no one would deny that I would someday die. So I just lay in bed and trembled with fear until some time later, the fear finally left me. He left as suddenly as he came. I didn't know then, "then maybe every person I knew carried that kind of fear in them. Nobody ever talked about death. They thought they were shutting themselves off from her. This is how I grew up: clamped, distrustful, shy ...

We are all like that: mortal people, clinging with a stranglehold to everything that comes our way. In our lust for life, we collect things, people, ideas. We become attached to dead relatives, we waste time in the search for power, we pursue everything that can give us a sense of permanence on this earth. But at the same time, we only live half our lives. We have become schizophrenics. It never occurs to us to consider what we are running from. It never occurs to us that we are running from anything at all...

In the autumn of 1969, Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh gave a series of lectures at a meditation camp in Dwarka, the Indian state of Gujarat. To all those who were busy searching for the truth, who gathered around him, he spoke about life and death. He told them that the only way to live fully is to experience death, to accept death, to penetrate it, to understand death in all its aspects. He conducted meditations that helped them to feel their insignificance. He forced them to search every secret corner of their lives and the universe to discover how death dances hand in hand with life, as its partner and as its hidden self.

This book contains these lectures. He speaks to you and to me. He gives us the key to life, shows us a witness, shows us the divine origin of all things and asks us to cast aside our hopes, preconceptions, desires and drown in his Ocean.

Its ocean is unknown to us, but we are still implicitly attracted to it. We can feel its freshness in the breeze.

Thinking back to that episode when I was nine years old, I think about how great it would have been if someone had told me then: yes, it's true, you really will die someday .... And instead of turn away in fear from this question, someone would take my hand and say: “Look - here is death. Just befriend her, open your whole body and soul to her. Die to the fear that makes you feel separate, and then the joy of life will return to you ... "

As He tells us, "... he who learns the art of death will also become an expert in the art of living..." I know I am beginning to understand this, and little by little I am learning the immense freedom that this gives.

Ma Krishna Gopa, M.M. (RIMU), Siddha

We are released from the information we have received. At the same time, we experience triumph over what we have learned. The reason for our failures and defeats is only our ignorance. The basis of defeat is darkness; when there is light, defeat is impossible - light itself means triumph.

The first thing I would like to tell you about death is that there is no greater lie than death. Despite this, death seems to be true. It seems not just true, but the cardinal truth of life - it seems that all life is surrounded by death. Whether we forget about it or neglect it, death remains with us everywhere. Death is even closer to us than our shadow.

We even build our lives on the basis of the fear of death. The fear of death created society, nation, family and friends. Because of the fear of death, we chase after money, because of it we have become ambitious and power-hungry. Ironically, our gods and temples were also created out of fear of death. Overwhelmed by the fear of death, some people pray on their knees. Overwhelmed by the fear of death, some people pray to God, pleadingly stretching out their hands to the sky. At the same time, nothing is as false as death. Therefore, any of our systems of life based on faith in death is false.

How can you know that death is fake? How do you know that death does not exist at all? Until we know this, the fear of death will remain. Until we know that death is false, our life will also remain false. As long as the fear of death exists, there can be no true life. As long as we tremble with the fear of death, we are unable to live our lives properly. Only those for whom the shadow of death has disappeared forever can live. How can a frightened and trembling mind live? Is it possible to live when death is approaching every second? How can live like this?

With whatever disdain we may treat death, we will not be able to completely forget about it. And it does not matter that we place a cemetery outside the city - death will still manifest itself. Every day someone dies; every day death gets to someone, and it undermines the foundation of our whole life.

When we watch someone else die, we remember our own death.. When we cry over the dead, we cry not only for him, but also from the awareness of our own mortality. The cause of our suffering, pain and grief is not only someone else's death, but also the likelihood of our own death. The death of another person is at the same time our own death. And when we are surrounded by death on all sides, how can we live? It's impossible to live like that. If we live like this, we will never know what life is - its joy, its beauty, its blessing. If we live like this, we will not be able to reach the temple of God, the highest truth of life.

Temples that were built out of fear of death are not temples of God. Prayers that were composed out of fear of death are also not prayers to God. Only those who are filled with the joy of life reach the temple of God. God's kingdom is filled with joy and beauty, and the bells of God's temple ring only for those who are free from all fear, for those who are fearless. Because we like to live in fear, it seems difficult. But this is impossible - only one of the two can be correct. Remember: if life is true, then death cannot be true, and if death is true, then life is nothing but a dream, a lie; then life cannot be true. These two categories cannot exist at the same time. But we hold on to both. It feels like we're alive and dead at the same time.

