Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ("Osho") was born Chandra Mohan Jain on Dec. 11, 1931–Jan. 19, 1990). He is was previously known as Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh [2], Acharya Rajneesh [3, 1], and is now commonly called "Osho."
He was an Indian "godman" [4], sadhu, philosopher, mystic [5], cult leader, corrupt "saint" with a messianic complex, comedian, scam capitalist, clever and funny speaker (whose talks were transcribed into books that are sometimes quite funny), and founder of the Rajneesh Movement [1].
He was a controversial new religious movement leader during his life. He rejected institutional religions [6, 1, 7], insisting that spiritual experience could not be organized into any one system of religious dogma [8], as Patanjali did with yoga and the historical Buddha did in outlining general Eightfold Paths.
As a scandal-ridden sex guru in America, he advocated meditation but taught a unique form of his own devising, which he called "dynamic meditation."
Rejecting traditional ascetic practices of all kinds, he encouraged his followers to [hedonistically] embrace life fully while remaining unattached to worldly desires.
Rajneesh claims he experienced a "spiritual awakening" in 1953 at the age of 21 [8].
Following several years in academia, in 1966 he resigned his post at the University of Jabalpur as a lecturer of philosophy and began traveling throughout India, becoming known for his criticism of the orthodoxy of mainstream religions [1, 9, 10, 11] as well as of mainstream political ideologies... More
(The Theory of Samsara) Avoid falling into spiritual delusion. We need to know this if we're on the spiritual path, particularly within Tibetan Buddhism, a form of Vajrayana [a kind of Mahayana Buddhist Hinduism with yoga and lots of ritual, magic, and siddhis]
Osho was Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, Dec. 11, 1931–Jan. 19, 1990), also called Acharya Rajneesh [2][1], now commonly referred to as Osho.
As a money and sex guru, he advocated meditation and taught a unique form called dynamic meditation.
Rejecting traditional ascetic practices, he encouraged his followers to embrace life fully [hedonism] while remaining unattached to worldly desires. More
Sex holyman Bikram on his cross
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(wocomoHUMANITY) April 16, 2024: The wild 1970s followed after the liberating 1960s. There was a quest for higher consciousness, spirituality, and sexual freedom. In his ashram (religious compound) in Poona, India, Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh (aka Osho) urges his disciples to meditate and practice tantric sex in order to reach a higher level of consciousness.
Hugh, the guru’s bodyguard, watches his ascent on people. Sheela becomes his [killer] secretary and the powerful boss of Bhagwan Rajneesh’s community in the mountains of Oregon.
Send money, and I will "initiate" you into tantric sex?
The guru, decried as "sex-guru” by the Western media in the 1970s, is now making headlines with his Rolls-Royces and Rolex watches. The dream turns into a nightmare, for Hugh it turns into a mental breakdown, for Sheela into a prison sentence. Where did it all go wrong?
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(WatchMojo.com) Oct. 12, 2022. Happy Halloween, spiritual seeker. These dangerous and disturbing religious cults may not be in the nightly news anymore, but they are still very real and active. For this list, Mojo looks at bizarre cults that are somehow still currently active. The countdown includes the American sex cult The Shri Bhagwan Rajneesh Movement (aka Osho), Twelve Tribes, NXIVM, and more! Which of these is the strangest? Leave a comment. #Cults#Crime#History
"Sex guru" Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and Jane Stork, formerly "Ma Shanti Bhadra"
(WAtoday.com.au, April 10, 2009) For nine years Jane Stork was a devotee of "sex guru" Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who in the 1970s and '80s led a cult known for their orange clothes and free love.
Along the way she surrendered her name and identity as a suburban West Australian housewife and mother to become Ma Shanti Bhadra — a woman prepared to do anything, even murder, for her master.
In her new book, Breaking the Spell: My Life as a Rajneeshee and the Long Journey Back to Freedom, Stork writes about how she got sucked into the cult and finally broke free after being jailed for an attempt to kill the Bhagwan's doctor.
She also provides an insight into the mind of the Bhagwan and his mouthpiece Ma Sheela — who famously pronounced "tough titties" in a 60 Minutes interview in 1985 when it was suggested the Orange People were not welcome in a local town.
Stork was introduced to the Bhagwan's teachings through a psychologist she was seeing because of personal and marital problems. The psychologist worked in the public health system but had just returned from Pune, India, where the Bhagwan had established an ashram, a place of religious retreat. "I didn't even notice that (the psychologist) was wearing a long orange robe and had a string of beads around his neck," she writes. He became her mentor, and in 1978 Stork followed his footsteps, and those of many other Australians, to Pune. She was later joined by her husband and children, Peter, 10, and Kylie, 8.
Stork says she was attracted to the Bhagwan as a reaction to the guilt of her Catholic upbringing and because of the lack of rules and regulations in his teachings.
But she soon found that the ashram was not all it was cracked up to be. Stork felt uncomfortable with many aspects of life there, including the group sex and partner swapping, as well as deliberate moves to fragment families and drive a wedge between husbands and wives, parents and children.
About 87 per cent of residents had a sexually transmitted disease and women who became pregnant were told by the Bhagwan to abort and sterilize, Stork says. She and her teenage daughter were both sterilized.... Continued
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Indian Masters on Meditation
Indian masters include teachers like Osho, Swami Sivananda, Krishnamurti, Gautama the Buddha, among other sources. They are each well known masters in the field of meditation and self realization. They all have something important to say when it comes to meditation. Here are a few interesting quotes and videos from these Indian masters enlightening us with their knowledge and wisdom regarding meditation and life.
Here is an interesting quote on meditation that mixes a psychological view with a more spiritual and abstract one:
“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in the Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity” (Swami Sivananda)
This is the very essence of yoga and meditation: the cessation of thoughts out of which arises the experience of immaculate consciousness. All that is needed to master in life are our thoughts, our minds. When our discursive thinking settles out (as explained by Eckhart Tolle in Even the Sun May Die), we enter a new level of consciousness that can then begin to explore freely without the disturbance of thoughts (vrittis). Everything will be clear and at peace.
Indian masters state that meditation is the light (nimitta) that can show the way to this thought-free realm of pure consicousness:
“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom” (the Buddha)
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