It prohibits in particular those of Tibetan origin and specifically targets Buddhist monks. Even forms are available for the essential paperwork to apply for permission. One wonders about the rather intimate relationship the Chinese government has with existence – to have full powers from preventing a soul to reincarnate in a new body. Heaven only knows.

Enjoy hearing about several more interesting titbits in this video:

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You probably think this is a hoax we fell for, but we found through further research several articles on the subject:
The Huffington Post (28.3.2008): China Bans Reincarnation Without Government Permission
Humans Are Free (23.2.2011): China Bans Reincarnation Without Government Permission
The Times of India (14.2.2011): New Chinese law aimed at wiping out Tibetan identity

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The Venus Project

The excerpts shown in this video are from a discourse by Osho: The Goose is Out, Ch 6, Q 1

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A little while back she participated in a forum set up by Germany’s popular women’s magazine Brigitte in Berlin, chatting wittily and giving some surprising answers during the event called ‘Brigitte Live: Select Women!’

During the interview, when asked to choose her preference, to speak or to be silent, she said, “Silence.”

In answer to Why do you prefer silence to talking? she said:

“I couldn’t be a politician if I primarily would prefer silence to talking (laughs)! For example, in my former work as a physicist at the Academy of Science [then East Germany] I had much room for silence. And still I decided when the German unity happened, that I might want to speak a little more.”

Are you somebody who can easily deal with silent situations?

“In our society, silence is becoming a rarity. And to think during talking isn’t so easy either … one needs silence to be able to speak wisely. If one wants to think over various things before one starts talking, then I believe one needs a phase of silence beforehand…in any case one needs silence to be able to speak wisely.”

Have people in the past dealt better with silence?

“I think so, in the past it was more silent. I grew up in the countryside and I am sure that I still draw strength from the fact that I could sleep very restfully and that it was quiet. I also seek silence sometimes.”

But even without words the Chancellor sometimes reveals a lot about her inner life – her feelings are reflected in her face.

A problem for her?

“You have to stand up for yourself. It would be bad if I would always run around with a poker face.”

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Video, also in German: Angela Merkel – Der Brigitte-Talk im Video

Article by Abhay Vaidya published on Sep 19, 2013 in Firstpost India:

The dispute over trust properties between rival factions of Osho’s followers has taken an extraordinary turn with the faction controlling Osho’s properties producing a purportedly certified copy of Osho’s will, 23 years after his death.

The spiritual leader Osho also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh died in Pune on January 19, 1990 and there was no mention of any will left behind by Osho in the press conferences held by the Osho trustees following his death.

Now, 23 years after his death, the document presented as Osho’s will has suddenly surfaced during a court proceedings in the European Union. Osho’s followers in India were alerted to this development in June, 2013. This will signed by Osho has now been challenged in a Pune court as a forged will and the case before Civil Judge (Junior Division) U.L. Pathak is slated to come up for hearing on September 24.

The will dated 16 June 1989 bearing Osho’s signature states that he is bequeathing all properties in his name, including ownership and publishing rights to the Neo Sannyas International Foundation, a Swiss charitable trust.

Signed on a stamp paper of Rs10, Michael O’Byrne (Swami Anand Jayesh), president of Osho Foundation International, Zurich, has been identified as the executor of the will and two other foreigners, who are members of this Foundation, as the witnesses, namely, witnesses John Andrews (Swami Amrito) and Philip Toelkes (Swami Prem Niren).

The petitioners Osho Friends Foundation & Others led by Yogesh Thakkar alias Swami Premgeet and Kishor Raval alias Swami Prem Anadi who have challenged the authenticity of the will have charged Michael O’Byrne, John Andrews and Philip Toelkes of forging the document and have urged the court to declare the will as null and void.

They have also urged the court to permanently restrain the trustees from implementing the will and have also appealed for appointment of an administrator for safe custody of Osho’s properties which includes real estate and intellectual properties running into crores of rupees.

Speaking to Firstpost.com, Thakkar said if the authenticity of this will is allowed to go unchallenged, it would mean that properties of Osho belonging to India would now go out of the country.

The others named as respondents in the petition are prominent Osho trustees and NRI, Mukesh Sarda (Swami Mukesh Bharti), Vidya Khubchandani (Ma Vidya Bharati) and the Neo Sannyas Foundation.

Thakkar and his co-petitioners already have two suits pending against in the Bombay High Court against the administrators of Neo Sanyas Foundation aka Rajneesh Foundation and Osho International Foundation and their trustees for alleged fraud of Rs300 crore, manipulation and embezzlement of Osho trust properties. The petitioners have alleged that the Foundation trustees “are transferring funds, assets, and benefits of the Osho charitable trusts in favour of private limited companies” controlled by them.

According to the petitioners, Osho has left behind a “colossal legacy” which includes archives of 9,000 hours of audio discourses in Hindi and English, 1,870 hours of video discourses, 650 titles of transcribed books in Hindi and English which are being translated in 65 languages around the world, about 850 paintings by Osho, 80,000 books in Osho’s personal library at his commune in Koregaon Park which contains his notations, Osho’s Samadhi at Koregaon Park, and prime real estate in Pune and elsewhere valued at more than Rs. 1,000 crore.