From the moment I was initiated by you, I started to fear you. Before that, I didn't have that kind of fear. Although I've been afraid of something all my life. I also understand that I did not feel such love and freedom that I feel in your presence even in the presence of my parents. If I can't get rid of this fear in the presence of such a genuine and loving master, where else can I get rid of it? How can I get rid of it?
Much needs to be understood. Getting rid of fear does not depend on anyone else. The master cannot rid the disciple of fear. Because fear is inside and the guru is outside. At the most, the guru can create the illusion of fearlessness. Then this guru is not authentic. He will give you some confidence, some faith. And it may seem to you that all your fears have disappeared. Outside, you can create courage and bravery, but not fearlessness. Fearlessness means that there is no reason for fear inside. Courage means that there is a reason for fear inside. But on the outside we control ourselves, we make ourselves strong.
There is not much difference between a coward and a brave man. A coward cannot suppress his fears, but a brave one does. Only this is the difference. The so-called brave are cowardly inside. A coward, if he makes an effort, he can become bold. Guru can make you bold. But fearlessness is achieved only within. You can't put it outside. It's not paint or makeup. This is an inner experience. By inner experience, I mean that until you become aware of your inner soul, fearlessness will not be born.
The fear is there because we think we are the body. We not only believe it, but we know it. And the body will die. It is quite clear that the body will be destroyed. When our death is inevitable and the body will be destroyed, how can fearlessness even exist? Our disappearance makes us shiver. It seems that death is somewhere far away, but in fact it is nearby. And there is no difference whether it will be in 70 years or in seven days. Death is always near. There is no neighbor closer than death. Understanding this makes me shudder.
Guru can create oblivion in you. Guru can explain to you that the soul is eternal, that you will never die, no one dies. You can understand this, accept it, and thanks to this, a certain courage can be created, but not fearlessness. Because this theory was given to you by someone else, it is not your own experience. Someone said it. No matter how much you believe, it won't be 100% true. Complete, 100% faith will come only after your own experience. Until you realize that the soul is immortal, until you yourself know, fearlessness will not come.
Courage is created next to a false guru. With an authentic master, fear comes out in an authentic way for the first time. Being with me created an atmosphere of fear. Fear seems more real to you. This is how it will be, this is how it should be. Because what is inside you must be revealed. What you have hidden and suppressed must be thrown away. Where you have deceived yourself, all the walls of self-deception must be broken down. You must appear naked. Only then can you move on.
Anyone who has embarked on the path of searching for the truth must begin to understand what a lie is. He who goes to reality must destroy the false. Those comforts, those false silences that you have collected around you, and those flowers that you just glued on that have no roots inside you, they will all fall off next to me. And when they fall off, there is fear. I do not console you that the soul is eternal.
The first thing that needs to be explained to you is that the body will die. And you will die. Nothing will remain of what you think you are. And you don't know what's left. You will die, and you will be completely finished. No one can save you - not the theory of the immortal soul, not the guru. Everything in you is mortal. First of all, you need to deepen your awareness of death. And then the trembling increases. And there will come a moment when you will have nothing but fear. And every cell of your body will be full of screaming. And when you see the burning fire of death in every cell, and when you burn in the fire of death, only at that moment does the leap take place. At the same moment your identification with the body is broken. At that moment, your gaze will turn to immortality. The total experience of fear will lead you to fearlessness.
Life is very complicated. It may seem contradictory - first I plunge into fear, only after that you can enter into fearlessness. It seems to you easier to make you bold right away, hiding your fears, dressing you in beautiful clothes, beautifully painting, thereby hiding your death. To say that death is your friend, death is the door to god, that you have never died and never will. All these conversations are pleasing to the ears, and it seems to you that the fear diminishes, that the trembling disappears. But you will still cling strongly to the body. Because right now you don't know who you are. When I say that you are eternal, you will consider that false part of your Self to be eternal, you can consider your ego to be eternal, but the ego is not eternal. There is nothing more dead than the ego. There is nothing more false than the ego. The ego is already dead. First I'll shake you with fear. And in that moment, fear seems to be your soul. The torment becomes so deep that you cannot even sleep peacefully. You will jump out of bed, trembling, from all sides you will see death. The whole world is ready to kill and devour you, as if you were thrown into the ocean with huge noisy waves ready to devour you. No shore, no boat, no support in sight. No matter how you shout, no one will hear you. From all sides only raging waves, you and your death. In the deepest awareness of this death, that transformation will happen when you jump out of your body and for the first time you see and experience your soul. Next to a true master, the first thing you will experience is anxiety, torment, separation, and only after that there will be that satisfaction, that understanding of immortality, from which fearlessness can grow.
