Osho cult. Osho, Bhagwan Rajneesh and the Lost Truth

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Quotes and Aphorisms 06.08.2017

Dear readers, today we have a very deep and sincere topic on our blog - about the meaning of life. At some point, we all become interested in such questions, and then we turn to sages like Osho for answers. Surely everyone is familiar with this name and many came across on the net osho quotes, and someone may have read books compiled from his lectures. However, not everyone knows that Osho is far from being such an unambiguous and blissful person as he is sometimes presented. So let's find out more about him.

At birth in 1931, he was named Chandra Mohan Jein, then changed his name to Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh, which means "The blessed one who is god." He left this world 27 years ago as Osho, translated from Hindi - "Ocean, dissolved in the ocean."

The life of this Hindu mystic was very eventful and contradictory. He criticized socialism, Christianity and personally Mahatma Gandhi. He promoted free love relationships (he was even called the "sex guru" and "guru of scandals"). He founded "special" settlements, the inhabitants of which were considered dangerous sectarians. He was banned from entering 21 countries! And only after his death, many realized that Osho's activity is not only shocking, but the “oceanic” person himself is not an overgrown hooligan, but a passionate, interested in many things, truly deep personality. This is also indicated by his quotes about life.

In essence, Osho's teachings are a combination of Buddhism, Yoga, Taoism, Sikhism, Greek philosophy and much more, even Christianity, which he did not particularly like, as well as personal experience. Osho said many wise important things, and in the books compiled on the basis of conversations with him (and there are more than a thousand such books), everyone will find something for themselves.

Osho's worldview

Osho's worldview is reflected in his statements:

“I don't have a system. Systems can only be dead. I am an unsystematic, anarchic stream, I am not even a person, but just a certain process. I don't know what I told you yesterday."

"Truth is beyond specific forms, attitudes, verbal formulations, practices, logic, and its comprehension is carried out by a chaotic, not a systematic method."
“My message is not a doctrine, not a philosophy. My message is a kind of alchemy, the science of transformation."

Many of Osho's lectures were paradoxical, but on this occasion he said the following: “My friends are surprised: yesterday you said one thing, and today another. What are we to listen to? I can understand their bewilderment. They just grabbed the words. Conversations are of no value to me, only the spaces between the words I speak are what is valuable. Yesterday I opened the doors to my emptiness with some words, today I open them with other words.

And yet, Osho's speeches, reflecting his views, have value for modern culture. I suggest we read the best Osho quotes ...

About happiness

Osho believed that everything that happens to you should be taken lightly. This will avoid suffering. Osho quotes about life help to see what true happiness is.

“What difference does it make who is stronger, who is smarter, who is more beautiful, who is richer? After all, in the end it only matters whether you are a happy person or not.

"There are three traps that steal joy and peace: regret for the past, anxiety for the future, and ingratitude for the present."

“If you are rich, don't think about it; if you are poor, don't take your poverty seriously. If you are able to live in the world, remembering that the world is only a performance, you will be free, you will not be touched by suffering. Suffering is the result of taking life seriously; bliss is the result of the game. Take life as a game, enjoy it.

“Do not look for the best, but look for your own. After all, the best will not always be yours, but yours will always be better ... "

Love is what's inside

Love is what's inside. Osho's quotes about love are very sincere. The objects of passion can change, the main thing is freedom and joy, although in principle they can be preserved in alliance with one partner. But to be tormented by love experiences, giving up something significant for yourself, is the wrong approach.

“Love has nothing to do with relationships, love is a state.”

“If you can have freedom and love at the same time, you don't need anything else. You have everything - that for which life is given.

“If you have caught a bird, then do not keep it in a cage, do not make it want to fly away from you, but could not. And make it so that she could fly away, but did not want to.

"If you want to love someone forever, you can't get close to him even for a minute."

“Stop thinking about how to get love and start giving it away. By giving, you receive. There is no other way…”

“Love never hurts anyone. If you feel that love hurts, then something else hurts, but not your love experiences. If you do not understand this, then you will continue to move in the same vicious circle.

“When you are sick, call the doctor. But most importantly, call those who love you, because there is no medicine more important than love.

“If you love and you don’t, let go. If you are loved, but you are not - rate and take a closer look. If love is mutual, fight.

“Love knows how to go into the unknown. Love knows how to discard all guarantees. Love knows how to rush into the unfamiliar and unknown. Love is courage. Trust love."

"You must know that freedom is supreme value and if love does not give you freedom, then it is not love.”

"The mind is a very businesslike, calculating machine; it has nothing to do with love."

“In fact, there is no reason why a woman should wait for the initiative from a man. If a woman is in love, she should take the first step. If the man did not respond, she should not feel humiliated.

Make life around you beautiful!

The idea is simple: you must always go forward and up and discover something new! Both around you and in yourself. Osho's inspirational quotes will support you along the way.

"The only person on earth we can change is ourselves."

“Make as many mistakes as possible, just remember one thing: don’t make the same mistake twice. And you will grow."

“Make life around you beautiful. And let every person feel that meeting with you is a gift.

“Whenever you are faced with a choice, be careful: do not choose what is convenient, comfortable, respectable, recognized by society, honorable. Choose what resonates with your heart. Choose what you would like to do, regardless of the consequences."

“You only need to be natural, as natural as your breathing. Love your life. Don't live according to any commandments. Don't live according to other people's ideas. Don't live the way people want you to. Listen to your own heart. Become silent, listen to the still, small voice within you and follow it."

“All the values ​​that a person dreams of are hidden inside him.”

“You must constantly be engaged in purification: noticing some nonsense idea in your head, cleanse it of it, throw it away. If your mind is pure and clear, you will be able to find a solution for any problem that arises in your life.

“Any borrowed truth is a lie. Until it is experienced by yourself, it is never the truth.”

“Dedicate your life to beauty. Don't dedicate it to the disgusting. You don't have much time, not much energy to waste. Such a small life, such a small source of energy, is simply stupid to waste on anger, sadness, hatred, jealousy.

“Only one thing in the world is constant, and that is change. Everything else changes, except for changes.”

“We have inherited not only the mind of millions of past years. We have also inherited the madness of millennia.”

"If you become a river, you can't help but become an ocean!"

About communication

All this "socialization" is an illusion. Understand yourself and share the most intimate with loved ones who are ready to understand you.

"Give yourself the luxury of not hanging out with unpleasant people."

“Loneliness is a state when you are sick of yourself, tired of yourself, tired of yourself and you want to go somewhere and forget yourself in someone else.”

“No one can say anything about you. Whatever people say, they are talking about themselves."

“The greatest fear in the world is the fear of the opinions of others. The moment you are not afraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar resounds in your heart - the roar of freedom."

"Society will give you everything if you give it your freedom."

Smile is the main weapon!

High spirits are the basis of our existence. A smile is the main weapon!

“Have you ever noticed that man is the only animal that laughs?”

“People take everything so seriously that it becomes a burden on them. Learn to laugh more. To me, laughter is as sacred as prayer."

"Getting too serious is the greatest trouble."

“There comes a time in your life when you move away from the drama and the people who create it. You surround yourself with people you laugh with. You forget the bad and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right and pray for the rest. Life is so short, live it only happily. Falling is part of life, getting back on your feet is living it. Being alive is a gift, and being happy is your choice.”

"Truth is not a dogma, but a dance."

Difficulties are good for us

Isn't it too easy not to take the problems that arise to heart? Difficult, yes. But we should remember that difficulties are good for us.

"You're a big fan of creating problems... just understand this and suddenly the problems will disappear."

"Whatever happens, everything is fine."

"Fighting with others is only a ploy to avoid internal struggle."

"Heaven is where the flowers of your true self bloom. Hell is there - where your self is trampled on, and something is being imposed on you."

“Falling is part of life, getting back on your feet is living it. Being alive is a gift, and being happy is your choice.”

"The world comes to you as it comes from you."

Osho suffered from many diseases, for example, he had to be treated in the USA for diabetes and asthma, and at the time of his death, the philosopher was only 58 years old. So there is no doubt that he spoke about life in this way not because it was easy and cloudless for him. But because he really understood that there was no other way than to fall and rise again, and rejoice, and be grateful for everything.

You preach trust, but your house is closed from others by an impenetrable wall - with towers and machine gunners. You call students your favorite children, but secretly bug their homes. You convince others that the main happiness is not outside, but inside a person, but you continue to replenish your collections with new Rolls-Royces and diamond watches. You proclaim yourself a saint, but still sleep with your students and watch orgies.

So who are you really, Bhagwan Osho Rajneesh?

“People have become travelers. They are always on the go. They never achieve anything, but they always go somewhere: they just run away from where they are. But everything remains the same. Nothing changes. Changing the location won't help. You have created your hallucination and you live in it. Your heaven and your hell are all crazy. Live HERE and NOW. Regretting the past or rushing your thoughts into the future, you miss your real life ”- for the first time I crossed paths with Osho in a not the best period of my life, and his books pulled me out of depression. Since then, I have not returned to Osho.

No wonder - many came to Osho precisely during the period of mental breakdown, - sums up my words the Israeli writer and translator Uri Lotan, who lived in the Osho commune for seven years and wrote a book about it called “Happiness and Punishment for Him” (“Osher ve onsho”). - And I went to India, not yet recovered from the divorce from my wife, whom I continued to love.

Monologue One "Approaching Osho"

I am an absolute atheist, Uri categorically declares. - In addition, I am not one of those who are looking for idols and hate the dictatorship. I came to Pune (the place where the commune of Osho - Sh.S.) is located, an absolute nihilist. I heard about this place and about the freedom that reigns here - above all, sexual freedom. India, exotic, cheap drugs, beautiful girls - what else do you need when you are only 25, but you are already a star (Uri Lotan was a famous DJ at the Galei Tsakhal radio station in the 1970s - it was he who told Israeli listeners about the breakup of the group " Beatles”, opened Bob Dylan and other Western musicians to them - Sh.Sh.). The first time I lived in a commune, just enjoying the atmosphere of this place. When I learned that I was from Israel and worked on the radio, I was offered to record Osho's lectures on a tape recorder and translate them into Hebrew. When you sit at lectures next to the Master, it is considered a great honor, and all the girls of the commune want to sleep with you afterwards. Everything else was of little interest to me then.

Monologue Two "Submission to Osho"

Now imagine a place, - continues Uri, - where everywhere you go, portraits of Osho hang: they are even in the toilet and above the bed, where you have sex with a girl. And on your chest is also a small portrait of Osho on a wooden chain, which is forbidden to be removed even in the shower or during sex. At first, you are told that with Osho around your neck, even sex will be of a different quality, then you yourself begin to think so.

I, unlike most members of the commune, was among those who personally communicated with Osho. And I will tell you that he is an incredibly smart, handsome and attractive person - with a bewitching deep voice, smooth hand movements ... When I was recording Osho's lectures, sitting at his feet, I felt like I was next to a generator - such powerful energy walked away from him. Osho certainly had hypnotic powers. Once, while talking with him alone, I fell into such euphoria that I was carried out of his room in my arms, I laughed with happiness and could not stop for several hours. In a word, I myself did not notice how Osho ended up in complete control. My addiction to him was like a drug addiction.