The petitioners have argued that “non-production of Osho’s will for 23 years, comprehensively proves that no such will or document ever existed.”

They have also pointed out that Rajneesh’s name in the will is stated as “Chandra Mohan Jain” when in fact his birth name was “Rajneesh Chandra Mohan”.

The text of the will dated 16 June, 1989, running into five paragraphs states as follows:

RECITAL: “In 1975, 1978 and 1981, I executed assignments concerning my work. Also, in 1981, I executed a broad power of attorney will the stated intention to divest myself of all worldly property, and also an amendment in 1982, with the result that all such property is now owned by Neo Sannyas International Foundation, a Swiss charitable entity. To be completely certain that all such property interests are so divested, I make this Last Will and Testament.

LAST WILL & TESTAMENT: Being of sound mind, and acting of my free will, I make this Last Will and Testament.

I, Osho, birth name Chandra Mohan Jain, formerly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, hereby devise and bequest any and all right, title or interest of any nature in any and all property of any nature and in any form, owned by me, now or in the future, including but not limited to, all ownership, publishing or related rights, to all my work, published to date or in the future, in any form, to Neo Sannyas International Foundation. If for any reason that entity cannot or does not accept this bequest then the alternate beneficiary shall be a non-profit, charitable entity dedicated to the dissemination of my work, such entity to be designated by my executor.

EXECUTOR: I name as my executor Sw. Anand Jayesh, aka Michael O’Byrne.

Executed this 15th day of October, 1989, at Poona, India.

Osho

See copy of the document: Osho’s Will – a rare (sic) document
Source: FirstPost India

Victoria Woollaston reports in The Daily Mail on September 18, 2013 that there have been claims that Facebook recently lost 11 million users in the US and UK.

Facebook users are quitting the social network in droves due to privacy concerns and fear of internet addiction, according to new research.

Increasing numbers are taking part in what’s been dubbed ‘virtual identity suicide’ and deleting their accounts.

Analysis of more than 600 people, by researchers from the University of Vienna, found that data protection issues and social pressure to add friends were also among the reasons for leaving.

Others quoted shallow conversations, general dissatisfaction and loss of interest in the site.

Compared to the sample of those who continued to use Facebook, the quitters were older, on average, and more likely to be male.

Reasons for quitting Facebook were mainly privacy concerns (48.3 per cent), followed by a general dissatisfaction (13.5 per cent), negative aspects of online friends (12.6 per cent) and the feeling of getting addicted (6.0 per cent).

Brenda Wiederhold, editor of the journal Cyberpsychology, Behaviour and Social Networking which published the findings, said: “Given high profile stories such as WikiLeaks and the recent NSA surveillance reports, individual citizens are becoming increasingly more wary of cyber-related privacy concerns.

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Twenty three-years after his death, the surfacing of an alleged will of Osho has his followers worried. While a group of his followers, including Swami Prem Geet (Yogesh Thakkar), has moved courts challenging the will, many have claimed they never heard Osho or anyone else talk about it during his lifetime.

Osho’s long-time secretary Ma Yoga Neelam said she never heard about the will in the past. Neelam, who was one of the 21 disciples appointed by Osho to be part of the inner circle to run the commune, asked why the will was produced 23-years after his demise?

“Members of the inner circle used to extensively discuss every topic but the question of his will never came up. What I do not understand is that if Swami Amrito knew about the will, why did he not talk about it all these years?” she asked. Newsline reported about the controversy on Thursday. The will had bequeathed the “the rights and titles” to Neo Sannyas International Foundation, a Swiss Charitable Institution. Swami Anand Jayesh (Micheal O’Byrne) had been named as the executor of the will, while Swami Amrito (John Andrews) and Swami Prem Niren (Philip Toolkes) had their signatures as witnesses on it.

Neelam, who was a part of the inner circle till 2000, said her relations with Amrito, Jayesh and Niren were excellent.

Another old time disciple of Osho, Ma DharmaKirti, who was associated with Osho since 1968, said she had never heard Osho talk about the will. “He cannot make such a will, it does not reflect him,” she said.

Swami Satya Vedant, an erstwhile member of the inner circle, expressed dismay . “It is highly unlikely, that any will made by Osho will be entrusted on them,” he asked.

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A further article with video from IBN: Osho’s ‘will’ surfaces 23 years after his death

…maybe because it touches the heart and for a few moments people get transported to the space that essentially is full of love and compassion for others.

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An inspirational mobile phone ad by the ‘True Corporation’, a telecommunications company in Thailand.

This is an unoffical version of ‘Wer hat Angst vor Wilhem Reich?‘, a documentary by Antonin Swoboda broadcast by the Austrian TV station ORF2 in 2009. YouTube member ’186Ulysses’ made the translation into English and added the subtitles for all of us to enjoy!

As synchronicity goes, Naman posted this video just yesterday – quite unrelatedly – in Facebook! Thank you.

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Many of us sannyasins will probably recognise in his findings the basis of many of the therapies we have gone through ourselves: Rolfing, Bioenergetics, Pulsation, etc.

186Ulysses writes:

The fame of Wilhelm Reich, whose ideas are nowadays anew experiencing a renaissance, especially in the USA, is based on two pillars: The concept of Sexual Revolution and the concept of Orgone Energy.