Here it should be understood that usually we follow the path of religion because of our own fear. Naturally, we want someone to lessen our fear. The point is not to reduce fear, but to completely eradicate that fear. The point is not to cope with fear, but to completely burn it. In this world, we can only get rid of that which will cause us such deep suffering that we will no longer be able to bear this burden, we will no longer be able to endure. As long as your suffering from identification with the body is not so deep, and no matter how holy people, enlightened ones explain - drop the body, you are not it - you will not be able to drop the body and identification with it. You can listen, but inside you still hold on to the body. Every morning you can repeat that you are not the body, but still you know that you are the body. When the body is hurt, you are hurt. When the body is sick, you are sick. If the body is beautiful, you are beautiful; if the body is ugly, you are ugly. The body gets old and you get old. The body will die and you will die. And no matter how much they explain to you, it still creates a false understanding, without experience, the truth is not born. That's why you came here to get rid of your fears, but I increase your fears. Because that is the way to get rid of it. The basic principle of our complicated life is that when a disciple comes to a master, the desires of the disciple and the master are opposite. It must be so, because the disciple is in darkness, he does not know what is good for him. He only thinks. The master is in the light, he knows what is good. So you come to the master for other reasons, and the master starts behaving differently. Let this be your indicator of whether the master considers the same reason you came to be true. If so, then that master is also in darkness. You came to me out of fear, I know it. It's not my job to reduce your fears. Awaken fearlessness. But you did not come to awaken fearlessness, but to create some kind of courage, courage, so that you can fight fear, and you are satisfied with that. You are satisfied with small things, your thirst is shallow, you grasp at straws. You're looking for those straws, and I know the straws don't save. And you can drown because of this straw. Because the one who depends on the straw will stop looking for the boat. For one who sees the false shore, the true shore is far away. Why you came is of no interest to me. I will do what I think is right.
In the West, some universities have experimented with fasting. Amazing results have been obtained. You would never have thought. Man is so complex, and whatever you think about him will be false. The results showed that there are people who successfully complete the fast and people who cannot. For thousands of years we have believed that a person who is starving is an introvert, he forgets food and forgets hunger, he is a good meditator, his consciousness is immersed in God. He is deeply interested in religion and his prayers are perfect. And the person who cannot starve, and hunger unbalances him, and he breaks fasting, we consider him extraverted. He does not have much interest and trust in God, he is not religious. So all religions use fasting to make people religious. But experiments conducted by psychologists prove the opposite. They say extroverts are more successful at fasting than introverts. An extrovert who has an outward gaze is successful in fasting, while an introvert who has an inward gaze is not successful. Let's take a deeper look into this. This also applies to other areas of our lives. The extrovert lives on the outside. If he sees a beautiful woman, that is enough to make him lust. If he does not see a beautiful woman, this may not happen. If such a person retires to the forest, it will seem to him that he has completely rid himself of lust. Since he is extraverted, all his causes are outside. If an extrovert smells from a restaurant, he will have a desire to eat. If this person is in a temple where there is no smell of food, no talk about food, no food to be seen, he may be starving. The introvert lives inside. When he is hungry, then he seeks food. An extrovert becomes hungry when he sees food. When an introvert has sexual desire, he is interested in women. An extrovert has a desire when he sees a woman. The extrovert has external causes, and from these external causes, internal desires are born in him. The introvert has reasons inside, from these internal reasons he begins to act. This means that when you are fasting, if you are an extrovert, sit in the temple and you will be able to complete the fast. For an introvert, it doesn't matter. He will also starve in the temple - hunger is hunger, no matter where he is. The Jews have such a holiday - Yom Kippur. On this day they fast. On this day, scientific research of the participants was carried out. On the day of Yom Kippur, people go to the Synagogue and spend the whole day there. It turned out that those who were extroverts forgot about food. Those who were introverts could not forget about food, because they felt hunger from the inside. The Jains in this country are doing the same. On Paryushan, the day of fasting, they sit in the temple discussing the scriptures, no talking about food, it is not seen, there is no smell, they forget. The reason is outside. But for introverts, this does not matter. If they are hungry, they are hungry, no matter how loudly the scriptures are discussed. Things are the opposite. This means that those who practice celibacy in the forest are extroverts. An introvert cannot achieve celibacy that way. An extrovert cannot be spiritual. Only an introvert can become spiritual. Because the one who does not even notice his hunger and thirst inside, how can he feel his soul. The soul is even deeper. Whose hunger and thirst are subject to external circumstances, who is so unconnected with his hunger and thirst, how can he sink inside. An extrovert may not be spiritual, but in so-called religious circles he may seem successful. An introvert may be spiritual, but in so-called religious circles, he may not seem spiritual. This is an amazing fact. This means that the crowd that gathers in the name of religion are extroverts. The religion of Jainism could not develop for this sole reason. Their religious crowd is extroverted, fasting is of great importance, and in this, an introvert cannot be successful, and an extrovert is more successful. If we observe Jain saints, monks and masters, we find them extroverted. That is why mysticism was not born in Jainism, because the mystic is an introvert. Jainism has remained such dry mathematics. Even their religious processes have become businesslike. They have superficial mathematics - how many people abstained, how much they fasted, how little they ate, what they ate, what they didn't eat, when they fell asleep, when they woke up - only superficial mathematics remained. Those who are successful are all extroverts, they have no inner spiritual melody.
Life is complex and contradictory. One who suppresses his fear and is bold on the surface appears to be fearless. Such a person will never achieve fearlessness. Fearlessness can be achieved by one who fully experiences the fears within. If he survives, passes this way, then fearlessness will be born. Fearlessness is not the opposite of fear, fearlessness is the absence of fear. Courage is the opposite of fear, courage is another facet of the same fear. Fearlessness is the eradication of fear. It is very easy to achieve courage. Some discipline is enough. You can make a brave soldier out of a coward. Some discipline and system can increase his courage. Fear deepens and goes inside and the unconscious. Making a person fearless is almost impossible. It is more difficult to become fearless, because fear must be eradicated completely. Note that if your fear grows next to me, this is a good sign. Never try to be bold. With this attempt from one life to another you carry this burden of fear. Be gripped by fear like the leaves of a tree swaying in a hurricane. Don't stop yourself and don't try to fight. If you fight, you repress. If you repress, then it remains. Be one with it. Accept that fear is your destiny. Tremble, be