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field that surrounds the body. And Kirlian photography can take
labor Society that avoids hardship of labor develops technology- as
an alternate. Technology is a substitute to labor. Suppose if I want to
,I the photograph of the energy field and can infer through the go to your place, I can go by foot but to avoid this walk, I invent
photograph that this man is going to have cancer after six months. bicycle, I invent car, I invent aero plane. Giving too much respect to
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powerful instrument in the hands of the future medicine. If we can hindrance. Capital is produced by technology, technology generates
know six months before then much can be done -- then nobody will wealth. Therefore society looking for rest develops more of
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then there is only one ten-rupee note in the world. If I it to bell with telephone bell so that its loud ring would break his sleep
you and you give it to somebody else and each person goes on and he would inform his employer. From then on, he started
giving, if it goes through ten hands then we have a hundred sleeping very easily. Months passed. Any night, it would ring
rupees, we have used a hundred rupees worth of utilities; the ten loudly; he would get up and inform his employer.
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something to do with you and your future. But history cannot prove
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that something happened that morning; history has no record of it. It
temperament.... No, first of all, our temperament should change.
happened beyond time hence history cannot record it. It is
Do you know that it is the capacity to doubt everything that has
unrepeatable and history only records that which is repeatable.
triggered the development of science during past three hundred
History is the record of all that is stupid in the human mind.
years in west? Doubt! Disbelief! In these three hundred years. They
Chenghis Khan, Tamurlaine, Nadir Shah, Alexander, Adolf Hitler.
were doubting every thing, on old generations, on parents, on past,
These people are repeatable; Buddhas are not repeatable. A Buddha
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music, starts the world of meditation.** deep-rooted in the being of the child. Every pore of him is filled with
it, every fiber of his body vibrates with it, he has no life except the
mother's heart. And there is the beating continuously for nine
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months.......The drum is the most primitive instrument. When you
of the inner music. Whenever a musician comes closer to that much,
feel that drum beating, your body responds, sways; you start falling
great music is born. Only very few have reached close to it; a Tansen,
into the beat, moving with the beat and suddenly you have become a
a Baiju Bawara, a Beethoven, a Mozart, a Wagner. Only very few
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II In recent years, science has started touching the And at the end of his life, he said, "NowI cannot say that life
boundaries of mysticism ... It is moving and merging into religion day is a problem. To call life a problem is a logical statement because a
day. Then, it now becomes necessary to touch this aspect also at this point of problem means something that can be solved through logic, if not
story! Reason? Youth is the right time when all theses thing should be given today then tomorrow. Sooner or later logic will find a way and the
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synonymous - my work was to solve problems logically - but as I Mahavira in term of health. This is very strange. And also it is very
went deeper I became aware that life is not synonymous with logic: It difficult to understand this that how natural laws behaved with his
contains contradictions. And in fact because of those contradictions, body. This man is eating for 365 days in 12 year. He should have been
it is beautiful; because of those contradictions, it has a certain dead by now but what is happening? He is perfectly healthy.
tension; that tension gives it aliveness; it gives it possibilities to be
I just told you about Robert Pavlita. Lot of unique
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experiments are going on in his laboratory. One of these experiments
is of hunger and hypnotism. What they are doing is astonishing. In weight. It is impossible. One of those ten doctors was Dr. Reziliv. He
has told that it is scientifically impossible but whether it is possible or
Pavlita's lab, certain people are being hypnotized for ten years. They
would be hypnotized for ten They would stand, sit, work, eat, impossible, it has happened actually. I was there for ten days; this
drink but their hypnotic sleep would not be disturbed. That deep man was in custody so that nothing, from outside could be given to
sleep is maintained. One of those subjects is Burfilov. Last year, he him by any means, by any injection or through some medicine but
was hypnotized for three weeks and during those three weeks of his weight increased. Reziliv is working with that man for over a
hypnotic sleep, he was given imaginative food; for example in his year now and he says that we have to acknowledge that there is
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when you lie down then again your inner being takes different
shapes. Our inner what you call mind or chita has geometrical there.
