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Osho Biography 2

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After his enlightenment at the age of twenty-one, Osho completed his academic studies and spent several years teaching philosophy at the University of Jabalpur. Meanwhile,he traveled throughout India giving talks, challenging orthodox religious leaders in public debate and meeting people from all walks of life.
By the late 1960s Osho had begun to develop his unique dynamic meditation techniques. Modern man, he says, is so burdened with the outmoded traditions of the past and the anxieties of modern-day living that he must go through a deep cleansing process before he can hope to discover the thoughtless,relaxed state of meditation. He began to hold meditation camps around India. In the early 1970s, the first Westerners began to hear of Osho, and joined the growing numbers of Indians who had been initiated by him into Neo-sannyas.
By 1974 a commune had been established around Osho in Poona, India, and the trickle of visitors from the West was soon to become a flood. By the end of the 1970s the commune in Poona housed the largest therapy and growth center in the world, and thousands of people were coming to participate in therapy groups and meditations, to sit with Osho in his daily morning discourses and evening darsans, and to contribute to the life of the commune.

Between 1981 and 1985, the communal experiment found itself in the United States, on a 126-square-mile section of high desert in eastern Oregon. The primary emphasis of commune life was the work of building the City of an "oasis in the desert." Meditation and therapy programs in Rajneeshpuram were carried on by Rajneesh International Meditation University. Longer courses and trainings were developed and attracted a broader range of participants.

By the end of 1985, however, local and government opposition to Osho and the commune had made it impossible for the experiment to continue. The commune was disbanded, and Osho embarked on a world tour. In mid-1986 he returned to India. By January 1987, Osho had resettled in Poona, giving talks twice a day.

Within a few months the Poona commune had begun a full program of activities and was expanding far beyond its previous scope. More and more people were coming from the East - from Japan, particularly - and their presence brought a corresponding enrichment of the healing and martial arts programs.

The diversification and expansion was reflected in Osho's choice of the name "Multiversity" as an umbrella for all the programs. And the emphasis on meditation grew even stronger - it is a constantly recurring theme in Osho's discourses, and he developed and introduced several new meditative therapies, including No-Mind, the Mystic Rose, and Born Again.

From the middle of 1987 onwards, Osho's fragile health often prevented him from giving discourses. In April of 1989 he delivered his last discourse, answering questions and commenting on Zen sutras. In the following months, whenever his health permitted he appear in the evening to sit with his disciples in a meditation of music and silence.
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