Monologue Three "First Doubts"

One day they brought me a letter in Hebrew and asked me to translate it into English for Osho, who received letters from all over the world. I began to read and saw that this letter was not addressed to Osho at all, but to an Israeli member of the commune from his girlfriend. I took the letter to this guy, and then they call me to the office of the commune: “Where is the letter?” - "I took it to such and such, you made a mistake, this letter is not for Osho." What started here! They were ready to pulverize me. The fact that all the mail that came to the commune was screened, and all the rooms were tapped, I learned much later.

Then there was a story with an Israeli woman, who stated that she became pregnant by Osho. She was immediately sent for an abortion and expelled from the commune, defamated in every possible way for lying. I remember that I was also among those who attacked this girl at that time: “How can you say such things about Osho? He is a Master, an Enlightened One, he is not interested in women.” The fact that many of his students passed through the bed of Osho, I learned much later. As for that girl, she returned to Israel and after some time committed suicide.

Monologue Four "Slaves of the 20th century"

The main duty of the members of the commune was to raise money for Osho. People came here from all over the world, giving everything they had to the commune - money for sold houses, savings, cars. A relative of the Queen of Holland donated her inheritance to the commune - 250 thousand dollars, but she herself did not even receive the room promised to her. I remember that when I was informed from Israel that my father had died, I was immediately called to the office of the commune. I thought: "Probably want to express condolences." And they asked me just one question: “How much money did you receive after the death of your father?” Many members of the commune received money from their parents in letters, but it never reached them.

We were constantly driven to earn money for Osho. The easiest way to get money was prostitution, selling drugs and all sorts of fraud with credit cards. During my seven years of living in the commune, I managed to be both a drug courier and a pimp. Including: he sold to clients his second American wife, with whom he met in a commune, flew several times to Japan with three kilograms of hashish on his body.

I remember how in Bombay I approached a rich sheikh from Saudi Arabia , introduced himself as a Frenchman and asked if he wanted to fuck my beautiful sister for 1000 dollars (in the commune we were all considered brothers and sisters). Most of the members of the commune worked hard work - building houses, laying roads. There were no exits. They worked for the benefit of the commune for free for 12 hours a day. The commune did not accommodate everyone - many were forced to rent housing in Pune, which is why prices there jumped terribly and were no lower than European ones.

Osho divided the women of the commune into two types: beautiful and ugly. From the first, he chose his concubines, and gave power to the second, and they began to lead the commune, taking out their complexes on its members. One of these ugly women led the medical center of the commune, was well versed in poisons and skillfully used them, which is why she received the nickname "Sister Mengele."

In the OSHO commune, women chose men for sex, and not vice versa: every day the men had to line up, along which the women walked, choosing their partner for the night.

When the commune moved from India to America(Osho fled there, hiding from prison for not paying 40 million debt to the Indian tax authority, the first - on the private jet of his wealthy students from Hollywood, who bought a huge piece of land in Oregon for $ 7 million). Then the members of the commune moved to the United States, who first of all began to build a villa and a pool for Osho (the pool would later cost several thousand dollars a month to heat), and then houses for his entourage. The members of the commune themselves lived in caravans - six people in a room, without air conditioning.

Monologue 5 "Myths about Osho"

The condition for admission to the commune was participation in paid(from 200 to 400 and above dollars) seminars. At one, a soulful striptease took place, where everyone had to tell everything about themselves to a random partner, who changed every 15 minutes at the sound of a bell. The second seminar for the candidate was chosen by Osho himself - from the photograph of the applicant and his handwritten request for admission to the commune. He, without seeing a person, decided what his problem was, an unfulfilled desire: to rape someone, or to be beaten, or to participate in an orgy. After such seminars, people came out with broken ribs and black eyes. There was even such a joke in use: “I fell on the way to the Ashram” (ashram is the Indian name for the place where the commune was located - Sh.Sh.).

Osho assigned me to the isolation group. I had to sit in my room in front of his portrait for a week and not communicate with anyone. Only allowed out for lunch. There was a sign “silence” (silence - Sh.Sh.) on my chest, and no one was supposed to speak to me. This test turned out to be unbearable for me - I spoke on the sixth day. Osho's clairvoyant instructions on the distribution of seminar participants turned out to be another myth: people were assigned to those groups where there was a shortage.

Allegedly for the purpose of spiritual improvement, Osho separated couples, formed before joining the commune or formed in the commune itself. For the same purpose, he forbade us to do anything in which we showed great interest. For example, since I was young, I dreamed of becoming a writer. Osho forbade me to write. In fact, the reason for such instructions was his desire to completely subjugate the members of the commune, so that no one and nothing would overshadow Osho himself in our eyes.

As for other idols… Osho respected Hitler, said that Hitler was an extraordinary person. He liked to repeat his words that if you utter a lie many times, it will turn into the truth. However, Osho tried to de-legitimize anyone who could outshine Osho himself in the eyes of his listeners. According to the Master, John Lennon and Freud were idiots, Gandhi was a liar, Mother Teresa was a fool, Freud was a maniac. As for the others... Sometimes Osho began his speech with the words: "People like me, Jesus and Buddha..."

When someone began to doubt Osho's postulates, he was immediately told: "You are not a whole person if you doubt the words of the Master."

We were told that Osho is sensitive to the smell of bad energy.- for example, the energy of anger, and to the noise. Before the start of the lecture, members of the commune were sniffed, and if they caught the smell of sweat, they were not allowed into the room. Once they did not let me in, and I was ready to commit suicide because of this - such was my dependence on Osho at that time. If during the lecture someone coughed, he was immediately thrown out. In fact, the reason for Osho's sensitivity to smells and sounds had nothing to do with esotericism: Bhagwan had drug addiction from Valium, the laughing gas supplied for him in cylinders, and a few more medicines, on which he "sat" for many years, as a result of which he developed this intolerance to smells and noise. I have seen more than once how when walking Osho shook like a drunk. He moved very little, but once a week he always went on one of his Rolls-Royces for a short trip to receive honors: members of the commune stood along the road and threw rose petals under the wheels of his car. This ritual was called "the road of flowers".

The period when Osho took a vow of silence and remained silent for four years also turned out to be a myth. While in his chambers, he spoke incessantly. A member of the commune told me about this, who was the lover of one of the ugly people close to Osho, who led the commune.

Another myth is related to the claim that Osho did not know about the cruel order. planted in the commune by his entourage. Osho's former bodyguard wrote a book, God Downcast, in which he claims that Osho's secretary recorded all the conversations that Osho had in his private quarters, and now these 3,000 tapes are in the hands of the FBI. The author of the book claims that most of the ideas implemented in the commune belonged to Osho.

I remember that when the leadership of the commune announced that its members should be sterilized, referring to Osho, we did not believe that this was coming from the Master. But then, in one of public speaking, he spoke openly about sterilization, arguing that the birth of children is a loss of energy necessary for spiritual self-improvement.

I remember how I dissuaded two girls I knew from this crazy idea, but they were sterilized. Now they, like me, are already over 50. It would be interesting to know what they think about all this now? When AIDS was first discussed, the commune promptly issued instructions to have sex using a condom and wearing rubber gloves. "Sister Mengele" began to check who has AIDS and who does not. Actually, it was not a test, but her sole decision. Members of the commune, declared "sister Mengele" sick, went to the settlement in the local gulag - an isolated area with caravans. By at least I know two of them well - they are still alive, and they do not have any AIDS, despite the diagnosis of "Sister Mengele".

Monologue Six "Exile"

My American wife had her sight before me and left the commune. One day I called her and told her that I felt like I was in a concentration camp with these machine gunners on the towers and the need to ask permission from the leadership of the commune about any step I took. Half an hour later, a Mercedes stopped in front of my caravan, from which one of the leaders of the commune, nicknamed “Lady Macbeth”, got out, with two thugs behind her back, armed with an Uzi (there were a lot of weapons in the commune). She stated that Osho ordered me to be expelled from the commune and tore the chain with his portrait from my neck.

I still have the keys to my Ford, donated to the commune fund, and I took advantage of this by stealing my own car from Osho and driving it to Los Angeles.

It turned out to be easy to leave Osho, but to get rid of Osho inside yourself… If not for the support of my friends… After being expelled from the commune, I had a feeling of a black hole inside that there was nothing to fill. For a long time I was in a severe depression, I was very vulnerable and involuntarily attracted misfortunes: I was robbed, fired from my job, and ?) I was so beaten in the street that it took me several surgeries to get back on my feet. Of those who left or were expelled from the commune, I know at least five who committed suicide, unable to free themselves from the Osho within them.

Monologue Seven "Osho's American Failure"

When Osho stepped off the plane in Oregon, the first words that he uttered, not without pathos, were: “Hello, America! I am the Buddha you have been waiting for!” However, with America, Osho missed. In those years, Americans were rather indifferent to esotericism and eastern spiritual currents. In addition, with their inherent pragmatism, they could not understand how to connect the commune proclaimed by Osho, not pursuing income goals, and therefore claiming tax exemption, with his ever-growing collections of Rolls-Royces and diamond watches. And even more so, the Americans could not understand how you can force a person to work 12 hours a day, without paying him a penny for it.

The rise of Osho in India is quite understandable: in time, this period coincides with the period of the sexual revolution, freedom, emancipation, which took place in the world in the 1960s. Osho just seized on this idea and gave sex spiritual legitimation, which looked especially attractive in the eyes of the younger generation. I remember very well my feelings of that period in Pune: I am 25, I am the king, all beautiful girls are mine, I am free, there are no restrictions. All over the world, group sex was considered an orgy, and only in the Osho commune was it called "spiritual work."

Monologue Eighth "Biological Terror"

When the commune moved to Oregon, terrible things began to happen. Deciding to win political power in the district elections, the leadership of the commune sent to Dallas, where they were supposed to take place, a group that sprayed liquid with salmonella in public places, which caused a massive epidemic: 750 people fell ill (later, in one of the books this event was called the first bioterror attack in the United States).

In addition, to participate in the elections, according to the laws of the state, representatives were required - natives of this place. The leadership of the commune bribed local homeless people for these purposes, most of whom later (after the elections) disappeared, and one was found killed. The case has gone too far: the FBI launched an investigation. On the life of Charles Turner, who led the investigation, members of the commune attempted twice. With the pilot who was supposed to send a rented plane with explosives to the Turner house, after ejecting, I shared a room. He fled the commune the day before the alleged attack.

Osho was arrested and held for two weeks, and a group of his close associates of 20 people fled to Germany, where they were arrested and transported to the United States. These people were convicted and spent seven years in prison.

