Anjali informs us that there will be a regular weekly meditation on Sunday afternoons (3-5pm - with tea and snacks afterwards) at the new Shubham Meditation Centre in Eltham (South East London). Everybody is welcome! Details...

January 19, 2010 was celebrated as the 20th anniversary of Osho’s leaving His body. Apart from the 21-day Dynamic Marathon and 21-day Evening Satsang, meditators sat in silence at 7.00 pm local time, in different countries, round the clock and around the planet! Close to home, Osho Shubhan Meditation Centre near London had organised a Celebration Day.

Books in the Pipeline: From here and there we have heard of a surprising number of books about to appear in 2010. Most of them are written by UK sannyasins about Osho, sannyas or their work that has been inspired by being with Osho. More..

On the Move: Seems like now is the time for sannyasins to do many things and go to many places! Amazing what people get up to or what happens to them!! We report on all kinds of bits and pieces of news. More...

A Break in the usual Pattern: After making a bit of a speciality of photographing birds in India, Samarpan decided to break the pattern and go to Ethiopia - famous for its birds – instead. The birds here are amongst the most colourful in the world. Have a look..

Other Bits of Gossip: of a none-travelling variety. Just a few gossips about Osho and Centres and literary connections and a few quotes in honour of the 19th January - reaffirming Osho’s place in our hearts. More...

Osho Vipassana Retreat: Leela and Anahato decided to organise a Vipassana Retreat over the New Year weekend, mainly for the community. But suddenly they found the phones ringing and people wanting to come to it and actually booking! In the end about twenty people came to silently welcome in the new decade. More...

A Big Change for Shankara: Shanks has been a kind of fixture at Croydon Hall for a very long time. From electronic failures to fire alarms to curtain rods and the sewage farm Shanks deals with them all! More...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg visited the Osho Meditation Resort in Pune. "The millions of hits on Osho on the internet and numerous references on Facebook seemed to have evoked Zuckerberg’s curiosity and he visited the commune a few days ago," says Amrit Sadhana, spokesperson for the resort. More...

Surendra is planning to create a portfolio of portraits of sannyasins. He is offering to provide one print and a digital file of the image for each participant at no cost. The project will initially involve sannyasins in, or near, the Devon area. More...

Ankur’s London class has moved to a beautiful location in Clapham North to Synchronicity. The classes will resume on 26 Jan when he is back from Pune. More..

Osho in Ashburton (Totnes): starting from the week of 4th January, Karar (with a little help from his friends) will be running the following programme of Osho meditations at Space Upstairs: Dynamic on Mon, Wed, Sat (7-8.15am); Kundalini on Wed (5:30-7pm); various meditations changing weekly (Satsang, Kundalini, Nataraj, Nadabrahma, No-Dimensions, et. al.) on Sundays (6.45pm until after pot luck dinner). Contact details...

A meditation school in central London (close to King’s Cross) is looking for instructors to teach two classes on one night per week (Dynamic, Kundalini, No Dimensions, and Chakra Breathing). Interested? Contact Tina Basi at tina.basi@mehfilenterprise.com

Vivek informs us that he will be offering Osho / Hellinger Family Constellations on a regular basis: on the forth Sunday of each month. This is in Hove (Brighton). His contact details...

More Osho meditations in London: Kundalini on Thursdays in Brethnal Green, East London: Ma Bodhi Priya invites everyone to the weekly meditation held at Bodywise Yoga. Details...

A Somerset Reunion: editor and web designer of OSHOinUK finally met in person for the first time since they started working together for this website. Just shows what you can do in cyperspace! The fact that they had been friends before, and for many years, might have helped the easy data flow between Somerset and Scotland. More...

A Cyberspace Reunion: The welcome team on the Ranch, the so-called ‘Twinkies’, unexpectedly came together in cyberspace, exchanging photos and gossip! Two of them live in the UK. More...

Ankur writes: "We have changed our venue and moved from Holborn to a bigger room for the start of the new term." Full details are on our Places to Meditate page or check out his website.