The film by Antonin Svoboda describes equally informative as well as concise the origin of both concepts as rooted in the life of Wilhelm Reich, embedded in 20th Century History. It is very well suitable for an introduction to life and work of Reich, though not totally objective.

Often Reich is misunderstood as the prophet of our present, outwardly permissive society, who has become in the best case superflous now, but the finding of his diagnosis, that the mechanisms of Capitalism disturb or suppress a natural development of human sexuality, today has more actuality then ever. Who is familiar with the work of Wilhelm Reich, understands, that pornography as well as excessive promiscuity is not a sign of sexual freedom but actually of the contrary.

As a natural scientist Reich may has been a failure. But his idea of Orgone, as is my personal view, as a matrix of everything, imbuing the whole universe, should even to a scientifically highly educated person not sound that strange anymore, thinking of newly discovered Dark Energy, still unexplainable for modern cosmology. The film stresses his importance as a forerunner of modern holistic concepts in medicine and natural philosophy.

We also came across a full-featured movie on the life of Wilhelm Reich: Der Fall Wilhelm Reich (The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich), released in Austria in January this year, featuring the famous German actor Klaus Maria Brandauer in the role of Reich. The film is also by Antonin Swoboda.

Update: Read on Osho News the review of the movie by Dr Benajir Wolf.

Here is the English trailer for The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich.

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At 00:24 you will hear the prosecutor say, “Sex Guru.” We doubt the movie script follows the exact, historic wording spoken at the time…. Who knows?

And here is Wilhelm Reich speaking into his tape recorder, after everyone had left his Orgonon Institute (April 3, 1952). The video is aptly entitled: Wilhelm Reich – Alone

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It may be a battle for property and money for those who produced Osho’s will 23 years after the death of the spiritual guru, but for former trustees Yogesh Thakkar alias Swami Premgeet and Kishor Raval alias Swami Prem Anadi, the fight goes beyond.

In their writ petition before the Bombay High Court (filed in June this year), they have contended that the overseas trustees have been making unauthorised changes to Osho’s printed discourses and preaching, tampering with his spiritual legacy and public faith.

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The petition also questions the very identity of the entities set up in London and Zurich in the name of Osho International Foundation (OIF), misleading people to believe they are an extension of the Pune-based OIF headquarters.

Besides the Rs 300-crore property, at stake are the sale proceeds from 650 book titles translated in over 65 languages globally, more than 9,000 hours of audio recordings of Osho’s talks, over 1,800 hours of video recordings and Osho’s paintings, estimated at Rs 60 crore over the past 10 years.

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“There are no accounts or records of the money being deposited by the overseas foundations to the Pune headquarters. No one knows where the money is. It is such a pity,” Thakkar told Mirror.

While the overseas OIFs have claimed that the intellectual property rights (IPR) were transferred to the Zurich foundation in the 1980s, the veracity of this transfer is being questioned by the petitioners. “Legalese for such IPR transfer from one trust to another requires all trustees of the transferring trust to be signatories in the agreement.

“In the absence of all the trustees signing such a document the entire transaction becomes void-ab-initio (invalid from the very beginning),” informed Shreedhar Parundekar, IP and Technology Laws specialist.

The writ petition has pointed out that only one of the eight trustees has signed the critical document. On this basis, it has urged that the OIFs in Switzerland and UK have no authority to store, sell and retain proceeds out Osho’s IP work.

“The overseas OIFs have already lost an eight-year trademark and patent battle at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The trustees of these foundations are aware they have no locus standi even in the present writ petition on the IPR and other transfer of property issues.

So, now they have come up with a fabricated will, which was never mentioned in the 23 years gone by since Osho’s demise,” Kishor Raval pointed out.

The petition also pinned one of the current trustees of OIF, Pune, Mukesh Sarda, for printing and publishing about 16 of Osho’s books using private publishers, giving away copyrights to them.

On being asked about this Sarda said, “There is nothing I can say about the ongoing litigation. The matter is subjudice.”

The petition has also drawn the court’s attention to what it called an arbitrary donation of a part of the land (estimated to be worth Rs 50 crore) at the Osho ashram at Pune to one Darshan Trust.  With two hearings of the case done, the next one is coming up on 8th October.

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With reference to our article Stop Censorship of Esoterica and Spirituality, in which we reported about the UK’s move to censor spiritual sites on the internet, we have been informed by Dhyan Giten about his personal harassment by Yahoo:

In his Newsletter for January 2013, Giten criticized the endless wars in the world. This article was also sent to President Obama. A couple of weeks later, the American company Yahoo closed Giten’s official Yahoo-mail which he had since 10 years. Despite 3 complaints to Yahoo and 3 complaints against Yahoo to ISPA, The Internet Service Providers Association, Yahoo still refuses to explain the reason for this to this day.

Read i-Newswire’s press release on this issue of January 30, 2013

Avaaz has now circulated a letter about the closure of Giten’s Yahoo-mail account and added:

• Washington Post revealed earlier that the large American Internet companies Yahoo, Google, Facebook and Skype are tools for Internet surveillance for the American intelligence agencies CIA and NSA.

