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Pagalo’s body left him on Wednesday, 6th August at 11:40am. Yoga Christopher tells us that, during his last hours, Shanti was
able to play an Osho discourse on consciousness and some sannyas music to him.
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The death celebration will take place NEW TIME AND VENUE: 14:00 Tuesday 12th August, City Of London Cemetery &
Crematorium, Aldersbrook Road, London E12 5DQ. Our sannyasin musician Tarisha has been invited to play during the ceremony.
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Osho on the Body
The body is only a temporary house,
a caravanserai, an overnight stay.
In the morning we have to go.
But consciousness is the eternal pilgrim,
a journey without any beginning
and without any end.
It is a journey of dances
and songs and music and poetry,
a festive journey,
a ceremony without any reason.
Just being is enough.
Osho, Zen: The Diamond Thunderbolt
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Tarisha’s new CD
Carry Me Home has just come out and she is offering the title track as a free gift to all our readers.
Tarisha is a member of the newly formed band called Presence, who played at the Croydon Hall Summer Festival.
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Another gift for our readers: the third instalment of the serialisation of A Seam for the Master by
Veena, our editor. She tells us the story of how she suggested to improve the sleaves of Osho's robes and had to replace the sleaves on
all his robes overnight.
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The 10th anniversary of Croydon Hall was celebrated with a fun-filled, but meditative long weekend in July.
Big changes in the community: Kanta and Shantidas have left and Shruti, Sarita (French) and Leela now form the administrative
team.
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Devika’s book: Love Song for Osho: "A beautifully written account of one sannyasin’s
spiritual journey starting way back in the early 70's. Her style of writing is clear and poetical and makes
for very easy and enjoyable reading." Read Veena's review...
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The Forgotten Language of Talking to the Body and Mind (one of Osho's Meditative Therapies) will be part of a meditation
week at Croydon Hall, run by Nikhila Ludlow from 29 Sep - 5 Oct.
Read Nikhila's introduction...
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Tara and Vijan got married on the island of Bimini in the Bahamas two weeks ago.
Many visitors to Croydon Hall will remember them. They worked there on and off for the last four years.
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Osho on Tibet
China conquered Tibet. One of the most significant countries in the world – small and poor, at the highest mountains, it was
called "the roof of the world," and it has for centuries been devoting itself only to meditation. A singular country in the
whole world – for centuries, continuously, it had only one desire: how to know oneself. It had no armies, it never invaded anyone;
it had no desire like that, uncivilized, barbarious. It was primitive, but I will still say Tibet was the most civilized country, the most cultured.
China invaded Tibet – Tibet had no arms, no armies. China crushed the poor Tibetans under machine guns, trampled their monasteries.
Dalai Lama, the head of Tibet politically and religiously both, had no other way than to take refuge in the Indian part of Himalayas, in
Dharamsala. Since then he has been living there with the thousands of Tibetans who have come with him.
It is a very sad affair to say that nobody in the whole world even protested that an innocent country, which has never invaded and had
never shown any desire to invade anybody, should be simply taken over because another country has power. It seems our whole civilization
is a pretension; our whole talk about freedom and independence are mere words. Not only that, nobody raised a voice against China. Just now,
Rajiv Gandhi has said, "Tibet is China's internal affair."
It seems the law of the jungle still prevails. The bigger fish goes on eating the smaller fish – no protest.
excerpt from Osho, No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter #8 (2 January 1989)
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