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three minutes to throw everything in
all the anger all the grief all the pain
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I've been reading stuff over the last so
many years and it always came down to
Osho that salad bar poisoning and and
all of a sudden you know the word
terrorist was assigned to Osho the wild
walk on tree series opened up the story
in detail I think that story was worth
telling
one of the biggest Netflix hits this
year is wild wild country it follows an
Indian spiritual leader a guan Shree
Rajneesh now known as Osho who set up a
commune in rural Oregon in the 80s
members of the commune clash with the
locals
this led a small group of Virginie she's
to poison salad bars to sicken local
voters during an election years after
the Communist banded Osho's meditations
are still practiced worldwide an osha
Center in Brampton Ontario is hosting an
event called wild wild meditation for
the public to better understand the
teachings of Osho I'm headed there right
now to meet with the man behind the
event as well as one of those followers
who knew him in the 1970s how's it going
good I'm Manisha Amrita butter eye is
hosting this meditation event at his
house his parents are longtime Rajini
she's they named him after osho's doctor
Swami
Amrita I wasn't seriously into it until
I was 13 or 14 okay when I read a book
and the book was called meditation the
heart of ecstasy and at that time I was
experimenting with a lot of different
things including marijuana and weed and
nothing wrong with it but I found that
meditation gave me a similar experience
if you follow osho what are the basic
teachings what do you believe there was
actually no following in terms of what
Osho has put out there he's put out
meditations and he's put out his own
meditation techniques the ones that
we're doing today but he's not putting a
monopoly on meditation itself he's
saying do meditation to find out who you
are you wouldn't describe it as a real
absolutely not okay friends how's
everyone doing everyone's doing great
okay good it's gonna be a wild wild day
we're just riding on this new wave of
energy that's come around with Osho's
named Reggie she's practiced a five step
dynamic meditation in the second step
people are encouraged to let out all of
their emotions were there by laughing
screaming or crying eyes are closed no
communication between any members only
you exist you're in this meditation okay
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Thank You beloved friends we will now
have breakfast meditation and tea
meditation please take this awareness
with you that was it yeah yeah yeah
that's good that's good
Gavi interesting yeah we have to talk a
little bit about wild wild country yes
I'm curious just what you're a general
take away was from it I thought it was
great
there's two extreme views of what
happened even within people that were
considered so-called Osho disciples so
it's it's very mysterious and I think
that's good I think for some people that
create a curiosity for them to look into
Osho more what about some of the more
controversial aspects that were depicted
one example would be you know the Rolls
Royces right I think it was a genius
marketing plan by Osho the media saw the
Rolls Royces they came in they asked
about the world's Royces Osho you can
hear the discourses he would answer
about the world's Royces but then as
their mouths were open he would put
other things in there too what about the
sex cult description is that real thing
is that accurate not any experience I've
had ok not any experience I have had
he says sex is sex it's a natural thing
there's no indulgence of it and there's
no repression of it Krishna Prem is
today's special guest
he knew Osho during the height of his
popularity and lived at the rajesh purim
commune for a few years he was basically
osho's punch-up guy and wrote jokes for
his speeches you Jewish you do we went
I could tell by the way you're sitting
that you were circumcised so I got you
oh she was always laughing and the
reason he was laughing his he was
comfortable in his own skin and he was
laughing at you being miserable you know
you like no and I say that because you
might right now be sitting here in front
of me wondering what is your next
question instead of being with me in the
moment okay at least I would do that if
I were you a little bit you know and so
oh she would always laugh because he
couldn't understand why Manisha wasn't
in the present but he did say to me send
me jokes and then I will tell the jokes
and you will laugh and then maybe if we
breathe into that laughter you'll start
to be more like me yeah I spent a few
years there but I got in trouble there I
got in trouble well I'm not interested
in building cities and I believe the lie
the lie is that we were gonna build a
utopic wonderful city and also I didn't
get along with the government there yeah
yeah we hated each other man and Sheila
was Oh show secretary and arguably the
breakout star of wild wild country she
was charged with many of the crimes
associated with Rajneesh poram including
attempted murder for the widespread
salad bar poisoning she a no-show had a
falling out shortly before the commune
in Oregon dissolved question I have for
myself is what I go that far
and when I my answer is no and that that
I could walk on by I certainly wouldn't
do what Sheila did I just couldn't do it
I really regret that I didn't stand up
and stop those people I didn't know
about it but I would have stopped them
seems like at least from the documentary
at the time a lot of the media were
describing this as a sex cult and you
know these orgies would happen and is
any of that true uh yeah some of its
true I think it's true in that people
weren't afraid of sex so that I think
that's why I was
it's true do you feel like overall the
way that the seniors were portrayed in
the doc is accurate of course not it was
pretty good but it was not balanced in
if you watched those six hours oshio had
in those six hours maybe one minute
where he looked like a human being that
you weren't allowed
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how do you reconcile some of the more
controversial things that were displayed
in the dock or that happened in the past
with you know the teachings that you now
follow what's happened in the past is
the past right the direct source is
available right now I'm not out there
trying to be a missionary saying hey
follow a show like that it's just about
enjoying and living and joy some of the
controversy associated with wild wild
country does it kind of bother you to be
associated with that not really because
it's time for everybody to just do their
own thing and be honest about themselves
and open up things that are radical
people are interested in it
if fresh Tanishq room was around today
would it be a place that you would want
to live if I'm living in the moment now
I wouldn't you wouldn't I wouldn't know
because things have changed right right
now it's all about the individual that's
what one of the things that osho says
the commune and communal living that
experiment ultimately failed