OSHO: The Buddha for the Future
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Osho: The Buddha For the Future, serendipitously arrives in the wake of the explosive release of the Netflix documentary series, ‘Wild Wild Country.’
Author Maneesha James witnessed first hand, and kept a meticulous record of the creation of Osho’s communes and the evolution of his work as they unfolded.
This, the first volume of a trilogy, opens at the ashram in Pune, India, in the early ‘70’s. The reader follows this phase through Osho’s public discourses on many of the ancient masters, the early experimentations with meditation techniques in which the author was personally involved, Osho’s unique partnering of meditation with therapy, the introduction of ‘Zorba the Buddha’ and ‘The Psychology of the Buddhas,’ his energy work, and much more.
Along with her own observations and experiences, Maneesha’s interviews with numerous key players cast a whole new understanding on the remarkable years of Rajneeshpuram in Oregon.
Her account fills in the gaping omissions in the Netflix docuseries – providing an, intimate, in-depth understanding of what it was like to be a modern-day seeker in a contemporary mystery school designed to help realize a daring new vision for humanity, espoused by an iconoclastic spiritual master.
In addition, for those willing and able to look below the hype, the inside story behind the political machinations – both on the part of the commune administrator and the US government – makes for a riveting read.
Osho: The Buddha For the Future provides a valuable testimony to a spiritual master far ahead of his time, and is a remarkable record of the efforts of the most powerful government in the world to silence him.
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Maneesha James. OSHO: The Buddha for the Future
Introduction
Chapter 1: Incredible India
Chapter 2: Experiments with Meditation
Chapter 3: Alchemy in Action
Chapter 4: The Essential Education
Chapter 5: Therapy: Preparing the Soil for Meditation
Chapter 6: Beyond the Stars
Chapter 7: Words—and Spaces In Between
Chapter 8: Celebration
Chapter 9: Egocentricities
Chapter 10: Daily Life and Enchanted Evenings
Chapter 11: Royalty
Chapter 12: Departures
Chapter 13: New Beginnings
Chapter 14: The Guard That Failed
Chapter 15: The Crunch
Chapter 16: Unwelcome
Chapter 17: Controversy
Chapter 18: The AIDS Precautions
Chapter 19: Cleaned Out
Chapter 20: Enlightenment
Chapter 21: Work, Play, and Poisoning
Chapter 22: Taken Over
Chapter 23: Responsibility
Chapter 24: Exhilaration
Chapter 25: Political Idiocy
Chapter 26: Crocodiles
Chapter 27: Poison
Chapter 28: Looking Murder in the Eye
Chapter 29: Exit: Sheela
Chapter 30: Revelations…
Chapter 31: … And More
Chapter 32: Catharsis
Chapter 33: The Lesson
Chapter 34: Whatever Happened to Sheela?
Chapter 35: Dirty Tricks
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OSHO: THE BUDDHA FOR THE FUTURE
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Osho asks me how long I will be staying, to which I hear myself reply, “Six weeks,” as I silently say farewell to the Himalayas. As I return to my place to watch others take the hot seat, a great calmness settles on me like a favorite blanket. At one point Osho instructs a sannyasin to lie on the ground (I can’t recall what her particular problem is) and adds, looking at me, “Maneesha, you sit at her feet.” Another sannyasin sits at her head, and we close our eyes for a moment or so while whatever is to happen, happens. Then it is over and shortly afterward the darshan draws to a close. Osho stands and, turning slowly in a half circle to acknowledge us all, places the palms of his hands together in the traditional gesture of namaste and slowly makes his exit. I slip into the sandals that had been Juliet’s and walk slowly back along the drive with the others into the now dark, October night.
Any of the resistance I’d had about Osho, his “orange people,” the idea of wearing orange clothes and someone’s picture, of being part of a “guru’s” group—the concept of surrender and what seemed to me to be hero worship and a father-fixation—fell away entirely last night. What happened in darshan was something like standing shivering by a pool, wondering if you are really going to jump in or not. Then, without having consciously decided, you find yourself surfacing from the water and only now realize it has happened. If you look back—and once you’re in, who bothers?—all your umming and aahing seems irrelevant and nothing to do with the fact that you’re now lazing languidly in the water as if it were where you were always meant to be.
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