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osho! part nine

...tired but happy!

osho! part eight

osho! part seven

after 9 days of exploration, we said good bye, and moved onwards into our lives with fresh eyes and open hearts...and a deeper sense of gratitude...

osho! part six

during the last part of the group, louis, who we have known for many years now as a regular participant, suddenly asked to take sannyas.
here’s what his celebration looked like!

our altar

osho! part five

we explored osho’s meditations daily...taking us deeper into silence...

...into celebration...

...and stillness...

...and ecstasy...

osho! part four

...and good friends around you...

osho! part three

it wasn’t all ‘work’ ...

we made time for some tough structures...

hard work - greece looks even more beautiful when seen from the sea

...with the wind in your hair...

...and good friends around you...

osho! part two

I remember deva and i being interviewed for an israeli newspaper, and being surprised when the woman who was asking the questions suddenly said, “...why all the people around you are so happy...?”
“...everyone is smiling - they must be false smiles.”

she didn’t understand.
if she had looked a little deeper into the eyes of the people, she would have seen that their smiles were hard won.
they are not the shallow smiles of ignorance.
they are the smiles of warriors who have come through some heavy times in their lives, and have come to a place of peace within themselves, where they are able to love life, and enjoy it for no other reason than to be alive.
that smile is a smile of newly found innocence.

take a look at werner (above) and rafia here, and paritosho and jayananda (below)....
see what I mean!?

...and brigitte and deva...

...and jerry – who suddenly became darshano on the last morning of the group

this is a robe osho wore.
we brought it to the group as a tribute to him, along with one of his hats, which was gifted to deva and i while we were in the ashram

manartha and deva’s mother viten, donated some books for the group...

osho! part one

hi friends - we just said goodbye to the 45 participants who joined us here in corfu greece for our first full-on osho experience – the way of the white clouds.
it turned out to be much more than any of us expected – as it always does with osho!

rafia, deva and I kept things pretty simple and open, so we could respond daily – momentarily! - to the flow of the group.
our corner stones were dynamic meditation every morning, kundalini meditation every afternoon at 6;30 pm (we spent our afternoons on the beach), and satsang meditation every morning at 10 am.

for us to be sharing osho so directly, and so personally, was a great experience.
we walked the rajors edge between sharing our memories, responding to questions, and helping people not to regret not being there when he was in the body.
(nobody misses, because the master never dies).

of course, many participants knew us from the concerts, so the ground for a trusting relationship was already pretty much in place by the time we began singing ‘we are awakening’ at the beginning of the first session.

being with osho was amazing, but not always easy, and not always pretty.
however, it was totally transformative, and we wanted to give people an opportunity to experience the depth of that by suggesting we look upon the group more as a meditation retreat than a beach holiday.
so much so, we really became one sangha..one heart.

by the third day we were ready for a one-day meditation camp, and so spent the whole day together, diving into a variety of osho’s meditation techniques.
it definitely brought us closer together – and deeper.
after that day, we sailed on, like white clouds.
I chose these pix for you

satsang is always a highlight, and this year we had some great singers amongst us

...especially this one...

I think if I was asked to sum up life with osho, I would show the following pix

ostrava - london part three

partying after the concert – manartha, our cd sales person (and chai wallah), roshan, sakha (sound tec), and friend

we didn’t have much time to hang around after though – the next day we were on the plane to london for the final concert of the tour...
here’s sakha and manose bonding on the plane to england...

I was so happy to be back in london I forgot to take photos!
I saw my brother danny and his wife diana, my little sis, terri and her husband nigel and daughter claire, plus lots of old friends.
we actually had ravi, darpan, sudha, martyn phillips join us on stage for a rousing version of “so much magnificence”...but sadly, no photo!
here is a pic of the concert, taken by champak, one of my former students at the ko hsuan school in england

it was great to see champak and his beautiful wife, chetana.
they have 2 lovely kids, pyaar and devi, who not only came to the concert, but sat quietly and  - as kids do - eventually fell asleep on the floor!

the following day we had time to eat some of chetana’s amazing food – the best rice and dahl in the world!! (she even made puris for us) - and play with the kids

here are the boys hanging out with the laptop...

here’s little devi – such a sweet little flower!

..and then it was time to meet our friends in corfu for ‘the way of the white clouds’ and tantra-mantra!

more on that later...
love!
m