Lasting Effects Today

Lasting Effects Today

OSHO International Meditation Resort

"I am not going to give you a destination.
I can only give you a direction –
awake, throbbing with life,
unknown, always surprising, unpredictable.
I’m not going to give you a map.
I can give you only a great passion to discover."
~Osho, International Meditation Resort

Religious movements

The media has a negative view of the cult shown by the 2018 documentary ‘Wild Wild Country,’ which talks about their criminal history. They view Osho as manipulative and the commune as a way to take advantage of people. Cults are more heavily monitored because of this. But it's not all bad, even though some ex-members have regrets, many found themselves at their time as followers. 

Beliefs

Osho's meditation center in Pune, India still attracts people. Osho's spiritual beliefs have been carried to this day, with his books, meditation practices and recordings still being used.

“We can create the biggest and the most beautiful spiritual health club in the world. A kind of Club Med, spiritual Club Med, as in Meditation.”

~Osho, International Meditation Resort

The loss of Osho

With Osho gone the Rajneeshes needed to move as they no longer owned the land. The property was bought by Dennis Washington for $28.5 million becoming a Christian club called “Washington Family Ranch.”

Dance Celebration, OSHO International Meditation Resort, Gallery

"I went to Osho to have the rug pulled out from under my feet — the sort of comfortable rug that I was given in my education and my upbringing. I could go on forever about how important that experience was for me. I’m 80 and I just feel so happy, so rich, so free, so my life is so joyous. And I blame him for all that! He did the work on me. I also read a few days ago that 42 percent of millennials say they are engaged in meditation of one sort or another. So I think that’s amazing that that message, that understanding that we have struggled and fought and battled with — that they got it just like that. Meditation was the tool Osho gave us — stepping out of ego, and stepping out of the busy traffic of the mind."

~ Rashid Maxwell. Artist/painter and farmer living in England. Lived at Rajneeshpuram for four years. (The Cut)

"Much later, a few years ago here in Japan, I heard from someone I knew who said she stopped being a Sanyassin because she was being asked to take the clothes off the backs of people and it was cold weather by then and people were just being sent back on buses and that just grated with her. Most of us just saw the positive side of thing"

~Surendra. Retired social worker and photographer living in Japan, lived in Rajneeshpuram for nine months. (The Cut.)

Experts agree many changes have occurred because of Rajneeshpuram.

~ "University of Oregon professor Marion Goldman on unsettling discoveries made at the ranch,"

Clip: Season 7 Episode 701, Discoveries at Sheela's Compound, Oregon Experience 

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