afraid, don't try to fit in, don't discipline yourself, don't suppress yourself. Let the fear come. Be completely shaken by fear, become fear. Soon one day you will realize that fear is over without your intervention. Without any discipline, the fear disappeared. And when you realize that there is no more trembling, and every cell is free from fear. At that moment you will feel a certain distance between yourself and the body. A certain crack appeared, the bridge between you and the body disappeared. Who is trembling? The body cannot do this, because the body is matter. The soul cannot, because it is eternal. Then who is trembling? That bridge which is the identification between body and soul is trembling. All the trembling is caused by him. Fear belongs to him. That identification that I am this body, that connecting thread trembles. It will tremble because on one side is a dead body and on the other is an eternal soul. Huge difference between their levels. The bridge connecting them will always oscillate. Trembling neither you nor your body. Neither you nor your body will die, because the body is already dead. How can something that is already dead die. You are eternal, there is no death for you. Then who dies? That bridge will break, and he will die. This bridge we call the ego. Asmita is your Self. When a person dies, what actually happens? The body is in the same condition as it was before death, no difference. All atoms, all elements, everything remains. The soul is the same, there is no change in it. She is eternal. How did death happen? Death is the destruction of what connects them. The eternal, by which the temporal was bound, was destroyed. Death is disintegration, it is a kind of gap, and a huge crack appears. The bridge has disappeared, the bridge that connected has collapsed. Death is the destruction of that bridge. As long as you perceive yourself as this bridge, you will always tremble, waver in fear. My love cannot destroy this. No love can. And on the day when fear disappears, you will definitely have love. On that day, love will gush out of you in fountains. In the life of a person who is afraid, the flowers of love will not sprout. Around a person who is in fear consciously or unconsciously, there will always be an atmosphere of hatred. Because being in fear, how can a person love someone. He who himself trembles with fear, how can he give birth to love. He who is afraid always sees enemies around him. How can he love enemies. When destruction attacks from all sides, how can he find moments of love. When inner fear disappears, then the sun of love will rise, and that love is unconditional. This love has nothing to do with any person, and this is your state, just as now fear is your state. You are not afraid for any particular reason, no one is afraid of you, you are just afraid - this is your state. When this state changes and the trembling disappears, you will become stable. This stability will create the conditions for love. Trembling creates fear, and calmness creates love. Therefore, love is infinite peace. Love is a kind of inner state, what Krishna calls Sthitipraggya. In this state, love is born and never disappears. Like a candle flame that can be shaken by the slightest breeze, you too are swayed by fear. The state of love is a state of flame that does not waver, in a closed space without wind. Our state of love is similar to this, only in such calmness love is born. And this love does not depend on the specific person whom you love - it does not matter, but you are just in a state of love. If you touch a stone, your love flows to it. You look at a tree - your love flows to it. You can look at the sky, at the ocean, at the river, at everything that comes to you, and if there is no one around, and you are alone, your love radiates in all directions. Just like the flame of a candle continues to illuminate everything around when there is no one. In this state, love is your nature.
There are two states in life - love and fear. Companions of fear are anger, hatred, envy, rivalry, jealousy. What we call sin is all the companions of fear. The companions of love - compassion, non-violence, mercy - what we call beneficence - these are all companions of love. There are only two states in man. Fear means you have taken yourself for the body. And love means that you have realized the soul in you. Therefore, I am not talking about the love that exists between husband and wife, father and son, children and parents, I am not talking about it at all. This is also a fear trap. The husband is afraid, the wife is afraid, both are afraid, because of this fear they are together. If someone is standing next to you, you have confidence, it seems that you are not alone. Although, no matter how fearful the other is, his presence lessens our fear. This is due to his presence. When a person walks down a dark street at night, he whistles. His own whistle gives him confidence and he seems to be brave. Sometimes a person sings, listening to his own voice, it seems to him that someone is nearby. In the very process of singing, we forget that it is dark and there is no one, the street is deserted, we are immersed in singing and forget about the street. The husband plunges into his wife and forgets, and the wife into her husband. Mother into child, into each other, we plunge ourselves into oblivion. The moment we sink into this oblivion, we forget the fact that there is death. Fear is hiding. No, I'm not talking about that love. I am talking about that love that is not connected with anyone, free from attachments. It does not mean that when love is born you will not love your husband or wife, children. When such love is born, the feeling that you are a husband or wife will disappear, the feeling that your child is your child will disappear, there will be a feeling that he came from God, you are just an intermediary and your love will continuously overflow. It doesn't matter who deserves your love and who doesn't. You will flow like a river, and anyone will come with his cup and collect as much love as his cup can hold. You share unconditionally. My love cannot eradicate your fear. Dive into my love, you can forget your own fear. And if that happens, my love will serve as a drug that will harm you. Therefore, I am always vigilant that in my love your fear is not hidden. My love is love only when it brings out your fear. I don't want to bandage your wounds. My interest is in making your wounds disappear without a trace. No matter how much time and effort it would take for this, if only you were completely healed of your wounds. Nowhere to hurry. And so you have already lost many lives, so there is no hurry. Lest you start hiding your wounds in this rush. Hiding is always easy, it is convenient to bandage it, or you can be given such an anesthetic that you will not feel this pain. Philosophy and scriptures are just that kind of medicine. You will not feel your pain. The wounds will remain, and with them the pain. True religion is not interested in you forgetting your wounds or hiding them, it is only interested in uprooting all rot, dirt, pain. To be completely free of it.