As for Osho, thanks to the compromise reached by the lawyers, he received a suspended sentence. and paid a fine of half a million dollars, after which he left the United States on a private jet of his followers from Hollywood. For about a year, Osho wandered around the world in this way - not a single country wanted to accept him: in England, he twice requested a landing and twice was refused; in Ireland, only a short landing for refueling was allowed; from the island of Crete was deported by police and soldiers. In the end, Osho was forced to return to India, paying that country 40 million in taxes that he owed. Quite quickly, the Osho commune was reborn in its old place - in Pune, and this time hundreds of young Israelis rushed into it (while there were no more than a dozen of them when I was there).

Monologue 9 "The Seed of the Dragon"

Today I can already say that I have freed myself from Osho within myself. But for many years I experienced the consequences of living in a commune for seven years, where the use of drugs like hashish and LSD was the norm. For example, in my life there was a period when I could not fall asleep for months - neither day nor night. Only strong sleeping pills gave me a few hours of oblivion. Then I developed agrophobia, the fear of open spaces, and didn't leave my house for months.

For everyone who came to the commune not for a month or two, but for years, it ended in severe mental trauma. What kept us there?

An everlasting feeling of happiness, freedom, euphoria. It seemed to us that we belonged to the elite of the enlightened. The whole world is divided for us into two concepts "we" and "they". “They” are all other people who are not related to the commune, who do not have access to what they initiated us into. Most of us were at an age when a person usually builds himself, his family, career, future. We gave the commune everything we had - the best years, money, unrealized abilities, and left without a family, children, money, housing, work, profession ... Osho died in 1990. According to one version, he died of AIDS, according to another - from the long-term use of narcotic drugs. There was no autopsy. Osho's body was burned according to the Indian rite. A month before his death, the Englishwoman Vivek committed suicide, who for 30 years was literally his shadow, and in all lectures invariably sat at his feet.

The Osho Ashram in Pune still exists. And there, as I said, there are a lot of Israelis. I was lucky that I did not get AIDS and did not commit suicide after living in the Osho commune, so I feel responsible for telling as many people as possible about the true face of Osho and his followers. I was naive, carried away by the ideas of a false leader and almost lost myself, my personality. Sorry for wasted energy, wasted years. I avoid people who are still under the influence of Osho's ideas, and those who, like me, got rid of him, I am ashamed to meet, just like they are with me. We have nothing to remember.

A look at the charlatan Osho Rajneesh - from the standpoint of the religion of Orthodoxy

Cult of Rajneesh(Osho) "Quinton hovered in the skies of the East, where it is more terrible than in the underworld of the West."

(G.K. Chesterton)

According to the famous Orthodox researcher of sects Mikhail Medvedev, “the cult of Rajneesh is one of the most destructive for the consciousness of adherents. Technique internal growth in the cult lies in the fact that the spiritual growth of the adept is directly dependent on the approach and attachment to the personality of the guru. All this is coupled with the idea of ​​supposedly personal gain.

Other names: "The only religion."

Management: The founder of the movement is Rajneesh (Osho).

One of the most active followers of Osho Rajneesh in Moscow - Popova Natalya Pavlovna (born 1951).

In Russia, an organization called the Osho Movement is widely known.

Her followers study the teachings of the Indian philosopher Bhagavan Shree Rajneesh. The first organization appeared back in 1991 in Ukraine in Kyiv, then it appeared in other cities of the CIS countries, including Russia. What are the followers of this organization doing? This is meditation according to the Osho system, the treatment of various diseases and astrology.

The question immediately arises, what is "Osho"? Translated from Old Japanese: "o" - with great respect, love, gratitude, harmony; "sho" - expansion of consciousness and blessings, existence.

This organization is included in the list of religious groups and destructive religious organizations of Eastern orientation. You should be careful and thoroughly study the information about the activities and reviews of knowledgeable people.

Also, this movement appears under a different name " The only religion". Calling himself "Oh founder of the One Religion» Rajneesh was an enlightened master for some and a notorious destroyer of ancient Indian traditions and beliefs, a "spiritual terrorist" and "sex guru" for others.

In Moscow, one of the most active followers of Osho is Popova Natalya Pavlovna. Osho centers are usually led by sannyasins dressed in red and orange robes. These movements were formed in 22 countries, including the USA, India, England, France, Canada, Japan, Russia and other countries.
In Russia, in such cities as Moscow, St. Petersburg and Voronezh, they have been operating since 1996 under the name " Tantra Yoga «.

It is authentically known that the cult (represented by Popova N.P.. and other members of the group) conducted classes in high school No. 984 in Moscow. There is no exact data on the number of followers in Russia. It is only known that there are about 35 followers of Rajneesh in Voronezh.

Center locations

Headquarters of the Shosh movement - OSHO Commune International, 17 Koregaoh Park, Poona 411011 MS India.

Osho Centers, led by sannyasins dressed in red and orange robes, have been established in 22 countries, including the USA, India, England, France, Canada, Japan, Russia and other countries.

In Russia - in St. Petersburg, Voronezh (in force since 1996 under the name " Tantra Yoga") and Moscow.

It is known that the organization (represented by Popova N.P. and others) conducted classes at secondary school No. 984 in Moscow.

The number of adherents of the fraudster Guru Osho Rajneesh

By 1984 Guru OSHO Rajneesh collected about 350 thousand followers, average age who was 34 years old.

There are no exact data for Russia. It is only known that in Voronezh there are 30-35 followers of Rajneesh and their number throughout the country is steadily growing.

The followers of Osho in Russia are now much more orthodox Christians in all of India. Osho was a living Buddha who came to earth. Osho's teachings have always caused a storm of passions of love and acceptance, as well as attacks and rejection. In any case, there are no indifferent people to Osho.

People united by the same views often communicate with each other, hold joint events. The Russian portal of Osho even appeared in Russia. It contains a lot of interesting information about the Osho system, about his history. People can communicate with each other via the Internet. Also there you can see announcements about new camps, trainings, various seminars or just about rest for all like-minded people.

Even an ordinary person who does not share Osho's views, you can go and see all the materials located there. If you are just interested, you can take part in one of the camps Osho adherents and get to know the people and the teachings better.
There is also a dating service, there are many photo reports about ashrams and travels.

Dynamic Meditation in India - humble soviem without debauchery

Doctrine of Osho Rajneesh

Rajneesh teachings is a mixture of Tantrism with self-made revelations and the delirium of Rajneesh himself. , which occupies a special position in Hinduism, is the path of permissiveness. Before Christianity spread to India, Tantrism reached a level of brutality, cruelty, sorcery and prejudice that is often incomprehensible to modern consciousness. In its grossest forms, it includes .

Osho teachings- The topic is complex and far from unambiguous. This teaching captivates both ordinary citizens (oh, who among us does not dream of love - huge and all-encompassing?), And famous people. So, for example, in the media, there is information that Osho Rajneesh is fond of the teachings. She stated at a press conference in Yaroslavl that she would learn slowness and a special look at the surrounding reality from Osho.

However, this is not surprising, because Osho Rajneesh, the founder of the doctrine of meditation as a universal method of comprehending life, spoke many times in his speeches about homosexuality. These thoughts have been transformed over time, and at the moment are most accurately reflected in the lectures. "About men: all about the modern man «.

Proceedings of Osho(books without a logical idea and meaning, as well as outright plagiarism and census of old books) are actively purchased by gays and lesbians in retail outlets belonging to the brand " Indigo". So what is it all the same: unbridled sex without restrictions or the great love of everyone for everyone and everything?

However, the followers and faithful students of Osho Rajneesh are fierce opponents of the point of view that this is a doctrine of sexual tolerance and permissiveness, they believe that sex, correctly understood and accepted in the soul, is very, very far from promiscuity.

The central role in the teaching is played by "dynamic meditation" (three phases of intense movement and catharsis result in two phases of calm and relaxation).

« Founder of a single religion» urged his followers

"stop time by plunging into the moment."

He preached "liberation from one's own "I", from conscience. He said that you need to live without thinking about anything, without burdening yourself with thoughts about the past, or the future, or about the family, or about daily bread. And as the only way to do this, he pointed to his system, including meditation, chants, ritual dances, similar to the dances of the first hippies.

“I became my own universe,” Rajneesh explained.

After intense meditation, he was seized by a kind of cosmic despair or an urge to commit suicide: become a god or die! Over time, all questions dissolved and left, and a “great void” was created in his brain. He says that on March 21, 1953, he fell into a featureless, bottomless abyss of nothingness. Obviously, that's exactly what happened. Rajneesh fell into the bottomless abyss of his manic pride and devilish seduction, under the influence of drugs and experienced syphilis.

“I became non-existent,” he admitted. “I felt a huge presence around me in my room… a strong vibration… a huge explosion of light… I was drowning in it… That night the door to another reality opened… the real Reality… It was nameless… but it was there.”

At that moment, something completely alien took possession of Rajneesh.

He himself described it this way:

“That night I died and was born again. But the one who was born had nothing to do with the one who died… The one who died died completely, nothing was left of him… After the explosion, there was only emptiness. Whatever happened before, it wasn't me and it wasn't mine";

“That night another reality opened its door, another dimension became available. This experience shakes you to the core. You can never be the same after such an experience, it will bring new visions into your life, new qualities ”;

“On that day, the twenty-first of March, a person who lived many, many lives, millennia, just died. Another being, absolutely new, not at all connected with the old, began to exist ... I became free from the past, I was torn out of my history, I lost my autobiography. That night I died and I was reborn. But the man who was reborn had nothing to do with the one who died... The man who died died totally; there was nothing left of him ... not even a shadow.

Possessed Imp

The experiences described by Bhagavan Rajneesh are very reminiscent of the process of demons entering a person. The person obsessed with them really becomes completely different. It is obvious that Rajneesh experienced a diabolical initiation that night. Later, members of his family admitted that he was no longer the same person that he used to be.

Just possessed by the Devil - Guru Osho Rajneesh

Researcher Tal Brook claims that Rajneesh is indeed possessed by the devil. He has the quality of a complete possession, a kind of antichrist who is "really connected to the other side of the universe."

Brook tells the story of Ehart Flozer, one of Rajneesh's faithful disciples, who recounted encounters - gang rape, forced sexual partner exchanges, forced homosexuality, abortions, countless deaths and suicides in the Poona community. Female favorites such as Laxmi, Rajneesh's number one witch, were thrown into the streets of India penniless. Others tell stories of satanic communities, spiritual vampirism, souls being robbed of the will to live, countless suicide victims.

“She was crazy about him, crazy about this Rajneesh,” the old nun explained, speaking of Isabella, Spanish girl from a noble family. - But Rajneesh used her and threw her away. She was a fragile bird, and he crushed her... But she continued to believe in Rajneesh, repeating that it was just a test of her devotion... She ended up in a lunatic asylum in Pune... mumbling all sorts of nonsense... God! I tell you - he is the devil! .

Rajneesh said: "Meditation is a state of pure consciousness without any content." To achieve it, he directly called on his followers to rage - he advised every morning to jump with their hands up, shouting: “Hu! Hu! Hoo!", recommended making faces in front of a mirror, imagining yourself without a head, buzzing through your nose, walking on all fours around the room and growling like a dog, sucking milk from a baby bottle, and generally "being an astronaut of your inner space" .

