There are two major Zen Buddhist sects in Japan – Sōtō and Rinzai. The dominant Sōtō Zen school advocates quiet sitting and meditation (zazen) as a means to reveal the innate Buddha nature. The Rinzai Zen…
BELOVED OSHO, CAN YOU SAY SOMETHING ABOUT DEATH AND THE ART OF DYING? Deva Vandana, the first thing to be known about death is that death is a lie. Death exists not; it is one…
OSHO, CAN I TRULY SURRENDER AND STILL BE A LIGHT UNTO MYSELF? Deva Suli, THAT is THE ONLY WAY TO BE A LIGHT UNTO YOURSELF to surrender. Life is paradoxical: day/night, birth/death, summer/winter, love/hate, and…
13th December 1797 is the birthday of the German poet and writer Heinrich Heine. Many of Heine’s works were banned by the German authorities for being radical, though this only added to his fame. He…
9th December is the birthday of the Russian “anarcho-communist” philosopher Peter Kropotkin. He advocated a state-less decentralised communist society based on voluntary associations of self-governing communities. In his book, The Conquest of Bread (1892) he…
BELOVED OSHO, TO FALL IN LOVE IS SO EASY. WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO FALL OUT OF LOVE? SO MANY DISCUSSIONS, TEARS, FIGHTS, FEARS…. I DON’T WANT TO HURT THE PERSON I’VE BEEN WITH,…
MY BELOVED MASTER, THANK YOU FOR YOUR IMMENSE LOVE AND COMPASSION FOR ME! OSHO, HOW TO BE AWARE, ESPECIALLY DURING ANGER? THIS FEELING IS SO STRONG IT COMES ALWAYS LIKE THOUSANDS OF WILD HORSES RUNNING.…
The night of 02nd December 1984 saw one of the world’s worst industrial disasters at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. Methyl Isocyanate, a highly poisonous gas, leaked from the plant killing ~2300…
One man, a great contemporary, G.E. Moore, has written a book, Principia Ethica. And perhaps he is the only man in the whole of history, who has thought so deeply just to define the word…