PADMA BHUSHAN RAJA REDDY INAUGURATES DISCIPLE WEEK

World-renowned Kuchipudi dancer Padma Bhushan Raja Reddy inaugurated “Disciple Week”, at Osho World Galleria on February 8, 2005.

Osho, the enlightened master of the modern times, gave many discourses on the oneness of the guru and the disciple. The relationship between a master and a disciple is one of the greatest mysteries of existence. The master is a universal consciousness who functions beyond time and space and the disciple is the vehicle of the master. The disciple becomes one with the Master, attuned, in a deep accord. His heart beats in the same rhythm, he breathes in the same rhythm. The oneness becomes so absolute, that despite physical separation there is no separation.

A disciple is a rare phenomenon. He is one who is so surrendered to the master that even if the Master gives death as a gift, he will receive it with great gratitude. Osho says that the whole art of disciplehood is to be able to disappear, to become absent, not to be. “when the ego is completely gone -- any moment the ego is gone -- instantly, something from the heart of the master jumps into the heart of the disciple. It is not that the master gives it; it is not a thing to be given. It is not that the disciple takes it; it is not the thing to be taken. It simply happens!”

Ma Yog Laxmi was one such true disciple of Osho. Ma Yog Laxmi’s birthday will be celebrated with meditations and other events on 12th February. Osho World dedicates this week to Ma Yog Laxmi, the epitome of a disciple and every disciple, on the path of self- realization.

Osho says that the whole secret of disciplehood is when the master speaks, the disciple listens, yet there is so much, which the master does not speak, and the disciple listens. When the disciple becomes ripe, there is a silent communication between him and his master.

Osho World galleria comes alive on February 12, when a renowned vocalist, Malashri Prasad, rendered devotional songs in a melodious and well trained voice that was more like meditation than music

“When the disciple has blossomed into disciplehood and he understands completely the meaning of his guru's words and gestures, he is ripe. Then a silent communication, without gestures, without any linguistic symbols, is possible. This telepathic communication is the secret of the relationship. It is the most secret key of communion between guru and disciple. Only when this becomes possible has the disciple been accepted. Then there is no question of time and space. Then, wherever the disciple is, things can be communicated to him.”

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Prem Anubuddha and Anasha, during their travel to Delhi, visits Osho World galleria on February 15, 2005 and shares their experiences with Osho lovers.

Since 1973, Prem Anubuddha has dedicated his life to learning, practising and teaching different forms of Touch, Yoga, Meditation and Healing. His training and personal experience is deep and multidimensional. He has spent twenty years in India, Thailand and Japan and has also learnt the principles and the physics of Electro Magnetic Acupuncture, and Light Therapy, as well as Ayurvedic Philosophy and Touch in India, and Thai - Buddhist Massage in Thailand.

In 1988, after having trained more than 1500 people in Osho Rebalancing ® and Cranio-sacral Sensitivity he went through an intense nine month process of personal transformation. During this time he gave 150 individual sessions to the Enlighten Mystic Osho and had the oportunity to ask various questions about the body, energy, healing and meditation. It is this time when Anubuddha experienced the esence of meditation, consciousness, love and the body as an organic unity. From this experience ARUN was born.

Anasha (France, 1951) started her discovery of herself thorugh the body in 1973, and for a period of 10 years, she was putting all her energy into this journey by taking classes, courses, and giving and receiving many sessions; The main focus of all these methods is being aware: through touch, breath, energy and movement. Her teaching is an attempt to bring you in the moment, not wanting to change but more to accept this beautiful person that you are. She is trained in breath awareness, psychic massage, energy balancing, Aurasoma, massage and conscious touch. For many years she lived and work in Osho´s Comunes and Meditation Centers in India, USA, and Europe. Since 1985 she and Anubuddha have been creating ARUN Conscious Touch. Her sessions are a synthesis of all these methods that she applies following her intuition with each individual, and a sharing of the deep love and relaxation that she has found through becoming friendly with her own body.

Anasha is a great cook, has studied diet and nutrition for years and is specialist in colon cleansing.

