Osho ideas. Bhagawan Shri Rajneesh (Osho) Secrets of Life

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If yes, then read on, we will tell you about the great Indian leader, mystical inspirer, who comprehended the highest secrets of life, the founder of a qualitatively new religious and cultural movement, Osho. The biography of this person deserves special attention. Although the great sage himself said that he had no biography, and for the past thirty-two years he was an absolute nothing. In the article you will read the most outstanding, interesting and amazing facts from the life of a great mentor.

Biography of Osho: golden childhood and youth of Osho

In the small Indian village of Kuchvade, in the state of Madhya Predesh, on December 11, 1931, a boy was born, who was named Chandra Mohan Jein. This is the official name of the future spiritual leader. His father was a textile merchant. And over the next few years, ten more children were born consecutively in their family. Chadra Mohan Jain was the eldest.

In his book "Glimpses of Golden Childhood" Osho describes his village as a place where there was no post office and no railroad. He writes that there was a beautiful lake and small hillocks, houses were covered with straw. And the only brick house in the whole village was the one where Rajneesh himself was born, but this house was also small. There was not even a school in the village, for this reason Osho did not study until the age of nine. And these years were the most valuable. Fifty years later, this village has not changed, there is no hospital and no police, but no one gets sick there. Some people from these places have never seen a train or even a car in their lives, but they live quietly, blissfully and happily.

Your first seven years of life Osho lived with his beloved maternal grandparents. He was so attached to them that he called his grandmother mom. And he called his real mother "baby", this term means "wife of the elder brother." His family belonged to the religious community of the Jains. The religion of Jainism preaches non-violence, non-harm to all living things in the world, the main thing is the self-improvement of the soul to achieve omniscience and eternal bliss. It was the relatives who came up with the boy's nickname Rajneesh or Raja, which means king.

When the boy was seven years old, death claimed a very close and beloved person - his grandfather. It was the hardest blow. Osho lay on the couch for three days without moving, hoping to die. When this did not happen, he concluded for himself that death was impossible. The boy began to follow funeral processions in order to understand the essence of death, but this did not bring him anything.

And at the age of fifteen he lost his girlfriend (Shashi's cousin), she died of abdominal type. These deaths have consistently had a very strong impact on Rajneesh's mental state. He suffered from depression, headache, melancholy, tortured himself by running twenty kilometers a day and long meditations.

Osho studied well at school, but he often clashed with teachers, skipped classes, did not obey and provoked his classmates in every possible way.

Later, in his literary writings, Osho openly writes that he hates teachers, at least in the old sense. He even beat his teachers. In his youth, he was distinguished by arrogance and selfishness, impudent views, the denial of all social norms and rules.

Education and work.

• Osho went to school to study at the age of 9 years.
• At the age of 19, Rajneesh began his studies in philosophy at Hitkarine College, but as a result of a conflict with one of the teachers, he left this educational institution, continuing his studies at Jain College.
• At 24, Osho graduated from college, and a couple of years later, having received a diploma with honors, he left the gates of Sagar University with a master of philosophical sciences.
• Until 1966, Rajneesh taught philosophy to students, traveled the world at the same time and held speeches, preaching his views. There were conflicts with the leadership because of its too free atheistic views, denying any conventions, traditions and requirements of social norms.
• After 1966, Osho began to actively present the art of meditation to the world, preaching the full joy of physical life and enlightenment through meditation.

Meditation and absolute enlightenment.

From early childhood, Chandra conducted experiments on his own body, studied his endurance and other abilities. He dived into the funnel of the whirlpool, reached its sources and floated to the surface. I walked along a thin path over the abyss. He claimed that during such experiences his mind stops, and then comes complete clarity and awakening.

In addition, he practiced various types. And now, as a result of these researches, at the age of 21, the young man first experienced "satori" (a state of absolute enlightenment, happiness). This is an experience that cannot be described in words. The Buddha called this state "nirvana". Osho himself believed that he died that night, and then was reborn, and now he is a completely different person than he lived before.

Rajneesh experienced the effect of all possible meditations and created a new technique called "dynamic meditation", which involves the use of loud music and erratic movements.

For the first time, Osho arranged such a meditation in 1970 near Bombay. It was an incredible, shocking sight. People ran, jumped, shouted, yelled, tore off their clothes. The meaning of this technique was relaxation, that is, in order to completely relax and free your mind, you first had to get a lot of tension, so that in the second part of the meditation, complete relaxation would be an intoxicating contrast.

Relationship between sex and superconsciousness.

In 1968, Osho moved to live in Bombay and was invited to hold a conference on the theme of love. There, the sage proclaims his views on sexuality, explains that sexual energy, transforming, develops into meditation and love. And sexual satisfaction promotes the release of kundalini energy. This is the energy “coiled into a snake”, which “lives” at the base of the spine in the region of the coccyx.

Osho denies the need to suppress sexual desires, because, in his opinion, during forced abstinence, love and meditation are not possible. And accordingly, it is not possible to achieve superconsciousness and personal inner freedom.

He had a negative attitude towards marriage and the birth of children, but preached free love and loneliness. Loyal to drugs and alcohol.
With such views, he provokes the anger and indignation of the public, and conversations on the topic of "love" have to be held in a narrower circle in Mumbai's central park. Subsequently, based on these conversations, Osho's most popular book, From Sex to Superconsciousness, was published. They even began to secretly call him "Sex Guru".

In 1970, the guru holds his meditation camps and initiates the first group of select people into "neo-sansyan". They must completely renounce the world, all their property and personal life, and take a vow of celibacy. They wear red robes, beads and medallions with the image of the mentor himself.

Moving to Pune

In 1974, the great sage moved to live in the city of Pune. There he organizes an ashram (shelter of his followers). Hundreds of people from all over the world come there to listen to Osho's talks. He touches upon the topics of human consciousness, spiritual development, enlightenment, explains the essence and meaning of the religions of the world. According to his conversations, more than a thousand books were published by authors from different countries.

Osho followed the path of forming a new person, Zorba-Buddha. This is the one who, accepting and enjoying all the gifts of life (Zorba), has grown a higher spiritual consciousness (Buddha). Every day the master had very beautiful talks with his students and followers.