Yatro, just back from the Osho Summer Celebration at Croydon Hall in Somerset, writes: "Despite the large numbers, the feeling of the whole event to me was of simplicity. Led by the team who live and work at Croydon Hall and many helpers, everything flowed with ease and remarkable efficiency." Read her article...

Michaela, from Austria, has been working at Croydon Hall for the past few months. She recently experienced an Osho Summer Celebration for the first time. This is what she has says about it......

When Deva Premal and Miten sang and played in Wells Cathedral, a wave of light and celebration washed through the hallowed building, touching the hearts of a thousand who had gathered from all over the South East. More...

The news that Croydon Hall has been sold gave us a sense of un-ease, until we heard from Shruti, who remains the General Manager, how the spirit of Osho – in this holistic venue and its community – will be supported by the new owners. Read Shruti’s letter...

A Thanksgiving Celebration 2008 was held on Sunday Nov 23rd at the Buckland in the Moor Village Hall, some 3 miles from Ashburton in South Devon. It brought together about 70 friends from Torquay to Exeter, Totnes to Ashburton, and Taunton to Minehead. More...

On an Osho Greek Odyssey by Yatro. Holographic Transomatic Mandala Self-Healing Intensive with Swami Devageet. More...

This summer saw many Osho festivals and events in the UK – but few of us older adults knew of the K.I.D.S. Reunion which took place in Cornwall at the end of August. More...

At the end of August Osho Leela, in Dorset, held The Ultimate Celebration Festival. A couple of hundred people attended and a great time was had by all. See the photos of the sannyas celebration. More...

A late summer event in the UK was the return of Ma Dharm Jyoti who facilitated three events here, one at Croydon Hall and two in London. (June 2008) More...

Dharm Jyoti rocks the UK The first event was a five-day group at Croydon Hall called The Art of Living and Dying. The second event was a day of meditation at the Osho Sambodhi Centre. (September 2008) More...

The 10th anniversary of Croydon Hall was celebrated with a fun-filled, but meditative long weekend in July. Big changes in the community: Kanta and Shantidas have left and Shruti, Sarita (French) and Leela now form the administrative team.

It is good to remember that the origin of the Guru Purnima celebration is based on the Hindu tradition of visiting one’s Master on the day of the full moon to show our respect and devotion. More...

News from the world

Osho Viha Blog: Avinasho and Dhanyam are excited to explore this new way to connect with Osho’s friends worldwide. They will also offer excerpts from their Viha Connection, the magazine they have been putting out every second month. oshoviha.blogspot.com

Ramana’s Garden, Dwabha’s: project in Rishikesh caring for children in need, is lined up to be featured in the reality show Imagine This, but needs more votes. Read more about this project, log on and leave your comment: www.imaginethistv.com - and watch a video.

Your google searches via oshocomm.com will make your days brighter, even on British winter days! You can make oshocomm.com your home page and read a new Osho quote each time you open your browser. oshocomm.com. Enjoy!

Osho International signed a new agreement with YouTube. The expanded channel allows to upload longer Osho discourses and of better quality (HD). There are now many options to save and forward favourite links as well as subscribe to get regular updates whenever there is a new video here: Osho YouTube Channel. Enjoy!

Ma Prem Leela, one of the first UK sannyasins and the therapist whom Osho asked to set up the Mystic Rose, will be conducting a Mystic Rose and a No-Mind Group, as well as trainings in these meditative therapies, near Dharmsala in 2010. More...

OSHO Talk DVDs are now available for renting on neflix.com. The popular DVD renting web site has now the first 9 titles of The OSHO Collection available for ordering directly to your home. More...

OSHO copyright in USA: Osho International Foundation decided to withdraw the appeal and filed for withdrawal in the Court of Appeals on June 19, 2009. Osho Friends agreed for the withdrawal. Recently the Federal Court released the order dismissing the Appeal. The trademarks of Osho in the US now finally stand cancelled. More...