figures too. There are at least two geometrical shapes in our inner
Two or three times, he failed in his experiments
being; when you stand straight, you make ninety degree angle with
also. So many people have come to see this event and he is unable to
the ground and when you lie down then you don't make any angle,
rise above the ground. Finally he said that please forgive me, people
you become parallel to ground. If some one says with his totality that
asked,"Why you are unable to do it now?" He said that somehow I
I go to the feet of " ARIHANTA", I go to the feet of the master, I go to
am unable to forget "myself" and gravitational pull keeps on
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the groundr for 10 minutes. Dimtiri has carried out this experiment fact with the help of many experiments. There is no difference
many times in front of hundreds of scientists. They have cross chemically but qualitatively there is much of difference. If that water
checked everything and it is not fake; It is real. is used on new seeds, instead of normal water then they germinate
before time, they grow big flowers, big fruits, those plants are
Dimitri has been asked about the secret behind
healthier and they produce better results.
He says that there are two things. One is my devotion- gratitude. I
say to God that I leave you myself now, I come to your feet, I can't do Kaameniave has used normal water on these seeds
it of my own, it's your grace only which can do it through me. But at and special water to compare. He has also used water that was kept
the same time I am unable to rise when "I" am there, my "SELF" is in the hands of murderers, sick, violent and negative people that
After thousands of experiments for fifteen years, of my hand through Kirlian photography comes beautiful,
'chemistry' is not the only thing; there is rhythmic, symmetrical and proportionate. It represents a beautiful
this fact came in light
difference chemically but the difference is certainly arrangement of vibrations. Kirlian says after thirty years of hard
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hours to move anything. been developed to store this energy successfully. This device is kept
in a room; if you enter into that room then this device would pull you
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towards it or you will feel like running out of the room. It is due to
happens in half an hour. And if there are people with feelings of
that feeling of Maikhalova when she was conducting this pull or
gratitude with purity in hearts then it happens in just five minutes.
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what happens in the atmosphere around her. Three things are that whether it is of a male or of a female. Jheiling used to say that in
recorded; firstly as Maikhalova concentrates, her entire body someone's photograph, electrical vibrations of that person are also
electricity, her aura starts flowing in the form of current towards that stored. He unconsciously concentrates on the camera and the
entity just like laser ray; this current surrounds that entity all electrical current starts flowing towards the camera. That's why it
around. It is through current; things are pulled towards her or gets stored in the camera.
because you become conscious in front of the mirror too and you are Yoga says whenever ANAAHAT CHAKRA of some
most concentrated in front of the mirror thus your energy gets one is activated, gravitational pull does not affect much and
transferred to the mirror. certain special dances affect 'ANAAHAT CHAKRA'. Perhaps
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was surprised. She was a dancer herself. She said to Nijinski one day; education? Who has inspired him? This Lauranzov answered that I
his wife has written this in her autobiography "One day I said to my was practicing breathing exercise of Indian Yoga that gave me
husband, what a shame that you cannot see yourself dancing?" insight. Breathing? What is so special about breathing? Breathing
Nijinski said, "Who said I cannot see. I do always see. I am always means that if you relax completely, if you leave your body totally
out. I make myself dance from the outside and if I am not out of my relaxed which is possible through Sashtang Pranam of ancient
body then I cannot take such a high jump, I can't come down to Indian system. That is the position of "SHARNAAGATI"for body.
ground so slowly. When I dance from within, I feel weight and when If you lie down on the ground, relaxed completely, then it is not
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Youth can practice Dynamic, Kundalani, Nataraj and Nadabrahma The story ofthe book (oflife actually) has already reached a point
meditations. Choice of the meditation or combinations of now pom where we can enter into a completely new and hitherto
meditations absolutely depends on one's own likings. Techniques untouched concept- the concept of art of dying.
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there is simply joy andfreedom inside it. Here, concept of Bardo has also
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From thirty-five to forty-two, a new step, a new door
opens. If up to thirty-five you have felt deep harmony, an orgasmic
feeling and you have discovered meditation through it, then from
thirty-five to forty-two you will help each other go more and more
into that meditation without sex because sex at this point starts
looking childish, juvenile. Forty-two is the right time when a
person should be able to know exactly who he is. From forty-two to
forty-nine he deeper and deeper into meditation, more and
more into himself and helps the partner in the same way. They
become friends. There is no more husband and there is no more wife;
that time has passed. It has given its richness to your life; now there
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novels. Whatever he wanted to do in life...
