Osho Byron Bay Yahoo Group




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Osho Samaya
Ashram in the Bush, Rosebank NSW





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Osho Meditation Day

Osho Meditation
Most Thursdays at Tyagarah
All are welcome. Please bring a plate for lunch.

  7.00 a.m. Dynamic Meditation
  8.15 a.m. Discourse, in main house, and breakfast
10.00 a.m. Gibberish (1/2 hr gibberish, 1/2 hr sitting)
11.00 a.m. Morning tea
12.00 p.m. Dance Meditation
12.30 p.m. Nadabrahma
  3.00 p.m. Afternoon tea
  4.00 p.m. Kundalini

Please arrive 15 minutes before start of meditation session to settle in. If these meditations are new to anyone, there will be a brief explanation before we start. If for any reason you are unable to do dynamic, it is possible to arrive in time for discourse.

Community Dinner
for friends of Gondwana
Most Wednesdays
Phone 6684 7210 to check

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Early History of the Movement:

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931-1990) was born Rajneesh Chandra Mohan in Kuchwara, a town in central India. Various sources state that "Bhagwan" means "The Blessed One" and that "Shree" means "Master". At the end of his life, he changed his name to Osho.

His parents' religion was Jainism. However, Osho never subscribed to any religious faith during his lifetime. He received "samadhi" (enlightenment in which his soul became one with the universe) on 1953-MAR-21 at the age of 21. Rajneesh obtained a masters degree in philosophy from the University of Saugar. He taught philosophy at the University of Jabalpur for nine years and concurrently worked as a religious leader. In 1966, he left his teaching post and gave his full attention to teaching his sannyasins (disciples) while pursuing a speaking career. He had an apartment in Bombay where he often met individuals and small groups, where acting as spiritual teacher, guide and friend. Most of his Sannyasins came from Europe and India in the early years.

In 1974, Osho moved from Bombay southward to Pune to establish an ashram (place of teaching) which would provide larger and more comfortable facilities for his disciples. The ashram consisted of two adjoining properties covering six acres in an affluent suburb of Pune called Koregaon Park. Some estimate as many as 50,000 Westerners spent time seeking enlightenment there with the guru. In 1979, he saw his movement as the route to the preservation of the human race. The holocaust of a global suicide can only be avoided if a new kind of man can be created." He taught a syncretistic spiritual path that combined elements from Hinduism, Jainism, Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, ancient Greek philosophy, many other religious and philosophic traditions, humanistic psychology, new forms of therapy and meditation.

In 1981 he left India reluctantly because of health problems. He went to the United States in order to obtain advanced treatment. The group settled on the 65,000 acre "Big Muddy Ranch" near Antelope, Oregon, which his sannyasins had bought for six million dollars. The ranch was renamed Rajneeshpuram ("City of Rajneesh"). This "small, desolate valley twelve miles from Antelope, Oregon was transformed into a thriving town of 3,000 residents, with a 4,500 foot paved airstrip, a 44 acre reservoir, an 88,000 square foot meeting hall..." He returned to Pune, India in 1987, where his health began to fail. Here, he abandoned the name of Rajneesh and adopted "Osho". Some sources explain that the name was derived from the expression "oceanic experience" by William James; others say that it was derived from an ancient Japanese word for master. He died in Pune in 1990.

Beliefs and Practices

Osho developed new forms of active meditation. The best known is Dynamic Meditation which often starts with physical activity followed by silence and celebration. It is true that he felt that the institution of the family was out of date and that it should be replaced with alternative forms of community and ways of caring for children. However, he actually encouraged individual disciples to make peace with their families. Many became disciples themselves, including Osho's own parents.

He taught a form of Monism, that God was in everything and everyone. There is no division between "God" and "not-God". People, even at their worse, are divine. He recognized Jesus Christ as having attained enlightenment. Osho was noted for reading very offensive jokes; some were anti-Semitic; others were anti-Roman Catholicism; others insulted just about every ethnic and religious group in the world. He explained that the purpose of these jokes was to shock people and to encourage them to examine their identification with and attachment to their ethnic or religious beliefs. His contention was that national, religious, gender and racial divisions are destructive.



Links

osho.com
Guru - the movie
sannyas.net
oshoworld.com
sannyasworld.com
Osho Byron Bay - Yahoo Group