In the stories about the cult of Rajneesh, indeed we are talking as if about the kingdom of darkness. They are somewhat similar to the stories of the orgies of the ancient Druids in England, when a huge horned god, sitting on a throne, like the embodiment of evil, contemplated the dirt-covered altar. These people who exalt themselves as God are like little antichrists, and whose

“the coming, according to the work of Satan, will be with all power, and lying signs and wonders, and with all unrighteous deceit” (2 Thess. 2:9, 10).

Any traditional religion brings light, kindness with it, but Rajneesh, realizing to whom he sold his soul, associated himself exclusively with death. He later recalled:

“Loneliness gripped me from the age of 7. Loneliness has become my nature. This death has become for me the death of all attachments. Whenever my relationship with someone started to get intimate, that death stared at me. From that day on, every moment of consciousness of life was invariably associated with the consciousness of death.

To match his inner nature, he spent his gatherings. Meditation at the Rajneesh ashrams includes specific dances where participants are blindfolded, undressed, and put themselves into an ecstatic trance. Hundreds of thousands of residents of Madras, Bombay and Calcutta gathered for his lectures, ending in mass shaking and ripping off clothes. Many times, such "dances" in Rajneesh groups, for example in the USA, ended in group sex.

Here are the words of the adept Rajneesh Ma Prem Paras: “Once you begin to question the mind, sooner or later you will fall into the abyss of meditation.” It is into the abyss of madness and the power of demons that the followers of Rajneesh break down.

Whatever the defenders of this kind of “spirituality” may say, it all very much resembles the ritual rites of Satanists.

Those who did not accept his teachings were declared narrow-minded and stupid, while Rajneesh attributed the halo of a “misunderstood genius” to himself: “Many great mystics behaved like fools, and their contemporaries were completely at a loss: how to figure out their life - and the greatest wisdom was present in her. To be wise among you is really foolish. Nothing will come of this venture; you'll only create a lot of trouble." This is a very comfortable position in relation to critics. Since you criticize me, it means that you have not yet grown up to my level, which means that you are narrow-minded and unspiritual individuals. But this is pure swindle and megalomania!

The Fake Teachings of Sex Guru Bhagawan Osho Rajneesh

How real the teachings of Rajneesh do not correspond to those false sugary pictures from his life that his followers paint for us can be seen from his following passages:

"Easy life. Don't complicate it with pretense. Nobody urinates. So only in textbooks. Everyone writes - this is life. Love blossoms out of the dirt of sex. Compassion comes from the dirt of anger. And nirvana is from the dirt of this world ”;

“Considering yourself a rooster is crazy; but to consider yourself a human being is even more crazy, because you do not belong to any form ... You belong to the formless ... And until you become formless, nameless, you will never be mentally healthy ”;

"You came to me. You have taken a dangerous step. It's risky, because next to me you can get lost forever. To come closer can only mean death, and nothing else. I look like an abyss";

“I can only help you become nothing. I can only push you into the abyss... into the abyss. You will not achieve anything, you will simply dissolve. You will fall and fall and dissolve, and the moment you dissolve your whole being will experience ecstasy”;

"When I initiate you into sannyas, I initiate you into this nameless, homeless death";

"A real, perfect person ... has no attachments."

Like other sectarians, Rajneesh predicted a very fast approach to a worldwide catastrophe: “This crisis will begin in 1984 and end in 1999. All types of destruction will reign on earth at this time - from natural disasters to suicide by the achievements of science. In other words, floods not seen since the time of Noah, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and everything possible will be given to us by nature ... There will be wars that put humanity on the brink of nuclear war, but Noah's ark will not save it. Rajneeshism is the Noah's ark of consciousness, a corner of calm in the center of a typhoon... The catastrophe will be global and inevitable. It will not be possible to hide from it only in my teaching.

In early 1984, Rajneesh expanded on his prediction of an alleged catastrophe to come, noting that Nostradamus' prophecy would be fulfilled and AIDS would kill 2/3 of the world's population. At the same time, he declared to his followers: “I will not say that the Rajneeshists will survive the catastrophe, but I can say with absolute certainty that those who survive will be Rajneeshists, and the rest will be monkeys (that is, not grown up to the level of the Rajneesh “superman”, - ed.) or commit suicide. In the end, the rest don't matter."

Unlike other gurus who preach self-denial, Rajneesh immediately became known as the sex guru of India, preaching complete renunciation of oneself through absolute indulgence to one's desires. He frankly calls for premarital sexual relations, "open" marriages and the destruction of the family, free sex. "Suppression is not a word in a sannyasin's vocabulary," was his ad in Time magazine. Rajneesh encouraged tantric (sexual) yoga, ecstatic dancing, stripping, and even drug use as a means of meditation. Sterilization of women as an anti-pregnancy remedy is also a common practice. “The path to desirelessness lies through desire,” Rajneesh instructed his followers.

“Develop your sexuality, don't repress yourself! he called. - Love is the beginning of everything. If you miss the beginning, there will be no end for you ... I do not inspire orgies, but I do not forbid them either. Everyone decides for himself."

Rajneesh wrote: “When in meditation you have a moment of enlightenment, a glimpse of some kind of ecstasy, let it happen, let it penetrate into the depths of you and delve into it yourself.” Usually, when Rajneesh's henchmen were brought to a state of ecstasy, people committed such indecencies that they were later afraid to remember. But they just believed Rajneesh and followed his advice.

The “love” preached by Rajneesh in practice turned out to be the most unbridled sex without any restrictions, including group sex. That is why he was nicknamed the "sex guru".

However, the students and followers of Rajneesh vehemently object to this view. Thus, Swami Satya Vedanta wrote: “Bhagavan does not teach 'free sex' or sexual tolerance as misunderstood. On the contrary, he declares in no uncertain terms that sex, properly understood, has nothing to do with promiscuity.

The resolution of this dispute can be found in Osho's quote on the topic of sex, which quite clearly and unambiguously reflects the clear position of Rajneesh on this issue:

“Sex exists everywhere, it is nothing, it is not at all mysterious. If you want to understand sex, it is enough to understand animal sex, and everything that is applicable to sex in animals is also applicable to man. In this sense, a person is nothing more";

“There is nothing sinful about pure simple sex ... There is no need to hide it behind the beautiful word “love”. There is no need to create a romantic fog around him” (, p. 5);

“It must be a pure phenomenon: the two at this moment feel that they would like to connect for more deep level, that's all. No obligation, no duty, no obligation in this. Sex should be full of play and prayer” (, p.6);

“I give you complete freedom. My efforts are here only to help you go beyond that; thus, if you are homosexual, you must go beyond homosexuality; if you are heterosexual, you must go beyond heterosexuality” (, p. 50);

“A baby in a crib plays with his genitals, and the mother comes in and removes his hands. Now this is a shock to the child; he becomes afraid to touch his own genitals. And it's so nice to touch them ... it's so relaxing. By touching them, the child achieves a non-sexual orgasm; it's just a pleasure. The natural urge to touch the genitals, to play with them is so beautiful” (, p. 55);

“When sex becomes connected, merged with comprehension, absolutely new energy- this energy is called Tantra... Real Tantra is not a technique, but love. This is not a technique, but a prayer… You can stay in a tantric connection for hours… The mantra is focused on a different kind of orgasm… A tantric orgasm can be called an orgasm of the valley” (, p.70-74);

“Normal sexual orgasm looks like crazy, tantric orgasm is a deep, relaxed meditation… Tantric love act can be done as many times as you want… Just keep playing and don’t think about sexual intercourse at all. It may or may not happen” (, pp.76-77).

Not only the preaching of freedom of sexual life attracted Rajneesh. “Every sannyasi,” he wrote, “must make a great contribution, for we are trying to realize a great dream in which all religions can meet, in which the earth can become our home - not divided into nations, races and skin colors.” This dream will be realized by the followers of Rajneesh - "enlightened" or going to "enlightenment".

The Ashrams of Rajneesh became nurseries and incubators for the "new people of the new world". And, of course, only Guru Bhagwan will help them show the path to "enlightenment". "Everyone has the potential to become God... God is a state of consciousness... it is a way of enjoying life right here and now." "Enlightenment" is a leap into the unknown, and in order to make it, you need to surrender with your whole soul to Bhagwan, remove the mental barriers in front of him.

"When you become a disciple, when I initiate you... I'm just trying to help you find yourself."

Osho propagated the ideal of a new man as a person capable of enjoying a full-blooded physical life and at the same time reach the heights of the spirit. He called such a person Zorba-Buddha, choosing Buddha as a symbol of the soul, and Zorba as a symbol of the body (Zorba is the hero of one of the novels of the Greek writer Kazantzakis, endowed with a huge potential for love of life).

The pseudo-guru said: “Live the life of a Zorba completely, and you will naturally enter the life of a Buddha… The Zorba is only the beginning… The Zorba is an arrow. If you follow it correctly, it will lead to the Buddha ... Sooner or later, when you allow your Zorba to achieve full self-expression, there will be nothing left for you but to look for something higher, more perfect and majestic. ”

Osho taught his students not to suppress the Zorba. Live intensely, he urged, reject nothing, accept and explore everything: matter and spirit, soul and body, love and meditation. “Go deep into all the experiences of life,” Osho said.

Assigning himself the strange title of "Man of the Planet" Rajneesh repeatedly spoke hostilely about traditional religions: "We are making a revolution ... I burn old scriptures, destroy traditions ... Shoot me, but I will not convert to your faith." He called all orthodox religions "anti-life."

“I am the founder of a single religion,” Rajneesh declared, “other religions are a hoax. Jesus, Mohammed and Buddha simply corrupted people... My teaching is based on knowledge, on experience. People don't have to believe me. I explain my experience to them. If they find it right, they accept it. If not, then they have no reason to believe in him.

Representatives of new religious movements in Russia are literally obsessed with the requirements of respect for their organizations and teachings. At the same time, in most cases, they themselves consider it quite acceptable to offend the religious feelings of believers of traditional religions, who make up the majority of the Russian population.