• Facebook and Google are also members of the Bilderberg group, whose aim is to create a global dictatorship and a global electronic police state. The directors of CIA, NSA and NATO is at attendance at Bilderberg’s annual meeting.

Now the UK wants to censor spiritual sites on Internet in the disguise of censoring pornography. About 15,500 concerned people have already signed the petition ‘Stop Censorship of Esoterica and Spirituality’: www.avaaz.org

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While everybody in the world is seeking love to nourish one’s being and soul, people end up having all kinds of troubles and misfortunes because of love. Everybody desires nectar but gets poison in the name of love. Everyone wonders how that happens. What is the answer, what is the solution? Is it possible to find love in a true sense?

Many sages, philosophers, psychologists, priests and other people have tried their best to enlighten us on this issue and most of us have been following their advice. But the advice does not work.

It does not work because the source of the advice is outside us — it is not arising from our own hearts. Our heart, if it functions properly, if it is open and sensitive, can show us the way to love. But the trouble is that the social atmosphere, in which we are brought up, is not conducive to this. It is filled with doubt and fear. It would be a real miracle, to maintain the original purity of our heart in such an atmosphere.

A child comes out of the womb and enters the world, with all the trust. There’s mother to feed him and look after his needs. The mother showers her unconditional love on the child. The child grows beautifully, feeling trust and love. But when he enters the world, goes beyond the confines of the immediate family, the child does not find the same atmosphere. It is quite the opposite: ambition, competition, doubt, fear, fight and violence.

It begins with education, where a child is taught to compete and come first in the class. Unthinkingly, his own family also starts supporting this ambition.

This certainly is not the way of the heart — it kills the heart gradually. When the child grows up, he falls in love. This is not the same love that he had received as an infant. Now the love has become contaminated with ambition and competition, doubt and fear. This is going to reflect in his new love-relationships. After a few years, the relationship will stagnate. The heart will be dominated by the mind, contaminated by social corruption. Love will evaporate in such storms and life will become miserable. In such a situation, life can only go downhill.

If a man is able to protect his consciousness from this social atmosphere, he will seek meditation and spirituality to raise his consciousness. Only such a consciousness will show him the way to pure love. Meditation will create a bridge between him and the universe and he will get the same motherly love on a higher level. When there’s faith, the whole existence functions as a mother.

Osho says:

You are not accidental. Existence needs you. Without you something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. That’s what gives you dignity, that the whole existence will miss you. The stars and sun and moon and birds and earth — everything in the universe will feel a small place is vacant which cannot be filled by anybody except you. This gives you a tremendous joy, a fulfillment that you are related to existence and existence cares for you. Once you are clean and clear, you will receive tremendous love from all directions.”

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From the outside everything seems peaceful and perfect at Osho Tapoban, a commune and retreat set up by one of the Indian spiritual teacher’s foremost Nepali disciples, located 10 km from Kathmandu city in the lush forests covering Nagarjuna Hills.

But the commune’s founder Swami Anand Arun and his followers are battling inner turmoil and angst due to events happening nearly 2000 km away at the Osho International Meditation Resort at Pune in India, the ashram established in 1974 by the guru.

On Sunday Pune police registered a first information report (FIR) against six administrators and trustees of the commune for allegedly forging Osho’s will.

The complaint lodged by Osho Friends Foundation is part of a tussle between trustees of the Pune resort and another section of Osho’s followers over his legacy, control of his assets spread worldwide and income generated from his intellectual property.

The tussle took an unexpected turn earlier this year, 23 years after Osho’s death, when the faction controlling the guru’s properties produced a copy of his will in connection with an ongoing trademark and copyrights case in European Union.

The will, executed in October 1989, three months before Osho’s death, bequeathed all his properties and publishing rights to Switzerland-based Neo Sannyas International Foundation. It named Michael Byrne, also known as Swami Anand Jayesh, president of Osho Foundation International, Zurich as the executioner of the will.

Besides Osho, the will was signed by Byrne and two other witnesses, John Andrews (Swami Amrito) and Philip Toelkes (Swami Prem Niren). The FIR lodged in Pune names these three and three others.

Three suits are pending in Mumbai and Pune courts questioning authenticity of the will and charges of embezzlement of property worth several hundred crores against administrators and trustees of Neo Sannyas International Foundation.

“The so called will has now been declared as forged based on two expert investigations in Europe and India,” said Swami Arun who first came in contact with Osho in 1969, became a disciple in 1974 and started the first Osho centre in Nepal the same year.

“The reports clearly indicate that Osho’s signature on this document is false and has been executed by means of a photographic montage and copied from Osho’s handwritten letter in 1976 through counterfeiting techniques,” added a letter issued by Osho Tapoban last week.

Reports from Pune say the police who have lodged the FIR under sections 465, 467, 471 and 120-B of Indian Penal Code have asked those named in the complaint to produce Osho’s original will.

The anguish of Swami Arun and his followers over this controversy is understandable. “We have been banned from going to our guru’s ashram by those people who claim to be Osho’s heirs,” said Swami Arun.

Since Osho’s death in 1990, those claiming to be the guru’s heirs have sidelined many of his disciples like Swami Arun and sought royalty on his books, meditation techniques and other intellectual property.