Osho and the Meaning of Death

A death may become public when it is reported in a newspaper obituary column, but it is still a purely personal event. There are two concepts that have an extremely private, intimate character: death and dreams. No one will die for me, and no one will dream for me.

Osho believes that a person's understanding of the phenomenon of death plays an important role in his spiritual development.

Life and death are considered in the West as antagonists, as two mutually exclusive concepts. Death is a source of fear, it is a taboo, they prefer not to talk about death.

One professor of theology once said: "Today, questions of sex are discussed openly, and death ... is vulgar."

Many Western philosophers have thought about death, especially existentialists. Jean-Paul Sartre's point of view is a typical Western view of death: "Death will never give meaning to life; on the contrary, death is that which deprives life of all meaning."

Osho has a completely opposite point of view. He says: “Death does not contradict life, it does not mean the end of life, it only brings life to a beautiful peak. Life continues after death. It was before birth, it will continue after death. Life is not limited to a short interval between birth and death; on the contrary, birth and death are small episodes in the eternity of life."

The West tends to view death as evil, it endows it with extremely negative features. Life and death are conflicting sides. This point of view is based on the Aristotelian postulate "either-or, but not together": A is equal to A, and what is not A becomes anti-A.

According to this dualistic concept, one who does not oppose abortion automatically becomes their advocate. Similarly, death is seen as the negation of life.

The result of this approach was all kinds of exaltation of youth; people began to be ashamed of their age, to apologize for their age.

The Eastern approach to death is dynamic, based on the premise of wholeness, that A equals A plus something else. The East is of the opinion that nothing is absolute, everything is relative, everything is in motion.

Modern science, new discoveries in medicine, the interdisciplinary approach of the social sciences... everywhere we find confirmation today that it is correct to view reality as "together" and not as "either-or."

Osho explains that in the East, life is not considered separate from death. He emphasizes: in order to understand life, in order to truly live, and not exist, a person needs to know death. There is no need to be afraid of her, but there is no need to strive to defeat her either. You just need to know it, and this "knowledge" itself will reveal the true meaning of death.

Osho views life and death as parts of one higher cosmic Life. With every inhalation we live, with every exhalation we die, but both inhalation and exhalation, Osho says, interact harmoniously.

He claims that we begin to die from the very birth, from the very beginning of life we ​​are approaching death. The seed gives rise to the flower. We call it growth. Similarly, birth brings a person to death.

Osho draws our attention to the fact that death can come at any moment; death is here and now.

Life and death are inseparable; they are two sides of the same coin.

Osho believes that death is not in the future, it comes every moment. Anyone who claims that death is connected with the future is simply hiding from reality and continues to live in illusions. We put off death for the future because our ego is not able to accept its death. But Osho explains that one can understand death by refusing to recognize the ego as the center of our life; consciousness is the center of our life. Death is not able to destroy our consciousness, it is eternal. Moreover, death destroys selfishness, which becomes the driving force in a person's life.

And here we are faced with the paradox of death: on the one hand, there is no reality higher than the reality of death, everything in the world is mortal. On the other hand, there is nothing like death in the sense that even after the death of the ego and the physical body, our consciousness does not die and continues to live.

Is it possible to know death without dying?

Osho answers in the affirmative. For this he recommends meditation.

Only in a state of meditation can one understand what death is. He says this:

"Meditation and death are two very similar states. In death, the ego disappears; only pure consciousness remains. In meditation, the same thing happens: the ego disappears, and only pure consciousness, your essence, remains. The similarity is so great that people are equally afraid of death, and meditation.On the other hand, one who is not afraid of meditation will not be afraid of death either.

Meditation prepares you for death... it helps you know death without dying. By knowing death without dying, you will forever be rid of the fear of death.

Even when death comes, you will silently watch it, knowing full well that it is not able to leave even a scratch on you. Death will deprive you of your body, your mind, but you yourself will remain unharmed. You belong to immortal life."

Swami Satya Vedanta

(Dr. Vasant Joshi)

M.A

PhD, University of Baroda, India

PhD, University of Michigan, USA

Chancellor of Osho University, Pune

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Who is Osho? Bhagawan Shri Rajneesh is perhaps the brightest spiritual figure in India, he managed to create a whole army of followers, achieve worldwide success and the same worldwide censure, as well as publish more than 600 books in 30 languages ​​in 25 years of spiritual practice.

The success and recognition of this Indian mystic can be compared with another Indian religious figure - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who was the spiritual mentor of the musicians of the Beatles.

No matter what they say about Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh and no matter what epithets he is awarded, he really is a man who inscribed his name in bold italics in the modern history of mankind.

Throughout his life, Osho was a rebel, he saw politics in religion, an obvious utopia in the structure of modern society, and a trap for the individual in family life.

When writing this article, I took most of the information about Osho's life from Wikipedia, many thanks to this open library for free information.

Osho, biography and life path

In this part of the post, I will briefly talk about the biography and life path of Osho, from his birth to death. Below you can find out about each period of his life in more detail.

Childhood and first experiences in meditation

Osho was born on December 11, 1931 to a Jain family in the remote village of Kuchwada in the province of Madhya Pradesh, in Central India. The real name given to him by his parents is Rajneesh Chandra Mohan. Rajneesh spent all his childhood with his grandparents, his parents took him in only after their death.

From early childhood, Rajneesh experimented on his body and mind, not knowing that this would lead him to invent a new path in meditation and a whole army of fans, but all this is yet to come.

The first moments of unconscious meditation Rajneesh experienced in childhood, when he jumped from a high bridge into the river. He had many chances to smash his skull to pieces, but with amazing consistency, all the experiments went smoothly. Such experiences, experienced repeatedly, aroused interest in meditation and prompted the young man to look for more accessible and less safe ways to go to nirvana.

Osho himself recalled his childhood experiences as follows:

There were several moments when the mind stopped, at the same time there was an unusually clear perception of everything around, one's presence in it and complete clarity and separateness of consciousness.

Enlightenment Osho

On March 21, 1953, Osho realized that he woke up as a completely different person, the person who was on March 20, 1953 is no longer there.

Osho himself recalls the following:

That night I died and I was reborn. But the person who is reborn has nothing to do with the one who died. It is not a continuous thing... A person who has died has died totally, nothing is left of him... not even a shadow. The ego died totally, completely... On that day, March 21st, a person who had lived many, many lives, millennia, simply died. Another being, absolutely new, completely unconnected with the old, began to exist ... I became free from the past, I was torn out of my history, I lost my autobiography.