Record producer John Leckie (Pink Floyd, Radiohead, George Harrison) says: "Osho has many teachings that are relevant to all of us living here and now today. I’m extremely grateful for my time with him." More...

In Sadhana’s blog OSHO Bytes, where she is sharing her articles which appear in major newspapers in India, you can find articles on Osho’s meditations and many of his quotes. Worth a visit. Visit the blog...

Mimi Goldman (University of Oregon) and Osho’s Commune

Sw Deva Rashid Maxwell was invited to speak about the experience of living in Osho’s commune. A seminar on ‘Intentional Communities’ had been arranged by the Emeritus Professor of the Anthropology Department of one of UK’s leading Universities. (May 2009) Here is a clip of part of it...

Veena welcomed Mimi Goldman, Professor of Religious and Social Studies at the University of Oregon to her home in Somerset. In November last year she discovered the book: Controversial New Religions to which Mimi contributed a chapter about Osho and in particular on Rajneeshpuram. (April 2008)

Doing the rounds of the sannyas internet network is a very interesting account of Osho and the sannyas movement – from the beginning to the present day – from a book called Controversial New Religions recently published by Oxford University Press. The chapter on Osho, entitled: ‘When Leaders Dissolve: Considering Controversy and Stagnation in the Osho Rajneesh Movement’, is written by Marion S. Goldman, a professor at the University of Oregon. (November 2007)

Books

Bhagawati sent us this note: "I am sure many of you remember Ma Dharm Jyoti and know about the book she wrote, One Hundred Tales for Ten Thousand Buddhas. So happy to let you know that this book is now available on-line, free of charge, at www.oshoworld.com."

How Zen came to the East

Veena visited Bodhidharma’s Cave during her travels in China. Her dream was to visit the cave where Bodhidharma sat for nine years and then introduced Zen Buddhism to China and the world. More...

Inspired by all the wonders she has seen in her travels – most recently to India and China – Panky is now into filming and film-making in a big way. Her recent documentary on the ChanWuYi Wugulun Kungfu Academy is filmed against the glorious backdrop of the sacred Song Mountain in China. Watch video...

A Journey to the Zen Source is a story by Veena, our editor, about her recent visit to the stunningly beautiful Song Mountain in China. The trip was inspired by the BBC documentary ’Extreme Pilgrim’ which traced the origin of Zen Buddhism, showing the cave where Bodhidharma meditated for 9 years, and how it is practiced today in the San Huang Zhai Monastery. More...

Pankaja’s story of her visit to the Song Mountain (with Veena) from the point of view of her great love: Tai Chi and how touched she was by the ’meditation through movement’ that she saw. Also her amazing walks up the high mountain. More...

Osho, Zen, Dao, China and Meditation: by chance Veena came across an intriguing website where Osho’s references in his discourses to China – people and places – have been mapped. ‘Dao Sites in China’ shows beautiful photos of the Hangu Pass near Lingbao, Henan Province. More... to find out more.

Departures

Neera’a send-off was on Friday 17th April 2009 in Devon. Contributions by Sammoda for the video, Rashid for the text and Mike for the photos. Read Yatro’s profile of Neera and how she became a singer; and Punya’ article: How would apple blossoms sound? (March/April 2009) More...

Pagalo’s Death Celebration was held on the 12th of August in London. Yoga Christopher writes: "It was amazing! More than 150 people attended. It was a wonderful get-together, a real celebration!" (August 2008) More...

Travel Logs

Samarpan tells us of his recent trip to India to oversee the printing of his second book of exquisite bird photographs. He also visited Oshodham in Delhi and the Resort in Pune. More...

Niten visits the Ranch in Oregon, where many of us lived as part of Osho’s commune in the years between 1981 and 1986. His vivid writing compells us to pass it on to you – a lesson in how to live in the present while remembering the past. More...

Sannyasins in the World

NICE approved Mindfulness (MBCT): after being asked by NHS directors in Brighton how to create a world-class healthcare service, Vivek wrote a paper proposing a course which runs as a sandwich between Osho Dynamic and Kundalini. Read more on More...