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Rajneesh Chandra Mohan Jain ( ) (Kuchwada, ndia, 11 de Dezembro de 1931 Pune, ndia, 19 de Janeiro de 1990), foi lder religioso de uma seita de tradies drmicas, mestre na arte da meditao e do despertar da conscincia. Apesar de sua formao e docncia acadmica em filosofia, alm de ter sido campeo em debates, ele no se considerava um filsofo, mas sim um mstico, pois seu principal propsito era o desenvolvimento da conscincia, o autoconhecimento, atravs da meditao. Durante a dcada de 1970, foi conhecido pelo nome de Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh e, mais tarde, como Osho.

Foi durante toda a sua vida uma figura extremamente polmica, em boa parte, porque ele prprio raramente procurava apaziguar ou evitar conflitos. Nunca foi um moralista, enfatizando sempre a conscincia individual e a responsabilidade de cada um por si mesmo. No considerava o ato sexual como um tabu, tendo uma postura bastante liberal a esse respeito. Durante sua vida, foi perseguido em diversos pases onde esteve, inclusive em sua terra natal.

Filho mais velho de um modesto mercador de tecidos, passou os sete primeiros anos de sua infncia com seus avs, que lhe davam absoluta liberdade para fazer o que bem quisesse, apoiando suas precoces e intensas investigaes sobre a verdade da vida. Desde cedo, foi um esprito rebelde e independente, desafiando os dogmas religiosos, sociais e polticos, e insistindo em buscar a verdade por si mesmo, ao invs de adquirir conhecimentos e crenas impingidos por outros.

Sua intensa busca espiritual chegou a afetar sua sade a ponto de seus pais e amigos recearem que ele no vivesse por muito tempo. Aps a morte do av, Osho foi viver com seus pais em Gadawara. Sua av mudou-se para a mesma cidade, permanecendo como sua mais dedicada amiga at falecer em 1970, tendo se declarado discpula do neto.

Aos 21 anos de idade, no dia 21 de maro de 1953, Osho alcanou aquilo que afirmava ser a iluminao (estado de conscincia livre, tambm chamado de samadhi no oriente). Este seria o mesmo estado em que teriam vivido Jesus, Buda e outros mestres iluminados. Com sua iluminao, ele disse que sua biografia externa terminara. Nessa oportunidade, comentou: "No estou mais buscando, procurando por alguma coisa. A existncia abriu todas as suas portas para mim. Nem ao menos posso dizer que perteno existncia, porque sou simplesmente uma parte dela... Quando uma flor desabrocha, desabrocho com ela. Quando o Sol se levanta, levanto-me com ele. O ego em mim, o qual mantm as pessoas separadas, no est mais presente. Meu corpo parte da natureza, meu ser parte do todo. No sou uma entidade separada."

Osho graduou-se em Filosofia na Universidade de Sagar, com as honras de "primeiro lugar". Na poca de estudante foi campeo nacional de debates na ndia. Em 1966, depois de nove anos limitado pela funo de professor de filosofia na Universidade de Jabalpur, abandonou o cargo e passou a viajar por todo pas, dando palestras, desafiando lderes religiosos ortodoxos em debates pblicos, desconcertando as crenas tradicionais e chocando o status quo.

Em 1968, ainda com seu primeiro nome espiritual, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, estabeleceu-se em Bombaim, onde morou e ensinou por alguns anos. Organizou regularmente "campos de meditao", onde introduziu a sua revolucionria Meditao Dinmica. Em 1974, inaugurou o ashram de Poona, e sua influncia j atinge o mundo inteiro. Ao mesmo tempo, sua sade se fragilizava seriamente.

Osho se recolhia cada vez mais privacidade de seus aposentos, aparecendo apenas duas vezes por dia em suas palestras matinais e, noite, em sesses de aconselhamento e iniciao.

Em maio de 1981, Osho parou de falar e iniciou uma fase de "comunho silenciosa de corao-a-corao", enquanto seu corpo, seriamente doente, com graves problemas de coluna, descansava. Tendo em vista a possibilidade de que fosse necessria uma cirurgia de emergncia, Osho foi levado aos Estados Unidos. Seus discpulos americanos compraram um rancho no deserto do Oregon e convidaram-no a ir para l, onde recuperou-se rapidamente.

