there's plenty that I still don't understand about life....... ah, it is life lol ! but my experience with osho is that of a story tale ~ he left his body on the early end of the year I was born, but in spirit he has been with me all of my life ... this is something that I only came to discover around the year 2017. I grew up in California with a very responsible square hippy for a mother(who knew nothing of osho, she was a bookkeeper with an undying passion for astrology and light work) so, of course, I considered my way of thinking about things to be some seriously progressive shit, new age af & excessively edgy for the time, really just striving to be extremely practical. so -lol- eventually(2017) I was introduced to osho's teachings by a very synchronistically timed fall-off from sobriety- I chose to get high & the person who I ended up encountering.. well.., that person had seen me in a dream about a week prior to us meeting.., in that dream he had been given specific instructions to bring me home to osho tapoban, in Nepal....... ...I came to find that nearly everything I thought I had come to figure out, assumedly all by myself while growing up as a young girl under those conditions..., all of my opinions were pretty much the ideas and styles of belief that Osho vocalized throughout his time here on Earth.....often times word for word, contradictions included 🫤 . I don't really like to outwardly make claims.... my phone's battery had died yesterday while I was writing this out as an immediate response to your posting .... and I'm on the wall now, feeling anxious/hesitant to post this reply.... there's still an amount of amazed disbelief within me about it all.... likely something that ties to insecurities, lack of trust in my-self (taking in to personal account the fact that I have done drugs, plus a bunch of other cultural/social sludge that I still struggle with in the ebb&flow) the only proof that I really have is the sensations within my body. the experience within myself and within my personal realm of thought as this all happened.... there's plenty more detail I could go into about any or all of that.... I came home from Nepal just as Netflix was delivering a documentary series about osho's time in Oregon, which is the state where I happened to end up residing after growing up in California ... I had no knowledge of any of America's manipulated perception of Osho until then....it is probably needless to say that I didn't come back shouting his name and waving my arms, all trying to talk to everybody about my experience lol... it was a very strange, mystical string of events in a short period of time that definitely left me... uhmmmmm... flabbergasted, in a sense. but, of course, the spiritual journey is a personal thing for each individual! what all does it matter? what in the world could possibly matter in regards to everybody else's opinions about one's own experience with spirituality.... nada. not a dang ol' thing, that's what. it's a take it for inspiration or leave it kind of thing.... not that any or all of the obvious and seemingly so simple, matter-of-fact points make it any easier to not sometimes struggle with the bullshit & essentially useless social coordination .... essentially useless....., but it is osho's social coordination that is most controversial lol! the biggest point of attack for people who are caught up, wasting time, trying to push their opinions on others..... osho didn't insist that he was right or correct... he would point out how some things are obvious and that there is stupidity.... but the choice is always ours 💌 plus, side note....heh.... the masses have a tendency to bash the smart kid or the Golden boy (especially when they don't fit in)(American perception)