Osho's university years, study and teaching

The amazing enlightenment that happened to Osho on March 21, 1953 did not affect his everyday life in any way. Rajneesh, as before, continued his studies at the philosophical department. Enlightenment did not affect his diploma with honors, which he received in 1957 after graduating from Saugar University.

A few years later, he himself teaches philosophy at Jabalpur University, they say that the students loved him for his sincerity and humor. During his short teaching career, Osho constantly travels around India, trying to better understand the spiritual needs of its people.

Nine years later (in 1966), Rajneesh leaves the university department and devotes himself to spreading the art of meditation and promoting his own religion. His religion consists in a certain vision of a new man - the man of Zorba-Buddha.

Zorba the Buddha is a man who combines the best features of the East and the West, he is able to enjoy physical life and is able to sit silently in meditation.

First dynamic meditations in Bombay

Since 1968, Bhagavan Shri Rajneesh has been living in Bombay, Western seekers of Eastern truths began to come to him slowly, many were strongly impressed by meetings with the new guru. Most of the guests in the first wave were therapeutics and other movements wishing to take the next step in their energetic and spiritual growth.

In Bombay, Osho began to practice the so-called "dynamic meditations", which are based on the use of music and body movements with different activities. The Guru combined elements of yoga, Sufism and Tibetan traditions, such a practice made it possible to use the principle of energy transformation by awakening activity and subsequent calm observation.

In April 1970, at a meditation camp near Bombay, the guru officially presented the practice of dynamic meditation to journalists. After the demonstration, the journalists were horrified and Bhagawan Shri Rajneesh hurried to explain everything they saw, but many were not convinced by his words.

Some journalists described what was happening in Osho Ashrams like this:

Meditation at the Rajneesh ashrams includes specific dances where participants are blindfolded, undressed, and put themselves into an ecstatic trance. Hundreds of thousands of residents of Madras, Bombay and Calcutta gathered for his lectures, ending in mass shaking and tearing off their clothes. Many times, such "dances" in Rajneesh groups, for example in the USA, ended in group sex.

The guru himself very simply explained the whole bacchanalia that is going on during his meditations:

For many years I have continuously worked with the methods of Lao Tzu, for many years I have continuously studied direct relaxation. It was very easy for me and I figured it would be just as easy for anyone. But practice has shown that this is not the case. At first I said "relax". My students understood the meaning of the word, but true relaxation did not occur. That's when it's time to come up with new methods of meditation that first create tension - maximum tension. The tension should be so strong that you become just crazy. And then I say "relax."

Founding of Osho Ashram in Pune

In 1974, the Osho movement is gaining momentum and new areas are required for meditation and outreach to the population. By that time, hundreds of thousands of seekers of truth from all over the world come to the already famous guru. And in the same year, Osho's headquarters appeared in the city of Pune, at OSHO Commune International, 17 Koregaoh Park, Poona 411011 MS India.

It is in Pune that famous seekers of truth and movie stars (Diana Ross, Ruth Carter Stapleton, sister of Jimmy Carter and others) come to preach. In his conversations, the mystic touches on many aspects of human existence and consciousness, many speeches related to existing religions become truly rebellious. Osho mixes everything together, Buddha and Buddhist teachings, Sufi masters, Jewish mystics, Indian classical philosophy, Christianity, yoga, tantra, Zen and immediately denies the need for any of these religions and beliefs, offering instead his own new religion.

The turning point for the first ashram in Pune was 1981, at the beginning of the year, an enhanced screening regime for visitors was introduced in the ashram, due to constant threats towards the guru. In 1981, a store was set on fire, and explosions sounded near the ashram. In relation to the ashram and its visitors, local residents show dissatisfaction, and the government of Indira Gandhi deprives Osho ashram of the right to be considered a religious organization.

Incomprehensible cases are going on around the ashram and the Pune police are investigating multiple violations, finding more and more evidence of the involvement of the ashram administration in them (unpaid taxes, misappropriation of donations for charitable purposes, numerous thefts and criminal cases committed by members of the ashram).

Without waiting for the completion of the trial, Osho receives a US visa (June 1, 1981 at the US Consulate in Bombay) and, as part of 17 most devoted students, flies to New York. On the US visa application form, the guru indicated that he needed to receive medical treatment in the US. In the future, this fact will be one of the grounds for his expulsion from the States.

Moving to the USA, foundation of the Osho commune in America

Already on July 10, 1981, the American subsidiary of Osho, the Chidvilas Rajneesh Meditation Center, registered in Montclair (New Jersey), acquires Big Magdi Ranch from an investment company from Amarillo (Texas) for $ 6,000,000, part of the amount (1.5 million) The deal was paid for in cash.

About the activities of the guru in the United States, there is an excellent feature series Wild Wild Country, look for it on netflix.

The territory of the new city, which Osho is building, occupies more than 100 square miles in ownership, and part of the land (14,889 acres) was leased from the American Bureau of Land Management. Despite the severity of American law, the city-settlement of Rajneeshpuram appears - the city of dreams. The status of the city is quite legal and admirers of gurus from all over the world are sent to the new home.

Most of the buildings in the city of Rajneeshpuram were built by the hands and money of the adherents of the teacher, of whom more than 5,000 people lived in the commune. Very quickly, the most necessary things appeared in the city, an airfield, a comfortable hotel with a casino, shopping streets, restaurants, etc.

For several years of existence of the Rajneeshpuram commune, it has become the most revolutionary experiment in creating a transnational spiritual commune and partial detachment from the outside world. More than 15,000 people from all over the world came to regular festivals in Rajneeshpuram, Osho's own country became prosperous with a population of more than five thousand people.