American commune.

For several years, Osho suffered from asthma and diabetes, his condition worsened significantly in 1981. Then he was taken to the United States for treatment. The great sage fell into silence. The followers of Rajneesh organized the commune of Rancho Rajneeshpuram in the territory they had purchased. Osho lived there for four years with his students.

Gradually, Rajneeshpuram grew to a whole city of about five thousand people. And the desert area has turned into a real green oasis. Every summer, admirers of Osho's philosophy from all over the world came there. It was a bold, unparalleled precedent for the attempt to create a transnational communist society. In the five years of its existence, not a single child was born in the commune.

Researchers of the biography of Osho Rajneesh note that by the end of 1982, his fortune had reached the figure of two hundred million dollars (due to various seminars, meditation practices, conferences and lectures), which were not taxed (Osho hated taxes. There was a case when he was still working professor, he was offered to raise his salary, but the sage refused, citing the fact that he did not want to pay taxes). In addition, his fleet of about a hundred Rolls-Royces, followers wanted to increase their number to three hundred and sixty-five, one for each day of the year. The mentor owned four more aircraft and one helicopter.

During the period of silence of the great teacher, the assistant to his personal secretary, Ma Ananda Sheela, took over the management of the commune. Osho himself lived as a guest, practically without leaving home, and not participating in the management of the commune. In addition, he begins to have more and more health problems.

During the reign of Shila, disagreements and contradictions arise in the commune, from which some students leave Rajneeshpuram. And the top of the board, headed by Sheela, use illegal methods: drugs, poison, weapons, bioterrorism.

In 1984, Osho suddenly ended his vow of silence and started talking.

According to one version, Osho himself claims other followers who disappeared from Rajnipuram to Shila. The FBI begins an investigation, finds a weapons cache, drugs and even a secret passage on the ranch in case an escape is necessary. According to the testimony of the inhabitants of the commune, Shila and her assistants arranged all this. In 1985 they were arrested and later convicted.

Opponents of the teachings of Rajneesh adhered to the version that the teacher himself was the organizer of all the lawlessness that was happening in the commune, and Sheela was his accomplice.

Rajneesh himself is facing 34 charges, of which he admits only two - of illegal emigration (he entered America on a tourist visa). Moreover, they detain him without a warrant and without an indictment.

In his conversations, the educator sincerely wondered how the US authorities could bring 34 charges against a man who spent four years in captivity, in complete silence. The mentor is sentenced to 10 years of probation in prison, fined and ordered to leave the United States as soon as possible. During the 12 days spent by Osho in American prisons, in his opinion, he significantly undermined his health and they even tried to poison him with thallium (a highly toxic heavy metal).

Osho's reputation has been damaged, especially in the west. As a result, twenty-one states refused entry to the educator. The Rajneesh organization was classified as a destructive sect. In the USSR, his movement was strictly prohibited.

Trip around the world.

In 1986, the mystic goes on a journey around the world. Having visited the countries of Greece, Switzerland, England, Ireland, Canada, Holland, Uruguay, from most of which he was expelled (except Uruguay), he returns to Bombay. There, his followers again began to gather around him in large numbers, and the master returned to Pune, where he organized the Osho International Commune. Conversations, holidays, the creation of new meditation practices began again.

Death of Osho

Rajneesh loved the Himalayas, he thought it was the best place to die. It is wonderful to live there, but it is the best place on earth to die. He sincerely believed that death would not be a complete stop for him, death would be a holiday, a new birth.

Osho left his body shell in 1990 in Pune.

According to eyewitnesses, on January 19 he became ill, he refused medical care, intuition told him that the Universe itself knows when and who should leave. He knew that he was about to die, quietly closed his eyes and left this world.

There are several versions of his death. Some believe that he died of a heart attack, others broadcast that from AIDS, oncology or drugs.
But this is not the main thing, the main thing is that after the death of Rajneesh in India and around the world, the attitude towards his philosophy changed. He came to be regarded as a very important spiritual mentor, and his teachings are revered and studied in many countries.

The Osho Times International magazine is published twice a month, it comes out in nine languages ​​(Russian is not among them). Osho's meditation centers and ashrams continue to operate in many countries of the world. There are several Osho meditation centers in Moscow (for example, the Winds Center), founded by his followers.

names in life.

During his life, the great mentor changed names several times.

Basic commandments of Osho.

Osho during his lifetime was against any rules and postulates. Once, when asked by a journalist about the ten commandments, the sage, for the sake of a joke, formulated the following:

1. Never follow any commandment unless it comes from yourself.
2. Life is the only god, and there are no other gods.
3. The truth is within you, you don't have to look for it in the outside world.
4. Love is nothing but prayer.
5. The way to comprehend the truth is to become nothing. Nothing is the goal of enlightenment.
6. You need to live here and now.
7. Wake up. Live consciously.
8. You don't need to swim - you need to swim.
9. Try to die every moment so that you can be new every moment.
10. Nothing to look for. You have to stop and see. It is what it is.

The main ideas of his movement are the third, seventh, ninth and tenth commandments. It is worth considering, they really have a deep meaning.

This is just a brief description of the main stages of the life and spiritual activity of the great Osho. He died, but his works and the works of his followers around the world continue to exist and attract more and more people with their magical texts.

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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 the last year of 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.

"There were also false prophets among the people,
and you will have false teachers who
bring in pernicious heresies, and rejecting
the Lord who redeemed them, they will bring
on themselves a speedy death"
2 Peter 2:1

Other names:"The only religion".

Management

The founder of the movement is Osho (Bhagavan Shree Rajneesh).

Center locations

The movement's headquarters is 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 (operating since 1996 under the name "Tantra Yoga") and Moscow.

The number of adherents

By 1984, Rajneesh gathered about 350 thousand followers, whose average age was 34 years old.

Doctrine

Rajneesh's teachings are a mixture of Tantrism with the revelations of Rajneesh himself. Tantra, 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, tantra includes black magic, sexual orgies, and human sacrifice.

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).

"The Founder of the Only Religion" urged his followers to "stop time by plunging into the moment." He preached "liberation from one's own "I", from conscience. He said that 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 as the only way to this he pointed to his system, including meditations, 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 emptiness" 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.

