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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Sex: From repression to Tantra and Zen (Osho)



Q: - Osho, What is the Zen Approach towards Sex? The Zen people seem to have a neuter gender, or asexual aura around them.

- Zen has no attitudes about sex, and that is the beauty of Zen. To have an attitude means you are still obsessed this way or that. Somebody is against sex -- he has an attitude; and somebody is for sex -- he has an attitude. And for and against go together like two wheels of a bullock cart. They are not enemies, they are friends, partners in the same business.

Zen has no attitude about sex. Why should one have any attitude about sex? That's the beauty of it -- Zen is utterly natural. Do you have any attitudes about drinking water? Do you have any attitudes about taking food? Do you have any attitudes about going to sleep in the night? No attitudes. I know there are mad people who have attitudes about these things too: that one should not sleep more than five hours. Sleep is a kind of sin, something like a necessary evil, so one should not sleep more than five hours; or in India there are people who think only three hours.
And I have come across one person who has not slept for ten years. And he is worshipped for this only; he has nothing else, no other creative talents. It is his only talent. Maybe he is just an insomniac. Maybe even this is not a talent, maybe he cannot sleep. He has gone so neurotic that he cannot relax, and he looks mad. One will become mad if for ten years one has not slept. And people come, crowds come, to worship him. He has attained something great. What has he attained? What is the attainment there? He is just an abnormal person, ill. To sleep is natural. And he is bound to be very tense -- he is tense. He must be boiling within. Just think, for ten years not sleeping! But now it has become a great investment, now it is paying. His madness has become an invest-ment, now thousands of people worship him -- only for this?

Down the ages this has been one of the greatest calamities -- that people have been worshipping uncreative things, and sometimes pathological things. Then you have an attitude about sleep. There are people who have an attitude about food. To eat this or to eat that; to eat only so much, not more than that. They don't listen to the body, to whether the body is hungry or not. They have a certain idea and they impose the idea on nature.
Zen has no attitudes about sex. Zen is very simple, Zen is innocent. Zen is childlike. It says there is no need to have any attitudes. Why? Do you have any attitude about sneezing? -- to sneeze or not, whether it is sin or virtue. You don't have any attitude. But I have come across one man who is against sneezing, and whenever he sneezes he immediately repeats a mantra to protect himself. He belongs to a small foolish sect. That sect thinks that when you sneeze the soul goes out. In the sneeze the soul goes out, and if you don't remember God it may not come back.

So you have to remember, you have to immediately remember so that the soul is given back. If you die while sneezing you will go into hell. You can have attitudes about anything. Once you have attitudes, your innocence is destroyed and those attitudes start controlling you. Zen is neither for anything nor against anything. Zen says whatsoever is ordinary is good. To be ordinary, to be a no one, to be a nothingness, to be without any ideology, to be without character, to be characterless....

When you have a character you have some kind of neurosis. Character means something has become fixed in you. Character means your past. Character means conditioning, cultivation. When you have a character you are imprisoned in it, you are no more free. When you have a character you have an armor around yourself. You are no more a free person. You are carrying your prison around yourself; it is a very subtle prison. A real man will be characterless.

What do I mean when I say he will be characterless? He will be free of the past. He will act in the moment according to the moment. He will be spontaneous; only he can be spontaneous. He will not look back into the memories for what to do. A situation has arisen and you are looking in the memory -- then you have a character. Then you are asking your past, "What should I do?" When you don't have any character you simply look into the situation and the situation decides what has to be done. Then it isspontaneous and there is response and not reaction. Zen has no belief-system about anything, and that includes sex too -- Zen says nothing about it. And that should be the ultimate thing.

Tantra has an attitude about sex. The reason? -- it tries to redress what the society has done. Tantra is medical. The society has repressed sex; Tantra comes as a remedy to help you redress balance. You have leaned too much to the left; Tantra comes and helps you to lean to the right. And to redress the balance sometimes you have to lean too much to the right, only then the balance is gained. Have you not seen a rope walker, a tightrope walker? He carries a staff in his hand to keep balance. If he feels he is leaning too much to the left, he immediately starts leaning to the right. Then again he feels that now he has leaned too much to the right, he starts leaning towards the left. This is how he keeps in the middle. Tantra is a remedy.

The society has created a repressive mind, a life-negative mind, an anti-joy mind. The society is very much against sex. Why is the society so much against sex? -- because if you allow people sexual pleasure, you cannot transform them into slaves. It is impossible -- a joyous person cannot be made a slave. That is the trick. Only sad people can be turned into slaves. A joyous person is a free person; he has a kind of independence to him.

You cannot recruit joyous people for war. Impossible. Why should they go to war? But if a person has repressed his sexuality he is ready to go to war, he is eager to go to war, because he has not been able to enjoy life. He has become incapable of enjoying, hence has become incapable of creativity. Now he can do only one thing -- he can destroy. All his energies have become poison and destructive. He is ready to go to war -- not only ready, he is hankering for it. He wants to kill, he wants to destroy.

In fact, while destroying human beings he will have a vicarious joy of penetrating. That penetrating could have been in love and would have been beautiful. When you penetrate a woman's body in love, it is one thing. It is spiritual. But when things go wrong and you penetrate somebody's body with a sword, with a spear, it is ugly, it is violent, it is destructive. But you are searching for a substitute for penetration.

If society is allowed total freedom about joy, nobody will be destructive. People who can love beautifully are never destructive. And people who can love beautifully and have the joy of life will not be competitive either. These are the problems.

That's why primitive people are not so competitive. They are enjoying their life. Who bothers to have a bigger house? Who bothers to have a bigger balance in the bank? For what? You are happy with your woman and with your man and you are having a dance of life. Who wants to sit in the marketplace for hours and hours and hours, day in, day out, year in, year out, hoping that in the end you will have a big bank balance and then you will retire and enjoy? That day never comes. It can't come, because the whole life you remain an ascetic.

Remember, the business people are ascetic people. They have devoted everything to money. Now a man who knows love and has known the thrill of love and the ecstasy of it will not be competitive. He will be happy if he can get his daily bread. That is themeaning of Jesus' prayer: "Give us our daily bread." That is more than enough. Now Jesus looks foolish. He should have asked, "Give us a bigger bank balance." He asks only for the daily bread?

A joyous man never asks for more than that. The joy is so fulfilling. It is only unfulfilled beings who are competitive, because they think life is not here, it is there. "I have to reach to Delhi and become the president," or to the White House and become this or that. "I have to go there, joy is there" -- because they know here there is no joy. So they are always on the go, go, go, go. They are always on the go, and they never reach. And the man who knows the joy, is here. Why should he be going to Delhi? For what? He is utterly happy herenow. His needs are very small. He has no desires. He has needs certainly, but no desires. Needs can be fulfilled, desires never. Needs are natural, desires are perverted.

Now this whole society depends on one thing and that is sex repression. Otherwise the economy will be destroyed, sabotaged. War will disappear and with it the whole war machinery, and the politics will become meaningless and the politician will no longer be important. Money will not have value if people are allowed to love. Because they are not allowed to love, money becomes the substitute, money becomes their love. So there is a subtle strategy. Sex has to be repressed, otherwise this whole structure of the society will fall immediately.

Only love released into the world will bring revolution. communism has failed, fascism has failed, capitalism has failed. All 'isms' have failed because deep down they are all sex repressive. On that point there is no difference -- no difference between Washington and Moscow, Beijing and Delhi -- there is no difference at all. They all agree upon one thing -- that sex has to be controlled, that people are not to be allowed to have innocent joy insex.