“Osho International Foundation has harassed and tortured Osho disciples all around the world in the name of fabricated copyrights and trademark. Following which many Osho centers and ashrams were closed globally and his disciples willing to work for Osho were harassed and threatened through heavy royalties that had to be paid to OIF,” said Osho Tapoban’s letter.

Swami Arun’s Osho Tapoban has six communes in Nepal and its activities are spread over more than 50 other countries. The centre has also published 63 of the nearly 700 books by Osho. The copyright issues and mysterious emergence of the will could threaten these activities.

“Osho Tapoban has always been against these heinous acts of OIF and has from the very beginning been taking its stand that Osho never left a copyright,” said the letter which states that it was issued “with the sole intention to make Osho’s spiritual teachings accessible to all at large”.

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Is Pune police (PP) tightening screw on Osho International Foundation (OIF) Pune? who produced Osho’s will which found fake & forged as Osho never left any will testament or copyright over his intellectual property or PP is escorting the all 6 accused. Osho’s old sanyasin Swami Arun of Osho Tapoban, Nepal reveals this in his letter, he demanded an independent CBI inquiry to investigate this matter. He also urged that Osho’s spiritual teachings instituted at OIF Pune or anywhere else in the world must be accessible to all at large. IPS Yadav takes an open and deep look into the broad matter:

Mumbai: “OSHO Never Born Never Died Only Visited This Planet Earth Between 11 December 1931 And 19 January 1990.” Now it seems difficult to believe whether this famous phrase of golden lines embossed on Osho Samadhi at Pune ashram would ever in future be available for Osho lovers or not? First we heard of Osho Samadhi was removed from Pune Osho ashram few years back and now a matter of Osho’s fake signature has made media headlines.

According to a FIR bearing No. 149/ 13 dated 8th Dec. 2013 registered with Koregaon Park Police Station, Pune against six persons all are from OIF are 1. Mr Michale Byrne (O’Byrne) alias Swami Anand Jayesh 2. Mr. D’Arcy O’Byrne alias Swami Yogendra 3. Mr Philip Toelkes alias Prem Niren 4. Dr. John Andrews, alias Swami Amrito 5. Mr. Mukesh Kantilal Sarda alias Swami Mukesh Bharti 6. Mr. Klaus Steeg alias Pramod. The all said accused are charged with IPC 465, 467, 471 and 120-B. which is a serious and non-bailable offense for committing forgery of a valuable security, Will or authority to make or transfer any valuable security or to receive any money, etc; and using the forge document as genuine. While according to Osho’s close aids Osho never left any ‘copyright’ or ‘will’ as claimed by some so called Osho heirs. Osho’s so called ‘will’ produced by Osho International Foundation is already proved fake & forged in India as well as abroad.

Osho’s renowned sannyasin Swami Arun who conducts Tapoban Osho ashram in Nepal reacting to the news, claimed that the so called Osho’s ‘will’ produced by Osho International Foundation in Spain has been officially proven ‘forged’ by two graphological investigations carried out in Europe and India during a trademark dispute claiming their sole ownership over Osho’s property rights including his intellectual property. The reports clearly indicate that Osho’s signature on this document is false and has been executed by means of a photographic montage and was copied from Osho’s handwritten letter in 1976 through counterfeiting techniques. (Links to all the expert’s reports and FIR complaint are publicly available online).

He further said, “We are all aware that since Osho left his body in 1990, few individuals who have falsely claimed to be Osho’s heir and the organization established by them, ‘Osho International Foundation’ (OIF) has harassed and tortured Osho disciples all around the world in the name of fabricated copyrights and trademark. Following which many Osho centers and ashrams were closed globally and his disciples willing to work for Osho were harassed and threatened through heavy royalties that had to be paid to OIF.”

“While YouTube and FaceBook on the internet are good mediums today to spread a master’s vision, OIF forcefully closed all the accounts that shared Osho’s video and audio in the name of copyrights. Osho Tapoban has always been against these heinous acts of OIF and has from the very beginning been taking its stand that Osho never left a copyright or will to anyone. The recent forged will produced by OIF also proves this fact.”

Swami Arun stated his concern further, “Even after the filing of the FIR for such a serious offense, apart from regular official formality no strict action has been taken so far against those accused. We demand, prompt action must be taken and transparency be shown by authorities in this matter. This case demands utmost attention of the authorities as it is directly connected with the spiritual sentiments of millions of Osho disciples and lovers in India and worldwide who are demanding for justice and at stake is a great spiritual legacy left by an enlightened master of our age.”

“We would like to bring this to the attention of all media and concerned authorities that this case involves priceless legacy of Osho’s intellectual property, the immovable property of the Osho Ashram in Pune worth about 1500 crores and millions of dollar worth royalty collected through Osho’s books around the world which are being transferred to private bank accounts in the West.” He appealed.

He also requested all responsible citizens and media to rightly bring this fact in public and help reinstate Osho’s heritage and make it accessible to all at large, “We demand an independent CBI inquiry to investigate this matter and bring the culprits to justice; reinstate the purity and the spiritual sanctity of the ashram and also bring back all of Osho’s heritage including his valuable artwork, his personal articles and the money which have been taken away outside India and we want the Government of India should intervene in this matter as soon as possible.”

