While Osho's
teachings met with strong rejection in his home country during his lifetime,
there has been a change in Indian public opinion since Osho's death. As early as
1991, an influential Indian newspaper counted Osho, among figures such as
Gautama Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi, among the ten people who had most changed
India's destiny; in Osho's case, by "liberating the minds of future generations
from the shackles of religiosity and conformism.
Osho is one of only two authors
whose entire works have been placed in the Library of India's National
Parliament in New Delhi (the other is Mahatma Gandhi).
Over 650 books are
credited to Osho,expressing his views on all facets of human existence.
His
books are available in 55 different languages and have entered best-seller lists
in such varied countries as Italy and South Korea.
The Osho
International Meditation Resort in Pune, India, at 200,000 visitors annually, is
one of the largest resorts of its kind in the world today.
After my vision of Osho in the Sinai dessert, it is wonderful to see the chain
of events that made this vision possible. I wanted to publish articles about Osho, but
there was a strongly guarded copyright claim on all Osho publications.
Furthermore I had only access to some of his books and almost no pictures of
him.
I started with sending my Osho with music compilations to Osho radio/TV who were
happy with it and broadcasted some of it.
As a reply Osho radio/TV have send me many DVD’s with videos and audio lectures
of Osho.
In the same period I received the famous silver-platter which contain all Osho’s
books and a database to search it. I found also a simple way to copy the texts
out of the silver-platter (which was not possible in the normal way). Suddenly I had ALL the
possibilities and access to this huge treasure of Osho’s wisdom. Finally I
got a link to a great website full of Osho pictures. Isn’t amazing how
everything works?
All the audio discourses I have digitally re-mastered from the original tapes with
the most advanced techniques to give the best sound quality.
Now as the last necessarily step the Osho copyright claim has been lost. Now
there is no
copyright anymore.
One
of the first books I read in 1977 of Osho has been: “And the
flowers showered”.
I
was struck as by lightning, it touched my soul and immediately I
knew to this man I want to go. In that time there was no New
Age, no Internet, nothing easily available around me. So this
book was a great treasure, which changed my life.
Thirty years later at one of the main power places on this earth
in
Champasak, Laos,
the power source of the whole Khmer
civilization, the flowers showered literally. At that moment I
remembered this beautiful story of Osho. I was so deeply touched
and so many things were revealed at that moment, that just to be
sure I asked existence for a sign. Out of nothingness monks
appeared, made big fires and jumped through it. Words can’t
describe this experience.
As
homage to Osho I want to give a part of this story and Osho’s
comment, because it has been so important in my life and
somewhere not the start, but certain an important acceleration
of my spiritual journey.
The flowers showered again.
Just after posting it on the Internet I got ‘by mistake’ a
beautiful bouquet of white flowers (the same color and shape as the flowers in Champasak). I get always such a clear confirmations of
existence. It is amazing and I feel very blessed by it.
The whole time
spirit is one of creativity and celebration. It is a
beautiful sunny spring, many flowers and trees blossoming
everywhere. I live close to the largest bulb fields in the
whole world.
When I was
making this part, the screensaver of my computer made
this beautiful star.
I can't show
the fantastic animation, this is just one frame out of
it.
Being with a Master
Whenever
there is a Master in the world a star is there. And
those who are wise, they start feeling it, they start
moving. Wherever that Master is, a star shines in the
sky—and those who are a little sensitive, those who have
any inner search to seek and find, they immediately
become aware of the star and they start moving. From
thousands and thousands of miles away they start moving,
and they come to a place where the Master is.
When you have
found that place, don't waver. Sadh sangat pitam
... in the Master you have found God himself. The Master
is your future: that which you can become he has become.
The Master is nothing but your own unfoldment: you are a
seed, he is a flower. Let the Master become an
invitation to you—the invitation for the inner spring,
the invitation for the inner flower. The possibility is
there, and unless that possibility becomes actual you
will never be satisfied. Unless a man becomes God there
is no benediction, no bliss. And each is a potential
God, and the whole life is a task to transform the
potential into the actual.
On this website you can read a lot about the
qualities you need on a spiritual journey into the inner
world. Osho has his own unique contribution to this
question. Osho created a new kind life conformating and
creative sannyas (seeker for the truth).
Already in 1977 he has given his brilliant vision about
the new man this world needs so desperately. And now
many years later his vision of the new man is more
important then ever. More and more people are awakening
to the truth that our old way of living and old patterns
only will lead to destruction of this planet. And the
only real solution has to be a radical change in our way
of living, nothing else will do.
Creativity and the related concepts as inspiration and
enthusiasm are mentioned on several pages of this website. I experience them as
very important in my life. They are from which everything I do come forth. Therefore I want to publish something more about this subject.
Osho has such a
unique way in explaining things so simple and clearly and at the same moment so
profound.
I have been blessed to stay several times for a long
period in His ashram in Poona (1978-1981 and 1987-91). Osho’s Buddhafield has
always been brimming with so much creativity in so many fields. After Osho left
his body, I have seen in some other spiritual communities (sangha's) that it are
often the Osho disciples who do almost all the creative projects.
Without all the creative forces that Osho and his
disciples generated and still are generating (together with others), this world
would most probably already be destroyed. Osho talks also in length about these
destructive forces, the opposite of the creative forces. It looks like we are
now in the ‘final battle’ between the light and the dark forces.
May Osho’s discourse inspire you and
allow your creativity blossom,
Man is a rainbow, all the seven colors
together. That is his beauty and that is his
problem too. Man is multi-faceted,
multi-dimensional. His being is not simple, it
is a great complexity. And out of that
complexity is born the harmony we call God: the
divine melody.
So the first thing to be understood about
man is that man is not yet. Man is only a
possibility, a potentiality. Man can be, man is
a promise. The dog is, the rock is, the sun
is... man can be. Hence the anxiety and anguish
--one can miss too; there is no certainty. You
may flower, you may not flower. Hence the
shivering, the shaking, the trembling inside:
"Who knows whether I will be able to do it or
not?"
