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HAMMER ON THE ROCK

It is an Indian night, and the air is filled with the sounds of cicadas and frogs. Imagine being a fly on the wall, or in this case a gecko, and listening in to the wisdom and humor being shared by a mystic and an intimate assembly.

These talks happened at a time when Osho was beginning what is now known as Osho Multiversity – a university dedicated to exploring the multidimensional aspects of growth. The first therapy groups were being introduced as an aid for the people to go deeper into meditation – therapy as a bridge to meditation. At the end of each group the group leaders and participants would meet Osho to share insights and understandings.

The issues brought up are timeless, they are everyone’s issues: sex, work, relationships, death and meditation. We see the same mind, the same jealousies, the same joy at discovering ways of living more consciously and with understanding.

The feeling of continuity particularly touches me: how the search for truth, by knowing oneself – whatever today’s language calls it – how this search is eternal.

_ Prem Shunyo