Over time, the discontent of the local population (which no one cared about) and the government only grew. Many questions accumulated for the spiritual figure, to which he was in no hurry to answer. The main claims that the authorities made against the gurus were simple and were within the laws of the United States. For example, the paragraph of the Constitution on the separation of the state and the church was violated, and many buildings in the city were not properly coordinated. Of the additional factors that aggravated the fate of the city of Rajneeshpuram and Osho himself were strange deaths in the vicinity of the city, but there were no obvious traces that would indicate the involvement of the guru in these deaths.

The guru did not come up with anything smarter than to take a vow of silence and kept it for four whole years. During his silence, he entrusted all the affairs of managing the community to his faithful follower, Shila Silverman. Shila turned out to be a very economic woman and, after leading the settlement a little, she disappeared in an unknown direction, taking with her more than 55,000,000 dollars.

Before her disappearance, Shila managed to be very rude to local farmers with promises of physical reprisals against objectionable and other delights, the farmers probably got scared and soon a whole landing of FBI troops appeared in the dream city. The FBI discovered several weapons caches and drug production, which served as a good reason for the arrest of a religious leader.

A little earlier there was an even more incomprehensible case, in the American press it is called nothing more than 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack. The bottom line was that Osho's followers carried out the most massive bioterrorist attack in the history of the United States.

The investigation identified a group of suspects who mixed food with poison, all this took place in the open buffets of a large city. There were more than 750 Americans in the Bolshitsa, and only two people were in the dock.

The arrest and further trial, which took place in Portland (Oregon), ended on November 14, 1985, not in favor of Osho. The religious leader was found guilty on two counts of the federal indictment. It was decided to deport Bhagawan Shri Rajneesh from the country, which is probably why the religious figure received a purely symbolic punishment: ten years of suspended imprisonment and a $300,000 fine. The government ordered Osho to leave the United States within five days. Under the careful supervision of FBI agents, the guru leaves the United States.

Osho's return to Pune

Returning back to India, the guru wished to travel around the world and possibly find a new home. Most countries did not want to see a religious figure on their land and spoke directly about it, others deported him very quickly. After completing this amazing quest, Osho returns to India, where he is still loved and expected.

In mid-1986, the guru resurrected the withered community in Pune and breathed new life into it. This is how the “Multiversity” was born in Pune, which is the name the religious leader chose as a common name for his teachings and practices.

Osho Multiversity offers hundreds of seminars, groups and courses presented in its nine departments:

• Centering School;
• School of Creative Arts;
• International Academy of Health;
• Meditation Academy;
• School of Mysticism;
• Institute of Tibetan Pulsations;
• Transformation Center;
• School of Martial Arts Zen;
• Zen Games and Training Academy.

At the time of the return of the teacher to Pune, there were already about 300 such centers in the world, they were located in 22 countries of the world, including the USA, India, England, France, Canada, Japan, Russia, etc. However, such high competition did not become an obstacle and the new ashram in Pune began to live with fresh followers.

Death of Osho at the Ashram in Pune

Shortly before his death (at the end of December 1988), Osho announced that he no longer wanted to be called "Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh", and in February 1989 he took the name "Osho Rajneesh", which was shortened to "Osho". He also requested that all brands previously branded as "RAJNEESH" be rebranded internationally as "OSHO".

At the end of the 80s, the health of the religious leader deteriorated significantly and he could no longer do without a personal doctor, but despite the progressing illness, he tries to go out to his students for "meditation of music and silence." Rare conversations of the guru are held less and less often, at which he tells his followers about his mental transformation and that Gautama Buddha has settled in his body, that the Americans are to blame for the causes of his illness, that one or several people at evening meetings subjected him to some form of evil magic.

Osho died on January 19, 1990 at the age of 58, the true cause of death of the guru was never established, immediately after death, the body was put up for farewell, and then cremated.

Osho's teachings, the main commandments of how to be outside of all teachings

Osho's teachings are as incomprehensible as the person himself; a little bit of everything is mixed in his teachings. Osho's teachings are a chaotic mix made up of elements of Buddhism, Yoga, Taoism, Sikhism, Greek philosophy, Sufism, European psychology, Tibetan traditions, Christianity, Hasidism, Zen, Tantrism and God knows what else.

Osho formed four development paths for the followers of his teachings:

• Independent analysis of events, opposition to the influence of any ideology and independent resolution of their own psychological problems;
• Acquisition of one's own experience of "living a full life", rejection of life "according to books", search for "the causes of suffering, joy, dissatisfaction";
• The need to bring out one's inner and psyche-destroying "hidden desires" in the process of self-realization;
• "Enjoy simple things... - a cup of tea, silence, conversation with each other, the beauty of the starry sky."

The Teaching does not impose any postulates on anyone, it only helps to be outside of all teachings.

Here is what Osho himself said about this:

I am the founder of a single religion, other religions are a sham. Jesus, Mohammed and Buddha simply corrupted people... My teaching is based on knowledge, on experience. People don't have to believe me. I explain my experience to them. If they find it right, they accept it. If not, then they have no reason to believe in it.

The Ten Commandments by Osho

The Guru was against any commandments, but in a joking conversation with journalists he singled out several points:

• Never fulfill anyone's commandment unless it also comes from you;
• There is no other god but life itself;
• The truth is in you, don't look for it elsewhere;
• Love is prayer;
• To become nothing is the door to truth. Nothing in itself is a way, a goal and an achievement;
• Life is here and now;
• Live awake;
• Don't swim - swim;
• Die every moment so that you can be new every moment;
• Don't look. What is - is. Stop and see.