This report is referred and accompanied with these documents available online:
FIR complaint filed in Pune Police
Forged will of OIF
Graphological report from Italy
Graphological report from India
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Osho International Meditation Centre at Koregaon Park. File

Within days of the Pune Police registering an FIR against six of the present management committee members of the Osho Commune for allegedly forging Osho’s will, Sandeep Kulkarni aka Zorba — an Osho disciple and member of the commune — has filed a PIL*) in Bombay High Court alleging mismanagement of funds by its present management committee by forming private companies. It also alleged that the committee has been biased towards Indians and bans people from entering the ashram in Koregaon Park — which is against Osho’s preaching.

The PIL, which was filed on October 10, has nine of the present management committee members as respondents — Ma Gatha, head of Welcome Center; Ma Vatayana, Global Connection Department; Swami Jayesh aka Michel O’Brian; Swami Amrito aka George Meredith; Swami Yogendra aka D’arcy O’Brian; Swami Dhyanesh Bharti; Swami Mukesh Sarda; Ma Sadhana and Swami Devendra Deol.

The PIL, a copy of which is with Newsline, has alleged that the management has formed private limited companies in London, New York and Zurich, and royalty from Osho’s books, audios and videos are siphoned off through them. The PIL has attached a list of 15 such companies from which, the applicant claims, at least three members of the present management committee are benefiting.

It may be noted that one Osho International Foundation (OIF) registered in Zurich, the parent body of the commune, claims to hold copyrights of Osho’s published works, and legal battles have been fought, such as the Oshoworld.com case and trademark case in the US, challenging the claims of the foundation.

“The foundation, however, continues to challenge those who make use of the word Osho or his works on the Internet without its approval,” said a former member of the commune.

The PIL alleged that the management is acting contrary to Osho’s teachings, who said his words should reach the world as soon as possible. “Ma Gatha, Ma Vatayana and Swami Dhyanesh are restricting the entry of many seekers around the world. Now maximum sannyasins do not come to India and even Indian sannyasins keep away from the ashram. Slowly, the Rajneesh Ashram is becoming a private affair for 8-10 people,” the PIL stated.

Kulkarni said, “Osho is the master of masters and his work should reach maximum people. The present management is acting contrary to Osho’s teachings and thus not letting his work reach people. In my PIL, I have prayed for immediate dissolution of the management committee and appointment of new trustees. Nobody should be banned from the ashram except those who have committed serious offences. The fundamental right to enter the ashram should be protected.”

Ma Amrit Sadhna, spokesperson of the Osho Commune, said: “The matter is sub judice. We cannot comment.”

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Published on 15.4.2013, Frank Thadeusz of Der Spiegel writes about Kevin Dutton’s latest book, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success (original English title).

Psychology: Could one also make a career instead of becoming a serial perpetrator? Soul watchers discover the type of professionally successful psychopaths. A British scholar even believes that everybody can learn from those who are perturbed.

The book is about research into the lives of psychopaths and their cunning behaviour patterns. The author set out on a vast inquiry – including the latest advances in brain scanning and neuroscience – to find out not only what makes a psychopath but also which jobs are particularly attractive for this type of human. He found that leading are corporate chiefs and lawyers, followed by surgeons in the fourth position; priests are found in the eighth position.

He describes the difference between a psychopath and a normal corporate leader: “A normal person having just lost a billion by messing up would lock himself into the toilet and throw up. The psychopath goes home undeterred and doesn’t even think about it.” By this he means financial jugglers such as Bernard Madoff and Richard Fuld of the Lehman Brothers; also included in his research are Kennedy, Nixon, Clinton, and Steve Jobs.

Dutton’s theory is that we all possess psychopathic tendencies, that society as a whole is more psychopathic than ever. He argues that there are indeed “functional psychopaths” among us — different from their murderous counterparts — who use their detached, unflinching, and charismatic personalities to succeed in mainstream society, and that shockingly, in some fields, the more “psychopathic” people are, the more likely they are to succeed.

The book appears provocative and reveals a lot of food for thought about the so-called dark side in many humans.

The article by Der Spiegel concludes:

“How to exploit one’s followers bluntly and in an exceedingly comfortable manner, was virtuously demonstrated by another sect leader in the seventies. The Indian Chandra Mohan Jain, also known as Bhagwan, preached humility to his disciples but for himself he aspired to own a Rolls Royce for every day of the year.

That his followers accepted this contradiction uncomplainingly, was commented by Bhagwan in probably the only possible way: ‘Five percent of the people are intelligent, the remaining 95 percent are our followers.’”

Now the reader may wonder why Osho is mentioned in this context at all. I asked myself the same question and in lieu of having the actual book at hand, went online and checked Dutton’s book at Amazon. There is a clever little search button for the contents in the book and interestingly none of the names for Osho, or Poona, or even India came up. Assuming that Amazon’s search engine works, this is puzzling; one must assume Dutton didn’t mention Osho at all.

The writer of the review – in the typical shabby and whacky manner of Der Spiegel – may have simply thought he would attract more readers if he would include Osho’s photo, two lame paragraphs about Osho and an entirely false quote attributed to Osho. Der Spiegel’s archives have also not been updated in a long time – Mr. Tadeusz, the names you used for Osho haven’t been used since the late eighties and as for the quote, you might be well advised to do your research.