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 she 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 of the explosion there was only emptiness. Whatever happened before, it was not me and was not mine ";

"That night, another reality opened its door, another dimension became available. This experience shakes you to the very roots. 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 had lived many, many lives, millennia, simply died. Another being, absolutely new, not at all connected with the old, began to exist ... I became free from the past, I was of my story, 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.. .even shadows" .

The experiences described by Rajneesh are very reminiscent of the process of demons invading 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.

Researcher Tal Brook claims that Rajneesh is indeed possessed by the devil. He has the quality of a perfect 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 with this Rajneesh," the old nun explained, referring to Isabella, a 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! Hu!" and growl like a dog, suck milk from a baby bottle and generally "be an astronaut of your inner space".

In the stories about the cult of Rajneesh, it is really about the kingdom of darkness, as it were. 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 the little antichrists, and whose "coming, according to the working of Satan, will be with all power, and lying signs and wonders, and with all unrighteous deceit" (2 Thessalonians 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 became my nature. This death became for me the death of all attachments. Whenever my relationship with someone began to become intimate, that death gazed 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.

No matter what the defenders of this kind of "spirituality" 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 it. To be wise among you is really foolish. Nothing will come of this undertaking; you will 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!

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:

"Life is simple. Do not complicate it with pretense. Nobody urinates. It's only in textbooks. Everyone writes - this is life. Love blossoms from the dirt of sex. Compassion comes from the dirt of anger. And nirvana comes from the dirt of this world";

"To consider yourself a rooster is madness; but to consider yourself a human being is even more madness, 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 took a dangerous step. It's risky, because next to me you can get lost forever. Coming 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, everything your 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 imminent approach to a worldwide catastrophe: "This crisis will begin in 1984 and end in 1999. All kinds of destruction will reign on earth at this time - from natural disasters to suicide by the achievements of science. In other words, floods, unprecedented since the time of Noah, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and everything possible will be given to us by nature... There will be wars that will bring humanity to the brink of nuclear war, but Noah's Ark will not save him. 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 do not 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," said his advertisement 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, do not suppress yourself!” he urged. “Love is the beginning of everything. If you miss the beginning, you will not have an end ... I do not inspire orgies, but I do not prohibit them either. Everyone decides for himself myself" .

Rajneesh wrote: "When you have a moment of enlightenment in meditation, a glimpse of some kind of ecstasy, let it happen, let it penetrate into the depths of you and go deep 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 after all, 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 "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 unequivocal 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, then it is enough to understand animal sex, and everything that applies to sex in animals applies to man. In this sense, man is nothing more" ;

"There is nothing sinful in 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 it" (, p. 5);

"It should be a pure phenomenon: the two at this moment feel that they would like to connect on a deeper 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 only here 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" (, with .fifty);

"The baby in the crib is playing with his genitals, and the mother comes in and removes his hands. Now it's a shock for the baby; he becomes afraid to touch his own genitals. And it's so nice to touch them ... it's so relaxing. Touching them ", the child reaches a non-sexual orgasm; it's just a pleasure. The natural urge to touch the genitals, play with them - it's so beautiful" (, p. 55);

"When sex becomes connected, merged with comprehension, a completely new energy is born - this energy is called Tantra ... Real Tantra is not a technique, but love. It is not a technique, but a prayer ... You can stay in a tantric connection for hours .. The mantra is focused on another kind of orgasm... Tantric orgasm can be called the 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 can happen, or it can and not happen" (, c.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 colors." This dream will be fulfilled by the followers of Rajneesh - "enlightened" or going to "enlightenment".

Ashrams of Rajneesh became nurseries and incubators for the "new people of the new world". And, of course, only Guru Bhagwan will help them to show the way 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 all your 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 reaching 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 fully, and you will naturally enter the life of a Buddha... The Zorba is only the beginning... The Zorba is an arrow. If followed correctly, it will lead to the Buddha... Sooner or later, when you allow your Zorba to achieve complete self-expression, you will have no choice 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," said Osho.

Assuming 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 the only religion,” Rajneesh declared, “other religions are a lie. Jesus, Muhammad and Buddha simply seduced people ... My teaching is based on knowledge, on experience. People do not need to believe me. I explain my experience to them. If they find it correct, they recognize it. If not, then they have no reason to believe in it."

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 for themselves 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 to hate it is not a true religion. Religion is an art that shows how to experience life. But these shops that have appropriated the name of religions do not want a 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. Therefore, I say that my religion is the first religion that considers man in his universality, in its naturalness, accepts the whole person as he is. Holiness means to me not something sacred, but something accepted in its entirety ... It is the first religion that does not reject anything from your life. It accepts you whole, as you are is, and finds ways and methods to make the whole more harmonious..." ;

"All religions have turned into 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 ... There is more temple no. 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 never will come out of a single one, because you can’t teach to be Jesus. You can’t produce Jesus in a factory. And these are factories, these theological colleges. you graduate 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 a temple? What is the use of a mosque? Why are churches needed?" ;

"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 extremely honest and truthful, we must speak out against it." Many years ago, at the Second Hindu Religious Congress, where the head of Hinduism, Shankaracharya, chaired, the views of Rajneesh caused the strongest irritation of the representatives of the main currents of official Hinduism, who after that diligently dissociated themselves from him.

Characteristic

The infamous destroyer of ancient Indian traditions and beliefs, "spiritual terrorist" and "sex guru" Rajneesh was born on December 11, 1931 in a family of Jains, adherents of one of the ancient religions of India, in the remote village of Kuchwada 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 Rajnesh), which translates as "that blessed one who is God", or Osho ("oceanic", "dissolved in the ocean"). His disciples called him: "acarya" ("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 reflects. "Loneliness became 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."

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 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 a good higher education. In 1957 he graduated from the university and received a diploma with honors, a gold medal and a master's degree in philosophy. 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.

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. Countless others made 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.

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.

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 (operated since 1996 under the name "Tantra Yoga", 30-40 followers), Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, Kaliningrad, Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar and other cities.

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

Rajneeshists are also actively infiltrating 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, pair 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 Osho disco.

