How did your love affair with the Movements start? Back in 1989 Osho asked me to watch the last ten minutes of the movie “Meetings with Remarkable Men” (by Peter Brook and Mme Jeanne De Salzmann) and find the keys hidden behind the Gurdjieff Movements. Little did I...
Osho Vipassana retreats combine traditional Vipassana meditation with Osho’s active meditations. These retreats are specifically designed for the modern man and woman, adapted to our hectic lifestyles where we are so often emotionally absent. Living in dreams...
Creativity never follows any pattern – it comes out of chaos. Unless a person is ready to be chaotic, he cannot be creative. That’s why many people cannot be creative because they cannot gather courage to allow chaos in their being. They go on controlling...
Raman used to give a technique to his disciples: they were just to enquire, “Who am I?” In Tibet they use a similar technique, but better than Raman’s. They don’t ask, “Who am I?” They ask, “Where am I?” – because the who can create a problem. When you enquire, “Who...
It is agonizing, because if you go deep into it, it creates the greatest ecstasy possible… but the way to ecstasy goes through agony. It is agonizing because the moment you ask, ‘Who am I?’ you become aware that you don’t know. Not knowing is...
How to encourage active humming to support well-being – of course, besides the important non-activity, silence. Do we make enough noise? In most traditional and “primitive” societies, there is far more talking, shouting, singing, laughing and general human noise in...
Laugh, Cry, and Let the Scars of the Past Be Dissolved in Silence For 21 days, laugh for 3 hours a day for 7 days, cry for 3 hours a day for 7 days, and then sit silently, for 3 hours a day for 7 days. Whenever any experience is not fully lived in the moment, it...