To redress the balance comes Tantra; Tantra is a remedy. So it emphasizes sex too much. The so-called religions say sex is sin and Tantra says sex is the only sacred phenomenon. Tantra is a remedy. Zen is not a remedy. Zen is the state when the illness has disappeared; and of course, with the illness, the remedy too. Once you are cured of your illness you don't go on carrying the prescription and the bottle and the medicine with you. You throw it. It goes to the dustbin.

Ordinary society is against sex; Tantra comes to help humanity, to give sex back to humanity. And when the sex has been given back, then arises Zen. Zen has no attitude. Zen is pure health.

Osho,
"The Diamond Sutra"

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Μονοήμερο θεραπευτικών τεχνικών και Osho διαλογισμών



Πότε;
το Σάββατο 13 Νοεμβρίου 2010.

Που;
Στο Breath of Life Osho Institute,
Αβέρωφ 1 και Γραβιάς (μετρό Δάφνη),
4ος όροφος

ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ:

07:00-08:00 OSHO Δυναμικός διαλογισμός, με τον Anton Veerya Novikov.
Διαρκεί 1 ώρα και έχει 5 στάδια. Ένας διαλογισμός κάθαρσης, που μας βοηθά να απελευθερώσουμε ανέκφραστες εντάσεις μέσα από το σώμα και το συναίσθημά μας και να ξεκινήσουμε τη μέρα δυναμικά, με φρέσκια ενέργεια!

08:00-09:00 Διάλειμμα

09:00-10:00 Διαλογισμός OSHO No-Mind, με τη Μαρία Padmini Τσαμπλάκου
Διαρκεί 1 ώρα και έχει 3 στάδια. Αδειάζουμε το σώμα-νου από σκέψεις, συναισθήματα και ό,τι μας δημιουργεί άγχος και ένταση. Επαναφέρουμε τη χαλάρωση, τη καθαρότητα και την ησυχία και γεμίζουμε ζωτική ενέργεια.

10:30-11:30 Breathing, με τη Μόνα Κωνσταντινίδου και τον Anton Veerya Novikov
Η μεταμορφωτική δύναμη της τεχνικής Transenergetic Breathing.

12:00-13:00 Tantric Meditation, με τη Μόνα Κωνσταντινίδου
Ένας διαλογισμός παρμένος από το «OSHO, The Book of Secrets:112 Keys to the Mystery».

13:00-14:00 Διάλειμμα

14:00-15:00 Sound Healing, με το Δημήτρη Sundaram Ψύχα
Θεραπευτικοί ήχοι που μας προσφέρουν χαλάρωση, πληρότητα και εσωτερική γαλήνη.

15:30-16:30 Voicing, με την Έλενα Niskriya Καζαντζίδη
Τραγούδησε το δικό σου τραγούδι, το τραγούδι που εκφράζει την εσωτερική σου πραγματικότητα τη κάθε στιγμή.

17:00-18:00 Διαλογισμός OSHO Kundalini, με την Αγάπη Anjee Μαυρογεννάκη
Διαρκεί 1 ώρα και έχει 4 στάδια. Ο απογευματινός διαλογισμός που μας απαλλάσσει με ήπιο τρόπο από τις εντάσεις του σώματος, δίνοντας μας φρεσκάδα και χαλάρωση.

18:30-19:30 O διαλογισμός των πέντε αισθήσεων, με τη Χριστίνα Sumitra Παλιουδάκη
Μια ταντρική χαλαρωτική εμπειρία, με τη συμμετοχή των πέντε αισθήσεών μας.

20:00-21:30 Evening Satsang Meditation (OSHO White Robe)
Ο βραδινός διαλογισμός της χαράς και της γιορτής. Περιλαμβάνει μουσική, χορό και προβολή βίντεο με ομιλία του OSHO. Τη μουσική παίζουν ζωντανά η Αλίκη Ranjana Μαρκαντωνάκη και άλλοι φίλοι.

Τι να έχω μαζί μου;
Να είστε ντυμένοι με άνετα ρούχα και αν θέλετε να γευματίσετε στα διαλείμματα να φέρετε μαζί σας, ελαφριά σνακ.

Πόσο θα κοστίσει η συμμετοχή μου;
1 διαλογισμός: 7 ευρώ
2 διαλογισμοί: 10 ευρώ
3-4 διαλογισμοί: 20 ευρώ
Από 4 και πάνω: 35 ευρώ

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Monday, October 18, 2010

Awakening of Love - with Prem Sambhavo

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Awakening of Love με τον Prem Sambhavo -
5-6-7 Νοεμβρίου στο Breath of Life Osho Institute

 
Η Αφύπνιση της Αγάπης είναι ένα μοναδικό, γεμάτο ευαισθησία αλλά και δυναμισμό γκρουπ που θα σας φέρει πιο κοντά στον πραγματικό σας εαυτό, βοηθώντας σας να πάτε πέρα από τα επίπεδα του προγραμματισμού και της ταύτισης.
Είναι γεγονός ότι για διάφορους λόγους βρίσκουμε τον εαυτό μας να «κλείνεται», να απομονώνεται, να νιώθει πληγωμένος και να υιοθετεί μια στάση άμυνας. Έτσι λοιπόν πονάμε, κατηγορούμε, νιώθουμε μόνοι, εμπλεκόμαστε σε αρρωστημένες σχέσεις, παραιτούμαστε, εθιζόμαστε.
Στο γκρουπ αυτό δουλεύουμε με ειλικρινές και γεμάτο αγάπη μοίρασμα, υποστηρίζοντας σας να συνδεθείτε με την αληθινή σας αξία και ουσία, μέσα από μοναδικές ασκήσεις και διαλογισμούς.
Θα αποκτήσετε μεγαλύτερη διαύγεια σε σχέση με την κατανόηση και γνώση του αυθεντικού σας εαυτού. Από αυτό το σημείο καθαρότητας, αυτοπεποίθησης και εμπιστοσύνης, τα πάντα είναι δυνατά.
Το Awakening of Love σου προσφέρει:

- Μια διαφορετική προσέγγιση που υπερβαίνει τα συστήματα πεποιθήσεων, αντιλήψεων και ιδεολογιών.
-Ένα νέο τρόπο να σχετίζεσαι με τον εαυτό σου και τους άλλους.
-Ένα χώρο εμπιστοσύνης όπου μπορείς να έρθεις αντιμέτωπος με τις κρυμμένες πλευρές του εαυτού σου.
-Ένα νέο εργαλείο για την εσωτερική σου αναζήτηση.
- Μια εμπειρία σιωπής.

Τιμή του Γκρουπ : 180 ευρώ.

Για κρατήσεις θέσεων μέχρι τις 25/ 10/ 2010
με προκαταβολή 50% συνολική τιμή 160 ευρώ.

DEMO Πέμπτη 3 Νοεμβρίου 2010, ώρα 20:00.
Είσοδος ελεύθερη.

Πληροφορίες - κρατήσεις θέσεων:
Pradeepa 6945807989, dhyanpradeepa@yahoo.com
Varsha 6944738304 varshagreek@yahoo.com

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Awakening of Love, with Prem Sambhavo

November 5-6-7
@ Breath of Life Osho Institute

Awakening of Love is a unique, delicate, powerful event that will bring you close to your real self, beyond the common layers of conditioning and identification. For all sorts of reasons we find ourselves shut down, closed off and in a state of hurt and protection.

Through exercises and presence you come to face yourself deeply and you open through the layers of identification, thoughts, concepts, judgments, beliefs and defenses that have kept you in separation. When this happens your heart opens and love can flow again. You will feel more connected to yourself and others and have more clarity.

Group cost: 180 euros
For bookings until October 25 with 50% deposit in advance, the price is 160 euros.


DEMO: Thursday, November 3, at 20:00. Free Entrance.

