Birthday of Russian Writer and Philosopher Fyodor Dostoevsky 11th November is the birthday of the renowned Russian writer and philosopher Fyodor Dostoevsky. Known for books like Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment and The Idiot, Dostoevsky’s…
Osho on Innocence BELOVED OSHO, SITTING CLOSE TO YOU THESE LAST FEW MORNINGS AND LOOKING INTO YOUR EYES, I FELT SO MUCH LIKE A SMALL CHILD, FULL OF INNOCENCE AND EXCITEMENT. MANY TIMES I WANTED…
Birthday of Great Russian Writer Ivan Turgenev Born on 9th November, 1818, in Oryol in Russia, Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and populariser of Russian literature in the West. His first major publication,…
Osho on Enlightened Zen Master Bankei Born in 1622 in Harima province, Bankei was a Japanese Rinzai Zen Master, and the abbot of the Ryōmon-ji and Nyohō-ji. He is best known for his talks on the Unborn as…
Osho on Enlightened Zen Master Ryokan Ryokan Taigu was a Japanese Zen Master born in Echigo Province in Japan. He renounced the world at the age of seventeen to follow Zen practice. He was an…
Osho on Tears BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS IT, THAT WHEN I SIT IN YOUR PRESENCE TEARS START TO RUN FROM MY EYES? THEY ARE NOT TEARS OF SADNESS OR HAPPINESS. THEY COME FROM AN UNKNOWN…
Osho on Mystic Rose You are asking, “In what soil and in which climate might one find the mystic rose?” Your heart is the soil. Your trust is the climate. And your being is the…
Osho on Whirling BELOVED MASTER, I READ A POEM OF RUMI THE OTHER DAY WHICH WENT: “MOVE WITHIN, BUT DON’T MOVE THE WAY FEAR MAKES YOU MOVE.” AROUND THE SAME TIME I AWOKE FROM A…
Osho on Witnessing OSHO DOES WITNESSING ALWAYS BRING JOY? THE MOMENTS THAT I CALL WITNESSING SOMETIMES FEEL DISTANT — ALMOST COLD IN THEIR NEUTRALITY. OTHER TIMES IT IS LIKE SPROUTING WINGS AND SOARING IN JOY…
Osho on Tears BELOVED MASTER, WHEN I SIT IN DISCOURSE, AND YOUR EYES ARE DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM MINE, AFTER A SHORT WHILE THE FEELING OF CRYING AND LAUGHING, OF SADNESS AND GREAT JOY ARISE IN…