Sex guru Osho, or how journalists themselves came up with everything

The stigma "Osho's sex guru" appeared to a greater extent thanks to journalists, because it was they who could look at meditation lessons and tell the whole world what was happening there. The teacher himself did not betray such a significant role in the spiritual life of a person, as well as did not hush up this fact. The Guru did not divide the manifestations of life into positive and negative, like many Hindu cults, in his teaching the very concept of good and evil is blurred.

Most of the sexual liberties in his teachings came from tantra, from which he took much for his tantric teaching about "the integration of sexuality and spirituality." Tantra existed in India long before Osho appeared and no one paid such close attention to it.

About sex and sexual orgies, Osho said the following:

Develop your sexuality, don't repress yourself! Love is the beginning of everything. If you miss the beginning, there will be no end for you ... I do not inspire orgies, but I do not forbid them either. Everyone decides for himself.

Osho's financial condition

About money and his success, Osho said the following:

I am the guru of the rich. There are enough religions that deal with the poor, but leave me to deal with the rich.

By the mid-1980s, Osho was worth about $200,000,000 tax-free. In addition to the usual things characteristic of all wealthy people, the spiritual leader had four aircraft, one helicopter and 91 luxury cars.

To the cars of the world-famous Rolls-Royce brand, the guru had a special look and said the following:

In India, one Mercedes caused a stir, but in America it took almost a hundred Rolls-Royces to achieve the same effect.

Admirers of their guru fully supported Osho's aspirations for luxury cars and spoke flatteringly about Osho's love for Rolls-Royces:

We wish he had 365 Rolls-Royces. A new car - for every new day of the year.

$ 200,000,000, several planes and a whole Rolls-Royce dealership were not of particular interest to Osho and did not evoke emotions, like everything material in this world, but for the daily detour of the flock, he chose Rolls-Royce.

Living in the USA, Osho got behind the wheel at exactly 2:30 pm and slowly, solemnly drove along the living wall of his fans, lined up along the edges of the “nirvana road” he called. The worshipers of the guru felt lucky to see their spiritual leader and humbly threw rose petals under the wheels of his car.

What did Osho leave after his death?

During the life of his teachings, his practice and his persona were very revolutionary for their time, and Osho was shunned by society. This was done to the guru in many progressive countries of the world, he looked at it as usual. But after his death, the attitude of society towards him changed, in some countries the changes were dramatic.

Doctrine

After the death of the guru, the attitude towards his person and teachings in his homeland changed significantly. The teaching of the spiritual figure has become part of popular culture in India and Nepal. In 1991, one of the Indian newspapers chose the person of Osho as a person who changed the fate of the country, putting him on a par with Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi.

Measures were taken to preserve records of all his discourses. A complete collection of his works is placed in the library of the Parliament of India in New Delhi.

There are more than 300 meditation and information centers around the world founded by his followers. Dynamic meditation and kundalini meditation have gone beyond meditation centers and are used in many non-sannyasin groups and are sometimes practiced in schools and universities.

The Osho International Foundation regularly conducts stress management seminars for large corporate clients (IBM, BMW, etc.). Osho Therapy has gained recognition and is being used as a new approach to psychotherapy.

Books

Guru wrote more than 300 books in his life, but only after the death of Osho's books they became in demand and gained great popularity. More than 49 international publishing houses began to print the works of the spiritual leader in incredible circulation. More than 3,000,000 copies are produced and sold annually.

In his works, Osho touched on a variety of topics, the most popular of which are: spiritual practices, creativity, love and relationships between people. Each Osho book is full of parting words, secrets and meanings, they should only be carefully read and heard by the author.

Here are the most popular books:

• Meditation. First and last freedom;
• Creation;
• Tantra - Book of secrets;
• Book of Wisdom;
• Love. Freedom. Loneliness;
• Bravery;
• awareness;
• Intuition. Knowledge beyond logic;
• Medicine for the soul. Collection of practices;
• Master: about the transformation of an intellectual into an enlightened one.

Pune International Meditation Resort

One of the attractions of India can be called the Osho Ashram in Pune, the ashram is a frequented International meditation resort. A variety of spiritual methods and practices are taught at the meditation center, which is why the ashram bills itself as a spiritual oasis and "sacred space".

The ashram in Pune is frequented by prominent politicians, media personalities and modern IT gurus, and the meditation center has been visited by the Dalai Lama and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

famous quotes

The evidence that Osho has had a significant impact on modern society is the quotes you often see on social media. People actively publish on their pages quotes from the books of a religious figure, from his speeches, often initially without knowing who their author is.

In this part of the post I will give the brightest quotes about life and love. If you have your favorite sayings of this philosopher and mystic, share them in the comments to the post.

Osho quotes about life

What difference does it make who is stronger, who is smarter, who is more beautiful, who is richer? After all, in the end, it only matters whether you are a happy person or not?

The reasons are within ourselves, outside there are only excuses ...

How mercantile you are, my friend. Remember: everything that money can buy is already cheap!

The only person on earth we can change is ourselves.

To rise you must fall, to gain you must lose.

Osho quotes about love

Love knows nothing of duty.

Love has nothing to do with relationships, love is a state.

To love is to share, to be greedy is to accumulate.

Greed only wants and never gives, while love can only give and does not ask for anything in return, it shares without conditions.

Love is the only real thing worth experiencing.

While writing this post, information about the life path of Osho (Bhagawan Shri Rajneesh) was obtained from Wikipedia.