Info & bookings:
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

A real love has nothing to do with permanence

Question: Osho, what is the secret of remaining happy and married?

- Sarjan, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE! It has never happened -- it cannot happen in the very nature of things. MARRIAGE IS SOMETHING AGAINST NATURE. Marriage is an imposition, an invention of man -- certainly out of necessity. But now even that necessity is out of date. It was a necessary evil in the past, but now it can be dropped. And it should be dropped: man has suffered enough for it, more than enough. IT IS AN UGLY INSTITUTION for the simple reason that love cannot be legalized. Love and law are contradictory phenomena.

MARRIAGE IS AN EFFORT TO LEGALIZE LOVE. It is out of fear. It is thinking about the future, about the tomorrows. Man always thinks of the past and the future; and because of this constant thinking about past and future, he destroys the present. And the present is the only reality there is. One has to live in the present. The past has to die and has to be allowed to die.

THE REALLY INTELLIGENT PERSON NEVER LOOKS BACK; he never bothers about the past -- that which is finished is finished forever. And he never thinks of the future either, because that which has not come yet has not come yet. And he knows that whenever it comes, he will be capable of responding to it, so why ponder over it? Why make ready-made answers to questions which have not even arisen? And all your ready-made answers are going to be irrelevant because life goes on changing. Life remains always a surprise; it is unpredictable.

But man thinks that he is being very clever by preparing for the future. You love a woman, you love a man, but what about the future? TOMORROW THE WOMAN MAY FALL IN LOVE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE. If she can fall in love even with you, Sarjan, why can she not fall in love with somebody else? You know it, you are aware of it that: "She has fallen in love even with me, so there is every possibility she can fall in love with somebody else."

So something has to be done to prevent her from falling in love with somebody else, so that your tomorrow is safe and secure, so that you can use her tomorrow, too. WHETHER LOVE REMAINS OR NOT, at least you will have the physiology of the woman. You are not much concerned with her soul -- because law cannot restrain the soul, but law can create barriers for the body; the body is not beyond its reach. Law can control her; law can condemn her, can punish her in many ways.

And another thing: not only are you afraid of the woman, YOU ARE AFRAID OF YOURSELF TOO. If you can fall in love with this woman, you can fall in love with somebody else. You know that your mind is constantly thinking of other women. You know there is every possibility that TOMORROW YOU MAY LOSE INTEREST IN THIS WOMAN; in fact it is almost a certainty, not just a possibility, not just a probability. And then you are afraid of yourself. You may escape, you may run.

AND YOU WANT TO CLING because this woman is taking care of you. She has been a comfort to you, she has been a consolation in your life, she has been in many ways a mother to you, a nourishment. You are afraid to betray her. YOU ARE AFRAID OF YOUR OWN MIND, of your own unconscious; it can take you anywhere.

AND YOU HAVE PROMISED HER THAT YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE HER, that you will always love her, that you will love her forever, life after life. You are afraid of breaking your promises. Your ego feels that to break those promises will mean only one thing: that you will never be able to forgive yourself. It will remain a heavy weight on you, it will create guilt for you.

And the same is the situation from the side of the woman. Hence it has been a necessary evil, and men and women have agreed to plan for the future. AFRAID OF THEMSELVES, THEY HAVE TAKEN SUPPORT FROM THE LAW, from the society, from conventions, from respectability. They have created thousand and one barriers around themselves so that they remain together.

But if -- and that "if" is not a small "if", it is a big "if" -- something happens tomorrow, then your life will become miserable. AND SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN TOMORROW; tomorrow is not going to remain the same. Life never remains the same, not even for two consecutive moments. Nothing can be said about the future; it remains unknown, unknowable, unpredictable. No astrology can help, no palmistry can help, no tarot-card reading can help, no I-ching can help -- nothing can help. Man has tried every possible way to make something certain out of the uncertain future, but nothing can be done. The nature of the future is unknown, and it remains unknown and open.

SO YOU CLOSE YOURSELF TO ALL POSSIBILITIES. You close all the doors, all the windows. But then you will feel suffocated and you will feel angry and you will feel constantly in conflict. With the woman you had loved once, you will feel angry for the simple reason that now it is difficult to get out of this prison. YOU HAVE IMPRISONED YOURSELF; now the only way to go on living in it is to make yourself as insensitive as possible, to become as unloving as possible, to become as false as possible, to be as dead as possible.

Hence people die very soon. They may be buried after forty years, fifty years, but they die nearabout thirty. BY THE TIME THEIR LOVE STARTS DYING THEY DIE, because life is love. But love is not law, life is not law. Life is not logic, love is not logic. LIFE IS BASICALLY INSECURE, and that is the beauty of it.

Hence I don't see that with the coming age, with the new maturity that man is attaining, MARRIAGE CAN EXIST ANYMORE IN THE SAME OLD WAY. It has to become more fluid; that means it can no more be an institution. People will live together -- they need each other... Men and women are halves of one whole; their need is intrinsic. Together they become one whole, together they are complementary to each other. But they will live together only because of love, not because of any law. AND THEY WILL LIVE TOGETHER OUT OF FREEDOM, NOT OUT OF BONDAGE.

And with the disappearance of the institution of marriage, THE WHOLE STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY WILL CHANGE -- it cannot change otherwise -- because once marriage disappears many things will disappear automatically. THE FAMILY WILL NOT BE THE SAME ANYMORE; the family will be replaced by communes -- that is inevitable. And children will not belong to persons but to the commune. Hence they will not be much of a problem -- because children have been a big problem: WHAT TO DO WITH THE CHILDREN WHEN PEOPLE SEPARATE? The children are left in a limbo; something has to be done about the children. And marriage has persisted for the simple reason that children have to be protected, they have to be helped; they are helpless. And it is your responsibility.

LOVE BECOMES DUTY, RESPONSIBILITY. And the moment it is duty and responsibility it loses all poetry, it becomes pure calculation. Then it is a compromise, then you have somehow to pull it, then you start dragging your life.

A GREAT REVOLUTION IS ON THE WAY, and with the disappearance of marriage that revolution will become possible. Once children no more belong to persons, they will have more generosity, they will be more human. They will not be Hindus and Mohammedans and Christians -- because they will not belong to certain parents and they will not be conditioned by the parents; they will belong to the commune. And once children belong to the commune they will have a larger experience of people. One child may come in contact with many women as mothers, aunts; with many men as fathers, as uncles; with many children as brothers, sisters.

RIGHT NOW THE EXPERIENCE OF THE CHILD IS VERY LIMITED. Each child is brought up by a certain woman. The impact of that woman remains hanging on the child's consciousness for his whole life; it becomes an imprint. And he is always searching for the same woman: in every woman he falls in love with, HE IS REALLY LOOKING FOR HIS MOTHER, whom he cannot find. Where can he find his mother? There are no two persons alike. He will never find his mother anywhere, but he is looking for his mother in every wife, in every beloved. And the same is the case with the woman: SHE IS LOOKING FOR THE FATHER IN EVERY HUSBAND, IN EVERY LOVER. And they cannot find them, but that is their IDEA.

THE WOMAN'S IDEA OF A MAN is nothing but her idea of the father, and the man's idea of a woman is nothing but his idea of the mother. They will never find them. Hence there will be frustration, hence there will always be despair, misery, failure, anguish.

IF A CHILD IS BROUGHT UP BY MANY WOMEN IN THE COMMUNE and comes in contact with many men and many women he will not have a certain idea, he will have a more vague vision. He will not have a certainty how a man should be or a woman should be. His idea of a woman will contain many pictures. AND THEN THERE WILL BE MORE POSSIBILITY OF FINDING A WOMAN WHO CAN FULFILL HIM or a man with whom life can be a contentment -- because one of the greatest miseries is that you are looking for someone you cannot find. Hence everybody will seem to be falling short; nothing will ever satisfy you.