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to the university, of course to different universities or to the same
that has been just a desire in his mind, just a dream. Now it can be
university but to different departments. One is to prepare children
turned into a reality. And he should be freed from all old bondage -
one is to prepare people who haye lived life and now
marriage or any other kind of bondages-- so he can start new
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first dimension also come languages. Every person in the world
Osha's vision is for entire humanity. A model proposed by himfor . should know at least two languages; one is his mother tongue and
world education is five dimensional which has already registered itself in the other is English as an international vehicle for communication.
world intelligentsia but knowing about this concept is goodfor everyone..... They can also be taught more accurately by television- the accent,
the grammar, everything can be taught more correctly. We can
I divide education into five dimensions. The first is
create in the world, an atmosphere of brotherhood: language
informative like history, geography and many other subjects which
connects people and language disconnects too. There is right now
can be dealt with by television and computer together. But about
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they know what life is. They don't know.... and by the time they
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know, it is too late. Every child should be helped to transform his
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anger, hatred, jealousy into love. An important part of the third
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with footnotes about the people who have been counted up to now education makes people sad and serious. And if one third of your
as historically great men people like Adolf Hitler. They can have life is wasted in a university, in being sad and serious, it becomes
a place in footnotes or an appendix with a clear explanation that ingrained; you forget the language of laughter and the man who
they were either insane or suffered from some inferiority complex or forgets the language of laughter has forgotten much of life.
other psychiatric disorder. We have to make the future generations
So love, laughter and an acquaintance with life and its
wonders, its mysteries ..... These birds singing in the trees should not
go unheard. The trees and the flowers and the stars should have a
connection with your heart. The sunrise and the sunset will not be
According to age is the time when a person should Hassidism teaches life in community. It is a very
experiment on every path ofreligion. Yoga, Sufism or any other can be communal approach. It says that man is not an island, man is not
learn martial art and related activities. There is a vast literature on these
the ego, the best way is to live in a community, live with people,
topics is available butjustfor touching this aspect, veryfew pages have been
be concerned with people --- with their joy, with their sadness,
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cut and prune; not that. You simply allow yourself to be a servant to
the garden and you tell the garden, "Now you tell me what to do,"
and the garden leads you. The spirit of the garden possesses you and
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to become blissful, to become ecstatic. We are born in death but with
Buddha, is connected with Confucius. But neither Confucius nor
the possibility of going beyond death into immortality.*
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exists without any competition and whenever we bring in
me- is one of the most essential parts of religiousness. A religious
competition, we destroy beauty. So continue archery but by and by
person who cannot laugh fully, is not fully religious. Something is
drop your ambition to compete. [Archery] can be used as a path to
still missing. So you have to walk almost on a razor!s edge. Laughter
know yourself.... it can be used!* *
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difficult -- laughter will cpme first and then suddenly you will
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appears less like matter and more like consciousness. This is good
news; science is coming to a great understanding. That
understanding is arising out of its failure to demystify existence. But
I don't see a similar understanding arising in the so-called religious
people. They are lagging far behind; they are all talking on old,
stupid ways. They are still obsessed with the Vedas and the Koran
Bible are wrong -- they are perfectly right -- but they are expressed in
a very very ancient, primitive way. They are not capable for Further Osho goes miles ahead in this context and even proposes
meeting modem science. We need contemporary religious mystics for an official institution of mysticism. A place where middle aged people
of the same caliber as Albert Einstein and Eddington and Planck. can know, can experiment with all the mysteries oflife....