What Rajneesh said and wrote was in no way respectful. This is nothing but insults and incitement of inter-religious hatred:

“Any religion that sees life as meaningless and teaches you to hate it is not a true religion. Religion is an art that shows how to live life. But these shops, which have appropriated the name of religions, do not want the person to become truly religious, because then there will be no need for a priest”;

“All the religions of the past are for the sake of life, none for the sake of the living, none for the sake of laughter. No religion perceives a sense of humor as a property of religiosity. That is why I say that my religion is the first religion that considers man in his totality, in his naturalness, perceives man as a whole, as he is. Holiness doesn't mean something sacred to me, but something accepted in its entirety... It's the first religion that doesn't reject anything from your life. She accepts you as a whole, as you are, and finds ways and methods to make the whole more harmonious ... ";

“All religions have become politics. They use religious terminology, but there is politics behind it all. What is Islam? What is Hinduism? What is Christianity? They are all political groups, political organizations doing politics under the guise of religion... The Temple is no more. The temple has disappeared, it has become politics”;

“Christian priests have been trained for two thousand years, but not a single Jesus has come out of them, and not a single one will ever come out, because you cannot teach to be Jesus. You cannot produce Jesus in a factory. And these are factories, these theological colleges. There you release priests, and if these priests are downright boring, dead, burdensome, then it is not difficult to understand that the whole religion will become the same ... Of course, these Christian priests are dead, everything is planned for them ”;

“A truly religious person cannot be a Christian, a Hindu, a Buddhist. Religion is absolutely useless. Well, what is the use of the temple? What is the use of the mosque? Why do we need churches? ;

“If this land ever reaches true religiosity, then we will stop teaching Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism - for this is one of the most serious sins in the world.”

He also had bad relations with Hinduism. In India, he is better known as "Ngariya" Rajneesh - a fierce teacher who destroyed ancient myths and beliefs, traditions and teachings. “I teach extreme rebellion,” he declared. - If we want to change society, we must be in the highest degree honest and truthful, we must speak out against him.” Many years ago, at the Second Hindu Religious Congress, where the head of Hinduism, Shankaracharya, chaired, the views of Rajneesh caused strong irritation of representatives of the main currents of official Hinduism, who after that diligently dissociated themselves from him.

Characteristics of Pseudo-Guru Osho Rajneesh

The infamous destroyer of ancient Indian traditions and beliefs, "spiritual terrorist" and "sex guru" Rajneesh was born on December 11, 1931 in a Jain family, adherents of one of the ancient religions of India, in the remote village of Kuchvada in the province of Madhya Pradesh, in Central India. His parents named him Rajneesh Chandra Mohan.

Later, this person became known as Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh (or Rajneesh), which translates as "that blessed one who is God", or Osho ("oceanic", "dissolved in the ocean"). His disciples called him: "acharya" ("teacher") and "bhagwan" (which means "holy man" in Sanskrit).

Rajneesh was the eldest of his five sisters and seven brothers. His childhood was overshadowed by the fact that his father, unlucky in business, was often on the road. Rajneesh's father was replaced by his grandfather, to whom he was very attached.

He spent the first seven years of his life with his grandparents, who gave him complete freedom to be himself. The death of his grandfather, whom he loved very much, had a profound effect on his inner life.

From early childhood, Rajneesh, who declared that he came to enlightenment, completing the fast he started 700 years ago in another life, was obsessed with the idea of ​​​​death.

“Death took a long look at me before life began,” he muses. “Loneliness has become my essence.”

A Hindu astrologer told Rajneesh's parents that the boy would "die" every 7 years until he was 21. It is then that he will finally experience sudden enlightenment. When Rajneesh was 7 years old, his grandfather died; At 14, he almost drowned himself. To the ups and downs of fate, he actively added his own stupidity - he threw himself from high bridges into swift whirlpools, where a rotating funnel of water sucked him in and then carried him back. In such a strange way, he wanted to prove his theory of "cooperation with divine providence in all things."

Osho Rajneesh - communes and communism

In his youth, his greatest passion was reading, but he read quite specific literature for the future guru. During this period he was dubbed a communist (!), because he intensively read Marx and Engels. He even organized a circle of young people, where communist ideology was regularly discussed and opposition to religion expressed. He and his friends believed that socialism would solve all of India's economic problems. At this time, he is an atheist, openly criticizing religious rituals and blind faith in the holy scriptures. But gradually there was a disappointment in socialist ideas. Rajneesh realized that he would not receive any dividends here, and announced to his associates in the Marxist circle:

"Only a revolution in consciousness, and not in politics, can bring peace and happiness."

This transition from infatuation with communism to the birth of the idea of ​​creating one's own religion took place sometime between 1945-1950.

Rajneesh was the son of relatively wealthy parents, so he could afford to get good higher education. In 1957 he graduated from the university and received a diploma with honors, a gold medal and a master's degree. philosophical sciences. After that, he taught philosophy at two Indian universities from 1957 to 1966.

Later, he also tried his hand at occult magic, telekinesis and yoga breath control. He began to travel a lot in India and preach. He wandered on foot and rode a donkey, telling everyone how they can change and be transformed in order to survive. According to his student, who later found the strength to leave this sect, Eckart Floser, in an interview with Forward magazine, Rajneesh's sermons were not very successful, and by 1970 he was nothing more than a tired, poor man, who, however, was very much mistaken, believing that he owns a certain gift and power.

Since 1969, Rajneesh began to initiate his first students, giving them new names and a medallion with his image. In Bombay he decided to create a group of people whom he could begin to teach. Gradually, he overgrown with his students, the room where he lived, no longer contained them.

I am looking for spiritual students, seekers and the rich, please do not disturb the poor!

Then in 1974, Rajneesh moved to the rich Indian city of Pune (120 miles south of Bombay). During this same period, he organized his own neo-Sannyasin international movement. A commune began to form around him, attracting more and more people from the West, "searching for spiritual truth." By the mid-70s, the pseudo-guru was already hosting traveling VIPs, movie stars such as Diana Ross, and even Ruth Carter Stapleton, Jimmy Carter's sister. His bright scarlet-robed sannyasin followers flooded the streets of Poona to the delight of local shopkeepers. A rapidly growing community of 7,000 people soon formed. Great amount others received regular visits.

In 1981, Osho came to America, where his followers bought a huge ranch and founded the commune of Rajneeshpuram.

Subsequently, Osho ashrams were formed in other places in India, as well as in 22 more countries, including the USA, England, Germany (in Cologne, Munich, Hamburg), France, Canada, Japan, Russia and a number of other countries. Rajneesh's sermons found their addressees. Up to 50,000 people per year passed through the Pune School of Song and Meditation alone, where the movement is headquartered (OSHO Commune International, 17 Koregaoh Park, Poona 411011 MS India). By 1984, Rajneesh gathered about 350 thousand followers, whose average age was 34 years.

Rajneesh's tape-recorded speeches were published and replicated in the form of many books and pamphlets, which were then distributed throughout the world.

Osho Rajneesh Pseudo Guru Centers

Today, more than 500 Rajneesh meditation centers operate around the world. The international meeting place for the followers of this movement is the International Osho Commune in Pune, governed by an elected committee of 11 women and 10 men.

The Osho Commune-owned Multiversity offers hundreds of workshops, groups, and courses presented across its nine departments:

• Osho School of Centering,
• Osho School of Creative Arts,
• Osho International Health Academy,
• Osho Meditation Academy,
• Osho School of Mysticism,
• Osho Tibetan Pulsing Institute,
• Osho Transformation Center,
• Osho School of Zen Martial Arts,
• Osho Academy of Games and Zen Training.

Belonging to the Osho movement, at least until 1985, was symbolized by a kind of clothing (sunrise colors: red, orange, pink), a wooden chain on which hangs an amulet with the image of Osho and a new name.

Osho movements in the CIS and former USSR countries

In the CIS countries, groups on meditation, astrology, and psycho-training have been created in organizations of the Osho movement. In Belarus, Rajneeshists operate in Minsk, in Ukraine - in Kyiv and Odessa, in Georgia - in Tbilisi, in Latvia - in Riga.

In Russia, Osho's followers created their own organizations in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh (it has been operating since 1996 under the name "Tantra Yoga", 30-40 followers), Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, Kaliningrad, Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar and other cities.

In Moscow, the Rajnishevsky Meditation Center "ATMA" operates under the leadership of Soldatov A.V. and Kosikhina V.S., Osho Moscow Center, "Eastern House" under the leadership of Marikhin and other groups of followers of Rajneesh.

Rajneeshists are actively climbing into Russian schools. It is known that the Rajneeshists some time ago conducted their classes at secondary school No. 984 in Moscow.

Osho Center conducts regular seminars. In May 1997, the following programs were offered to those who participated in the “Touching Tantra” seminar: “practical tantra yoga, paired exercises, breathing techniques, various tantric techniques, working with chakras, working with the body, ... overcoming barriers in choosing partners, overcoming difficulties in communication between a man and a woman, ... Tarot cards.

Since recently, the Yamskoye Pole Moscow club has been hosting a “meditation disco” every Sunday, where you can not only dance, but also roll on the floor, make faces, yell, jump, bark and whistle. The disco is held by the head of the association "Eastern House" Swami Anand Toshan (in the world - Igor Marihin). Toshan completed a course of study at the Multiversity in Pune and received a spiritual initiation - sannyas. After that, he returned to Russia and began to translate the books of Rajneesh into Russian. Then, together with several friends, he traveled around the country, preaching the teachings of the Master at seminars and lectures. Toshan called his group “Osho Gypsies”, because he had to spend several years “on wheels”. Having recruited followers, Toshan founded the East House center, which includes an Indian dance school, an art studio, meditation training and an Osho disco.

Big role Rajneesh assigned ecstatic dance - spontaneous movements without worked out steps and memorized positions.

“The body is forgotten, only movement remains. Feel like a tree in the rain in a strong wind.

Therefore, everything is allowed at the Osho disco that does not interfere with others. You can, for example, remove everything from yourself. Or, conversely, wear the most exotic clothes. The role of the DJ at the console is performed by Toshan himself. He looks at the dancers and, depending on their mood, puts on certain music. He did not forbid arranging sexual orgies during such "dances".

As reported in the press from the founding of the Pune center, some visitors to the commune returned with stories of sex orgies and drug use in the Osho communities. Some researchers believe that the word “orgies” is hardly applicable to Osho’s practices, since Rajneesh does not divide the manifestations of life into positive and negative, like many Hindu cults, in Osho’s doctrine, the concepts of good and evil are blurred.

One of the spiritual practices widely used in the Rajneesh cult is the so-called "dynamic meditation". It is explained that allegedly with her help

“the consequences of previous life experience are removed, energy is acquired.”

Each session begins with chaotic breathing to the beat of a drum. Due to the hyperventilation of the lungs accompanying such breathing, a person gets drunk from excess oxygen. He is advised to scream, roll on the floor, make any involuntary movements. The special state experienced by the person is explained as something mysterious, possible only due to some secret that the guru possesses. In fact, according to Professor Dr. Margaret Theiler Singer (University of California), this phenomenon has a clear physiological explanation and is nothing more than a trick.

In the cult of Rajneesh, professional psychotherapists worked together with the guru. Leaders inspire people that the person himself is to blame for his previous painful condition, since he was allegedly inadequate in his behavior. After a few days of "cure" people lose the ability to think for themselves, they become people without their own biography, "existing here and now." Now they are ready to accept the "new doctrine". Gurus are especially emotionally perceived by female followers, they are the majority in the sect. The religious rite looks something like this. Rajneesh shouts out the words: “Life! Death! Despair! Happiness!". They mix, and ultimately it means - "nothing". This mumbling brings students into a trance, similar to meditation. In this state, a person has practically no prudence, a person is out of reality.

