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Embracing Joy & Depth—The Osho Monsoon Meditation Festival 2025

As the lush monsoon rains baptized Pune in emerald splendor, the Osho International Meditation Resort hosted seekers from around the world to its annual Monsoon Meditation Festival, running from August 11–15, 2025—a profound blend of meditation, music, movement, and spiritual celebration – A Harmonious Blend of Meditation & Celebration.

The Power of Presence: Simple Mindfulness Practices to Anchor You in the Moment

In our fast-paced world, it’s easy to get swept away by the current of to-do lists, future worries, and past regrets. We often find ourselves living on autopilot, missing the richness of the present moment. Yet, the ability to be truly present, to fully experience this moment, is a profound source of peace, clarity, and…

Krishnamurti vs Osho: A Comparison of Spiritual Teachings

Jiddu Krishnamurti and Osho (formerly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) were two of the most influential and, at times, controversial spiritual teachers of the 20th century. While both emphasized individual liberation and a departure from dogma, their approaches and the nature of their teachings differed significantly. Here’s a comparison of their key ideas:

The Death Meditation Technique ~ As explained by Buddha

There are multiple meditation techniques used by Seekers to evolve and practice Meditation. Here is a Death Meditation Technique as explained by Buddha. He Takes us through the exact steps of the Death Meditation Technique and allows us to experience the same ourselves.

Quotes of J Krishnamurti on Choiceless Awareness

Jiddu Krishnamurti’s teachings on choiceless awareness emphasize observing life without any form of selection, preference, or judgment. 

Below are select quotes where Krishnamurti explains how to practice choiceless awareness. Choiceless awareness of the manner of your approach will bring right relationship with the problem. The problem is self-created, so there must be self-knowledge.

Jiddu Krishnamurti on what is Meditation and how to Meditate

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower. If you cultivate humility, it ceases to be. Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to…

Depression – Why it Happens, How it works and how to deal with it

We have heard of this term often – Friends, family, celebrities, it spares no-one and is often met with a clueless ‘What should one do now’ fear of what can happen next.

With my understanding of spirituality and the workings of Depression, here is what i would recommend anyone affected by ‘Depression’ to understand.

The…

Osho on the exact process for the Watchfulness meditation

When I say watch, don’t TRY to watch, otherwise you will become tense again, and you will start concentrating on the breath. Simply relax, remain relaxed, loose, and look…because what else can you do? You are there, nothing to be done, everything accepted, nothing to be denied, rejected, no struggle, no fight no conflict, breathing…

How Vipassana can help break the habit pattern of the mind ~ S.N.Goenka

You have started changing the habit pattern of your mind by observing sensation and understanding its nature of impermanence. This stops the blind habit pattern of reacting to the sensation and multiplying the vicious cycle of misery.

Initially in an hour you get a few seconds or a few minutes of not reacting. But…

Osho quotes on how to use Sex as a Meditation

In fact, the sex act is not really a dialogue between a man and a woman. It is a dialogue of man with nature, through woman, and of a woman with nature, through man. It is a dialogue with nature. For a moment you are in the cosmic flow; you are in the celestial harmony;…

Deep Meditation is an experience of Death in life ~ Osho

You come to your innermost center where there is only pure awareness. That pure awareness will be with you when you die because that cannot be taken away. All these other things which can be taken away, we take away with our own hands in meditation.

Breath is the first action ~ but it is not Your action ~ Osho

And then the ninth, the last, arises: the need for spiritual activity – meditation, SAMADHI.

And this is the beauty of the whole phenomenon – that the ninth is again the first, because the ninth again pays attention to breath.

The circle is complete. First is breath, ninth is again breath; that’s why no…

Is it possible to Meditate without any technique? ~ Osho

But what are you going to do with your mind? Your mind will create a thousand and one difficulties. Those techniques are needed to remove the mind from the way, to create a space in which the mind becomes quiet, silent, almost absent.

The four parts of the Mind ~ S.N. Goenka

In the referenced video, S.N. Goenka goes on to explain the four different parts of the mind.

1. Vinnyana or Consciousness 2. Sanya or Perception 3. Vedhana or Sensation 4. Sankhara or Reaction

Knowing and loving the ~ Energy Body ~ Select quotes from Jane Klein

We must look at our body completely objectively, as we look at a tree or a table or any object which does not have a strong psychological impact on us. We will then feel, without comment, the weight, contraction, agitation, and so on.

We accept the facts without psychological: interference. In accepting the sensation…

Osho on how to live your life

“The best way to miss life is to have a certain attitude towards it. The attitudes originate in the mind, and life is beyond mind. The attitudes are our fabrications, our prejudices, our inventions. Life is not our fabrication; on the contrary we are just ripples in the lake of life” Osho

Osho on seeing things just as they are

“Start seeing things without naming them, without labeling them, without saying good or bad, without dividing them. Just see and allow the fact to be there in your presence without any judgement, condemnation, appreciation, whatsoever ~ Osho

Osho on Depression ~ When Depressed, be Depressed

“When depressed, be depressed. Simply be depressed. Don’t get depressed about your depression. When depressed, simply be depressed. Don’t fight it, don’t create any diversion; don’t force it to go. Just allow it to happen, it will go by itself. Life is a flux, nothing remains. You are not needed: the river moves by itself,…

Gibberish Meditation by Osho

“I am dealing with the contemporary man, who is the most restless being that has ever evolved on the earth. But people do become silent; you just have to allow them to throw out their madness, insanity, then they themselves become silent.”  Osho

Mystic Rose Meditation by Osho

“All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of all the inhibitions of the past. Laughter and tears can do both. Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy.”

