Early Osho Documentary

By Leo Gura - July 29, 2025

This documentary is great and authentic. It gives insight into Osho’s early beginnings in India which the Wild Wild Country documentary didn’t cover.

As you can see here, all these people gathering around Osho were into fake spirituality. They were not doing serious inquiry, they were chasing Osho as a pivot to socialize and have fun. Osho created a spiritual circus, luring in foolish Westerners with promises of marrying sex and enlightenment. This is an irresponsible way to teach Awakening. The collective survival and circus atmosphere will make serious consciousness impossible. Beware of any teacher or teaching that tries to make Awakening sexy. It is not sexy. It is hard solo work. Awakening cannot be mass-marketed. Doing so will turn it into childish shit.

As soon as anyone starts using you for free labor, you know it’s wrong. Never work for anyone full-time or even half-time without pay. The surest way to know you’re in a cult is when they expect you to work full-time for free. If you see this, tell them to go fuck themselves and leave. If anyone ever asks you to work for him full-time without pay you should spit in his face. This is utmost disrespect of you. They are taking you for a fool.

This is also a lesson in how politics works. Whenever you have a group of 100+ people living together, politics and power games will become the dominant force driving the collective. And I can guarantee that no one in that group will have a clue about what politics is and how to navigate it consciously. So the whole thing will quickly devolve into unconscious devilry. All the evils of politics in society at large will be recapitulated inside the micro-community. All the problems of collective survival will resurface because they were never solved. This is why creating spiritual communities around Awakening is so dangerous and should not be done without utmost mastery and intelligence. I never created such a community because I am not masterful nor pure enough to manage it. And I would never trust anyone else do it properly.

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