Among the meditation practices offered to adepts developed by Osho, there is one called “Die Consciously”.

Becoming a sannyasin (monk) in the cult of Rajneesh, a person completely loses his own will. Therefore, sannyasins can only exist in groups, obeying the will of the leader. The cult of Rajneesh, at least for his American followers, is characterized by a special fanatical devotion of adherents, even against the background of other destructive cults. For example, when Rajneesh hinted that a woman burdened with children could not achieve enlightenment, many female sannyasins were sterilized right there in the Laguna Beach cult center.

In his cult rites, Rajneesh often brought his adherents into a state of nirvana (translated from Sanskrit as "bliss", "enlightenment") with the help of drugs, and individual meditation sessions in the ashrams of the "holy man" ended in fights and stabbings. There were cases when sectarians, maddened by Bhagwan's lamentations and drugs, broke each other's arms and legs.

Psychiatry and psycho followers of Osho Rajneesh

Psychiatrist Betty Tilden(Great Britain) believes that without the help of medicine, the adherents of the Rajneesh cult are not able to return to normal life. The psychotherapists who worked for Rajneesh were cold, calculating and ruthless people. For Rajneesh, the life and health of his followers were worthless:

“I am not interested in your possibilities. If you feel bad, then it should be so. All this is done in the name of love ... ".

According to a journalist from Munich, he is familiar with a dozen former followers of Rajneesh, who were completely mentally destroyed after they left the sect. Here are just two examples of such consequences.

Hamburg musician, 26 years old. Cannot find contact with reality, instantly forgets everything he just said, says, "he has absolutely no energy."

Nurse from Berlin, 29 years old. Suffered from "withdrawal". After leaving the sect, she could not think consistently and committed suicide.

Those who have joined the destructive teachings and practices of Rajneesh eventually become a kind of zombie. A thirty-year-old Perm doctor - a follower of Rajneesh - once said: “My inner experience, the spiritual joy I experienced, testify that the path to true freedom lies through the liberation of a person from the voice of conscience. The voice of conscience in a person is the voice of the devil, which once again confirmed that this organization can be quite confidently classified as potentially the most dangerous in terms of possible participation in the organization of anti-social actions, including terrorist acts.

And this is not surprising, for Rajneesh achieves the complete elimination of all doubts and the mind itself from his followers:

“The mind is like a disease… When there is a mind, you are always caught. The mind rapes you, forces you, you are its prisoner... Meditation is throwing the mind out, it is freeing yourself from the burden. You don't need to carry all your excrement with you, otherwise you will get dumber and dumber";

"The mind is the deadest thing in you... The mind is as dead a part as the hair... The human mind is a monkey";

“Both the one and the other: both the hair and the mind are dead, do not carry them around. It will be wonderful! Make sure that dead particles do not accumulate in you ... Mind is a dead part of you, it is excrement ”;

“Meditation is nothing but emptying, becoming nothing. Emptiness should be your path, goal, everything. From tomorrow morning, start emptying yourself of everything that you find inside ... - everything that you find, just throw it away. Everything that turns up, indiscriminately; empty yourself";

“When the mind is needed, use it like a mechanical device; when you're not using it, set it aside and forget about it. Then become useless and do something useless - and you will begin to live a full happy life ”;

"If you become aware, ugliness, ugliness appears."

Many of his followers "hooked on the needle", becoming drug addicts. “Among my patients were many people from the entourage of Bhagwan, who healed in Pune,” said Professor Claude Olivenstein, director of the Marmotan drug treatment center in Paris. According to the words of the former guru's ward, Time magazine stated that there were cases when sectarians, mad from the rituals of the sect and from drugs, broke each other's legs and arms.

Mikhail Medvedev and Tatyana Kalashnikova, researchers of the harm of meditative practices for human health, wrote: “In the Hindu-occult immersion in the supersensible and in the Christian spiritual life, we have, according to the remarkable researcher of the history of religions L.A. Tikhomirov, “two completely different psycho-spiritual processes that from beginning to end they follow different paths.

A person who follows the path of yogic-occult practice first plunges himself into somnambulistic passivity and causes the soul to disintegrate into separate parts. Having brought himself into a state in which no action is possible, he imagines, by an effort of his disintegrated will, to force the secret of his content from the supersensible. This is the practice of false images and visions, in which the human spirit is even more blinded and drawn into the trap of unusual sensations, from which it cannot free itself. All occult-yogic paths, despite their external diversity, are united in their spiritual essence. Tal Brook, a former initiate of another neo-Hindu guru, Sathya Sai Baba, after visiting Pune, described his impressions as follows:

“The object of horror and adoration in the media, Rajneesh created the image of a “new man” who rejects all norms and traditions. Man, according to Rajneesh, is a hedonistic god who does not depend on anything (except from the inner voice of Rajneesh) and is free to give the cosmos any appearance depending on his desire. This is the dominant pleasure-seeker, existing in himself, owing nothing to anyone. The family is cursed, children are a burden. Bye " neosannyasin"has money, he's wildly having fun. Then interest in him disappears. Murders, rapes, mysterious disappearances, threats, arson, explosions, abandoned children" Ashram members begging on the streets of Pune, drugs are all the rage among the marvelous hybrids in red who consider themselves the audacious pioneers of a new meaning of 'love'.

Christians working in the Pune Psychiatric Hospital will confirm everything that has been said, not forgetting to mention the high level mental disorders related to the fact that the ashram took political power into its own hands and there is no one to complain about it.

In early 1981, there were reports of a threat to Rajneesh's life. A strict regime was introduced in the ashram, everyone entering was searched for weapons. A store was set on fire, and not far from medical center the ashram exploded. According to the cult, the attack on the guru in February forced the ashram administration to speed up the search for a new headquarters that had already begun.

India Today

According to India Today magazine, "Police and authorities in Pune are unanimous in their opinion that the incidents were instigated by followers of Rajneesh" because "the last two weeks of investigation have shown that the Rajneesh Foundation is up to its neck in unpaid taxes, misappropriation of donations for charitable purposes , thefts and in criminal cases against members of the sect, the investigation of which had not been completed by the time she left the city.

In 1981, the government of Indira Gandhi stripped Bhagwan's ashram of the right to be considered a religious organization. The US Consulate in Bombay issued a visa to Rajneesh, and on June 1, 1981, having sold the property of the ashram and taking 17 of his most devoted students with him, he secretly flew to New York. After Rajneesh left Pune, his adherents spread throughout the West, setting out to establish "holy cities" throughout Europe, which were planned to be self-sustaining and which were supposed to become an alternative to society, being examples of "sannyas". In the US, efforts have been made to create a model of a "holy city" run by the "teacher" himself. On July 10, 1981, the Chidvilas Rajneesh Meditation Center in Montclair, New Jersey, purchased the Big Magdy Ranch from an investment company in Amarillo, Texas, for $6 million (of which $1.5 million was in cash). Its territory near Madras (Oregon) covers more than 100 square miles. The center was also able to lease 14,889 acres in the same area from the American Bureau of Land Management.

Soon, two hundred followers of Rajneesh from 16 gathered in Big Magdi. European countries in order to enthusiastically welcome the teacher to his new home in September. After some time, the intentions to build "the first enlightened city in America" ​​under the name of Rajneeshpuram (the city of Rajneesh) were made public. On November 4, 1981, the Vasco County Commission voted by a double margin to hold a referendum in May 1982 on whether the Big Magdi farm could be considered a city. Only vote in such cases. locals, and in this case- followers of Rajneesh, and the result was not difficult to predict: 154 votes for the appearance of the city of Rajneeshpuram and not a single one against.

Big Magdy Ranch

In a short time, in the dusty steppe of Oregon, not far from the provincial town of Entelope, on the abandoned Big Magdy Ranch, an oasis of Western civilization was created: an airfield, a comfortable hotel with a casino, shopping streets, restaurants. Roads were laid with special buses plying along the routes indicated by the “holy man”. This "miracle" was created by the work of 6,000 adherents of Rajneesh, as well as with the money of 500,000 so-called adept-tourists, who live far from the guru, but who regularly came to Oregon to communicate with their leader and transferred impressive sums to his account.

From the beginning, the cult's attempts to create a paradise in the Oregon desert met with fierce opposition. The legitimacy of the new city was questioned for two reasons: first, the separation clause of the state and church was violated, and second, the Vasco County Commission's referendum decision violated the state's land use laws. There was a threat of dismantling most of the buildings. As a precaution against the decision to dismantle Rajneeshpuram and to show that the organization has influence among municipal services and authorities, the Rajneeshists officially occupied the nearby township, deciding to rename it from Entelope to Rajneesh.

Taking advantage of the fact that, according to local law, it is enough to live in the state for 22 days to get the right to vote in local elections, the guru decided to increase the number of voters in Entelope at the expense of his followers. In New York, San Francisco and other major cities in the United States, Bhagwan's supporters began to invite alcoholics, vagabonds, and drug addicts to the ashram. All this continued until the election of the mayor of the town. The operation "share the dwelling with your neighbor", carried out by Rajneesh, thus gathered 3,500 people in the city of Rajneesh. Bhagwan's followers voted for the right person's guru and Enteloup was renamed Rajneesh.

Most of the forty original inhabitants of Entelope, mostly elderly, were subjected to constant surveillance by the police force of sannyasins, were taxed in favor of the sect and were forced to contemplate a nudist beach established by the city council full of Rajneeshists in the city park. They chose to give up and leave the city. The city grew as the followers of Rajneesh bought up existing houses and built new ones.

Rajneesh Foundation International

Meanwhile, the American Immigration Service continued its investigation on suspicion of violating immigration laws and relevant criminal regulations by members of the organization " Rajneesh Foundation International". More than 30 Rajneeshists, including the leadership, were suspected of fictitious marriages of US citizens with foreign citizens. By the way, the residency requirement of Rajneesh himself was also in great doubt, and the American Immigration Service hoped to prove that he received a visa by exaggerating the severity of his illness.

Homeless people and alcoholics, having done their job, could leave. The order to disperse the suspicious company was given to the personal guard of the guru, and he was guarded by a whole detachment of specially trained militants armed not only with small arms, but also with helicopters (there was even at least one combat helicopter with missiles).

Osho at the head of the killers or revived nightmares - the messiahs of Rajneesh

However, the vagabonds were in no hurry to leave the city of Rajneesh proclaimed by them. They were not going to work for the guru either. Reluctantly, the guru was forced to agree that they remain among his flock. But soon strange events began to occur in the vicinity of the newly-made Rajneeshpuram-Rajneesh. Several times the state police had to investigate crimes very similar in style: people seemed to fall asleep, killed by an unknown poison. Moreover, all the victims were from among the recently appeared adherents of Osho, who took part in the vote. Their bodies were found in different places, but not in the Rajneeshpuram e.

The police understandably suspected the guru and his associates. Sensing danger, Rajneesh did not find anything more witty than to withdraw from secular affairs and take a vow of silence. I must say that he didn’t really deal with “secular affairs”, because he had an army of sectarian slaves.