Bhagawati for Osho News

Thanks to Sankalpa and Bodhena for getting the article to us.

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Pratiksha’s latest exhibition in Chandigarh has received wide attention and much praise. More than thirty articles have been written since about her superb and inspirational paintings. The writers always mention that Pratiksha is Osho’s niece and publish her quotes about him and meditation. As a random example, Amarjot Kaur of The Tribune writes,

She paints wisdom that is drenched in meditation and it radiates a vision that runs in equal proportion to the intensity of her thoughts. It’s the rarity of her creative expression that delves deep into spirituality to define her existence and she just basks in the sheer joy that she derives from painting while meditating.”

Slideshow of her artwork: Pratiksha: Expressing the Inexpressible

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There is an intricate relationship between an act and the end result. We always want to have a perfect result for whatever we do, without losing ourselves in the act. Is such an act possible? To understand the fine difference, it is important to examine ‘perfection’ and ‘totality’. Although for many people, perfection is the ultimate goal, it is nothing less than illusion or myth; something which is nonexistent. We are attracted by the very idea of perfection, not realising that it is like a disease which is dangerous and destructive. If not for our obsession with perfection, our action could open the door to a beautiful spiritual journey.

Whatever you do, just pour your heart in it, do it with totality. The Bhagawad Gita says that karma is enjoyable if the heart is involved in it. Then there is no karma and kerta; both melt and become one. That is totality. Perfection is myth, while totality is reality.

Perfection is a goal somewhere in the future while totality is an experience this very moment, in which your act is transformed into meditation and a beautiful prayer descends in your heart. In fact, there is not future reference or goal for totality; only a routine life style albeit soaked in spiritual fragrance.

If you do any work or any act with your whole heart, then you are total, then you are walking on the same path which Kabir and Ravidas chose.

The whole idea is to ‘be total’ in everything that you are doing. It doesn’t matter what you do, whether you are making clothes like Kabir or shoes like Ravidas, or cooking food or working on a new design for most advanced spacecraft, or cleaning the floor. The job is immaterial. The focus is that doing is with totality, which is the only way to transform the act into meditation and to transform the doing into a beautiful prayer.

The founder of Tantra vision, Saraha, born two centuries after Gautama Buddha in Vidarbha didstrict, Maharashtra, later became a disciple of Skri Kirti, a Buddhist saint and disciple of Buddha’s son Rahul Bhadra. Saraha, along with his father and four brothers, spent some time in the court of King Mahapala and he was particularly popular among his brothers for his knowledge of the Vedas.

After some time, the Brahmin Saraha became a sanyasin and chose Sri Kirti as his master. Immediately after his initiation, the first thing Sri Kirti asked Saraha was to drop all the Vedas, and all the learnings. After many years, Saraha became a great meditator. One day, while in meditation, Saraha had a vision that there was a woman in the market place who would become his real teacher. Saraha told his guru about the vision and with his blessings, left to seek the truth about his visions.

Sarah found the woman he saw in his vision in the marketplace. She was a young woman of a lower-caste arrowsmith family. She was making an arrow. For Saraha, this was a major shift – a learned Brahmin saint seeking out an arrowsmith woman as guru.

Saraha watched her carefully. The young woman was lively and luminous with life, cutting an arrow shaft, deeply absorbed in the process. Saraha immediately felt something extraordinary, something he had never heard or learnt in the scriptures or from any guru. Her very action of making the arrow illuminated the heart of Saraha.

He continued watching her working on the arrow. She, on the other hand, was working intensely without realising his presence or getting perturbed by his stare. For her, no one existed at that moment. After the arrow was ready, she closed one eye and opened the other as if pointing towards a target to check the fineness of the arrow. And that very moment something happened. Saraha understood the real meaning which he couldn’t discover in life despite reciting from various books. She was much absorbed in the act; there was no duality. She was one with her work. She gave Saraha the real message of Buddha – to be total in the action is to be free of action. Be total and you will be free. For the first time, he understood what meditation is.

The ordinary arrowsmith woman became the real teacher of a Brahmin guru without saying a word or mantra correcting scripture. Saraha got enlightened with just her presence involving routine work of making an arrow, albeit completely absorbed and melted with the act in the process.

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The ceremony took place before a packed house at the Mathäser Filmpalast in Munich, on April 26, 2013. The producer, Pavrati (Ela Buchwald), and Puja accepted the award.

Every year in spring, the Cosmic Cine Film Festival shows the Best Open Mind Movies that reflect the current zeitgeist with their meaning and significance, and inspire to make life one’s own responsibility. All nominated films form an overall symphony matching the theme of this year, “A World Full of Possibilities” and set creative impulses, show new understandings and ideas beyond borders.

Last year, widely-read German woman’s magazine Brigitte Woman published a 5-page interview with Puja as the cover story for their 10/12 issue, all about having more time for love, having slow sex, and how sex is so much more enjoyable when the partners are relaxed.

Satya Puja is the author of several books on Tantra, including Tantric Orgasm for Women and Tantric Love Letters, and is the co-author of Tantric Sex for Men. Together with her partner, Michael (aka Swami Raja), she has been teaching week-long “Making Love” retreats for couples since 1993. She lives in Switzerland.