And because you will not be confined to one family, YOU WILL NOT CARRY THE ROTTEN HERITAGE OF THE FAMILY. Otherwise the Hindu parents will make the child Hindu, and a Hindu child is bound to be against the Mohammedans, against the Christians, against everybody else. And so is the case with the Jews and with the Christians and the Mohammedans. If the child moves with many people in a commune and feels attuned with the whole commune....

NOW, THIS CHILD WILL BE A TOTALLY DIFFERENT CHILD! He has lived with Jews and with Christians and with Hindus. He will not be conditioned by anything, he will not have any conditioning. He will have a vast territory of being available to him.

THAT'S MY IDEA HOW ALL CHILDREN SHOULD GROW. Then there will be no ugly religious conflicts, wars, bloodshed; no ugly fanaticism, no fascist ideologies in the world. These are all byproducts of the family, and the family depends on marriage. In fact, if the family disappears, nations will have to disappear, religions will disappear, states will disappear, churches will disappear. That's why nations, churches, everybody is in favor of marriage AND THEY ALL GO ON PRAISING MARRIAGE AS IF IT IS SOMETHING HOLY, SOMETHING DIVINE. It is the ugliest thing on the earth! And they go on telling people that, "Without marriage, where will children get love?" They will get more love; nobody is going to prevent their parents from loving them, but they will be available to others, too. They will not be dependent, they will start learning independence. From the very beginning, they will have a certain new feel of freedom. And that's what is needed.

THE WHOLE OF HUMAN HISTORY HAS BEEN FULL OF RELIGIOUS WARS for the simple reason that everybody becomes conditioned. And once you are conditioned it is very difficult to uncondition you. I know the difficulty because that's my while work here -- to uncondition you. It takes months, years; and you struggle hard -- you resist in every possible way because your conditioning means your ego.

You ask me, Sarjan: What is the secret of remaining happy and married?

I don't know! NOBODY HAS EVER KNOWN. Why would Jesus have remained unmarried if he had known the secret? He knew the secret of the kingdom of God, but he did not know the secret of remaining happy in marriage. He remained unmarried. Mahavira, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, THEY ALL REMAINED UNMARRIED for the simple reason that there is no secret; otherwise these people would have discovered it. They could discover the ultimate -- marriage is not such a big thing, it is very shallow -- they even fathomed God, but they could not fathom marriage.

SOCRATES GOT MARRIED AND HE SUFFERED HIS WHOLE LIFE. He did not discover through marriage the secret of remaining happy; he simply discovered that it would have been better if he had not got married. But in Greece there had never been such incidents as Jesus, Lao Tzu -- Jesus had yet to come, five hundred years after Socrates. Socrates was a contemporary of Lao Tzu, Mahavira -- but he knew nothing about them because the world in those days had no communication. So whatsoever was conventional happened in his life.

MOHAMMED MARRIED NOT ONE WOMAN, HE MARRIED NINE WOMEN! Many times I have been asked, "What about Mohammed?" I know the secret of Mohammed but I don't know the secret of remaining happy in marriage. But if you have nine women they will fight amongst themselves, and you will be free! Mohammed managed it, and he has said to his followers, "Marry at least four women." So Mohammedans are allowed to marry four women. Four women are enough to fight amongst themselves, and the husband will be spared.

KRISHNA DID THE BEST: HE MARRIED SIXTEEN THOUSAND WOMEN! Now it is very easy to get lost. Sixteen thousand women... who will notice Krishna, where he has gone, where he is? There will be so much noise and fight; and in that cloudy, smokey atmosphere Krishna can escape anywhere. He can even sit in the middle of it and meditate, and nobody will bother about him! They will all be concerned about each other's saris and each other's ornaments.

BUDDHA GOT MARRIED, BUT THEN HE ESCAPED. He had a beautiful wife, Yashodhara, but he escaped. He came back home only when he became enlightened, after twelve years. Yes, if you are enlightened then you can be happy anywhere, even in marriage. But no enlightened person has been known to get married after enlightenment.

Two friends meet."Hello, Luisa, how is your great love?""It's over," she replied sadly."Over? How come?""We got married!"....The wife left home for the fifth time and the husband rushed to place an advertisement in the newspaper.It read: "Do not come back and all will be forgiven."

It was a wise old woman who, when people asked her why she never married, would answer: "Why marry? I have a dog who snores, a parrot who speaks only dirty words and a cat who stays out all night. What do I need a husband for?"

The jealous husband hires a detective to find out if his wife betrays him. After a few days the detective comes back with a movie showing his wife and his best friend swimming, dancing, making love, having fun.While watching the movie the husband keeps saying, "I can't believe it! I can't believe it!""But," says the detective, annoyed, "I'm giving you proof of it!""No, it's not that," replies the husband, "I just can't believe someone can have so much fun with my wife!"

In heaven everybody is quiet and silent except for Paolo who keeps saying, "What peace here! What peace here!"Even St. Peter gets tired of him and so one day he sends him to purgatory. Even there though Paolo keeps muttering, "What peace here! What peace here!"Everybody gets so tired that they decide to send him down to hell. But even in hell, among the flames and the devils, he keeps uttering, "What peace here! What peace here!"So Beelzebub calls him, and asks him the reason for his behavior."Well, Beelzebub," replies Paolo, "you would say the same if you had lived for fifty years with my wife!"

LOVE IS ENOUGH. Live only out of love. It may last long, it may not last. But don't be worried whether it lasts long or does not last long. Even if it is there for a single moment, it will give you the taste of eternity.

And there is every possibility that IF YOU ARE NOT AFRAID, IT MAY LAST LONGER, because fear is poison; it poisons everything. If you are not worried about tomorrow you may live today so totally that out of that totality a beautiful tomorrow will arise. But if you are afraid of tomorrow, you may destroy today. And once today is destroyed, from where is tomorrow going to come?

LIVE FEARLESSLY -- that is one of my fundamental messages to my sannyasins -- AND LIVE DANGEROUSLY. Don't compromise for conveniences, for comforts. It is better to live in discomfort but to live, rather than to be in comfort and dead. For that you can wait -- in your grave you will be perfectly comfortable and out of danger. Nothing can happen there; there is no danger. You cannot die again, no illness can happen, nobody can leave you, you can't go bankrupt, nothing can be stolen from you. You will be perfectly at peace.

You must have come across gravestones -- and it is written on almost all graves: "Rest in peace." What else is there?....You can rest in peace in the grave, in absolute security. But while you are alive, BE alive. ACCEPT ALL INSECURITY. In that very acceptance, insecurity disappears, and without any compromise on your part. Love totally, but don't ask for permanence. Only fools ask for permanence. And remember one thing: if you ask for permanence, you will get only false things; only false things are permanent.

REAL ROSES ARE BOUND TO WITHER SOONER OR LATER, but plastic roses are permanent; they don't wither away. But they don't have any fragrance either, they don't have any life either; they have only the appearance of roses.

MARRIAGE IS A PLASTIC ROSE; love is a real rose. Grow real roses in your life. Of course they will wither -- so what? You can grow them again, you can go on growing them. You can go on creating more and more love, sharing more and more with more and more people.

And this is my experience -- and whatsoever I am saying I am saying out of my own experience -- that IF YOU LOVE TOTALLY WITHOUT DESIRING ANY PERMANENCE, even the impossible is possible. Your love may remain for a long period, maybe your whole life. But don't ask for permanence; in that very asking you have disturbed the whole thing: you have moved from the real to the unreal. Live totally!