Uma comuna logo estabeleceu-se ao seu redor, formando a cidade de Rajneeshpuram. Em outubro de 1984, Osho voltou a falar a pequenos grupos e, em julho de 1985, reiniciava seus discursos a milhares de buscadores, todas as manhs.

Em setembro de 1985, a secretria pessoal de Osho deixa a comuna, repentinamente, seguida por vrios membros da administrao, vindo, com isso, luz, todo um conjunto de atos supostamente ilegais cometidos por esse grupo. Osho convidou as autoridades americanas para que procedessem a todas as investigaes necessrias. Tirando proveito dessa oportunidade, as autoridades aceleraram sua luta contra a comuna.

Em 29 de outubro de 1985, Osho foi preso em Charlotte, na Carolina do Norte, sem um mandado de priso. Sua viagem de volta ao Oregon, onde seria julgado - normalmente um voo de cinco horas - demorou oito dias. Por alguns dias, ningum soube do seu paradeiro. Nos Estados Unidos, recebeu 35 acusaes: todas foram retiradas ou consideradas infundadas com o tempo. Foi preso sem um mandado de priso e sem provas conclusivas. Passou por dez dias com paradeiro desconhecido nas mos das autoridades americanas, quando alegou posteriormente ter sido envenenado com tlio.[1]

Em meados de novembro, seus advogados aconselharam-no a confessar-se culpado por duas das trinta e quatro "violaes de imigrao" das quais era acusado, para evitar que sua vida corresse maiores riscos nas garras do sistema jurdico americano. Osho concordou. Foi multado e obrigado a deixar os Estados Unidos, com retorno proibido pelos prximos cinco anos.

Deixando o pas no mesmo dia, Osho voou para a ndia, onde permaneceu em repouso nos Himalaias. Uma semana mais tarde, a comuna do Oregon resolveu dispersar-se. Nessa poca, Osho enfrentou uma verdadeira Via Crcis para poder fixar-se num lugar, pois, onde quer que tentasse estabelecer-se, tinha sua permanncia negada pelas autoridades, por visvel influncia do governo norte-americano. Ao todo, 21 pases o expulsaram ou negaram o visto de entrada.

Os seus discpulos garantem que, depois de expulso dos Estados Unidos, Osho no conseguiu qualquer visto para permanncia nos pases que visitou aps o incidente, devido a presses norte-americanas. Alegam que nenhuma das acusaes feitas tem consistncia objetiva - fruto apenas do temor e dio das instituies representadas pelo governo norte-americano, referem os seus discpulos.

Representando sempre uma ameaa s tradies religiosas e polticas, foi impedido de entrar em vrios pases. Foi expulso da Grcia. Foi impedido preventivamente pelo parlamento Alemo de entrar nesse pas mesmo sem nunca ter pedido visto de entrada e nem demonstrado interesse nisso. Somente conseguiu aterrisar seu avio na Inglaterra porque seu piloto alegou ter um doente a bordo.

Em julho de 1986, Osho voltou a Bombaim, na ndia, onde ficou hospedado por seis meses na casa de um amigo indiano. Na privacidade da casa de seu anfitrio, ele retornou aos seus discursos dirios.

Em janeiro de 1987, mudou-se para o seu ashram em Poona, onde vivera a maior parte dos anos 1970. Imediatamente aps sua chegada, o chefe de polcia de Poona ordenou-lhe que deixasse a cidade, sob a alegao de que era uma "pessoa controversa" que poderia "perturbar a tranquilidade da cidade". Tal ordem foi revogada no mesmo dia pela Suprema Corte de Bombaim.

Osho faleceu em 19 de janeiro de 1990. Algumas semanas antes dessa data, foi-lhe perguntado o que aconteceria com seu trabalho quando ele partisse. Ele disse: "Minha confiana na existncia absoluta. Se houver alguma verdade naquilo que estou dizendo, isso ir sobreviver... As pessoas que permanecerem interessadas em meu trabalho iro simplesmente carregar a tocha, mas sem impor nada a ningum..."

