What is intimacy? Let’s see…
Intimacy with the other - and I am not referring only to the sexual aspects - is expressed in many different ways, and it can be a very nourishing space, probably because it is…
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You are Divine! ~ Empowering your True Self in dark times
Our True Self is our divine nature, is what we are born with and what connects us - and is part of - a much larger divine force (The Force in Star Wars, or what I also call The Source)…
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Insights from the cushion
Love in the time of Coronavirus
I remember one evening, just over 30 years ago, I was sitting in India in the large Buddha Hall listening to Osho talking to us… at one point he said, “The opposite of love…
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Insights from the cushion
The question to myself today is: ‘Why am I so identified with the thinking mind?’
If you have been practicing meditation - or mindful sitting on the cushion, to use a more cutting edge definition - you are aware of…
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A funny story on how I became Mr Singh for one day
I am in India, somewhere around January 1996, and after a 10-day visit to Papaji in Lucknow, it’s time for me to head toward Pune, that had previously been my home for almost five years (mainly during the time that…
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Me, Osho or Existence?
The birth of the music for the No Dimensions Meditation
Not long after the first photo shooting (story on my previous note: Let’s put the fan on now!) I came to know that Avikal and I would have the…
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Let's put the fan on now!
Remembering the first photo session I had with Osho.
I’m looking at this ant walking on the immaculately clean marble floor. She looks pretty busy, and it looks like she really knows where she’s going. I’m just watching her…
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Sound, Silence and the exploration of Consciousness
When I was in my late teens and after moving out from my parents home, I was living in a small apartment in Italy that was located on a busy main street. At times when I was in the kitchen…
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Anchors into the Now
When we listen to someone playing music we rarely realize how much involved is the act of listening, not only for us but for the musician too. As a matter of fact the musician himself – and I am speaking…
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You, me and the planet
I was born and grew up in Northern Italy, near Venice, in a city that was well known to be the one that had the least amount of trees and green areas per inhabitant in the whole nation. I remember…
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