Osho

The Power of Now – A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment ~ By Eckhart Tolle

Being is the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death. However, Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true…

Autobiography of a Yogi : Paramahansa Yogananda

“The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.”

“You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra;…

The Art of Happiness ~ by Dalai Lama

“On the other hand, you can have another person enjoying a similar economic status and financial success, but at the same time, that person is warm and affectionate and has a feeling of compassion. Because that person has another source of worth, another source that gives him or her a sense of dignity, another anchor,…

Jeff Foster ~ This is not a Teaching and I am not a Teacher

“The word “depressed” is spoken phonetically as “deep rest”. We can view depression not as a mental illness, but on a deeper level, as a profound, and very misunderstood, state of deep rest, entered into when we are completely exhausted by the weight of our own identity.”

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle

The book details human abnormality, greed, stress, and the cruelty we force on each other. It also sheds light on mankind’s lost efforts to discover life’s aim and meaning through belongings and toxic relationships. It states that thoughts can have a strong and useful “effect on the healing process”. This puts forth the idea of…

Ram Dass ~ Be Love Now ~ A Biography

His narrations are powered enough to influence anyone to lead a beautiful life. His words always mention the importance of leading a Satvik life, the power of yoga, meditation. Leading a comfortable life is way better than a luxurious life. If you consider money as the only way to get comfortable, then you are missing…

Siddhartha ~ By Hermann Hesse

“But be warned, oh seeker of knowledge, of the thicket of opinions and of arguing about words. There is nothing to opinions, they may be beautiful or ugly, smart or foolish, everyone can support them or discard them. But the teachings, you’ve heard from me, are no opinion, and their goal is not to explain…

The Diamond in Your Pocket ~ By Gangaji

Gangaji grants everyone an easy, captivating message: “stop all movement of your mind away from the truth so that you can discover directly, for yourself, this jewel that is alive within you”. “In a little instant”, “and without a single asana!”, “any of us can wake up to who we truly are. Gangaji challenges us…

Be Here Now ~ By Ram Dass

Get in the habit of remaining silent for a few hours a day. This is most easily done when one is at home or around people who understand what you are trying to do. (In India if you are silent everyone immediately says, “Ah, Mourn/’ and honors you.

In the West, people either interpret…

Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

Arranging thoughts in the order of value, the `I’-thought is the all-important thought. Personality-idea or thought is also the root or the stem of all other thoughts, since each idea or thought arises only as someone’s thought and is not known to exist independently of the ego. The ego therefore exhibits thought activity.

The…

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other. Long and short define each other. High and low depend on each other. Before and after follow each other.

The Master…

Sex Matters: From Sex to Super consciousness by Osho

Osho describes the true meaning of love. He partakes that Sex is a requisite attraction. It has to be recognized as a regular and common physiological activity. Society has denounced it a lot which has led to corruption and suppression. In actuality, sex provides the first flash of Samadhi, of no-thought. The same spirit of…

Alan Watts ~ A Man of Zen

The LA Times wrote the following about him: “Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Alan Watts had the rare gift of writing beautifully the un-writable. Watts began with scholarship and intellect and proceeded with art and eloquence to the frontiers of the spirit. A fascinating entry into the deepest ways…

Osho Meditation ~ Using Imagination

First thing in the morning, imagine yourself tremendously happy. Get out of bed in a very happy mood – radiant, bubbling, expectant – as if something perfect, of infinite value, is going to happen today. Get out of the bed in a very positive and hopeful mood, with the feeling that this day is not…

Quick Meditation ~ Throwing Things Out

Throwing Things Out ~ Whenever you feel that the mind is not tranquil- tense, worried, Chattering, Anxious, Constantly dreaming –

Do one thing, first exhale deeply.

Quick Meditation ~ Gibberish

Gibberish ~ Duration: 20- 31 minutes

Step 1: Close your eyes and allow any nonsense sound. Then allow it to take any route it likes – you are not to do it. One sound will lead to another by Association. Sometimes it will stop because you are breathing; there will be gaps. So do…

Ram Dass ~ Spreading Light

“The more conscious a being becomes, the more he can use any occupation as a vehicle for spreading light.” – Ram Dass

Ram Dass ~ Wisdom

“Each of us finds his unique vehicles for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.” – Ram Dass

Quick Meditation ~ Blankness

In a state of sincerity, Try to reverse think about all the thoughts that you have had in the past half hour. Keep going backwards until you reach a state of blankness, Stay with it and repeat it – The Blank state will keep becoming longer.

Quick Meditation ~ Observe

Lift your Hand calmly. Now observe the Hand. And try to reach the ultimate observer who is observing everything.

Quick Meditation ~ Who am I?

Ask yourself in a state of relaxation and sincerity, Am I the Body? Am I the Thoughts/Emotions/Feelings? Am I the Brain? Who Am I?

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