O pensamento de Rajneesh est exposto em mais de mil livros que podem elucidar sobre a sua filosofia. Segundo referem os seus admiradores, Osho no pretendia impor a sua viso pessoal nem estimular conflitos. Enfatizou, pelo contrrio, a importncia de se mergulhar no mais profundo silncio, pois somente atravs da meditao se poderia atingir a verdade e o amor, guiada pela conscincia individual, sem intermedirios como sacerdotes, polticos, intelectuais ou ele mesmo. Transmitia, pois, uma mensagem otimista que apontava para um futuro onde a humanidade deixaria o plano da inconscincia e, por conseqncia, a destruio, o medo e o desamor, j que cada um seria o buda de si prprio, recordando aquilo que a conscincia imediata esqueceu. Segundo esta viso, a humanidade parece-se a um conjunto de cegos guiados por outros cegos (imagem que tambm faz parte do iderio cristo).

Os seus seguidores reconhecem-no como uma das figuras mais importantes da histria da humanidade, sendo injustiado pela humanidade ignorante. No seu trabalho, Osho falou praticamente sobre todos os aspectos do desenvolvimento da conscincia humana. Seus discursos para discpulos e buscadores de todo o mundo foram publicados em mais de 650 ttulos e traduzidos para mais de trinta lnguas.

Todo o trabalho de Osho de desconstruo e silncio. Desconstruo de dogmas arcaicos e amarras psicolgicas que aprisionam e limitam o ser humano. Segundo Osho, todo o planeta (com raras excees) est doente. Mas uma doena autoimposta. Liberdade seria, em sua viso, o fundamento de um homem auto-realizado e digno. O silncio, por sua vez seria a comunho da criatura com sua essncia divina e pura, sendo reencontrado pela meditao, onde o homem experimenta seu verdadeiro ser.

De Sigmund Freud a Chuang Tzu, de George Gurdjieff a Buda, de Jesus Cristo a Rabindranath Tagore, Osho extraiu, de cada um, o que seria a essncia do que acreditava ser significativo na busca espiritual do homem, baseando-se no apenas na compreenso intelectual, mas na sua prpria experincia existencial.

Ao dizer, por exemplo, que "o orgasmo sexual oferece o primeiro vislumbre da meditao porque, nele, a mente para, o tempo para", a mdia o apelidou de "guru do sexo". Quando se descobriu a causa da aids, Osho determinou que seus discpulos fizessem o teste de HIV. Pioneiro, recomendou usar camisinha e luvas de ltex na hora do sexo, coisas ridicularizadas na poca. Para A. Racily, que conviveu com Osho, o guru queria apenas que o sexo no fosse renegado. Ela diz que nunca houve orgias na comunidade e que esses boatos vinham de quem queria se aproveitar da liberdade sexual.[2]

Para os seus discpulos, seus ensinamentos levam realizao da liberdade pessoal, atravs da percepo individual das amarras aprisionadoras das tradies e das autoridades estabelecidas. Embora Osho nunca tenha escrito nenhum livro, 650 ttulos em 57 idiomas foram criados e tm sido publicados a partir de transcries de seus discursos e palestras.

Os livros baseados em suas palavras at hoje fazem muito sucesso em muitos pases, inclusive no Brasil, pas que possui um ativo grupo de discpulos e de simpatizantes, espalhados em muitos dos grandes centros e em algumas comunidades mais afastadas. Alguns dos discpulos exercem algum tipo de atividade teraputica alternativa e divulgam suas principais meditaes, como a chamada Osho Meditao Dinmica e a Osho Meditao Kundalini, que so marcas registradas, protegidas por direitos autorais. Alguns leigos dizem tratar-se de um exerccio aerbico que promove embriaguez por hiperventilao. Pessoas que j tiveram experincia pessoal nessas tcnicas, no entanto, afirmam que a hiperventilao, a catarse consciente e os movimentos intensos e danas ldicas presentes nas mesmas no causam nenhuma embriaguez, mas somente oxignio em maior quantidade e liberao emocional consciente que traziam disposio fsica durante para cuidar das atividades da vida.