That's my effort here-- to create contemporary mystics, not only Mysticism is one of the forgotten languages. It has to be
scholars who can talk like a parrot about the Upanishads and the revived because in forgetting the language of the mystics, life has
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come when science and religion can meet and mingle, can be welded All those mystery schools together will be the University of
together. And that day will be one of the greatest days of the whole of Mysticism. In true spirit it will be universal. A university has to be
human history; it will be a great day of rejoicing, incomparable, universal.
unique because from that day- the schizophrenia, the split humanity
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can say that they are engaged in mundane things. They create
engineers, they create doctors, they create technicians. They are all Life is not a small thing. It is so vast and we are so small.
needed. But they don't create poets; they kill the poets. They don't The ocean is so big and we have to swim in it just with our own small
create mystics. They destroy the very roots on which a mystic can hands. Only those people who never start swimming and go on
grow. The university of mysticism will be concerned only with the standing on the bank looking at others, should feel ashamed. One
suprarational that which is beyond the mind. And there is so much who has started swimming.... ten years is nothing much, even ten
beyond the mind that if it is not made available to you...... . lives are short.
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his.* it and in enjoying it, it knows what it is. It cannot define it, it cannot
explain itself because the experience is such that it is inexplicable,
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beyond life.
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laughing; they will be learning celebration. They have to make their you a better man nor can history make you a better lover nor can
death- a festival -- that should be the goal of the second part of chemistry make you meditative. All that is being taught in the
education. They will paint, they will play music, they will sculpt, universities cannot give you the sense of humor. You cannot laugh,
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living, still you will need all these great value in your life. But you The new man will find his religion in nature -- not in dead
will be surprised- I teach only these things-love, life, laughter and as stone statues but in living dancing trees in the wind. He will find his
a background for all these- meditation but the government of India religion surfing on the sea, climbing on the virgin mountain. He will
is not willing to accept this school as an institution of education if I find his prayer with the snow, with the moon, with the stars. He will
was teaching geography, history, chemistry, physics -- the mundane be in dialogue with existence as it is. He not live with abstract
things of life. ideas, he will live with realities. His commitment will be to nature
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God is hidden here in this very body. This very body- the Buddha, Meditation
This very earth~ the paradise.
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Find a reasonably, comfortable and alert position to sit for 40-60
his Veda, his Koran, his Bible. Here he will find sermons in the
minutes. Back and head should be straight, eyes closed and
stones. He will try to decipher the mysteries of lifei he will not try to
breathing normal. Stay as still as possible; only change position if it is
demystify life. He will try to love those mysteries, to enter in those
necessary.
mysteries. He will be a poeti he will not be a philosopher. He will be
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opportunity. You will feel as he leaves his body, some invisible
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death. Death is the very ground on which life exists. Death and life understand death too. Those who do not understand death can
are like two wings: the bird cannot fly with one wing and the being never understand life either but we have been brought up with such
cannot be without death. So the first thing is a clear understanding a great fear of death. I have seen people closing their doors and
of what we mean by death. bringing their children inside if some funeral procession is going on.
Death is an absolutely necessary process for life to be. It is I have asked, IIWhat are you doing? Let your children know, let them
not the enemy, it is the friend. And it is not there somewhere in the be acquainted that this is the end or perhaps a new beginning.
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destiny, you are fighting against something which is going to you love intensely. I say to you, never forget death. It is always
happen. The whole fight is absurd because death cannot be there by your side. Before it grips you, do whatsoever you feel like
avoided ............ If consciousness becomes meditative then you dOing. Dance, have a little champagne, love and don't be bothered
accept death then death is nothing apart; it is you. Then you about death because that will be destroying your present. When it
accept death as repose; then you accept death as a final relaxation; comes, if we have lived our life totally and intensely, we will be able
then you accept death as a retirement. You retire. The whole day you to live our death too with the same intensity, with same totality. Yes,
have worked hard; in the evening you come home and then you go in fact, death is only transmigration- changing your house which has
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become dilapidated, is almost in ruins and moving into a new house, ......... Meditation looks like death and the experience is
fresh, just made, made for you. Death is only a change.* exactly the same. But the attitude and the approach is different and
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leaves don't become yellow and don't fall, the new leaves, the fresh
and young will not come. If new goes on living in the old body, he
will not be moving into a better house- fresher, newer with more
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an enemy and to the man who knows what life is, death is the
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driver of life continues. Unless you experience this, the fear of
here and you have always been here. Forms may have been different,
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the morning; you come back to life, a new day starts, a new life.
and towards life too because life and death are not separate.
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culmination of a life lived naturally, without any inhibition,
happen one day. It is very easy through Osha's insight ...