Rajneesh assigned a large role to 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 to arrange during such "dances" and sexual orgies.

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 its 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.

Psychiatrist Betty Tilden (Great Britain) believes that without the help of medicine, 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'm not interested in your opportunities. 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 withdrawals. 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 experienced by me, testifies 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 forces you, you are its prisoner ... Meditation is throwing the mind out, it is freeing yourself from a burden. You do not need to carry all your excrement with you, otherwise you will keep getting dumber and dumber";

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

"Both of these: both the hair and the mind are dead, don't carry them around. It will be great! Make sure that dead particles do not accumulate in you ... The 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 you find inside ... - everything 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 do not use it, put 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, there is ugliness, ugliness."

Many of his followers got hooked, 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, 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 following the path of yogic-occult practice first plunges himself into somnambulistic passivity and causes the soul to disintegrate into separate parts. Having brought himself to such a state in which no action is possible, he imagines by the effort of his the will to compel the secrets of its 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. its spiritual essence. they, from the gospel point of view, are those wide paths, about which the Lord quite definitely said as destructive: “Enter through the narrow gate: because the gate is wide and the way is broad, leading to destruction, and many go through it; For narrow is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to life, and there are few who find it" (Matthew 7:13-14).

Tal Brook, a former initiate of another neo-Hindu guru, Sathya Sai Baba, described his experience after visiting Poona:

“The subject 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 in any form, 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. As long as the "neo-sannyasin" has money, he has wild fun. Then interest in him disappears. Murders, rapes, mysterious disappearances of people, threats, arson, explosions, abandoned children of the "Ashramites" begging on the streets of Poona, drugs - all this is in the order of things for marvelous hybrids in red, who consider themselves daring discoverers of a new meaning of "love". Christians, workers at the Pune Psychiatric Hospital will confirm what has been said, not forgetting to mention the high level of mental disorders associated with that the ashram has taken 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 an explosion occurred near the ashram's medical center. 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. 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 found "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". Efforts have been made in the US 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 Magdi 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 European countries gathered in Big Magdi to enthusiastically welcome the teacher in 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 Wasco 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. In such cases, only local residents vote, and in this case, the followers of Rajneesh, and it was not difficult to predict the result: 154 votes for the appearance of the city of Rajneeshpuram and not a single one against.

In a short time, in the dusty steppe of Oregon, not far from the provincial town of Enteloop, 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 thousand 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: firstly, the separation clause of the state and church was violated, and secondly, the decision of the Vasco County Commission on the referendum violated state 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 one's neighbor", carried out by Rajneesh, thus gathered 3500 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 in the city park a nudist beach established by the city council full of Rajneesh. 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.

Meanwhile, the US Immigration Service continued its investigation on suspicion of violating immigration laws and related criminal regulations by members of the 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 residence 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).

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 corpses were found in different places, but not in Rajneeshpuram itself. 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. It must be said that he was not particularly involved in "secular affairs" anyway, for that 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.

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 silencer who continued to issue pamphlets calling for "freedom through sexuality." 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 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.

Shortly before the exposure, the "high priestess" Shila 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 active. When Interpol tracked down Sheela and her gang in Stuttgart, Silverman willingly told about all the ins and outs of Rajneesh's real activities.

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 Pune commune 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.

From the very beginning of his active preaching activity, Rajneesh conceived it as a means to achieve a very specific goal. And this goal was to make a decent fortune on the gullibility of simpletons, who are thrilled by the mere phrase "ancient Indian spirituality". The natural talents of Rajneesh and the stupidity of his Indian followers almost immediately began to bring very good dividends. He began to drive around in "Rolls-Royces" and "Mercedes", lived in luxury.

Osho's fortune grew constantly. "I am the guru of the rich," Rajneesh said. "There are enough religions that the poor deal with, leave me to deal with the rich." By the mid-1980s, he was worth $200 million tax-free. Rajneesh had at his disposal four aircraft, one helicopter and 91 (!) Rolls-Royces.

"We would like him to have 365 Rolls-Royces. A new car for every new day of the year," a fanatical follower of the "prophet" confided to the Le Figaro correspondent.

Rajneesh changed expensive cars like gloves. Each time he went out in a different car. In one of these luxurious cars, Bhagwan made his daily tour of the flock. Exactly at 2:30 p.m., the guru personally got behind the wheel and slowly, solemnly defiled along the living wall of his adherents, lined up along the edges of the so-called "road of nirvana". They considered it a happiness to see their idol, draped in an emerald-colored mantle, and threw rose petals under the wheels of his car.

When Interpol arrested Sheela Silverman in Germany, she said, "Bhagwan is a spoiled child who can't breathe without $250,000 a month in pocket money. He's a genius at exploiting people's credulity, a drug addict who can't live without Valium." History his life is a complete scam. And I was an accomplice in this scam. He and I, we made a great pair of dodgers ". Such is the fraud on the religious feelings of people ...

Already from the mid-80s, the teachings of Rajneesh began to meet with active opposition from public organizations in various countries. The call for complete freedom, complemented by Osho's very free views on family, marriage, sexual relationships, caused a storm of public disapproval and opposition against him around the world, was perceived as propaganda of permissiveness. Russia was no exception.

Organizations of the followers of Rajneesh have been classified as a destructive religious organization (totalitarian sect, destructive cult) in:

• Appeal of the participants of the Conference "Spiritual Security of Russia" (Moscow, December 11, 1998) to the President, Government, Federal Assembly, Security Council and Prosecutor General's Office of Russia;
• Note Verbale of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany of November 22, 1995;
• Analytical Bulletin of the State Duma of the Russian Federation "On the National Threat to Russia from Destructive Religious Organizations", published in 1996 in the Defense and Security series;
• Analytical Bulletin of the State Duma of the Russian Federation "Religious Expansion Against Russia", published in 1998 in the series "Defense and Security";
• An initiative letter - a deputy request from a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation N.V. Krivelskaya to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, General of the Army A.S. Kulikov (January 1997);
• Information material of the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of the Russian Federation "On the report on the socio-medical consequences of the impact of some religious organizations on the health of the individual, family, society and measures to provide assistance to victims", 1996;
• published by the State Duma of the Russian Federation in 1998, the book "Religious Habitat: Assessing Threats and Searching for Protection Measures";
• the book of Colonel AI Khvyli-Olinter "Dangerous totalitarian forms of religious sects" (1996);
• the book of the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation N.V. Krivelskaya "Religious expansion against Russia";
• the collection "Law enforcement agencies and religious organizations" published in 1997 by the Main Information Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation;
• in the Bulletin of the Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Non-traditional Religions "Register of centers of new religious organizations classified by experts as destructive, occult or pagan";
• book by Richard Lee and Ed Hindson "Angels of Deception";
• in the final documents and appeals of the participants of the Republican Scientific and Practical Conference "Belarus: Religious Sectarianism and Youth", held on December 18-19, 1996 in Minsk;
• the report of the doctor of medical sciences F.V. Kondratiev and the famous expert-psychologist E.N. Volkov "Spiritual substitutions, society, crime" at the scientific-practical conference "Spirituality. Law and order. Crime", held on March 28, 1996 in Moscow.

As a destructive cult, the Osho organizations were evaluated by specialists from the Kyiv organization "Poryatunok", traditionally engaged in the activities of sects.

The activities of the Osho communes were negatively assessed by the experts of the Russian Academy of Civil Service under the President of Russia in the reference book "New Religious Cults, Movements and Organizations in Russia" released by them in 1998: "... this former university professor ... organized with his students in Oregon (USA) a commune that collapsed due to ... criminal perversions within the commune itself."

According to the famous Orthodox researcher of sects Mikhail Medvedev, "the cult of Rajneesh is one of the most destructive for the consciousness of adepts. The technique of 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 associated with idea of ​​supposedly personal gain.

After Rajneesh was deported from the United States, he tried to stay in any country where his followers were (and by that time there were already about 300 Rajneesh centers around the world), but 21 countries either banned him from entering or deported him without any special explanation (as, for example, Greece). The current followers of Rajneesh and imaginary human rights activists who welcome the emergence of all, even the most "frostbitten" sects in Russia, point to this fact as a manifestation of the infringement of freedom of conscience. However, 21 countries cannot be labeled as an unlawful state. Rather, on the contrary. This fact indicates the real danger and destructiveness of the Rajneesh's activities, and any state has the right to protect the interests of its citizens, regardless of what hysterical cries will be heard from sectarians.

And the final touch. In December 1997, the newspaper "Today" wrote: "The biological threat is still speculative for the United States: the only attempt to use this type of weapon was made in Oregon in 1984: members of the Rajneesh sect tried to cause a salmonella epidemic among local voters in order to influence the election result in my neighborhood." We have a choice: to go to the rule of law or anarchy of lawlessness, where religious maniac fanatics will poison us with bacteriological or chemical weapons. The choice is ours...

Igor Kulikov

New religious organizations in Russia of a destructive, occult and neo-pagan nature: a Handbook. - The third edition, supplemented and revised. - Volume 4. Eastern mystical groups. Part 1 / Avt.-stat. I. Kulikov. - Moscow: "Pilgrim", 2000. (material is given with reduction)

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Photo - The founder of the sect - Osho (Bhagavan Shri Rajneesh)

Childhood

Osho was born on December 11, 1931 in Kushwad (Central India). The family loved him very much, especially his grandfather, who gave Raja, which means king. He spent all his childhood at his grandfather's house. His father and mother took him in only after the death of his grandparents. Before school, he was given a new name - Rajneesh Chandra Mohan.

From an early age, he was interested in spiritual development, studied his body and its capabilities, and constantly experimented with various methods of meditation. He did not follow any traditions and did not look for teachers. The basis of his spiritual search was an experiment. He looked very closely at life, especially at its critical, extreme points. He did not believe in any theories and rules and always rebelliously opposed the prejudices and vices of society.

Enlightenment

March 21, 1953 Osho was 21 years old. On that day, enlightenment happened to him. It was like an explosion. “That night I died and I was reborn. But the person who is reborn has nothing to do with the one who died. It is not a continuous thing... The person who has died has died totally; there was nothing left of him... not even a shadow. The ego died totally, completely... On that day, March 21st, a person who had lived many, many lives, millennia, simply 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. At this point, Osho's story actually ends. The man, whose name was Rajneesh Chandra Mohan, died at the age of 21, and at the same time a miracle happened: a new enlightened person was reborn, completely free of ego.

University years

After that, Osho's outer life did not change. He continued his studies at Jabalpur College in the Department of Philosophy.

In 1957, he graduated from the University of Saugar with honors, a gold medal, and a master's degree in philosophy. Two years later he became a lecturer in philosophy at Jabalpur University. He was very loved by students for his humor, sincerity and uncompromising pursuit of the truth. During his nine-year career, Osho traveled all over India, often traveling fifteen days a month. A passionate and skillful debater, he constantly challenged orthodox religious figures. Addressing an audience of 100,000, Osho spoke with the conviction that comes from his enlightenment, he destroyed blind faith to create true religiosity.

In 1966, Osho left the university chair and devoted himself entirely to spreading the art of meditation and his vision of a new person - Zorba-Buddha, a person who synthesizes the best features of East and West, a person who is able to enjoy a full-blooded physical life and is able to simultaneously sit silently in meditation, achieving heights of consciousness.

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Bombay

In 1968, Osho (Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh) settled in Bombay and soon the first Western seekers of spiritual truth began to come to him. There were many therapists among them, representatives of the humanist movements who wanted to take the next step in their growth. The next step, as Osho said, is meditation. Osho experienced his first glimpses of meditation as a child, when he jumped from a high bridge into a river, or walked along a narrow path over an abyss. There were a few moments when the mind stopped. This caused an unusually clear perception of everything around, one's being in it and complete clarity and separation of consciousness. These experiences, experienced repeatedly, aroused Osho's interest in meditation and prompted him to look for more accessible ways. In the future, he not only experienced all the meditations known from antiquity, but also came up with new, revolutionary techniques designed specifically for modern man. They are called "dynamic meditations", they are based on the use of music and movement. Osho brought together elements of yoga, Sufism and Tibetan traditions, which made it possible to use the principle of energy transformation through the awakening of activity and subsequent calm observation.