Nos anos 1990 o brasileiro Deva Nishok criou o Centro Metamorfose, para aplicar o mtodo que leva seu nome, a partir das ideias de um guru mexicano, inspirado na filosofia de Rajneesh Osho.[3]

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Barbara Marx Hubbard (born Barbara Marx in 1929) is a prolific New Age writer and public speaker.

She married the artist Earl Hubbard, whom she met while in Paris. As of 2003, she is the mother of five and grandmother of six.

Hubbard believes that humanity, having "come to possess the powers that we used to attribute to the gods", is presently in a critical and dangerous "Late Transition" to "the next stage of human evolution" which began in 1945 with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She promotes the idea of Conscious Evolution, defined as "evolution of evolution, from unconscious to conscious choice" or "an awakening of a 'memory' that resides in the synthesis of human knowing, from spiritual to social to scientific", as "the only solution" for avoiding global destruction and entering into a utopian "future of immeasurable possibilities."

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The importance of population control is also a recurrent theme in Hubbard's work. In The Revelation: A Message of Hope for the New Millennium she writes:

[In 1966] I saw, perhaps most fundamentally of all, that the vast effort of humanity to "be fruitful and multiply" would have to be curtailed in our generation. One more doubling of the world population will destroy our life support system. Our Mother will not support us if we continue to grow in numbers! We must stop. She is widely regarded as the philosophical heir to Buckminster Fuller, who once described her as "the best informed human now alive regarding Futurism". She also names Abraham Maslow and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin as major influences.

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For Barbara Marx Hubbard, the meaning of I am comes from the source of creation, and it is an impulse that for billions of years has been creating quarks, electron, protons, animals, and now humans. I am the universe in person, she adds, so the I am principle in every one of us is actually our unique experience of the creative impulse of the universe. In this far-seeing and hopeful interview with Lisa Garr, originally webcast on March 9, 2016, Barbara explains the importance of people who are already loving coming together to create a field of attraction and a vision of the future to overcome the negativity of old ways to generate a transformative evolutionary consciousness.

Barbara Marx Hubbard is a visionary and a social innovator. She thinks from an evolutionary perspective and believes that global change happens when we work collectively and selflessly for the greater good, and many would agree she is the global ambassador for conscious change. Deepak Chopra has called her the voice for conscious evolution. A prolific author and educator, she has written seven books on social and planetary evolution and she has produced, hosted and contributed to countless documentaries seen by millions of people around the world.

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You spend each day chasing your professional goals and working hard to enrich your career, seldom pondering on whether youre achieving your personal successes. What are personal successes? Its not as straight forward as you may think. Its that feel-good achievement thats beyond corporate success you may even say its a transcended state of personal satisfaction.

And why shouldnt you be thinking about your personal successes, after all dont you love the job that you do? Shouldnt it be rewarding, even fulfilling, on a personal level? Like I said, its not always easy. You need to look beyond the obvious and examine ways that will help you gauge your personal successes.

Sure profitability, market share and shareholder value are all great ways to measure your accomplishments. But you want to look beyond that, and consider the impact youre making on:

Irrespective of what line of business youre in or what role youre playing everything you do should target having a bigger impact. This impact is what will help you feel personal achievement in an intangible way.

This could be something as simple as reading a blog or article which provides you a new perspective. While we spend plenty of time staying updated about the industry we work in, its important to look at other things going on in the world. Such learning could be useful in conversations with other leaders who may take an interest in you and in turn could possibly impact your business.

Another way to learn something new is to look within your organization. As a leader you should be spending time with your team to learn something about them. This shouldnt necessarily be focused about the duties they perform, instead it could be learning about what motivates and drives them. And what it spells out to is one of my favorite topics engagement.

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Honestly, how good is it when you leave work feeling accomplished when you just want to step out and say Yes! I did it!

