Colours of the Rainbow
Osho gives to a sannyasin a name for a new center during a one-to-one interview (darshan).
I will give you a name for whenever you go. The name: indiradhan. It means the rainbow. Dhan means bow and indira in Indian mythology is the God of clouds, rain, thunder, light-ning. So the rainbow is his bow, Indira's bow.
And I give it this name - indiradhan - because it will be very very representative of my attitude towards life. I accept all colours. I am not in any way negative towards anything. This is a totally positive approach. From the lowest to the highest rung - everything has to be accepted and enjoyed and man has to become a meeting of heaven and earth. A rainbow is a meeting of heaven and earth - a bridge, and with all the colours.
Religion has become very colourless in the past. It has lost dance, song, poetry. It became just dry, dead theology. Life has to be infused into it again, so it must be life-affirmative. It must not be life-negative and anti-life. It must affirm and enhance life in every way. It must be creative. It should not call anything 'sin'. Yes, errors there are. Errors, yes, mistakes, yes, failures, yes - but there is no sin.
There are people who miss heaven, but there is no hell. At the most you can miss heaven, that's all. That's enough punishment. What more is needed?
excerpt from Osho, Dance Your Way to God (a darshan diary)
Yatro writes about her
Osho Greek Odyssey
after participating in a week-long workshop called
Holographic Transomatic Mandala Self-Healing Intensive
on the Island of Aegina. Devageet, who was Osho's dentist
for many years and who has created this process, ran the course.
Read the article...
BBC presenter Kate Silverton will be receiving a double one2one session on mindfulness by
Susann Herrmann of London Meditation in preparation for a programme investigating possible
links between stress, cortisol, noradrenalin levels and sleep and if certain relaxation techniques
can combat stress and help people find sleep.
Kate Silverton will be the presenter and Dr Angela Clow from Westminster University the interviewed expert.
London Meditation also offers regular Osho Active Meditations: a drop-in
evening class on Mondays, sitting meditations on Saturday mornings
and Dynamic also on Saturday mornings.
website: www.london-meditation.co.uk
From Osho Sambodhi Meditation Centre in Welling, Kent, we hear that every first Sunday of the month
they organise a meditation day from 10am til 7pm. These are their upcoming events: 15 Nov - Osho Meditation
Half Day (2-7 pm), 7 Dec - Full Day Osho Meditation Day (10am-7pm) and Osho's Birthday Celebration on 11 Dec
(10am-7pm). Bookmark their new, regularly updated, webpage:
oshosambodhi.googlepages.com
We hear from Bhagawati that Mutribo – who studied languages and
film making in London but who we best know as the most unobtrusive cameraman of Osho's discourses –
organises, from the top of the world, three incredible journeys for 2009: one to Tibet and two to Bhutan.
Check out his website to book your space – or just to enjoy the awesome views:
www.mutribo.com.
Another place to watch Osho discourse excerpt on-line is
www.videosurf.com.
Quite a nice selection:
Impressions while visiting the
Osho Meditation Resort in Pune or
OSHO: Jealousy - society's device to divide and rule, and many more videos to explore...
In another email, Bhagawati sends us a
Letter by Niten who recently visited the
Ranch in Oregon, where many of us lived as part of Osho's commune in the years between 1981 and 1986. His vivid writing
compells us to pass it on to you – a lesson in how to live in the present while remembering the past.
More....
I you live at one end of this beautiful, but cold island,
somewhere close to Penzance, do not miss the
Osho Active Meditations Day
on 16th November (Sun). Archa and Sans invite everybody to participate! Details...
Osho Active Meditations continue at the
London College of Spirituality in Holborn, Central London: every Tuesday (7:15 - 9pm) until 2 Dec 2008.
Reserve your place online via meetup:
londoncollegeofspirituality.co.uk.
For the November issue of Woman & Home, Susann Herrmann of
London Meditation was interviewed by health writer Anna Magee for her article
7 drug-free ways to beat depression. One of the seven tips is
meditation, "mindfulness" meditation - a non-religious
technique that simply focuses on the breath and the moment.
You can read the article in this
PDF file, which Susann
kindly sent to us, read it
here on-line or in the magazine under the column 'Alternative Health'.
The Tiny Meditation: Alert to the Third Eye
It is only a matter of fixing one's thinking on the point which lies exactly between the two eyes. Then all is well. The light is something extremely mobile. When one fixes the thought on the mid-point between the two eyes, the light streams in of its own accord."Remember, not concentrating but just remaining alert, just a slight alertness. Look at the tip of the nose and remain slightly alert to the third eye. In fact, the moment you look at the tip of the nose you will become alert to the third eye, because that is the other pole of the nose. One pole, the outer pole, is the tip, the end; the other end of the nose is joined with the third eye. The moment you become aware of the tip you will suddenly become aware of the other end too. But just remain aware, effortlessly aware. You need not be worried. Just open the window and wait. Light is such a moving phenomenon that if the window is open it is going to move in. In fact, it has been knocking on the window for many many lives, but the window has not opened and it cannot force it open.
Osho – quote thanks to mySamasati, the daily Osho quote
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