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Osho

Osho (born Chandra Mohan Jain), also known as Acharya Rajneesh, and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, was an Indian mystic, and founder of the Rajneesh movement. He is one of the most provocative, and inspiring spiritual leaders of the twentieth century.

Osho rejected institutional religions and stressed the importance of free-thinking, meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity, and humor — qualities he felt were suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious dogmas and traditions, and socialization. Advocating a more open attitude toward human sexuality, he sparked controversy in India in the late 1960s and gained a reputation as a "sex guru", and as the "Rolls-Royce guru" in the United States.

Osho has found more acclaim in his homeland since his death than he did while alive. In 1991, an Indian newspaper counted Rajneesh the ten people who had most changed India's destiny, along with figures such as Gautama Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi. Osho also has been described by the Sunday Times in London as one of the "1000 Makers of the 20th Century". His teachings have had an impact on Western New Age thought.

Osho's entire works have been placed in the Library of India's National Parliament in New Delhi. Over 650 books are credited to Rajneesh, expressing his views on all facets of human existence. Virtually all of them are renderings of his taped discourses.

Rajneesh continues to be known and published worldwide in the area of meditation and his work also includes social and political commentary. The Osho International Foundation runs stress management seminars for corporate clients such as IBM and BMW.

The Osho phenomenon continues to live its own life. In Italy, a satirical Facebook page called Le più belle frasi di Osho featured photos of Osho with humorous captions about national politics. The page was launched in 2016 and quickly reached one million followers, becoming a cultural anomaly in the country.

Photo credit: www.osho.com
years of life: 11 December 1931 19 January 1990

Books

Quotes

Shubhendu Kumarhas quotedlast year
Paracelsus used to say, “Until we know the state of your inner harmony, we can at the most release you from your illness – because your inner harmony is the source of your health. But when we release you from one illness, you will immediately catch another, because nothing has been done with regard to your inner harmony. The fact of the matter is that it is your inner harmony which must be supported.”
Shubhendu Kumarhas quotedlast year
Western medical science has viewed man as a separate unit – apart from nature. That is one of the biggest errors that has been committed. Man is part of nature; his health is nothing but being at ease with nature.

Western medicine takes a mechanical view of man, so wherever mechanics can be successful, it is successful. But man is not a machine; man is an organic unity, and man needs not only the treatment of the part that is sick. The sick part is only a symptom that the whole organism is going through difficulties. The sick part is
Shubhendu Kumarhas quotedlast year
only showing it because it is the weakest.

You treat the sick part, you are successful...but then somewhere else the disease appears. You have prevented the disease from expressing itself through the sick part; you have made that part stronger. But you do not understand that man is a whole: either he is sick or he is healthy, there is no station between the two. He should be taken as a whole organism. I will give you a few examples which can make it clear to you.

Acupuncture was developed in China nearabout seven thousand years ago by accident. A hunter was trying to kill a deer, but as his arrow was moving towards the deer, a man not knowing what was happening came in between and the arrow hit the man’s leg. The man had been suffering from migraine his whole life; the moment the arrow hit his leg, the migraine disappeared. This was very strange. Nobody had thought about it in that way.

Out of that accident the whole of acupuncture developed, and developed
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