If you cannot view this page, please click here   Newsletter November, 2016     “We have been taught to struggle, to compete – and how can friendship exist with a competitive mind? How can friendship exist when you are ambitious? “So the priests and the politicians go on talking about friendship – and only enmity exists in the world. Only enmity can exist if you teach competition, ambition. So everybody goes on pretending friendship, and deep down everybody is antagonistic to everybody else. “How can you feel friendly with a person who is a competitor with you in the world?” Osho, Blessed Are the Ignorant   "For five thousand years the politician and the priest have been in the same business.” "You have to be aware who the real criminals are. The problem is that those criminals are thought to be great leaders, sages, saints, mahatmas. So I have to expose all these people because they are the causes. For example, it is easier to understand that perhaps politicians are the causes of many problems: wars, murders, massacres, burning people. It is more difficult when it comes to religious leaders because nobody has raised his hand against them. They have remained respectable for centuries, and as time goes on their respectability goes on growing. The most difficult job for me is to make you aware that these people – knowingly or unknowingly, that does not matter – have created this world.”   Book       Coming Soon                     Finding Your Own Voice “You are carrying a still, small voice of your own, unheard, and in the crowd of voices that have been imposed upon you, it is almost impossible to find it. First you will have to get rid of all those noises, attain a certain quality of silence, peace, serenity. Only then will it come, as a surprise, that you also have your own voice. It was always there like an undercurrent.” Osho         Vivien, Taiwan Even with ample travel experience and having worked with people of different cultural backgrounds, coming to India (a part of the world that I am utterly unfamiliar with) for the first time and participating in the Creative Living program for one month is one of the bravest decisions I have ever made. Coming from my professional background in a Human Resource Management function, which is emotionally loaded and requires constant interaction with people, the work in the Living In office is a.…         How Would You Like to Listen to the Same Joke? “The experience of meditation is the only unique experience in life. Everything else is repetitive. Meditation is never repeated, because it is forever.” Osho                           OSHO Times Is Now a Regular Feature of the World-Famous Huffington Post Why Are We So Idiotic? “Nobody has looked into the deeper layers of how society has functioned up to now. But the way it has functioned can only be described as utterly criminal. Society needs categories, hierarchies. It has always been a competitive society, and the very idea of competition is dangerous to human beings. You call one man an idiot only in comparison – in comparison to someone who seems to be intelligent.” Osho   The Times of India’s The Speaking Tree: “Do Not Repress, Only Enjoy” Quantity at a certain point brings a new quality, says Osho                           POPULAR LINKS Zen Tarot / Horoscope Meditation / Library Meditation Resort Multiversity Newsletter Archives Contact Us   FAQs about Living In FAQs about Visiting FAQs about Meditation FAQs about iOSHO Shop All about Osho Subscribe or Unsubscribe CONNECT © 2016 OSHO International Copyright & Trademark Information   November, 2016 Newsletter OSHO International Waterfront Business Centre, No 5, Lapps Key, Cork, Ireland Would you like to send this email to a friend?