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mean the death that visits you every moment, with each exhalation. flow through you without any obstruction from your side as if you
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live life intensely; to live both so passionately that nothing is left
we have to be something more than nature, that just to be natural is
behind unlived, not even death. If you live life and death totally, you
to be animal; we have to be supernatural. And it seems very logical.
transcend. In that tremendous passion and intensity of life and
All the religions have been teaching this -- that to be man means
death, you transcend duality, you transcended the dichotomy, you
going above nature -- and they have convinced centuries of
come to the One. That One is really the truth. You can call it- God,
humanity to go above nature. Nobody has succeeded in going above
you can call it- life, and can call it- truth, 5amadhi, ecstasy or
nature. All that they have succeeded in is destroying their natural,
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recalling past lives -- is at the base of it. Whosoever has remembered
be the same. Beyond the age of five, there is yet another door which
his past lives, for him the whole affair has suddenly turned into a
will lead you to the point of your birth when you appeared on earth.
dream, an illusion. Where are his friends of past lives? Where are his
Then one comes across another difficulty because the memories of
relatives, his wife and children, the houses he lived in? Where is that
one's stay in the mother's womb never disappear either. One can
world? Where is everything he took to be so real? Where are those
penetrate these memories too, reaching to the point of conception, to
worries that gave him sleepless nights? Where are those pains and
the moment when the genes of the mother and father unite ..... A
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If you become more and more full of feeling, full of heart,
you will become capable of knowing of entering into that great
story of your past lives. It is not only YOUR biography; it is the
biography of the whole universe. Because sometimes you are
carrying alHhose memories of being a tree ........ .
People who are more heart-oriented are single of purpose.
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into meditation. Meditation means going into you immortality, people who have meditated a little bit in their lives can be benefited
going into your eternity, going into your godliness ......... . by it and Tibet was one of the countries where almost everybody was
Once again be simple, once again be a child. And this devoting some time to meditation just to be alone, silent, not doing
miracle is possible by meditation. Meditation is simply a strange anything, just witnessing. If such a person does not achieve
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of it, we are heart of it. Secondly, meditation will bring you a great "Now be silent. Leave this life consciously rather than death taking it
silence-- because all rubbish knowledge is gone. Thoughts that are away from you, relax your hoid; don't be defeated by death, don't
part of the knowledge are gone too ..... An immense silence and you struggle. Just drop all your attachment. This world is finished for
are surprised: This silence is the only music there.* you and this life is finished for you. There is no point in holding on to
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involved and they would move to another town. They were loved
very much. That was there only sermon, the only message-- that
laugh. And they would not teach, they would simply create the
situation.
simply laugh so that became their name- The Three Laughing any dust; laughter is always young and fresh. So don't give me a bath
Then they became old and in one village, one of the three So, just to pay him respect, they had not changed his clothes.
monks died. The whole village was very expectant, very filled with And when the body was put on the fire, suddenly they became
expectations because now, at least, when one of them had died, they aware that he had hidden many things under his clothes and those
must weep. This would be something worth seeing because no one things started ... Chinese fireworks!! So the whole village laughed
would even conceive of these people weeping. The whole village and those two said, "You rascal! You have died but again you have
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We can only laugh." The whole village was sad but when the dead
monk's body was put on the funeral pyre then the village realized
that not only these two were joking- the third who was dead, was
also laughing. Because the third man who was dead had told his
companions, "Don't change my It was conventional that
when a man died, they changed the dress and a bath to the
body, so he had said, "Don't me a bath because I have never
been unclean. So much laughter has been in my life that no impurity
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exhalation, you will feel egoless. This emphasis on exhalation closed eyes, move inward. Bring your attention to the toes and feel
will help you very much to do this experiment because you will that the fire is rising from there, upward; everything is being burned.