Osho (Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh) first showed his morning dynamic meditation in April 1970 at a meditation camp near Bombay. On that day, everyone was dumbfounded and fascinated at the same time. Indian journalists were amazed to see the participants yelling, screaming and tearing off their clothes - the whole scene was fatal and very intense. But how strong the tension was in the first, intense stage, just as deep was the relaxation in the second part, leading to complete peace, not achievable in ordinary life.

Osho explained:

“For ten years I have continuously worked with the methods of Lao Tzu, that is, I have continuously studied direct relaxation. It was very easy for me so I figured it would be easy for anyone. Then, time after time, I began to understand that this was impossible... I, of course, said “relax” to those whom I taught. They understood the meaning of the word, but could not relax. Then I decided to come up with new methods of meditation that first create tension - even more tension. They create such tension that you become crazy. And then I say "relax".
What is meditation? Osho Rajneesh talked a lot about meditation. On the basis of his conversations, many books have been compiled, in which all the objects of meditation are considered in great detail, from the technique of execution to explanations of the finest internal nuances.

Pune 1

In 1974, Osho moved to Pune, where, together with his students, he opened an ashram in the beautiful Koregaon Park. Over the next seven years, hundreds of thousands of seekers from all over the world come there to experience Osho's new meditations and listen to his talks. In his conversations, Osho touches on all aspects of human consciousness, shows the innermost essence of all existing religions and systems of spiritual development. Buddha and Buddhist teachers, Sufi masters, Jewish mystics, Indian classical philosophy, Christianity, yoga, tantra, zen...

Osho says about his books:
“My message is not a doctrine, not a philosophy. My message is not verbal contact. It's much more risky. It is nothing more, nothing less than death and rebirth…”
Many people from all over the Earth felt this and found the strength and courage to touch this source and begin their own transformation. Those who are finally established in this decision take sannyas. The sannyas given by Osho is different from the traditional one. This is neosannyas. Former sannyasins - people who completely devoted themselves to spiritual practice, went to monasteries or secluded places and studied with their Master, minimizing contact with the outside world. Neo-sannyas Osho does not require this. Neo-sannyas is not a renunciation of the world, but rather a renunciation of the madness of the modern mind that breeds division between nations and races, depletes the Earth's resources into weapons and wars, destroys the environment for profit, and teaches its children to fight and dominate others. Modern sannyasins, Osho's students are in the thick of life, they are engaged in the most ordinary things, but at the same time they regularly engage in spiritual practice and, first of all, meditation, combining material life with spiritual life, synthesizing Zorba's love of life and the height of Buddha's spiritual consciousness . This is how a new man is formed - Zorba the Buddha, a man who will be free from the madness of the modern mind. In Osho's words, "the new man is the only hope for the future."

One who becomes a sannyasin receives a new name, as a symbol of commitment to meditation and a break with the past. The name, usually derived from Sanskrit or Indian words, contains indications of a person's potential or a certain path. Women receive the prefix Ma - an indication of the highest qualities of female nature: to cherish and take care of themselves and others. Men receive the prefix Swami - which Osho translates as "self-mastery".

Osho met with his students every day, except for periods when he was unwell. His conversations went very well.

Rajneeshpuram

Rajneeshpuram is the city of dreams. In America I had a beautiful commune of five thousand people,

living happily without the shadow of class struggle. There was not a single beggar. Not a single child was born in five years. They worked hard, they meditated, and at night they danced, played flutes, played guitars. It was a dream turned into reality.

We have transformed the whole desert.
It was not a small place; it was one hundred and twenty-six square miles... a vast desert. We built dams, we had our own buses, our own cars - all our own. We had our own hospital, our own school, our own university.

And what happened to America? Why were they so worried about us, an oasis in the desert? The nearest town was twenty miles away. We weren't interested in anyone else. We enjoyed ourselves.

How it was - a chronicle of events

1981 Osho suffered from diabetes and asthma for many years. In the spring his condition worsened and he sank into a period of silence. On the recommendation of doctors in June of this year, he was taken to the United States for treatment. Osho's American disciples bought a 64,000-acre ranch in Central Oregon and founded Rajneeshpuram. In August, Osho arrived there. In the four years that Osho lived there, Rajneeshpuram was the most audacious experiment in creating a transnational spiritual commune. Every summer, up to fifteen thousand people from Europe, Asia, South America and Australia came to the festival organized there. As a result, the commune became a prosperous city with a population of five thousand people.

1984 Just as suddenly as he stopped speaking, Osho spoke again in October. He talked about love, meditation, and human bondage in a crazy, heavily conditioned world. He accused priests and politicians of corrupting human souls, of destroying human freedom. From the very beginning of the experiment to create a commune, federal and local authorities tried to destroy it in any way. Documents subsequently confirmed that the White House was involved in these attempts.

In October 1985, the American government accused Osho of violating immigration laws and took him into custody without any warning. He was kept in handcuffs for 12 days in custody, with no bail. In prison, he suffered physical damage. According to a subsequent medical examination, in Oklahoma he was exposed to a life-threatening dose of radiation and was also poisoned by thalium. When a bomb was found in Osho's Portland prison, he was the only one who was not evacuated. Worried about Osho's life, his lawyers agreed to admit a violation of the immigration law, and Osho left America on November 14th. The commune broke up. The US government was not content with violating its own constitution. When Osho, at the invitation of his students, went to other countries, the United States, using its influence in the world, tried to influence other states so that Osho's work would be disrupted where he did not arrive. As a result of this policy, 21 countries banned Osho and his companions from entering their borders. And these countries consider themselves free and democratic!

In July 1986, Osho returned to Bombay and his disciples again began to gather around him.

Return to Pune

In January 1987, as the number of people visiting him grew rapidly, he returned to Pune, where the Osho International Commune had by then been formed. The daily wonderful conversations, meditations, holidays began again.

New names

In December 1988, OSHO goes back to bed with a serious illness that requires the presence of a personal doctor around the clock. Three weeks later, Osho reappears in the meditation hall and makes a startling statement. In her letter, a Japanese clairvoyant says that Gautama Buddha lives in the body of Osho. Osho confirms that this is true and declares his decision to renounce the title of Bhagavan. In addition, for the first time in many months, he takes off his sunglasses, which protected his eyes from camera flashes, and gives them to one of the students. Within a few days, he chooses a new name for himself and settles on an option that sounded in response to a reporter from United Press International.