"Totality" is my keyword -- and up to now "permanence" has been the keyword. YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT YOUR LOVE SHOULD BE PERMANENT, ONLY THEN IT IS REAL; if it is not permanent it is not real. That is sheer bullshit! A real love has nothing to do with permanence; there is no necessary relationship. It may happen only for a moment, it may be just like lightning, but that does not mean that lightning is unreal, because it happens only for a moment. The rose flower opens in the morning; by the evening the petals have dropped, withered away, gone back to rest into the earth. That does not mean that the rose flower was unreal.

BUT YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD AGAIN AND AGAIN BY THE PRIESTS that if you are really looking for reality, then the touchstone is permanence. They have moved your mind from reality to permanence. And once you become attached to permanence, you are bound to purchase something false and you lose track of the real. THE REAL IS CHANGING, CONSTANTLY CHANGING; the unreal remains the same. And you have to be available to the constantly changing.

EVEN IF FOR A SINGLE MOMENT LOVE HAPPENS, BE TOTAL IN IT. If you are total in it, the next moment will come out of this totality. It is possible -- I cannot tell you it is certain, I can only tell you it is possible -- that the next moment will deepen your love. But it will not be the same: either it will deepen or it will disappear, but it will never be the same again. No two moments are the same, and they cannot be the same.

AND THAT IS THE BEAUTY OF LIFE, that is the incredible adventure of life: that it is always a surprise, it is always unexpected. If you live totally things may deepen -- but remember, when things are deepening, they are not the same. If you think of permanence you have missed the target.

So don't ask me: What is the secret of remaining, happy and married?

I CAN ONLY TELL YOU THE SECRET OF BEING HAPPY -- marriage is irrelevant. If you live together with somebody out of love, out of gratitude, good. If it goes on happening your whole life, good. If it disappears one day, depart from each other in deep gratitude, in the remembrance of the love that has been once there -- it has enriched you. RATHER THAN CLINGING TO EACH OTHER IN ANGER, in frustration, in rage, and being violent to each other and destructive, it is better to depart with grace. One should know how to fall in love and one should also know how to fall out of it gracefully.

OSHO,
Tao: The Golden GateVol 1,
Ch #3: Grow Real Roses

Saturday, September 4, 2010

OSHO AFROZ SUMMER FESTIVAL 2010 WITH MILAREPA AND FRIENDS

Here is the video, made by Disha with love:

Ramateertha's open letter to the Inner Circle on copyrighting Osho





Dear members of the Inner Circle,

recent developments around the issue of the OSHO Trademark are impelling me – Ramateertha – to write this letter.

I am aware of different possibilities and ways to look at this issue. Still, with this letter I do want to bring up and expose some of the important aspects that I feel that need to be shared and made public at this point.

The attempt to regard Oshos name as a trademark started to become an issue in ca. 1997/8 about 7 years after Osho left the body. It was proclaimed as a protective measure against the misuse of the name Osho.

Repeatedly from 1998 it was said that Osho wanted a trademark that would protect his name. If that was true, why there was no mentioning of it before and – if Osho really would have wanted this – would he not have taken care of this issue while he was in the body?

But, on the contrary, while he was in the body he opposed any kind of organisation that would create a legal bond amongst Sannysins in any form whatsoever. He was particularly clear about the centers: they should be independent – at the most spiritually affiliated. He made it totally clear, that he was against any centrally organised form of structure that would allow sannyasins to control or dominate other sannyasins. Centers should be free in their legal structure but also in their use of Osho’s name as a reference to his teachings and visions. They definitely should not be bound by a franchise contract which controls them in every aspect of their work.

Osho Quotes: “The world headquarters will be publishing my books, will be releasing my tapes, will be doing every kind of work. But it has no domination over anybody. All communes of the world are independent. All centers are absolutely free. They are under nobody’s guidance. My Sannaysins are directly related to me“. The Last Testament, Vol 6; Chapter #12

“... because the whole effort of Anand Sheela and her gang was to create a very centered hierarchy; so everything gets directed from above ... Seeing this I had to come out of silence, because it was absolutely against my work. I want a deconcentrated world of sannyasins. They should be given a clear-cut direction, understanding. Their responsibility should not be taken away. They remain responsible.
They remain free. They remain their own masters“. Light on the Path, Lecture 28; Question # 2
“We have suffered too much because of disciples getting related directly to each other, creating religions, sects, cults, and then fighting. They cannot do anything else. At least with me, remember it: you are not related to each other in any way at all. Just a liquid friendlyness, not a solid friendship, is enough – and far more beautiful, and without any possibility of harming humanity in the future“.
Beyond enlightenment, Lecture # 2;

In total contrast to these public statements from Osho, Osho International Foundation with its legal base in Zürich registered trademarks in the US and in Europe. Vatayana from Global Connections who says that she is acting as an agent for OIF, has been pressuring centers to sign the so called ‚Letter of Understanding’ because of those registered trademarks. If someone did not want to sign they were threatened with legal action and asked to stop using the name Osho for their center.

I was shocked to read the testimonies of Vatayana (Ursula Hoess) and Pramod (Klaus Steg) that were made in the US trial over the Osho trademark. They testify, that they have been visiting Osho Centers in order to police(!), supervise(!), monitor(!) or inspect(!) the licensees’ use of the term Osho:

Vatayana: “Corresponding with and monitoring Osho centers is part of the daily work that Osho Global Connection routinely undertakes for OIF”. Vatayana, after looking at a document, sent to an Osho Center: “This was part of our efforts to police licensed centers to ensure their compliance with OIF requirements“.

Vatayanas answer to the question whether she had personally inspected any of the licensed Osho Centers in the United States: “Y es“. To the question whether there were any other officers or employees of OIF who inspected Osho Centers she comes up with 4 more names of Sannyasins.

In a declaration from Vatayana from 2004 she adresses the court in the US writing: OIF (Zürich) monitors Osho Centers without its licensees’ knowledge (!) by conducting Internet searches (!) to confirm the licensees are not engaging in unapproved (!) activities, and by communicating directly with its licensees customers when those customers visit the Osho Commune.

In my understanding this kind of action it is an insult to Osho and his vision. What could have been an act of love or friendship, an act of sharing a certain understanding has been turned into an act of control and power.

The so called Osho Centerhandbook is turned into a legal paper as part of a franchise contract, that gives the rules and conditions of how a center should be organised and threatens with sanctions, namely that if you do not comply with those rules you will be forced to give up the name Osho – apart from the fact, that the name can be taken away from the licensee at any time without any reason!

How different sounds Osho, when he said to me in 1985 in Kulu Manali in an interview which I did for the German Osho Times:

“I don’t want any structure, because all structures create a certain kind of slavery ... An independent and free mind is always a problem, because he thinks. He may not agree with you. But freedom is more valuable than any functional, practical gains. Everything can be sacrificed to freedom. Freedom cannot be sacrificed to anything. So now there will be no more structures. Each commune should try to live intelligently, rather than following a certain structure unintelligently ... I am for individuality, I am for freedom, I am for the beauty of a chaos.“

I do not deny that the Centerhandbook can be of help for people who want to run a center. It can give directions. But it should be advisory, an aid and definitely not be part of a franchise contract or

a license that makes people dependent and takes away their freedom.

I am writing this letter because I urge the Inner Circle to oppose Osho International Foundation Zürich absurd attempts to trademark the name Osho and instead to respect the freedom of Oshos people to share their love for their Master and His vision.

The name Osho stands for this amazing Master and his teachings and his vision. It can not be separated: here the person and there the teaching. And it is not possible to monopolize the name Osho. It does not qualify to be a trademark because it is the name of Osho as a person and stands as description for the content of his teachings and visions.