Since the creation of ARUN in 1994, Anubuddha and Anasha have trained more than 600 people in Japan, Greece and Spain in the levels Basic and Advanced.
Transcript of the talk given at Osho World galleria

Anubuddha:

I first went to Poona in 1976. For me and I can speak for Anasha, we teach together. I guess what first attracted me to Osho was His love for the human body and it was always important to me, growing up in California that health was a part of my culture. Osho talked about health in a way that I never heard about in California even though I am an old hippy. We were from freedom days really free but nobody was helping us become free inside of meditation. So when I first heard of Osho, I knew that I had to come. And then it was continuously over the years talking about how the body can be a door to deep meditation. The body is the door. Its true when you say that I was really lucky to be able to learn and at the same time, share with sannyasins.

What do we want to share with people? What did we really learn that we didn’t have to think about that we could share, then we came up with the idea of conscious touch and conscious touch to us means, I think you can understand because you all meditate, the breath is always in this moment and if you go deeper into the phenomena, you feel more and more……

When Osho was having sessions with me, He kept repeating that touch is always in the moment. We can use touch as a meditation, thats what He said. Actually, if you take away social conditionings and neurosis, touch is the most natural, most easy, easier than computers, easier than anything. But we were trying the body energy fields, we were careful. This is good in respect that this carefulness it just goes deeper, it becomes a kind of fear of our own body energy, where the fear to touch with love. Many people wonder how to touch. We were very lucky to be with Osho, because in the trainings it was always spontaneous, it was never the same twice. In the coming weekend, though it’s a very short time, we will show people how to touch neutral, which is just relaxing your hands, relaxing your breath, relaxing your own energy, how to use pressure in a way that makes the muscles relax. It’s a huge subject, I could go on for ever. The subject of touch and meditation together.

As you know, we being foreigners we have to leave every six months to get a visa. Some of our friends told us that we could go to Thailand very quick, get a visa and go back to the ashram. That’s what we decided to do. Of course I thought about touching Osho, and I knew it had to happen, so I did not think about it too much. But of course being with him and that was my work and I was available. Yes I was open to it but I cannot say it was desire that I needed to get to know Osho. We were in Thailand and , we spend a few days and we traveled to the ashram and we arrived at around 7.30 in the morning after a long journey. Ma Yog Neelam, who is very close to us came to our room and said, “Oh so good you guys are back, by the way Anubuddha, Osho would like your session at 4 o clock today.” I said “ great”, but I have been up for 24 hours or so and very tired. And hen I thought, I am going to be nervous. But I wasn’t nervous. Osho had so many facets, he had a way that you never felt nervous, I never felt nervous around him in the sence that I felt totally accepted so even if I mess up, somehow he would also accept. If I made a mistake, I felt that I am learning. , I never felt judged. Buddha also talks about this ability to be with somebody without judging. I myself was beginner and I should have been nervous that this is our master and what if you don’t do it right, you need four more lifetimes. He was so beautiful to touch and I have touched thousands of people. Something had happened to him when he was in America and he was disturbed I some of the articulations, and I learnt this that you do not suffer every time when the body has pain. He was not suffering, ready to laugh like he talks. He lived what he talked. He was so natural, that was a beautiful gift to be with him when no people were around and he was so simple so ordinary and so present. I learnt a lot from him. We don’t want to focus so much on healing touch or trying to keep problems away, we focus on meditation. You all know when you go deep into meditation, the body problems reduce. So we use the touch not for the goal of healing but for the goal of entering inside your own energy. We have a lot of love for our bodies, a good sense of humor about the body, we have a lot of compassion for pain. , we just use whatever is there, positive or negative to go deeper, so we enjoy.

Anasha:

I love to bring people in that space where they become aware of their own breathing without exercise, it’s a kind of a vipassana touching. We are going to have Osho meditation too. A journey through the body in these three days. We will be using the different art of touching, the neutral touch, the pressure touch, the liquid touch etc. Every body is different, so its fun.

Anubuddha:

It kept coming to me like an intuition that we have to share this in India, for so much happened to us being in India. For some people Osho’s vision worked. It actually happened that they loved their body. It works on a small scale but I think it is possible to work for more people because Osho’s vision works for the body, health and everything.

Anasha:

We do very different techniques but the main red thread is Osho. Body is temple, we have to keep it clean and whatever he has said, big part of the training. So whatever we learnt from him, we bring it in. Its interesting that when we did it in Japan, people do not speak English, so we could not really bring in Osho’s audio and so we had to pick out of Osho’s discourses what was needed and translate it.

Anubuddha:

Whatever we do, you can do at home, with your children and your friends, its all safe, you can call it healing touch but the emphasis is again on being in the moment.

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