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Having shunned the cumbersome garb of religion, Osho took to exploring
the greater realms of the unknown, his main thrust focussed on shredding
the veneer to reach into the unknown that eludes the unseeing eye
and the unseeking mind.
Osho emphasised that different people needed different
methods to find inner peace. These methods could range from ancient
techniques of Tibetan Buddhism, Vipassana, Sufiesm, Greek philosophy,
Zen and Indian mystical traditions to the new scientific methods
including humanistic psychology specially designed for the contemporary
human being who can find it so difficult to relax and be silent.
Having himself achieved nirvana, he believed
in a form of monism - that God, humanity, life and non-life were
one and the same. That God was in everything and everything was
part of God. Duality that attributes an entity with superior powers
as different from human beings does not exist. Human beings are
inherently neither good or bad as they were part of God. It is only
one’s own social and personal repression that distorted perception
of this truth.
To achieve nirvana, he believed that the
individual should overcome this repression. A combination of chanting,
naturism, primal screaming, different kinds of meditation – static
and dynamic, extreme forms of violent exercise, free love without
social inhibitions to purge the ego.
Once having done that the individual would develop
a "state of emptiness", and attain enlightenment "no past, no future,
no attachment, no mind, no ego, no self." And would escape from
the vicious cycle of birth and death and become one with the eternal
force. (Read more about
Osho Dham in our Ashram Section.)
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