The ® some people would like to add to “Osho” is deceptive if it is understood in the usual way. You may give the symbol a new meaning letting it stand for “®eligion” – a “Trademark Religion” - as that is what these people try to achieve: establish a new authority and make religion out of a vision. But then such a new understanding should be openly admitted and explained. To pretend against this, that Osho’s name is a trademark – the name of the man who has always been an advocate for total freedom without religion and whose teachings and visions are spread out by many independent people, centers and entities using his name to refer to his teachings and visions − is as intelligent as someone who does not want the death penalty saying: “I will shoot everybody who is for the death penalty!”

Cologne, Sept. 1st, 2010 Ramateertha

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Osho on wearing a Mala and changing one's name


Questioner: Is there a special significance in changing one's name and wearing a Mala given by you?


Osho: Yes, it has significance, great significance. The change of name has great significance for a sannyasin. It is an index, a symbol. Everything in our life is symbolic. You have a name; you are identified with this name. This name has become your symbol; it is identified with your individuality. Your name has an association with everything that you have been before yesterday. Changing the name of a sannyasin means we disconnect him from his old identity, from his old associations. We say to him, now you are not the same as you were before yesterday. Now you are starting on a new journey with a new name, a new identity.


Since ancient times they have had a small ceremony at the time of one's initiation into sannyas. It is a kind of cremation ceremony. Exactly as we bathe a dead body and shave its head before putting it on the pyre, a candidate for sannyas was bathed and shaved and then put on a pyre of wood. People stood around the pyre, like witnesses at his initiation, telling him, "Let all that you have been before now be burned in the fire, and what will emerge from this pyre will be an altogether new you. You ate now reborn, you are now a dwija, a twice-born."


It was a ritual, a symbolic ritual. And because it was symbolic you can think there would be no harm if you did not go through this ritual. You can do without it provided you have a deep understanding of the thing. With deep understanding we need no rituals whatsoever. But where is that understanding?


The change of name is helpful in breaking your old identity. With the changed name you suddenly come to know that you are not the same person now. Every time, while you are on the road, somebody calls you by your new name, not by the old one, vou will be startled to learn that vou have ceased to have your old identity. Every day your identification with your old life will wither; every day a new man will come into being in his place. You will be reminded again and again that you are now on a new journey. The change of name is useful for this purpose.


Secondly, you want to know about the mala and its meaning. Nothing in this universe is meaningless. It is different if something loses its meaning through long usage. Everything wears out and becomes dirty after being in currency for a long time. The same has happened with the mala. But it is meaningful.


There are one hundred and eight beads in a mala. Do you know what this number stands for? There are one hundred and eight techniques of meditation, ways of meditation, and this mala will be with you to remind you of the hundred and eight possible paths to meditation. And if you and I continue to be related I am going to acquaint you with all the different techniques of meditation. The hundred and eight beads of the mala represent all the techniques of meditation there are.


And when a witness like me gives this mala to an initiate into sannyas, he only tells him through this symbol that while he has explained only one path to the unknown to him, there are really many others, as many as one hundred and seven. So don't be in a hurry to say that people who are on paths other than yours are wrong. And always remember that there are countless paths, all of which lead to the divine.


At the bottom of the mala hangs a large bead which says that whatever path you follow you will reach, because all paths lead to the one, to the ultimate one. So all the beads, including the large one, are symbolic and meaningful.


When someone in our family marries a woman and brings her home as his wife, we change the name of the woman. Why? Just to break her identity with the past. She comes from another family where she was born and brought up, where she was educated and conditioned in their ways of life. Her whole past is associated with her name, so we change her name after she joins her new family. Thus a new journey of her life begins. Thus she is asked to forget her past, her old associations and conditionings and begin her life anew in a new family, a new environ ment, a new world. Now, around her new name a new crystallization will take place.


Whether it is a mala or a new name -- there are many such things -- they are very meaningful for the journey of sannyas. Unfortunately they have fallen in disrepute through long use, and that is why I speak against them over and over again. I criticize the uselessness to which they have been reduced. You cannot understand my difficulty in this matter My difficulty is that I know how useful they are and how useless they have become. So I will continue to speak both for and against them. That is my difficulty and destiny, and I would like you to understand it.


I will continue to speak against many things, because they have been rendered useless. And yet through different ways I will do everything to resurrect them, because I, for one, know their basic significance, and their basic significance has to be saved. So both processes will go together. For this reason, will lose many of my friends, and many of them will turn into my enemies. But this will go on, and there is no way to stop it.


If some traditionalist will come to me and talk about the importance of the mala, I am going to simply decry it.


I have been amazed to see that I have criticized the mala in the presence of the top sannyasins of this country and none of them had a word to say in its favor. I expected them to say some good things about it, but they could not, although each of them had a mala around his neck and almost worshipped it.

Since there is no one who can say something in its favor I will have to do it myself. There is no other way.


OSHO

from “Krishna : The Man and His Philosophy”

Friday, April 30, 2010

Bodytypes - Σωματότυποι, με την Taruja



FOR ENGLISH SCROLL DOWN

Σωματότυποι
κατά Αλεξάντερ Λόουεν


29-30 Μαϊου & 5-7 Ιουνίου 2010 στην Αθήνα, με την Taruja

Σε αυτό το group μπορείς να μάθεις πώς να «διαβάζεις» ένα σώμα, λαμβάνοντας πληροφορίες για την ιστορία της ανάπτυξής του, βάσει του μοντέλου των Σωματότυπων που ανέπτυξε ο Αλεξάντερ Λόουεν (Alexander Lowen).

O Αλεξάντερ Λόουεν, ο διεθνώς γνωστός δημιουργός της μεθόδου Bioenergetics, έχει ορίσει πέντε βασικούς σωματότυπους, οι οποίοι αναπτύσσονται κατά τα πρώτα 5-7 χρόνια της ζωής του ατόμου.

Το σύστημα αυτό μας επιτρέπει να «διαβάζουμε» την ιστορία ενός σώματος, η οποία είναι συνδεδεμένη με τα συναισθηματικά και νοητικά πρότυπα του ατόμου, παρέχοντάς μας μία κατανόηση των λεγόμενων «αυτόματων αμυντικών συμπεριφορών» και τρόπους να βγούμε από αυτές.

Παράλληλα, θα δούμε πώς μπορούμε να υποστηρίξουμε τον κάθε άνθρωπο για να απελευθερωθεί από παλιές παγιωμένες «δομές» (αυτόματες συμπεριφορές, σωματικά, συναισθηματικά και νοητικά πρότυπα) και πώς να τον προσεγγίσουμε, με τρόπο που να αισθάνεται ότι τον καταλαβαίνουμε πραγματικά.

Πολύ σημαντικό: Αν και δουλεύουμε με κατηγορίες, κατανοούμε ότι δε γίνεται να κατηγοριοποιούμε απόλυτα τον καθένα. Αναμφισβήτητα κάθε άνθρωπος είναι ένα ένα μυστήριο.
Παρ’ όλα αυτά, εστιάζουμε σε αυτοματισμούς που δεν ανήκουν πραγματικά στον χαρακτήρα ενός ατόμου και το υποστηρίζουμε να αποκτήσει μία καλύτερη αίσθηση του ποιός αληθινά είναι τώρα, αφήνοντας πίσω παλιές, τετριμμένες συνήθειες. Επίσης, δεν προσπαθούμε να «διορθώσουμε» κάποιον, αλλά ξεκινάμε μία διαδικασία για να γίνουμε πιο συνειδητοί και υγιείς.

