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Osho and developed
Among contemporary Indian philosophers, Osho and J. Krishnamurti developed their own schools of thought.

Osho and other
Osho lived in a trailer next to a covered swimming pool and other amenities.
Nevertheless Gordon ( 1987 ) reports that Charles Turner, David Frohnmayer and other law enforcement officials, who had surveyed affidavits never released publicly and who listened to hundreds of hours of tape recordings, insinuated to him that Osho was guilty of more crimes than those for which he was eventually prosecuted.
On 23 October 1985, a federal grand jury issued a thirty-five-count indictment charging Osho and several other disciples with conspiracy to evade immigration laws.
In this respect Osho is similar to other counter-culture gurus, and perhaps even certain postmodern and deconstructional thinkers.
The work was known, appreciated and quoted by Ramakrishna and his disciple Vivekananda, as well as by other well known gurus such as Sant Shri Asaramji Bapu, Swami Chinmayananda, Ramana Maharshi, Osho and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
" In 2002, the German government was held by Germany's Federal Constitutional Court to have defamed the Osho movement by referring to it, among other things, as a " destructive cult ".
Urban and other commentators to refer collectively to persons inspired by the Indian mystic Osho ( formerly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, 1931 – 1990 ), particularly initiated disciples who are referred to as " neo-sannyasins " or simply " sannyasins.

Osho and meditation
At a public meditation event in spring 1970, Osho presented his Dynamic Meditation method for the first time.
Osho devised new " meditation therapy " methods such as the " Mystic Rose " and began to lead meditations in his discourses after a gap of more than ten years.
Osho presented meditation not just as a practice but as a state of awareness to be maintained in every moment, a total awareness that awakens the individual from the sleep of mechanical responses conditioned by beliefs and expectations.
Osho believed such cathartic methods were necessary, since it was difficult for modern people to just sit and enter meditation.
Nirmala Srivastava was known to have been concerned with the damage being done to society by ' false gurus ' and because of this visited a meditation camp in Nargol that was presided over by Rajneesh ( later known as Osho ).
He attracted the attention of western writers such as Paul Reps, whose rendering of the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, later used by Osho, brought Lakshman Joo and the meditation methods of his school to international prominence, and Miguel Serrano, the Chilean mystical writer.
A few of the meditation centres in and around Najafgarh are Ashram of Sant Sri Asaramji Bapu, Osho Dham ( of Guru Rajneesh ), Ashram of Sudhanshu Ji Maharaj at Bakkarwala, Nirmal Dham of Nirmala Devi.
By 1964 a group of wealthy backers had initiated an educational trust to support Osho and aid in the running of meditation retreats.
University of Jabalpur officials forced Osho to resign in 1966, and he shifted his attention to his role as a spiritual teacher, supporting himself through lectures, meditation camps and, for his wealthier followers, private counselling ( Darśana or Darshan — meaning " sight ").
In 2009, she stated that she had become a fan of Osho, his books and meditation techniques, which she had discovered a few years earlier.

Osho and such
A few later said that, while Osho was not directly involved, they discussed such plans and activities with him in darshan and he gave his blessing.
On 10 April 1981, having discoursed daily for nearly 15 years, Osho entered a three-and-a-half-year period of self-imposed public silence, and satsangs — silent sitting with music and readings from spiritual works such as Khalil Gibran's The Prophet or the Isha Upanishad — replaced discourses.
Osho believed humanity was threatened with extinction due to over-population, impending nuclear holocaust and diseases such as AIDS, and thought many of society's ills could be remedied by scientific means.
Osho also spoke in favor of euthanasia of children with a broad variety of birth defects such as blindness, deafness, and dumbness.
Teachers such as Osho and Anandmurti Gurumaa define yoga-nidra as a state of conscious deep sleep.

Osho and Kundalini
According to Osho, the Gurdjieff system is incomplete, drawing from Dervish sources inimical to Kundalini.

Osho and which
Osho suggested that first the various nations should become meritocracies, after which they can all be joined to form a global meritocracy.
To decide which therapies to participate in, visitors either consulted Osho or made selections according to their own preferences.
Commune administrators tried to resolve Osho's own difficulty in this respect by declaring him the head of a religion, " Rajneeshism ": in November 1981 Osho applied for residence as a religious worker, which was refused on the grounds that he could not lead a religion while unwell and in silence.
On 16 September 1985, a few days after Sheela and her entire management team had suddenly left the commune for Europe, Osho held a press conference in which he labelled Sheela and her associates a " gang of fascists.
" Sheela initiated attempts to murder Osho's caretaker and girlfriend, Ma Yoga Vivek, and his personal physician, Swami Devaraj ( Dr. George Meredith ), because she felt they were a threat to Osho ; she had secretly recorded a conversation between Devaraj and Osho " in which the doctor agreed to obtain drugs the guru wanted to ensure a peaceful death if he decided to take his own life.
After initially pleading " not guilty " to all charges and being released on bail Osho, on the advice of his lawyers, entered an " Alford plea "— a type of guilty plea through which a suspect does not admit guilt, but does concede there is enough evidence to convict him — to one count of having a concealed intent to remain permanently in the U. S. at the time of his original visa application in 1981 and one count of having conspired to have sannyasins enter into sham marriages to acquire U. S. residency.
In Uruguay, the group moved to a house at Punta del Este where Osho began speaking publicly until 19 June, after which he was " invited to leave " for no official reason.
Especially after his move to the United States, Osho became increasingly critical of homosexuality and also believed that homosexuality created or caused AIDS, though it is unclear what he believed about the concrete biological mechanism by which a sexual orientation may create a contagious virus.
Hindu groups which have presence in Russia are ISKCON, Brahma Kumari, Ramakrishna Mission, Ananda Marga, the organizations associated with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Sahaja Yoga, Chinmaya Mission, Satya Sai Baba and Osho Rajneesh.
Rajneeshpuram, Oregon was an intentional community in Wasco County, Oregon, briefly incorporated as a city in the 1980s, which was populated with followers of the spiritual teacher Osho, then known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
In late 1981 Osho, through his secretary Ma Anand Sheela ( Sheela Silverman ), announced the inception of the " religion of Rajneeshism ", the basis of which would be fragments taken from various discourses and interviews Osho that had given over the years.
Urban has commented that the most surprising feature of the Osho phenomenon lies in Osho's " remarkable apotheosis upon his return to India ", which resulted in his achieving even more success in his homeland than before.
About Osho, he stated: " He is the conduit along which the vital force of the universe flows.

Osho and are
While his contemporary Jiddu Krishnamurti did not approve of Osho, there are clear similarities between their respective teachings.
When asked to explain his new stance on homosexuality by gay sannyasins, Osho further reinforced his view by stating that according to him, " as a homosexual, you are not even a human being [...].

Osho and although
" Gordon ( 1987 ) notes that Sheela and Osho had discussed the idea of establishing a new commune in the U. S. in late 1980, although he did not agree to travel there until May 1981.
Others have pointed to the fact that although Sheela had bugged Osho's living quarters and made her tapes available to the U. S. authorities as part of her own plea bargain, no evidence has ever come to light that Osho had any part in her crimes.
According to Osho every human being is a Buddha with the capacity for enlightenment, capable of unconditional love and of responding rather than reacting to life, although the ego usually prevents this, identifying with social conditioning and creating false needs and conflicts and an illusory sense of identity that is nothing but a barrier of dreams.

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