be ready to die. A readiness is needed; otherwise the technique As the fire rises, your body is disappearing. Start from the toes and
will not be of much help. And you can be ready only if you have move upwards. Why start from the toes? It will be easier because the
tasted death in a certain way. Exhale deeply and you will have a toes are very far away from your'!', Your ego exists in
taste of it. It is beautifuL. .. ~ the head. Start the fire from there. that the toes are burned;
ashes remain and then move slow ly, burning everything that the fire
....And if you want to enter this technique, you must be aware of
comes across. Every part- the the thighs will disappear. Go on
this deep fear of death. And this deep fear must be thrown away,
upward and lastly the head disappears. You will remain just a
purged only then can you enter the teclmique. This will help: pay
watcher on the hill. The body will be there- dead, burned ashes and Osho No- School. School
you will be the witness. This witness has no ego. technique
take at least three months. Go on doing it. It is not going to happen in Osho says, "I have been a great dreamer and I havefulfilled many
one day but if you go on doing it for one hour everyday, within 3 dreams. Now. I leave you my dream."
months, one day suddenly your imagination will helped and the One ofsuch dream is ofNo- School School. Osho had started this
gap will be created and you will actually see the body gone to school long before, in a ranted building, quite close to his own ashram in
ashes then you can watch.* Pune and named it-- Rajneesh No- School School. Then he appointed Ma
Prarthna as director there. Later on, Osho gave an interview to Ma
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researched extensively for two years (1979-80) and prepared a document
which was to be usedfor child education institution based on Osho s vision,
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in nearfu ture. It covered every fine detail over the subject. Syllabus, method
of teaching, management, examination system, hostel, teachers and allfine
details have been covered in it. It is a complete document but very much
focused and concentrated. Each sentence of it will become a topic of
research in future.
And on this foundation, I prepared syllabus for five subjects for
this institution which is based on Osha's vision and guided by him
completely; I prepared teachers manual which would become a guideline for
No-Teacher Teacher in future and I prepared complete papers on
management of this institution.
About Osho
And then, 5-6 years ago, few Osha disciples & lovers cameforward
to materialise this project & with the help of them I started this child
Osho is a modern day Buddha whose wisdom, clarity and
education institution, in the beautiful valley ofVikasnagar, Dehradoon.
humor have touched the lives of millions of people around the
First phase of this school is complete but due to my illness and other
world. He is creating the conditions for the emergence of what he
circumstances, the pace ofwork is slow. But I believe that it is the dream
calls the "New Man." A completely new kind of human who is
of our master hence it is for sure that some day, this challenge will take a
aware, life- affirmative and free. According to Osho, the spiritual
definite shape. Itis in our hearts and it has to come to the ground ...
traditions of the past have made a deep split within the individual,
Swami Anand Vairagya
reflected in all the institutions of the society. His way is to heal this
split, to restore the unity of body and spirit, earth and sky. After his
enlightenment in 1953, the evolution of this new man became his
dream. In 1966, Osho left the academic world and his post as a
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YAMUNA VALLEY (HATHIYARI) touring India extensively and speaking to many hundreds of
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Bihar. On 7th
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OSHO CIRCLE FOUNDATION initiated by Osho in a meditation camp
conducted by Osho himself at Mount
Osho Circle Foundation is a registered trust which, Abu, Rajasthan.
with the help of Osho Mandakini Ashram (Varanasi),
is committed to take Osho's message to the masses. Since then, Osho sent him to various
Long ago, Swami Anand Vairagya had initiated this places to conduct three days meditation
movement to explore different dimensions of Osho's camps. in 1980 Swamiji conducted a
work. After his demise, this same work is continued kirtan mandali tour continuously for 3
in the efficient hands of Ma Dhyan Abha (President months. He conducted hundreds of 3
Osho Circle Foundation) through the trust with the days meditation camps during this
help of same group of people, in more refined & time.
organised way. After 1995, he started conducting 5
and 10 days deep silence. meditation
Osho no-school school, child··education, Meditation
sessions throughout India,especiallv
camps, Deep silence meditation sessions, different
Himalayas. Besides. he
types of meditational workshops, Art & culture,
days specific meditatiP!1!:;ciinP${;like
Bhajan-Kirtan & devotional music, Gurdjieff's sufi Osho Bhakti Shivir,· (
dances, Osho's literature & lectures, Books, Hasaya Shivir,
magazines & tabloids etc. are all those means with Shivir, Jin-Shawma
the help of which, this trust is trying hard to spread Shadhana Shivir.
Osho's message to the common people, on a wider took several
scale. Friends & wellwishers are always welcome to
join in ...
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