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He moved operations to America in 1981 and established Rajneeshpuram in the dry terrain of Antelope, Oregon, where his disciples implemented the largest bio-terror attack in American history, among other crimes and misdemeanors. When conservative Indians had had enough of him and his red-clad disciples representing them on a global platform, he was squeezed out.
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He encouraged sexual promiscuity and wild dancing ("If you dance in life, then death will also be a dance!"). His Wikipedia page is awesome.ĭespite, or maybe because of all this outrageousness, Osho was the go-to guru in the 70s for masses of spiritual seekers. He also may or may not have advocated euthanasia for children with birth defects, defended Hitler, claimed to be enlightened, and held a number of other outrageous beliefs. He was a master of pithy spiritual anti-relationship advice ("Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship-because relationships happen one day and disappear another day."), and his books have been translated into 60 languages and have sold tens of millions of copies. The whole Osho phenomenon gave gurus a bad name because he was so good and so bad at the same time. I figured the two of us sharing a room at an ashram founded by an internationally known sex-guru was going to be interesting, one way or another. We communicate a lot better when we don't talk. He's kind of irresistible but he debates that anything is resistible, even irresistible me. We have in the past, to great effect, but sometimes it gets weird when we're together. With typical nebulousness, neither of us discussed whether we would be having sex. We decided that Reza would fly in from Berlin and I from Tel Aviv. Zorba the Buddha, in fact!" In other words, it's somewhere between a Sandals holiday and a yoga retreat, with an added, sex guru glaze.
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The resort markets itself as a mix between "the meditation qualities of a Gautama the Buddha and the resort qualities of a Zorba the Greek. A jokey comment in an email to my more-than-a-friend/less-than-a-boyfriend (I'll call him Reza) quickly snowballed into this plan for us to meet for a weekend at the Osho International Meditation Resort.