Osho, From Personality to Individuality , Talk In the shop you can find: the ebook and the audiobook. It was a clear-cut choice against the world, against the material, in favor of the spiritual.
His life is a life of choicelessness. Nothing to choose, nothing to discard; they are two sides of the same coin. If you choose something, you will have to discard something. In the shop you can find: the audiobook.
But you should not stop at Zorba. Sooner or later, if you allow your Zorba full expression, you are bound to think of something better, higher, greater. It will not come out of thinking; it will come out of your experiences — because those small experiences will become boring. Osho, Beyond Enlightenment , Talk 7. Buddha will make it perfect, absolute. Even silence will become a song, even stones will become sermons, and whatever you touch will become a musical instrument because your hands will now have the magic of the whole existence; they will have the grace, the beauty, the poetry Osho, Beyond Enlightenment , Talk They have to be accepted totally as one.
And I don't see where the trouble is. In fact, Zorba plus Buddha will be a tremendous enrichment. Now what kind of life will it be? He will have a life, but he will not know who he is. He will not know the meaning of existence.
He will never come to experience the deathlessness of life, the eternity of his existence — that he has been here always, and will be always; only forms change. He will never enter into his own center. He will always remain in the cyclone, very busy, concerned with everything except himself.
And the center of the cyclone is the most ecstatic experience, the ultimate experience of human consciousness. Beyond that there is nothing; you have arrived home.
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As a whole, the essays in Out of the Closet provide a fascinating exploration of queer archival scholarship today. In examining their own affective and sensory experiences as queer archival researchers, as well as attending to the structures of power that shape the construction of archival collections and the silences and absences therein, the scholars included in this collection model what it means to do critically engaged queer archival scholarship.
Advertised as both a five-star luxury hotel and a spiritual retreat, offering a swimming pool and tennis courts as well as a wide range of meditative and therapeutic techniques, the resort is a striking example of the complex intersections between spirituality and transnational capitalism in the twenty-first century Osho. Known in his early years as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh , Osho was among the most popular and controversial gurus of the last fifty years.
In this article, I will examine the intersections between the body, sacred space and transnational capitalism in the Osho resort, suggesting that this movement opens up much larger insights into the dynamics of global spirituality in the twenty-first century. If we adopt a more nuanced and less rigid definition of sacred space, such as that of Jonathan Z. Smith, however, we can make more sense of the unique sort of space embodied in the Osho resort.
To conclude, I will suggest that the unique sort of sacred space embodied in the Osho resort also offers new ways of thinking about religion and globalization. While much of the literature on religion and globalization has tended to focus either on religious violence particularly radical Islam or on global forms of Christianity such as Pentecostalism and Catholicism , the Osho resort is a key example of the many new global movements coming out of India and other parts of Asia Srinivas ; Srinivas The Osho resort, I will suggest, is neither a mere local response to Western-style globalization nor simply a global movement emerging from South Asia; rather, borrowing a phrase from Arjun Appadurai , , I will argue that this movement is better understood as a crucial node in a far more complex and fluid transnational network of people, ideas and capital now emanating from multiple sites across the globe.
In , while studying philosophy at Jabalpur University, Chandra Mohan claimed to have had a profound mystical experience and to have become spiritually enlightened at the age of twenty-one. Freely mixing ideas drawn from Asian sources such as Buddhism, Taoism and Tantra with modern psychological and philosophical sources such as Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, George Gurdjieff and Friedrich Nietzsche, Rajneesh was an intentionally eclectic, provocative, and often shocking public teacher.
Your mind is like a blackboard on which the rules and other programming are written. Bhagwan writes new rules on the blackboard, he tells you one thing is true and the next day that its opposite is true. Bhagwan frees the individual from all prior constraints and norms. Carter, , 48 As part of his radical, parodic and iconoclastic teaching style, Rajneesh took a certain delight in attacking national and religious heroes and by deliberately provoking the powers that be.
Urban published in under the title From Sex to Superconsciousness. Openly attacking the sexual prudery of traditional Indian religions, Rajneesh celebrated sexuality as the most powerful drive in human existence and as a pathway to spiritual enlightenment ; see Osho , In this sense, Rajneesh was also at the forefront of a larger shift in Indian attitudes during the s, as many intellectuals and businessmen began to lose faith in the socialist and protectionist policies inherited from Nehru and began to show increasing enthusiasm for American-style capitalism.
As Lise McKean notes in her study of modern Indian gurus, [d]uring the s and particularly during the s, the private economic sector consisting of Indian and transnational corporations as well as 2 Tantrikas have been watching the phenomenon of lovemaking closely, because they think, and they are right, that the greatest phenomenon on earth is love, and the greatest experience of humanity is orgasm. So if there is some truth, we must be closer to realizing that truth in the moment of orgasm than anywhere else.
Zorba the Buddha 37 medium and small-scale industries and services expanded rapidly. The Indian state justified changes in policy with explanations based on economic rationalism. At the same time it reduced its reliance on socialism as a populist ideology.
Pressured by coalitions of ruling-class groups, who wanted to compete more effectively in international markets as well as to expand their opportunities to invest capital in potentially profitable enterprises within India, the state formulated economic policies to support these goals. McKean , 6 By the s and 90s, India would be opening its doors ever wider to the global marketplace——a shift that Rajneesh had been calling for at least a decade earlier.