Αυτό το group είναι ενδεδειγμένο για bodyworkers και κάθε έναν που εργάζεται με ανθρώπους σε ένα κοινωνικό πλαίσιο, όπως ψυχολόγους – ψυχοθεραπευτές, γιατρούς, νοσηλευτές, κοινωνικούς λειτουργούς κ.α.
Ευπρόσδεκτος είναι επίσης όποιος-α θέλει να διευρύνει την κατανόησή του για τον εαυτό του και τους άλλους, ώστε να έχει βαθύτερη, ουσιαστική και πιο εποικοδομητική επικοινωνία με τους ανθρώπους γύρω του.
Κατά τη μαθησιακή διαδικασία θα «κοιτάξουμε» τον εαυτό μας και τους άλλους.

Μία bodyworker που συμμετείχε στο group πριν ένα χρόνο λέει:

«Με έχει βοηθήσει ουσιαστικά, να καταλαβαίνω καλύτερα τον εαυτό μου και τους άλλους ανθρώπους. Όντας σε θέση να κατανοήσω τις αυτόματες αμυντικές συμπεριφορές του εαυτού μου και των άλλων, μπορώ τώρα να επικοινωνώ και να σχετίζομαι σε βαθύτερο επίπεδο. Είναι ευκολότερο για ‘μένα να εμπιστευτώ και για τους άλλους να με εμπιστευτούν»
Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες: 6945641632

ENGLISH

Body Types
αfter Alexander Lowen


May 29-30 & June 5-7 in Athens with Taruja


In this group you can learn how to “read” a body and get information about the development story, using the Body Types Model of Alexander Lowen.

Alexander Lowen, the world-famous founder of Bioenergetics, has defined 5 basic body types, which develop in the first 5-7 years of a person’s life.

This system allows us to “read” the story of a body, which is interlinked with the emotional and mental patterns of a person, giving us an understanding for people’s so called “automatic defensive behaviors” and ways we can move out of them.

At the same time we will look at what would support such a person to get free of old structures (attitude, physical, emotional and mental patterns) and how to meet them in a way that they feel seen.

Very important: We do work with categories, though understanding that you can’t categorize anybody. Everybody is undeniably a mystery. We put our attention though to automatisms which don’t belong to the original character of a person and support them to get a better feeling of who they really are in present time, letting go of old worn out habits. We also don’t claim to completely “fix” or even see somebody, but we can start a process of becoming more aware and healthy.

The group is recommended to bodyworkers and everybody who works with people in a social context, such as therapists, doctors, nurses, social workers etc. Furthermore, everybody is welcome who wants to expand her or his understanding about himself and others, in order to find a more satisfying and loving communication with the people around.

A bodyworker having done this group concludes after one year:

“It has essentially helped me to better understand myself and the other people. Being able to recognize mine and other people's automatic defensive behaviors, I can now communicate and relate on a deeper level. It's easier for me to trust and for others to trust me.”

For more Information: (0030) 6945641632

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Breath of Life Osho Institute - Πρόγραμμα


-Kάθε πρωί 7-8 dynamic meditation, με τον Veerya.

- Kάθε Δευτέρα (από τις 19 Απριλίου ) 20.00-22.00 "η Χαρά της Αναπνοής" με τον Veerya. Για 2 ώρες με βιοενεργειακές ασκήσεις και την κυκλική αναπνοή (trance-energetic breath), ξυπνάμε πάλι την ενέργεια μας. Το μυαλό μας καθαρίζει από όποιους θυμούς, στενοχώριες, και άγχη έχουμε από την καθημερινότητά μας και αδειάζει, ενώ το κέφι για μία ζωή γεμάτη βαθιές ανάσες επιστρέφει!!!
Πληροφορίες: 6944169745,6944712779. Συμμετοχή 20 ευρώ.

-Κάθε Τρίτη 20.00-22.00 Voicing με τη Νίσκρυα μέχρι τις 27 Απριλίου. Συμμετοχή 15 ευρώ, πληροφορίες 6977511072.

-Κάθε Πέμπτη 20.30-22.30 Σούφικη βραδυά με τo Shunyam και την Anjee.
Περιστροφικός χορός, Ζικρ, μουσική, και ποίηση...για να θυμηθεί η καρδιά και να ανθίσει το λουλούδι της Αγάπης μας…
Πληροφορίες τηλ.6944625564- 6973520170, συμμετοχή 10 ευρώ.

-Κάθε Παρασκευή 19.00-21.00 OSHO NO-MIND
Μία ώρα Gibberish, μία ώρα σιωπηλό κάθισμα. Αν θέλετε να προσφέρετε στον εαυτό σας μερικές ώρες γαλήνης και να τελειώσετε την εβδομάδα σας με έναν διαφορετικό τρόπο... Ελάτε!
«Την τεχνική των Gibberish χρειάζεται να τη γνωρίσει ο κάθε άνθρωπος. Ο κόσμος θα γίνει πιο ισορροπημένος πνευματικά αν μπορείς να καθίσεις σε ένα χώρο και να μιλάς δυνατά χωρίς να λες κάτι συγκεκριμένο σε κάποιον, για μία ώρα. Στην αρχή αυτό φαίνεται τρελό. Είναι! Αλλά θα σε απαλλάξει από τον θυμό, τα σύννεφα των σκέψεων και μετά από μία ώρα, θα αισθανθείς απέραντη γαλήνη». OSHO, The Secret # 12, Q 5. Συμμετοχή 10 ευρώ, πληροφορίες Padmini 6947934994.

ΣΕΜΙΝΑΡΙΑ:

- 23-25 Απριλίου ocean of rememberance με τον Videha
- 5-9 Μαίου transforming power με τη Sugandho

* Λόγω των 2 σεμιναρίων οι αντίστοιχες ομάδες της Πέμπτης και της Παρασκευής δεν θα γίνουν. Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες επικοινωνήστε με τα αντίστοιχα τηλέφωνα.

Osho Athens - Ολοήμερο διαλογισμών

Το Σάββατο 24 Απριλίου 2010
Το OSHO ATHENS team διοργανώνει
ΑΝΟΙΧΤΟ ΟΛΟΗΜΕΡΟ ΜΕ ΔΙΑΛΟΓΙΣΜΟΥΣ από τον δάσκαλο Osho

ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ
09.00-10.00 Dynamic
10.00-11.00 Πρωινό
11.00-12.30 Crying & loughing meditation
13.00-14.00 Nadabrahma
14.00-15.30 Διάλειμμα για φαγητό
15.30-16.30 Nataraj
16:45-17:45 Kundalini
18.00-19.30 Evening Meeting Meditation

στον Πολυχώρο SPRING PEOPLE, Αγαθάρχου 12, Ψυρρή, 2ος όροφος
τηλ. επικοινωνίας: 6974342771, 6973208059 6973208059
Κόστος: για όλο το μονοήμερο διαλογισμών 40 euro ή 8 euro/διαλογισμό

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Η χαρά της αναπνοής, Δευτέρες στο Breath of Life


Κάθε Δευτέρα 20.00-22.00, από τις 19 Απριλίου
¨η Χαρά της Αναπνοής"
Μία νέα διάσταση στη θεραπεία με τον Atmo Veerya.
Για σκεφτείτε λοιπόν....
στη ζωή μας κυρίως θυμόμαστε τις φορές που....κρατήσαμε την ανάσα μας από ένα έντονο γεγονός... λαχανιάσαμε φτάνοντας στο 100% της ενέργειας μας... νιώσαμε τον τρανταγμό γέλιων μέσα από την κοιλιά μας...νιώσαμε να αδειάζει το μυαλό μας σε στιγμές βαθιάς ησυχίας,ενώ αναπνοή μας έλιωνε με την αναπνοή του σύμπαντος.... Όταν θα φύγουμε από αυτό το σώμα...θα εκπνεύσουμε και δεν θα εισπνεύσουμε πάλι....
Η αναπνοή λοιπόν είναι ένα άμεσο εργαλείο που μεταφέρει τον παλμό της ζωής μας και που μπορούμε να τη χρησιμοποιήσουμε για αυτογνωσία και θεραπεία.