DVD Slow Sex is available at innenwelt-verlag.de -  amazon.de

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Terence Stamp was born in 1938 in Mile End, East London. As a young actor, after his screen debut in Peter Ustinov’s film Billy Budd in the sixties, he was nominated for an Oscar. Another well-known movie he starred in at the time was John Schlesinger’s Far from the Madding Crowd; soon he was a movie icon and was seen around with many beautiful women, including July Christie and Jean Shrimpton. He was even contacted by producer Harry Salzman in 1967 to take over the role of James Bond after Sean Connery stepped out. Terence Stamp remembers with humor, “Like most English actors, I’d have loved to be 007 because I really know how to wear a suit… But I think my ideas about it put the frighteners on Harry. I didn’t get a second call from him.”

He lived in Italy for several years and in 1967/68 worked with Federico Fellini on his ‘Toby Dammit’ section of the Edgar Allan Poe portmanteau film Histoires extraordinaires/Spirits of the Dead and with Pier Paolo Pasolini on Theorem (keystone of the BFI retrospective). It was Fellini who introduced Terence Stamp to J. Krishnamurti in 1968, which sparked his interest in spirituality.

After filming The Mind of Mr. Soames in 1970, movie offers began to cease. In 1975 he filmed Hu-Man which for him “was the only serious film I did [during those years], and that was really independent. We’d get some money, shoot for a few days, use the money, ‘See you a few months later!’ – it was that kind of thing. So I travelled. I thought I’m not going to stay around here facing this day-in-day-out rejection and the phone not ringing… I went from being a lead actor to nothing. I was devastated. My agent told me people were now looking for a young Terence Stamp.”

He went to Egypt and then “wound up in India and that opened a whole new world to me – that was an amazing thing to happen to a young performer. It’s quite widespread now, but to go there as a very young man and to meet great thinkers and great sages and to learn about breathing and movement and the whole canvas of mysticism…”

And then there is a gap – the time he spent at Shree Rajneesh Ashram in Poona where he became Swami Deva Veeten in 1976. It is interesting to note that none of the newspapers mentioned that.

Returning to his acting career in 1978, he played the Kryptonian super villain General Zod in Superman. Nick Curtis, in the London Evening Standard writes, “The ashram filled the gap when work dried up for him in the 1970s, and he was changed after his return. The BFI season feels like a vindication of his decision not to do ‘crap’ films for money, he says. He is philosophical about not having children, and about being single after his six-year marriage to Elizabeth O’Rourke, a Singaporean-Australian pharmacist 35 years his junior, ended in 2008. ‘I was married and I can’t call that a mistake,’ he says. ‘But I am set in my ways. I have never been in a relationship where the silence was mutual. And being lonely for me isn’t the same as other people understand it.’”

In 1979, Peter Brook directed the movie Meetings with Remarkable Men that many of our readers are familiar with. Brook tells the story of Asian mystic G. I. Gurdjieff, with Terence Stamp playing Prince Lubovedsky. Film critic Hal Erickson states that Terence Stamp “briefly retreated from his career after this picture, in favour of Eastern meditation.”

Among his later key movies are The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The Limey, and Bowfinger. His most recent film, Song for Marion, is a touching story about ways of letting go – of life, of self-consciousness, of inhibition, a comedy-drama about death, loss and choral singing. It was nominated for three awards at the 2012 British Independent Film Awards: for Best Actor, Best Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress. At the 2013 Beijing International Film Festival Song for Marion was awarded with Best Actor for Terence Stamp.

Terence Stamp answers questions at the British Film Awards for 2012

Nick Curtis concludes in his article, “The greatest example of how Stamp differs from your average film star is that he is technically homeless. In America, he stays in a friend’s guest house in Ojai, California, or in the New York flat and Hamptons house owned by his brother Chris, who used to manage The Who and Jimi Hendrix, and who died last November. Stamp also has the use of properties in Geneva and Gstaad owned by Chris’ Swiss widow. In London he stays with two friends, in Notting Hill and Knightsbridge, or in hotels: ‘My favourite is the Savoy, but I often can’t afford it,’ he says. ‘The absolute, honest truth is I would love to come back to England, but my taste has exceeded my earning capacity by so much that whenever I see something I like, I am millions short. And I can’t really go back to Plaistow [where he lived as a child], you know.’

“That said, whenever he’s in London, he goes back to what used to be ‘the old Green Street Market’ on Barking Road, which is now ‘Little Bombay’, and the only place he can find a particular mango he got addicted to in India. Last time he visited, a porter greeted him with: ‘Allo Terry, what the f*** are you doin’ here?’ He always walks or takes the bus, and laments the passing of the Routemaster, and the fact that the No 15 doesn’t go as far as it used to.

“‘I feel I’m kind of an urban icon,’ Stamp says, ‘that I’ve earned my place, because, you know, what the English love best is longevity. I will be 75 this July. I am five years away from being 80. That’s ridiculous. But it’s all still working, so I’m delighted.’ He puts on his hat and walks into the Waterloo sunset.”

Way to go, Terence!

Bhagawati, Osho News

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