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Pune and Beyond: News from Krishna Prem (Michael Mogul)

I am ready to get out of Poona for Amsterdam and the beyond. To put it simply, before I'm out of here, I already miss the Osho Meditation Resort big time. It was such a juicy high season that has stretched from mid-November all the way till April. It was so busy here that the only place you could relax and have a little space all to yourself was in the Osho Auditorium. So I heard...

But don't take my word on it. Come yourself when you can. The pool is now open daily (and will be heated for next winter) as is the Osho Auditorium (air-conditioned during the hot season) and if you can't decide whether to go "in" or go "out", you can tofu with me in our new Zorba the Buddha restaurant until it doesn't really matter.

Our friend Sam has a cute t-shirt on today..it reads "meditation.you have the right to remain silent"..so I heard...


Life in itself is an empty canvas,
it becomes whatsoever you paint on it.
You can paint misery, you can paint bliss.
This freedom is your glory.
Osho

And for full measure here is an article I recently gave Viha Connection.

When I grow up, I want to be a Kid.

My body just turned sixty years old. Thank heavens I am not my body. Or am I? In any event, when my body was just shy of thirty I met Osho and I immediately began growing up instead of growing old. A nice trick, picked up from a master magician. At that time my brother Brian met his guru, Dr. Milton Erickson, of hypnosis fame. As brothers, we were always competitive, so why not have a friendly banter on whose guru knows more? Certainly Osho won, in my humble opinion, hands down. But one thing Milton Erickson said to my brother always stayed with me. Milton Erickson said to my bro, ''There are only three kinds of people on this earth: little sized kids, middle sized kids and big sized kids.''

For thirty years now, I have looked upon modern man trying to prove my brother's guru wrong, and shit if that guy didn't have something to say But after exhausting myself trying to grow up, I stumbled on an original answer.
Me.
Me-plus-nothing.
Me. period.
Not a 'somebody' that grows up or down, although I guess you might call me a 'nobody.' In a humorous, funny sort of way, I have given this new 'me,' or better yet, this new 'not me,' the nickname Turiya. As Osho has explained many times in his discourses, the word 'Turiya' refers to the fourth state of consciousness. The first three we all know: waking sleeping and dreaming. Turiya simply means 'the fourth,' a humble kind of name, but with big implications, because it refers to the cosmic consciousness inside us all. So I am now happy to announce that I have discovered a fourth kind of kid that I have nicknamed "my Turiya-sized kid." Yes I am still a kid, but a Turiya-sized kid. A kid who somehow 'grew in,' not a kid who grew up or old. It's nice to be me now. I am no longer growing. I am no longer maturing. It's simply OK.

As my friend Rahasya once said to me before she left my adopted home town of Amsterdam for Mill Valley, ''I don't know and I don't need to know.'' When Rahasya said this to me, almost matter-of-factly, over a beer at sunset in the Vondel Park, the penny dropped for me. I actually don't know what she meant, but what I heard, in my inner gut, was, "Krishna Prem, when are you going to stop giving up the here-and-now, while you wait for a rosy future?"

And if you don't understand my gibberish, well, the old KP might have been sad about that, seeing how grown-up language just can't convey what he really means. But, as my Turiya-sized kid, I only need to throw you a bucket and spade and say, "Hey, there's plenty of room in the sand box." That's how I feel. I am just a kid playing in the unknowable sand box I wear many hats of a big-sized kid. I pay the rent. I drive a car. I act mature. But as soon as I can, I take my hats off and relax. In a sense, my ego is a hat - a hat that is really useful and practical these days as a bucket to fill with sand to make castles with.

What size kid are you? One that's busy growing, busy postponing, waiting for the golden future, or the one that knows how to play?

Krishna Prem s webiste is at http://www.kissenlightenment.com

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