While Rajneesh retired from the affairs of the commune, taking a vow of silence, a group of his closest assistants committed lawlessness. Major financial scandals in the leadership of the organization became known.

Sheila Silverman

For four years the pseudo-saint was silent. His faithful follower Shila Silverman became the mediator of his communication with the world. She ran the ashram effectively with a hard hand, regularly collected tribute from the sectarians, and of course provided publicity for the reluctant silent man who continued to issue pamphlets calling for "freedom through sexuality."

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Sheela personally led the ashram army, numbering about 100 people in its ranks. When the surrounding farmers tried to call on the inhabitants of Rajneeshpuram to observe Christian morality, or at least the elementary norms of human society, Sheela threatened to kill fifteen farmers for every single follower of Rajneesh, declaring that soon the whole of Oregon would be called Rajneeshpuram: “To achieve this, I am ready every bulldozer going to the demolition of this world, paint it with your blood!” . Under the influence of public opinion, the police, and then the FBI, opened a case against the Bhagwan sect. Rajneesh decided to speak, but it was already too late.

About four dozen FBI investigators were investigating directly in Rajneeshpuram. They discovered arms depots, laboratories for the production of drugs, which were regularly added to food for sectarians. During the searches, they found a carefully camouflaged underground passage for the escape of the guru in case of emergency.

On October 27, 1985, the FBI arrested Rajneesh at the airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, where Bhagwan's own plane had landed to refuel. Rajneesh and eight of his associates allegedly flew to Bermuda.

Exposing the chief priestess of Osho - Sheela Silverman

Shortly before the exposure of the "high priestess" Sheila Silverman, who sensed that clouds were gathering over her, considered it good to move with her personal guards and her next husband to Western Europe. While the pseudo-saint sounded the alarm and gathered his thinned ranks, Sheela withdrew $55 million from the ashram's Swiss bank account and disappeared. What kind of accusations Bhagwan did not put forward against his recent associate. He yelled that Sheela had tried to poison the life of the "saint's" personal physician, made an attempt on the life of the guru himself, killed vagabonds, whose bodies the police found in the surrounding fields ... The "high priestess" was also not inactive. When Interpol tracked down Sheela and her gang in Stuttgart, Silverman willingly told about all the ins and outs of Rajneesh's real activities.

A brief trial of Osho and his sect

The brief trial, held in Portland, Oregon, ended on November 14, 1985. Rajneesh was found guilty on two counts of the federal indictment. The US government structures decided to deport Rajneesh from the country, so he received a purely symbolic punishment: ten years of suspended imprisonment plus a fine of 300 thousand dollars. The criminal pseudo-guru was ordered to collect all his belongings and leave the territory of the United States within five days. The FBI supervised his departure.

In mid-1986, Rajneesh returned to India. Within a few months, the commune in Pune resumed and expanded its psychotherapeutic and meditation programs, which was reflected in the word "Multiversity", which Rajneesh chose as a common name for his teachings and practices.

By the end of the 80s, Rajneesh's health had deteriorated significantly. In the last months before his death, if his health allowed, Rajneesh went out to his students for "meditation of music and silence", and then they watched videos of his previous conversations.

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SECTANT OSHO. CAUTION - DANGER!

This is probably why, for a start, you generally need to say who Osho is, because not everyone can know this.

Osho. short biography

Chandra Mohan Jain(December 11, 1931 - January 19, 1990) since the early seventies, better known as Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh (that blessed one who is God) and later as Osho (oceanic, dissolved in the ocean) - a famous neo-Hindu guru and mystic, inspirer of the neo-orientalist Rajneesh movement, preacher " philosophy of "total liberation", calling it the Sanskrit term "sannyas".

Criticism of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi and traditional religions made Osho a controversial figure during his lifetime. In addition, he defended the freedom sexual relations, in some cases arranged sexual meditation practices, for which he earned the nickname "sex guru".

Osho is the founder of the system of ashrams (religious communities) in many countries. The ashram, according to the descriptions of the disciples, was at the same time "an amusement park and a lunatic asylum, a pleasure house and a temple."
During his stay in the United States, he founded the international settlement of Rajneeshpuram, several residents of which, until September 1985, committed serious crimes, including a bioterrorist act (infected more than 750 people with salmonella).

During the four years that Osho lived there, the popularity of Rajneeshpuram grew.
So, about 3,000 people came to the festival in 1983, and in 1987 - about 7,000 people from Europe, Asia, South America and Australia.
The city opened a school, post office, fire and police departments, transport system from 85 buses.
Between 1981 and 1986, the Rajneesh movement amassed about $120 million through various meditation workshops, lectures, and conferences with attendance fees ranging from $50 to $7,500.
By "the end of 1982, Osho's net worth reached $200 million tax-free."
Osho also owned 4 aircraft and 1 combat helicopter. In addition, Osho owned "nearly a hundred (numbers vary) Rolls-Royces."
Reportedly, his followers wanted to increase the number of Rolls-Royces to 365, one for each day of the year.
In 1984 Federal Bureau investigations "brought a criminal case against the Rajnesh sect", since in Anteloope "arms depots, drug laboratories were found in the center of Rajnesh."

On October 23, 1985, Rajnesh was arrested.
“The call for complete freedom, coupled with very liberal views on marriage and sexual relations, has caused public outrage throughout the world.
Osho disbanded his ashram in Oregon and publicly stated that he was not a religious teacher and stated that the "Rajneesh Bible" was published without his knowledge.
Also, his students burned 5,000 copies of the book "Rajneeshism", which was a 78-page compilation of the teachings of Bhagwan, who defined "Rajneeshism" as "a non-religious religion."
After being deported from America, Rajneesh was denied entry by 21 countries or declared him "persona non grata".

In a number of countries, Osho's organization was classified as a destructive sect and cult and was, including in the USSR, banned.

Teaching.
Osho's teachings are extremely eclectic (largely borrowed from other philosophical systems).
It is a chaotic mosaic composed of elements of Buddhism, Yoga, Taoism, Sikhism, Greek philosophy of Sufism, European psychology, Tibetan traditions, Christianity, Hasidism, Zen, Tantrism and other spiritual movements, as well as their own views.

He himself spoke about it like this: “I don’t have a system. Systems can only be dead. I am an unsystematic, anarchic stream, I am not even a person, but just a certain process. I don't know what I told you yesterday"
Many of Osho's lectures contain contradictions and paradoxes, which Osho commented as follows:
“My friends are surprised: Yesterday you said one thing, and today another. What are we to listen to? I can understand their bewilderment. They just grabbed the words. Conversations are of no value to me, only the spaces between the words I speak are what is valuable. Yesterday I opened the doors to my emptiness with some words, today I open them with other words.

“The ultimate goal of the religious practice of Rajnesh is to achieve a state of enlightenment and total liberation. The ways to achieve this state are the rejection of stereotypes of culture, upbringing, traditions, the rejection of everything that society imposes. At the same time, "the destruction of 'social barriers and stereotypes' should occur during communication with the 'teacher', and the acquisition of inner freedom through the practice of 'dynamic meditation' and sexual orgies presented under the guise of Tantrism."

Despite hundreds of dictated books, Rajneesh did not create a systematic theology. During the period of the Oregon commune (1981-1985), a book was published called "The Bible of Rajneesh", but after the dispersal of this commune, Rajneesh stated that the book was published without his knowledge and consent, and urged his followers to get rid of "old attachments", to to which he attributed religious beliefs.

Osho also used wide range western notions. His views on the unity of opposites are reminiscent of Heraclitus, while his description of man as a mechanism condemned to uncontrolled impulsive actions stemming from unconscious neurotic patterns has much in common with Freud and Gurdjieff.
His vision of the "new man" transcending the limits of tradition is reminiscent of Nietzsche's ideas in Beyond Good and Evil.
Osho's views on the liberation of sexuality are comparable to those of Lawrence, and his dynamic meditations are indebted to Reich.

Osho calls for doing what comes from feeling, flows from the heart: "Never follow the mind ... do not be guided by principles, etiquette, norms of behavior."
He denied the asceticism and self-restraint of the classical yoga of Patanjali and stated that "the craving for violence, sex, money-grubbing, hypocrisy is a property of consciousness", also pointing out that in "inner silence" there is "neither greed, nor anger, nor violence", but is love.

He encouraged followers to throw out their base desires outward in any form, which found its expression "in convulsive shudders, hysterical behavior."
It is considered likely that for this reason, the Rajneesh ashrams became the object of criticism for anti-social activities: promiscuity (promiscuous, unrestricted sexual intercourse with many partners), accusations of delinquency, etc.
Osho promoted free love and often criticized the institution of marriage, calling it the "coffin of love" in early conversations, although he sometimes encouraged marriage for the opportunity for "deep spiritual fellowship."

“I am the founder of a single religion,” Rajneesh declared, “other religions are a hoax.
Jesus, Mohammed and Buddha just corrupted people...
My teaching is based on knowledge, on experience.
People don't have to believe me. I explain my experience to them. If they find it right, they accept it. If not, then they have no reason to believe in him.”
Osho's talks, recorded between 1969 and 1989, have been collected and published by followers in the form of several hundred (more than 600) books.

Sexual Practices and Tantra
Osho became famous as a sex guru in the 1970s because of his tantric teachings (an Indian radical teaching about sex; one of the mystical tantric practices, the main content of which is the intimacy of partners) about the "integration of sexuality and spirituality", as well as from - for the work of some therapeutic groups and the encouragement of sexual practices among sannyasins.
Osho believed that tantra influenced his teachings to the greatest extent, along with Western sexology, based on the writings of Wilhelm Reich. Osho tried to combine traditional Indian tantra and Reich-based psychotherapy and form a new approach:
"All of our efforts up to now have failed because we have not made friends with sex, but have declared war on it; we have used repression and lack of understanding as ways of solving sexual problems... And the results of repression are never fruitful, never pleasant, never healthy."
Tantra was not the goal, but the method by which Osho freed the followers from sex:

"The so-called religions say that sex is a sin, and tantra says that sex is only a sacred thing... After you have cured your illness, you don't continue to carry the prescription and vial and medicine. You drop it."
Osho believed that only through intense "experiencing sexual emotions" is it possible to "understand their nature" and liberation from sexual "passion-weakness".

According to eyewitnesses, there was a problem of emotional violence in the Osho movement, it was especially pronounced during the functioning of Rajneeshpuram.
Some people were severely injured.
They returned with tales of "sexual perversion, drug dealing, suicide", as well as tales of physical and mental damage from Poona's programs.
But even among the people who were injured, many were positive about their experience, including those who had already left the movement. In general, most of the sannyasins assessed their experience as positive and defended it with arguments.

New person
Osho neo-sannyasins reject the past and the future, living here and now, but do not reject sex and material wealth.
Desires were to be accepted and transcended, not denied. Once the "inner flowering" has taken place, the drives, such as the drive for sex, will be left behind.
Rajneesh called himself a "guru for the rich" and said that poverty is not a true spiritual value.