Κάθε Δευτέρα για 2 ώρες με βιοενεργειακές ασκήσεις και την κυκλική αναπνοή (trance-energetic breath), ξυπνάμε πάλι την ενέργεια μας. Το μυαλό μας καθαρίζει από όποιους θυμούς, στενοχώριες, και άγχη έχουμε από την καθημερινότητα μας και αδειάζει ενώ το κέφι για μία ζωή γεμάτη βαθιές ανάσες επιστρέφει!!!

(περισσότερα για τη μέθοδο Pulsation-Breath στο site http://www.breathoflife.gr/)


Ο Veerya μιλάει Aγγλικά, αλλά μην αφήσετε αυτό να είναι εμπόδιο γιατί πάντα υπάρχει μετάφραση στα Eλληνικά.


Τη Δευτέρα 19 Απριλίου, η είσοδος είναι ελεύθερη, για να μπορέσετε να έρθετε να γνωρίσετε τη μέθοδο. Έπειτα, κάθε Δευτέρα το event θα κοστίζει 20 ευρώ.


Βreath of Life Osho Institute, Αβέρωφ 1 και Γραβιάς (στάση μετρό Δάφνη)

Πληροφορίες: 6944169745, 6944712779
αν θέλετε να μάθετε περισσότερα για το πρόγραμμα του Breath of Life, επισκεφτείτε το site http://www.breathoflife.gr/

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Osho Afroz Summer 2010 Program



(16 - 30 MAY): CHILDHOOD DECONDITIONING TRAINING with SVARUP & PREMARTHA


(12 - 18 JUNE): OSHO NO MIND with KAIFI

(16 JUNE - 27 JUNE): OSHO REBALANCING TRAINING I with TARUJA


(20 - 26 JUNE): OSHO BORN AGAIN with KAIFI


(1-7 JULY): OSHO NO MIND with KAIFI


(4 - 11 JULY): TWICE BORN, PRIMAL with SVARUP & PREMARTHA

(9 - 15 JULY): OSHO BORN AGAIN with KAIFI


(13 - 20 JULY): TWICE BORN, TANTRA with SVARUP & PREMARTHA

(5- 7 JULY): JAPANESE FACE MASSAGE TRAINING PART I with KIMAYA

(10 - 12 JULY): JAPANESE FACE MASSAGE TRAINING PART II with KIMAYA


(13 - 15 JULY): JAPANESE FACE MASSAGE TRAINING PART III with KIMAYA

(17 - 26 JULY): REIKI MASTER CLASS with FRANK ARJAVA PETER


(17 - 31 JULY): INTENSIVE AYURVEDIC YOGA MASSAGE TRAINING with TARUNA



(23 & 24 JULY): SKILLS FOR SESSION GIVERS with ANEKANT

(25 - 31 JULY): TANTRIC MASSAGE with COCOON team


(28 - 31 JULY): THE REICH-LOWEN-BODYNAMIC BODYTYPES with MOUNA


(1 - 21 AUGUST): OSHO MYSTIC ROSE with VARIDHI & TARUNA


(2 - 5 AUGUST): THE FEMININE ESSENCE & CREATIVITY – A RETREAT FOR WOMEN with MOUNA & PIYOUSA


(3 - 8 AUGUST): JOINT RELEASE TRAINING with ANEKANT


(7 - 13 AUGUST): ZEN MEDITATION CAMP with ARVIND


( 11 - 15 AUGUST): THE TANTRA LIFESTYLE with SVARUP & PREMARTHA

(16 - 20 AUGUST ): OSHO FESTIVAL with MILAREPA & FRIENDS


(23 - 29 AUGUST): AYURVEDIC YOGA MASSAGE TRAINING, BASIC with TARUNA

(23 - 29 AUGUST): OSHO NO MIND with VARIDHI & KAIFI


(23 - 29 AUGUST): OSHO NO MIND TRAINING with VARIDHI & KAIFI


(24 - 26 AUGUST): HEALING INNER PARENT with ANEKANT


(28 -30 AUGUST): SUFI GATHERING with DEVO


(1 - 15 SEPTEMBER): NLP PRACTITIONER TRAINING with ANEKANT


(1 - 21 SEPTEMBER): OSHO MYSTIC ROSE with VARIDHI


(4 - 11 SEPTEMBER): AWARENESS INTENSIVE: SATORI with GANGA


(15 - 21 SEPTEMBER): OSHO BORN AGAIN with KAIFI


(16 - 20 SEPTEMBER): AYURVEDIC MASSAGE FOR WOMEN with TARUNA


(23 - 29 SEPTEMBER): OSHO NO MIND with VARIDHI & KAIFI


(1 - 31 OCTOBER): SILENCE RETREAT with VARIDHI & ARJAVA

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Osho Rebalancing Training Part I (with Taruja)


A way to touch and be touched deeply


When: March 23-28

Where: Osho Leela, Munchen, Germany


This holistic bodywork is for everyone who wants to understand the magic and mystery of the body, as well as the physical and emotional holding patterns that keep us from enjoying a natural, balanced life.


Osho Rebalancing is a form of body - centered awareness work, that has been developed with the support of the mystic Osho in Puna, India. It helps people to come back in harmony with themselves, so they can live their essential unity of body, mind and heart.
It is a meditative approach with a unique synthesis of body reading, touch and tissue manipulation, joint release, energy and breath work, awareness and emotions and their expression.


As a holistic healing bodywork, Osho Rebalancing includes the physical, emotional and mental level to free these tensions so we can regain our full aliveness and joy of life. As the body releases muscular tensions and rigidities, this can prevent chronic pain and sickness. At the same time energy is set free and old and unconscious patterns and attitudes can come into our awareness.

This helps us to a better understanding of ourselves and our hidden potentials. Hereby we come closer to our innermost core which enables us to live life more spontaneously and meaningfully.


The essence of Rebalancing is a loving, sensitive touch. Bodywork is one of the finest arts and therefore not only a question of technique but at first an expression of love. Rebalancing sees the body as a priceless gift and not as a mechanism that needs to be “repaired".
The process usually includes a series of 10 to 12 sessions and has a powerful synergetic effect on the whole body/mind. It is suited to the individual history of the person, to their unique needs and to tuation.


More Information:

Taruja:
+49 (0)171 123 7086
taruja@gmx.net


Osho Leela Munich
Albert‐Roßhaupter‐Str. 104
81369 München
+49‐(0)89‐53887226

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Saturday, March 6, 2010

I Am Not a Worshiper of Poverty (Osho and the Rolls Royces)

Osho Poverty and Rolls-Royces:
This is a video excerpt of one of the many responses Osho gave in a series of press interviews.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaPsuB6J8OM

"I am not a worshiper of poverty. That's what those Rolls Royces prove. I respect wealth. Nobody before me has the guts to say it. The pope cannot say that he respects wealth, although he is the wealthiest man on the earth.I am not a hypocrite. I am the poorest man on the earth.
I dont have a single cent with me. But I want to prove to these people that what attracts their mind." - Osho

"I was very amazed by his ninety-odd Rolls-Royces. I think that's perhaps the grandest joke ever played on consumerism and materialism. From what I understand of him and his teachings, he had no particular interest in those cars whatsoever. It was a teaching; it was a modern day analogy to...a modern day equivalent to one of Jesus' parables. He used that as an illustration of how absurd the religion of the dollar, of money and materialism really are."
- Tom Robbins, author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Still Life with Woodpecker and others.