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We have addressed the basic question “Should Men Be Allowed to Serve in the Military?”

The record is abundantly clear that the male mind, as currently programmed by today’s societies, is simply too dangerous to be allowed to continue his violent rapacious antics across a nuclear-armed planet.

While we move towards a world where conscious cooperation replaces unconscious competition, will women be any less likely to blow Planet Earth to smithereens?

4 min readThere seems to be a constant manipulation by politicians and the news media to create fear. For example, I only just discovered that in the US I am ten times more likely to die from choking on my food than from any form of terrorism. What is behind all this?
“Everybody you have come in contact with has been imposing fear on you, because fear is the antithesis of freedom. The more fear you have in you, the less is the possibility of freedom. The more fear is there, the less is the possibility of rebellion.

8 min readOsho,
Why have men done everything possible to block the progress of women, including our spirituality?

4 min readOsho,
Can you please comment on this beautiful poem by Rumi that I love so much:
“Outside, the freezing desert night. This other night inside grows warm, kindling. Let the landscape be covered with thorny crust. We have a soft garden in here. The continents blasted, cities and little towns, everything becomes a scorched blackened ball. The news we hear is full of grief for that future. But the real news inside here is there’s no news at all.”

6 min readOnce upon a time, a scientist discovered that the basic response of human beings to threats and stress was “fight or flight.” For the next eighty-five years, till 2000, that understanding was cemented by obtaining the same results from studies on animals.
You wouldn’t want to be standing up at an international conference on stress questioning something so firmly established as that!

7 min readOsho,
I want to defend my male race. Existence gave man the capacity to fight against existence, to swim against the stream, to be a doer, to say no. Hearing you and your therapists, I tried to drop this and this effort to drop only gave me misery. I don’t believe existence made me a man in order to become female without ever blossoming into the full potential of my maleness, of my mind. Please comment.

14 min read

“These people like Mother Teresa, who have been helping the poor for centuries, are really the causes for poverty continuing. The poor cannot be helped the way Mother Teresa is helping. This is not help, this is politics, because all those orphans she helps are transformed, converted into Catholic Christianity.

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Osho,
In these times of uncertainty, many people are feeling very disturbed and afraid of change. What would you say to them?

“There are no ‘times of uncertainty’ because time is always uncertain.

3 min read

“One of the most fundamental things to be always remembered is that we are living in a hypocrite society.

“Once, a great philosopher was asked: ‘What do you think of civilization?’ The philosopher said, ‘It is a good idea, but somebody has to change the idea into a reality. Civilization has not happened yet. It is a dream of the future.’

11 min readOn 19 May 1989 Amrito, Osho’s personal physician, Anando, Osho’s secretary and Neelam, Osho’s secretary for India, share, in a General Meeting in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, the latest news about Osho’s health and his plans for the expansion of his work.
AMRITO
So, good evening everybody.