Not surprisingly, Rajneesh was also supported during his early years in India by a group of wealthy businessmen and entrepreneurs, who welcomed his iconoclastic, anti-socialist and pro- capitalist message Carter , 44; Milne , During the s, Rajneesh moved from Mumbai to the quieter and cooler city of Pune Poona , where he established an ashram and a thriving spiritual community.
As James Gordon notes, the early Pune movement quickly began to attract a large following among the American and European tourists, spiritual seekers and hippies who were then flooding India.
Emerging at the right place at the right time, the early Pune ashram combined the counter-cultural values of the s and 70s with the ideals of sexual and political revolution and consumer capitalism: The multinational and multiracial community that Rajneesh created in Poona was at once the response to the isolation and needs of those who came as disciples and the fulfillment of the utopian dreams and universalist hopes that pervaded the culture of the s.
It united…all the best features of capitalist creature comforts with the selfless sharing, the limitless sexual experimentation and the creative playfulness of the ideal — or idealized -- anarchist commune. Urban became infamous in the American media for his unapologetic display of wealth—such as his fleet of 93 Rolls Royces—and his open embrace of sexuality Fitzgerald The story of the Rajneesh community in Oregon and its unique sort of sacred space is surely worthy of a book-length study in its own right see Carter , Urban , but a few details are worth mentioning here as background to the present community in Pune.
Quickly growing into a remarkably successful spiritual and financial complex, Rajneeshpuram amassed some million dollars during its five-year existence Gordon , The collapse of the Oregon community, however, was even more rapid and spectacular than its rise to success. Rajneesh and several top disciples, meanwhile, had come under investigation for a stunning array of other criminal charges including counts of electronic eavesdropping, immigration conspiracy, lying to federal officials, first degree assault, attempted murder, burglary, racketeering, and arson Carter , Deported from the United States and refused entry into almost every country to which he applied, Rajneesh return to India in Offering a vast array of spiritual practices drawn from East and West in a luxurious resort setting, the new Osho resort promises to put the ideal of Zorba the Buddha into practice for an international audience of spiritual seekers.
As Osho famously put it: [m]y concept[ion] of the new man is that he will be Zorba the Greek and he will also be Gautam the Buddha. The new man will be Zorba the Buddha. He will be sensuous and spiritual — physical, utterly physical, in the body, in the senses, enjoying the body and all that the body makes possible, and still a great consciousness…He will be Christ and Epicurus together , The present Osho resort is an explicit attempt to put this Zorba the Buddha ideal into lived practice in unique kind of materially-spiritual space.
According to the Osho. Urban Yet the Osho resort is by no means simply a tourist holiday resort; it is also a remarkably diverse, eclectic and global spiritual center that offers every imaginable style of meditative, contemplative and psychological technique. The Osho resort and its manifold spiritual and psychological offerings are not, however, inexpensive. Courses at the Multiversity are also not inexpensive, ranging from a few hundred to over a thousand USD depending on the type and length of a particular course.
The eclectic spiritual offerings and high cost of the resort are largely reflected in its current clientele. My estimates were confirmed by Swami Amrito when I asked him about the demographics of the resort in More than one local businessman told me that they believe this to be one reason why the resort now draws fewer though wealthier visitors than it had in previous decades——a charge that critics of the current leadership have echoed, as well Joshi Like its eclectic spiritual offerings and its international clientele, the organizational and financial structure of the Osho resort is also quite global and multifaceted.
Already from the early years of the first Rajneesh ashram in Pune, the movement had grown into a complex transnational business network, establishing financial centers in London and Zurich in addition to those in India Carter , The complex corporate structure of the Osho empire has not, however, gone without its own challenges. Urban to title.
Meanwhile, the mostly Indian-based critics of the Pune community charge that the mostly British and European leaders of the resort are also slowly selling off portions of this valuable property and covertly transferring the assets to shadow corporate entitles in other cities Joshi The Osho Resort as a Uniquely Embodied and Postmodern Sacred Space The unique form of sacred space that we find at the Osho resort is very much an embodied, sensual and material space.
All those who enter the resort——whether for a luxury tourist visit or for a spiritual retreat——are marked physically in several ways. First, before even entering the resort, all visitors must take an HIV test, which is performed on the spot by providing a blood sample. Interestingly, up to s, the Rajneesh movement was infamous for its promiscuous sexuality and Neo-Tantric excesses, but following the AIDs epidemic, it became increasingly concerned with sexual hygiene Gordon , Second, while inside the grounds, all visitors and residents are marked by special robes, maroon for daytime and white for evening use.
Finally, physical hygiene is also a central concern of the resort, and all visitors are given special instructions and an introductory video on how to wash their hands, how to place food on their trays, how to conduct themselves physically in the meditation hall, and so on. Meanwhile, handling currency is forbidden inside the grounds, and the stated rationale is that paper money is unhygienic.
Two of the main focal points of spiritual practice at the resort are also very much embodied spaces: the first is a large dance pavilion, where guests perform an array of dance arts from around the world, ranging from the Sufi whirling dervishes to the sacred dance techniques of George Gurdjieff to popular Bollywood styles.
That is why, in my meditation techniques, I do not take you as divided: you are one…If your mind is feeling happy, allow your body to dance. Let yourself come deep down into the body, and allow the body to flow to your innermost core. Become a flow!
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