Rajneesh sought to create a "new man" that combined the spirituality of Gautama Buddha with an interest in the life of Zorba, embodied in the novel Zorba the Greek by Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis. By Zorba, Osho meant a person who “is not afraid of hell, does not aspire to heaven, lives fully, enjoying the little things of life ... food, drink, women. After labor day he takes in hand musical instrument and dances on the beach for hours.

The new man, according to Osho, will no longer be trapped in institutions such as family, marriage, political ideologies and religion...
(Wikipedia)
In full: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki....8%F8%29

For example, quotes about love, but when you look at the source, some kind of strange love turns out.

He says "enjoy, live here and now," and even though the grass does not grow there.
The result is promiscuous group sex, elevated to the rank of "meditation" in the ashrams and outside the ashrams.
And since children come from "pleasure", he offers sterilization, which is actively, and, as they say, under pressure from the leadership, was practiced in ashrams.
And it was called "freedom". And where does love, it is not clear at all.

And where is the illumination? Really blinding. But by the way, no one was forced into Osho's disciples and into these ashrams. People came to him voluntarily. And even most people rated their experience as positive and defended it. Probably to each his own. For me, this is a sect, in which there is no smell of freedom.

As Osho teaches - one must do, but not be a "doer". There is movement. Perpetual motion. But this is a movement from one stage to another, from one milestone to another milestone. There is action. And action means a result. There is no result - the action loses its meaning.

All this is trite. Indeed a mosaic of many teachings.

No comments.

"Here is an excerpt from the memoirs of visiting the ashram in Pune around the year 80:
"Murders, rapes, mysterious disappearances, threats, arson, explosions, abandoned children of the 'Ashramites' begging on the streets of Pune, drugs - all this [here] is in the order of things ...
Christians working in the Pune psychiatric hospital will confirm everything that has been said, not forgetting to mention the high level of mental disorders due [in particular] to the fact that the ashram has taken political power into its own hands and there is no one to complain about it"
(Martin W. op. cit. p. 288).
But this is the outside.

And here is the internal, that is, the teaching:
"Rajneesh preached the freedom of fornication and perversion, while calling the family and children an unnecessary burden. He said:

"There is nothing wrong with pure simple sex..."
Who is arguing with this? And there is. intimate relationship is not sin or immorality.
But promiscuous sex (or fornication according to the church), as a source of contagious diseases and many human misfortunes, is certainly condemned by both society and religions.

And further:
"No obligation, no duty, no obligation in this. Sex should be full of play and prayer" (Osho. Sex. Quotes from conversations. M., 1993).
In this regard, "when Rajneesh hinted that a woman burdened with children could not achieve enlightenment, right at the cult center in Laguna Beach, many female sannyasins were surgically sterilized"...

“Develop your sexuality, don’t suppress yourself!.. I don’t inspire orgies, but I don’t forbid them either” (“Parismatch”, 11/08/1985. Quoted from: Privalov K. B. S. 35).

Then:
"Visitors to the commune in Pune returned with stories of such sexual orgies, as well as perversions, drug addiction and drug trafficking! "Rajneesh. (Barker A. op. cit. p. 244).

He promised "a tit in the hand", and even a cranein the form of freedom, enlightenment without any labor, without any restrictions, on the contrary, through the cultivation of the basest passions and vices that only exist in a person.
There is no God, there is no morality, there are no prohibitions, obligations ... but everything that brings pleasure and wealth is allowed. Those who had a need for any of the above went to his ashrams, because his ideology allowed them to justify themselves, primarily in their own eyes, and not feel like moral outcasts or freaks in their environment or society.
Also, I think he had hypnotic powers. The internet is full of videos of his performances.
Complete demagoguery, but the people are spellbound. You don't have to be a great specialist to look at their faces and determine that the audience is, some more, some less "influenced".

"Love yourself.
Don't judge yourself. You have been condemned so much, and you have accepted all this condemnation. Now you keep hurting yourself..."

What an attractive ideology for many, a kind of "sweet candy" for morning tea.
No matter what offense you commit (after all, they don’t condemn for good), no matter what harm you cause, no matter how scum you are, “do not condemn yourself ...”, but “be yourself and enjoy ... "

Conscience, repentance are counterbalances and stoppers to non-commitment, including repeated, of something subject to condemnation (and this is always evil done to someone / something and someone’s pain), they, therefore, sideways, forget about them and do whatever you want, at least walk over the corpses, if only you feel good at the same time and the main thing is "do not condemn yourself", so as not to interfere with yourself "enjoy", but "be yourself".

And who would doubt that with such a formulation of the question, the ashrams will burst with those who wish.
But what about enlightenment? It does not fit into this scheme.

Zombies based on meditation techniques and breathing exercises

The Only Religion of Osho Shri Rajneesh

It originated in India, in 1970, based on the philosophy of Zen Buddhism.

Not without spiritual trepidation, I begin the story about the teachings of the great teacher Osho Shri Rajneesh, which I followed for several years.

Like most religious teachers of the East, Osho expounded his teachings, referring not to any more early schools and philosophy, but on their own spiritual experience of development. At the end of the sixties, the Master came to the conclusion that all beliefs existing on Earth are false, and it is time for people to open their eyes to the one and only true religion.

Thanks to the great prophetic gift, Osho was able to gain a large number of followers and founded his first ashram in Pune in 1971. Until 1981, up to fifty thousand people a year passed through this school, which once again testifies to the high spiritual richness of the new teaching.

In 1981, the government of Indira Gandhi banned the sect under the pretext that drugs were used in the ashram of Osho Shri Rajneesh to achieve nirvana, and during meditation there were fights and stabbings. The teacher was forced to move to the United States, where he was elected mayor of Enteloope, Oregon. There he founded a new ashram. Soon, rumors began to circulate in the district about strange deaths among the homeless beggars and vagrants of the town, as well as rampant sexual orgies within the walls of the sect. Under the pressure of "public opinion of free America" ​​Osho was arrested, and he, in order to avoid the escalation of the conflict, publicly announced the dissolution of the sect. To heighten the effect, five thousand brochures specially printed for such an occasion were burned in front of journalists and television cameras.

On November 14, 1985, in Portland, Oregon, after a high-profile trial by Osho, Shri Rajneesh was sentenced to ten years in prison ... probation, and quietly released on all four sides.

On his grave in Pune, India, there is a white marble slab with a laconic inscription: "Never born and never died, just visited this land from 1931 to 1990", and the teaching continues to live and develop in almost the entire civilized world and traditionally Buddhist countries.

The basis of this scandalous religion is Zen (Chan) Buddhism, and when giving recommendations for self-improvement, Osho often directly refers to well-known representatives of various Zen movements, as well as Confucian philosophers. The main differences from traditional schools are the use of motor meditation techniques and the theory of “reasonable egoism” created by the teacher.

It was the stay in the sect of Osho Shri Rajneesh that showed me the whole abyss that separates those who convince people to abandon sectarianism and those who are in sects. So, about the teachings of Osho on the part of popularizers it is said at the following level:

“He preached liberation from one's own “I”, from conscience. One must live without thinking about anything, without burdening oneself with thoughts of either the past or the future, or the family, or daily bread. And the way to this is in meditation, chants, ritual dances, similar to the dances of the first hippies, only you need to hang the image of a guru on a wooden chain around your neck ... But, as Rajneesh taught, one cannot do without love in this world. “Develop your sexuality, don't repress it! he called. “Love is the beginning of everything. If you missed the beginning, you will not have an end ... "And he added:" I do not inspire orgies, but I do not forbid them either. Everyone decides for himself"

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What difference does it make who is stronger, who is smarter, who is more beautiful, who is richer? After all, in the end it only matters whether you are a happy person or not.

Osho's teachings can be seen as a chaotic mosaic composed of elements of Buddhism, Yoga, Taoism, Greek philosophy, Sufism, European psychology, Tibetan traditions, Christianity, Zen, Tantrism and many other spiritual currents, intertwined with his own views. Osho himself said that he does not have a system, because the systems are initially dead, and the living currents are constantly undergoing changes and improving.

This, perhaps, is the main advantage of his teaching - it does not give ready-made quick answers to all questions, but only provides a rich foundation that initially gives a good start for finding one's own path and forming one's own conclusions.

Throughout his life, Osho had different names. This is quite characteristic of the traditions of India and conveyed the essence of his spiritual activity. The name he received at birth is Chandra Mohan Jain. Later, they began to call him Rajneesh - the nickname of childhood. In the 60s, he was called Acharya ("spiritual teacher") Rajneesh, and in the 70-80s - Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh or simply Bhagwan ("enlightened"). By the name of Osho, he called himself only in Last year his life (1989-1990). In Zen Buddhism, "Osho" is a title that literally translates as "monk" or "teacher". So in history he remained Osho, and it is under this name that all his works are published today.

1. People take everything so seriously that it becomes a burden on them.. Learn to laugh more. To me, laughter is as sacred as prayer.
2. Every action leads to an immediate result. Be careful and watch. A mature person is one who has found himself, who has determined what is right and wrong for him, good and bad. He did it himself, so he has a huge advantage over those who do not have an opinion.
3. We are all unique. No one has the right to say what is right and what is wrong. Life is an experiment in which we define these changing concepts every day. Sometimes, you may do something wrong, but it is through this that you will benefit greatly.
4. There are times when God comes and knocks on your door.. It can happen in one of a million ways - through a woman, a man, a child, love, a flower, sunset or dawn... Be open to hear it.
5. The desire to be unusual is the most common desire. But to relax and be ordinary is really unusual.
6. Life is a series of mysteries and mysteries. It cannot be foreseen or predicted. But there are always people who would be satisfied with a life without secrets - fear, doubts and anxieties would go with them.
7. First, listen to yourself. Learn to enjoy the company of yourself. Become so happy that you no longer care whether someone comes to you or not. You are already full. You don't wait in trepidation for someone to knock on your door. Are you at home already. If someone comes, great. No, that's fine too. Only with such an attitude can a relationship begin.
8. If you are rich, don't think about it, if you are poor, don't take your poverty seriously.. If you are able to live in the world, remembering that the world is only a performance, you will be free, you will not be touched by suffering. Suffering comes only from a serious attitude to life. Start treating life like a game, enjoy it.
9. Courage is a move into the unknown despite all fears. Courage is not the absence of fear. Fearlessness happens when you get bolder and bolder. But at the very beginning, the difference between a coward and a daredevil is not so great. The only difference is that a coward listens to his fears and follows them, while a daredevil leaves them aside and moves on.
10. You change every moment. You are like a river. Today it flows in one direction and climate. Tomorrow is different. I have never seen the same face twice. Everything is changing. Nothing stands still. But in order to see this, very penetrating eyes are needed. Otherwise the dust falls and everything becomes old; it seems that everything has already happened.

Listen more consciously. Wake yourself up.
When you feel like everything is boring, kick yourself hard. Yourself, not another.
Open your eyes. Wake up. Listen again.