Gautama Buddha took refuge in me. I am the host, he is my guest. This does not mean conversion to Buddhism. I am a buddha in my own right, that's why he decided to use my body to finish what he didn't have time to do. He waited a long time. For twenty-five centuries he has been a wandering cloud looking for a suitable body.

I am not a Buddhist. Gautam Buddha also did not set himself the goal of creating Buddhism, an organized religion. He never created it. The moment truth is turned into an organization, it immediately becomes a lie. Organized religion is just implicit politics, covert exploitation of people by the clergy, and it doesn't matter what the priest calls himself - shankaracharya, imam, rabbi or priest.

Gautama Buddha left no successor behind him. His last words were: “Don't put up statues for me, don't write down my words. I don't want to be a symbol, I don't want to be worshipped. And most of all I fear that you will become imitators. There is no need to become a Buddhist, because potentially each of you is a Buddha.”

And I also want to declare: I do not teach Buddhism. For that matter, I don't teach any "-ism" at all. I teach how to become a buddha.

And my people don't belong to any organized religion. They are independent, independent seekers. They are my companions and friends, not students.
By the way, I would like to recall the prophecy made by Guatama Buddha twenty-five centuries ago. He said, “When I come back again, I won't be able to be born from my mother's womb. I will have to take refuge in a person with a similar consciousness, the same level and under the same open sky. And they will simply call me Friend.”
The word "friend" implies great freedom. Buddha doesn't want to be a guru, he wants to be just a friend. He has something to talk about, but he does not want to bind others with any harsh conditions.
By the way, this is helpful, because some sannyasins are confused now. They do not know how to distinguish the words of the ancient Gautama Buddha from my own words. Gautama's prophecy clears up the confusion.
Although he has taken refuge in me, I will not call myself Gautama Buddha. Let me be called, according to his prophecy, "Buddha Maitreya." This will show the difference, there will be no more confusion.
On the fifth night after the unusual visit, Osho appears in the meditation hall with a new statement.

Gautama Buddha left due to some inconsistencies in the lifestyles of the host and guest. These four days were very difficult for me. I hoped that Gautama Buddha would understand what changes had taken place in the world over two and a half millennia, but he never succeeded. I did my best, but he is too peculiar and disciplined ... Twenty-five centuries have made him hard as a stone.

And therefore, even with the most unremarkable trifles, difficulties arose. He only sleeps on his right side. He is not used to the pillow and just puts his hand under his cheek. He considers a pillow a luxury.

I told him: “This cheap pillow is not a luxury. Sleeping with your head in your palms is a real torment. You think that you need to sleep only on the right side, but what was wrong with the left? Personally, I have a different principle: I always try to treat both sides of things equally.”

He ate only once a day - and demanded it from me. In addition, he was used to being fed only by alms and kept asking: “Where is my alms bowl?”

Last night, exactly at six o'clock, when I was taking a hot tub, he suddenly became terribly indignant, because he considered it a luxury even to bathe twice a day.

And I told him, “You have fulfilled your prophecy. You are back. But four days was enough for me - now goodbye! Stop wandering the earth, dissolve in your blue sky.

During these four days, you have already understood: I am doing the same thing that you wanted to do, but I am doing it in accordance with the dictates of the times and current conditions. But no one will order me anything. I am a free person. I gave you shelter with all my love, I received you as a dear guest, but do not even try to become the owner here.

All these days my head was pounding. I haven't had a headache in thirty years. I completely forgot what it is. But all my attempts to improve relations were in vain. He was used to doing everything his own way and could not even understand that times had changed.

So now I'm making an even more important, historic statement: I am just me.

If you like, you can call me Buddha, but this will no longer have anything to do with Gautama or Maitreya.

I am a buddha myself. The word 'buddha' simply means 'awakened one'. And now I declare that henceforth my name is Shri Rajneesh Buddha Zorba."
Soon "Shri Rajneesh Buddha Zorba" again deprives himself of all names and says that he will remain a man without a name. However, his sannyasins are confused, they do not know how to address him, and therefore they offer the title Osho, which in many Zen parables is used as a respectful, respectful address. Osho agrees and supplements this word with a new meaning, linking it with the concept of "ocean" (ocean) by William James. He later says that it's not a name at all, but just a healing sound.

Zen Manifesto: Freedom from Self

For several weeks after the “visit” of Gautama Buddha, Osho seems to be overwhelmed with new reserves of strength and energy. The conversations are getting longer - a couple of times he spoke for almost four hours without a break. Osho's speech sounds noticeably livelier and more energetic. In several series of lectures, he links Zen to the work of Friedrich Nietzsche and Walt Whitman, compares it to Christianity, and even recommends it to Gorbachev as a simple path from communism to capitalism. However, in February 1989, after two lectures in a new cycle called The Zen Manifesto, Osho falls ill again and does not appear in the meditation hall until early April. The Zen Manifesto was the last series of his talks.

The Zen manifesto is absolutely necessary because all the ancient religions are now falling apart. And before they die completely, and mankind does not go crazy, Zen must be spread throughout the earth. New houses need to be built before the old ones fall apart.

Now you don't have to repeat the mistakes of the past. You lived in a house that did not exist at all, and therefore suffered from rains, cold winters and a burning sun, because the house existed only in your imagination. This time, it's time for you to enter your real home, and not hide in man-made temples, under the shelter of far-fetched religions. Hide in your own existence. Why be someone's exact copy?

This is a very important time. You are lucky that you were born in this era, when the old loses its validity and reality, when it just hangs around, because you are afraid to escape from this prison. But the doors are open! In truth, there are no doors at all, because the whole house where you live exists only in the imagination. Your gods, priests and holy scriptures are all in the imagination.

This time you must not make the same mistake. Humanity must make a qualitative leap, move from an old, rotten lie to a fresh, eternally young truth.

This is the Zen Manifesto.
Osho says his last words to the assembly of sannyasins on the evening of April 10, 1989:

You are now the most blessed people in the world. To remember yourself as a buddha is the most precious experience, because in it is your eternity, your immortality. It is no longer you, but the Universe itself. You are one with the stars and trees, the sky and the ocean. You are inextricably linked to all that is. The last thing the Buddha said was the word sammasati. Remember that you are buddhas! Sammasati.

Inner Circle

On April 6, 1989, Osho chooses the so-called "Inner Circle". This group includes twenty-one students from those who are engaged in the practical management of the community. This is not openly announced, but later he clearly explains to the members of the group that their goal is not the spiritual leadership of the community, but purely practical concerns about the availability of the fruits of his labor. In the event that someone from the “Circle” dies or for some reason refuses to continue work, another person is chosen to take his place by secret ballot. The group makes all its decisions only by general vote.

Tradition cannot be avoided. It's not in our power. After death, you no longer have the power to influence people. And therefore, it is better to give clear instructions to trusted people in advance than to leave everything to the mercy of the ignorant.

Care preparation

On the evening of April 10, at the end of the lecture, Osho tells his secretary that his energy has changed dramatically in quality. He explains that nine months before death, the energy moves into a period of preparation for death, just as nine months before birth, the energy of a person begins to develop in the mother's womb. Osho's next lecture was supposed to be the beginning of a new cycle called "The Awakening of the Buddha."

On May 19, at a general meeting in the meditation hall, it was announced that Osho would never speak before an open meeting.

On May 23, it was announced that Osho would start coming to the meditation hall in the evenings. When he appears, music plays and everyone can have fun with him. The holiday is replaced by silent meditation, after which Osho leaves. After his departure, recordings of his conversations are shown in the hall.

Osho University was founded in June-July. It is made up of many "faculties" covering the seminars and programs offered by the community. Among the departments of the University are the Transformation Center, the School of Mystery, the School of Creativity and the Arts and the School of Martial Arts. Everyone is asked to come to evening meetings in white. This rule is established during the traditional Indian holiday in honor of the enlightened Teachers, which is held on the July full moon. The community has been celebrating this holiday for a long time.

On August 31, in the former Chuang Tzu Hall adjacent to his house, the arrangement of a new bedroom for Osho is being completed. He is directly involved in the decoration of the new room, which is decorated with marble and illuminated by a huge chandelier; floor-to-ceiling windows overlook a wild jungle garden.

On September 14, Osho returns to his former bedroom. The new room is given to the meditation therapy groups Mystic Rose and Out of Mind. The new indoor and air-conditioned glass corridor, built specifically for Osho to walk in the garden, is now intended for Vipasana, Za-Zen and other silent meditation groups.

On November 17, Osho gives instructions on what to do when he leaves this world. He also asks for a group to translate his books from Hindi into English and leaves detailed instructions for the work of the Inner Circle.

On December 24, the English "Sunday Mail" publishes an article stating that Cardinal Ratzinger, that is, the Vatican, is responsible for the deportation of Osho from the United States.

On December 17, Osho's doctor announces that from now on he can no longer participate in evening meditations in the common room, but will briefly appear only to greet the audience. When Osho enters the hall, everyone sees that it is already very difficult for him to move around.

On January 18, Osho remains in his room and does not appear at the evening meeting, but conveys through assistants that he will attend the meeting invisibly.

Osho leaving the body.

January 19, 1990, at five o'clock in the evening, Osho leaves his body. Before that, he refuses the doctor's offer to carry out urgent medical intervention. Osho says: “The Universe itself measures its time”, closes his eyes and peacefully leaves. The doctor announces death at 7 pm, when everyone comes to the meditation hall for the daily meeting. After some time, when the sad news spreads throughout the community, Osho's body is brought to the hall, where a ten-minute farewell takes place. He is then carried in procession to a nearby pyre site. A farewell ceremony is held throughout the night.

Two days later, Osho's ashes are transferred to the Chuang Tzu Hall - the very room that was to be his new "bedroom". There he held talks and met with sannyasins and visitors for many years. By the will of Osho, the ashes are placed "by the bed", that is, on a marble slab in the center of the room, which was really intended as a support for the bed. Nearby they strengthen a tablet with the words that Osho himself dictated a few months before:

Osho - never born, never died
He was often asked the question, what will happen when he dies? Here is Osho's response to Italian television:

“You ask what will happen when Osho dies. He is not God and he does not believe in any prophets, prophecies, or a messiah. They were all selfish people. Therefore, whatever he can do at this moment, he does. What happens after he leaves, he leaves to the will of existence. His trust in existence is absolute. If there is any truth in what he says, it will survive.”

Every day you sink deeper and deeper. Remember that no matter how far you go today, tomorrow you can go a little further. It may take two years, five, ten, twenty or thirty years, but you will certainly become buddhas. For me, you are already buddhas, it remains only to muster up the courage and admit it to yourself. Thirty years is not needed to become a buddha, because you are already buddhas. It may take thirty years to put aside the hesitation, the doubt that you are really a buddha. Even if I say this, all the buddhas try to convince you, but deep down you still doubt: “God, am I really a buddha? How can this be?” But one day you will see it for yourself. No one can convince you of this, you can only be convinced by yourself.
Osho chair

Detailed Letter on Osho's Retirement

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 movement Rajneesh, 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 of 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.
A school, post office, fire and police departments, a transport system of 85 buses were opened in the city.
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, the Federal Bureau of Investigation "brought a criminal case against the Rajnesh sect" because in Anteloope "arms depots, drug laboratories were discovered on the territory of 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 called "The Rajneesh Bible" was published, 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 a wide range of Western concepts. 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 to solve 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 a hard day's work, he picks up a musical instrument and dances for hours on the beach."

The new man, according to Osho, will no longer be trapped in institutions such as family, marriage, political ideologies and religions...
(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 of people, threats, arson, explosions, abandoned children of the Ashramites begging for alms 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 relationships are 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 teaching, referring not to any earlier schools and philosophies, but to his own spiritual development experience. 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 in 1971 founded his first ashram in Pune. Until 1981, up to fifty thousand people a year passed through this school, which once again testifies to the high spiritual saturation 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 gulf 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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