It may not happen often, as there will be days when youre wrapping up and listing all the things you have to do the next day. And hence, when you do leave feeling satisfied with your days achievements, make sure you list it off as a personal success. Its something you should be happy and fiercely proud of.

Its easy to get caught in the rat race where day in and day out youre slowly going down a downward spiral of monotony. Believe me, it will catch up with you. And thats around the time when you start to question what youre doing and why youre doing it. This is why your personal successes are important to list out and strive to achieve. These will keep you motivated and content with the career you have embarked upon.

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Experts say the quality of an education from an online college is, in many cases, just as high as one pursued in person, and that online learning offers the ability to communicate with a professor and other students through technology. Enrollment in online courses has grown each year for more than a decade.

People interested in getting an online college degree, especially working adults looking to go back to school, should consider the flexibility of online learning given their responsibilities outside the classroom. Those with full-time jobs and families might find a part-time online degree program ideal, enabling them to juggle their various daily responsibilities without having to commute to a physical classroom. In many online degree programs, students can access course material on their own time and in a location of their choice, regardless of their distance from a physical campus.

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We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality. Steve Pavlina

The scope of personal development and growth is a broad one. It is through the powerful impact of personal development and growth that we can grow and improve our relationships, our careers, our wealth, our health, and our happiness. At the very fundamental core of this broad and powerful pursuit is self awareness.

To discover new truths about ourselves is to expand our self awareness. Think of self awareness as a circle. Everything within and without the circle is the self. What is within the circle is what your current level of self awareness allows you to consciously perceive.

As you expand your circle of self awareness not only are you consciously aware of a greater portion of your self but also the borders of your awareness have expanded such that your self awareness borders upon an expanded field of future discovery and growth.

The more doors we open the more doors we discover there are to be opened. Self awareness is the very beginning of personal development. It may very well be the ultimate end.

A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes. Gandhi

The perspective we take on the happenings of the world and our lives largely determines for us the state of our world and our being. Thus probably the most vital lesson we can learn in life is the importance of what we think.

If you think failure you will find reasons to fail and inevitably succumb to it. If you think health and wellbeing you will make the conscious decision to take the path that leads to greater health and wellbeing.

Unfortunately, many of us do not consciously choose the perspective we take. Our thoughts, which may be considered covert behavior, may simply roll with life and become conditioned by events, the media and other people around us.

If this happens we have given up our power as human beings to create our world and our life around us. In fact we are using our own power against ourselves to make ourselves feel powerless. It is impossible for us to develop and grow ourselves if we lack awareness of ourselves.

A person who is aware of himself is in a better position to predict and control his own behavior. B. F. Skinner

Within Buddhism one of The Three Poisons is Moha or delusion. Buddhism sees the three poisons as the root cause of all suffering. Moha basically means not knowing what is going on within oneself.

According to Buddhism, Moha is the most fundamental of the three poisons. It is a lack of awareness that lies at the root of all our problems. The cure Buddhism proposes is to extend clarity and awareness down into processes that are normally unconscious.

It is mindfulness that Buddhism uses to achieve this aim. Mindfulness is the process of bearing something in mind. An awareness, which does not drift along the surface of things but is a thorough observation, observing without judgment, without habitual reaction or compulsion, but clearly acknowledges what is actually there in the flow of experience, noting its nature.

Thus one of the ways in which we can expand our circle of self awareness is through the development of mindfulness. This can be achieved both through meditation practice and by making a conscious choice to actively be more mindful in our daily lives. In this way, through greater self awareness, we become empowered to choose our own way, to grow ourselves in the manner of our own choosing.

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Dictionary entry overview: What does mental attitude mean?

MENTAL ATTITUDE (noun) The noun MENTAL ATTITUDE has 1 sense:

1. a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways

Familiarity information: MENTAL ATTITUDE used as a noun is very rare.

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MENTAL ATTITUDE (noun)

Meaning:

A complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

attitude; mental attitude

Context example:

he had the attitude that work was fun

Hypernyms ("mental attitude" is a kind of...):

cognition; knowledge; noesis (the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mental attitude"):

acceptance; credence (the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true)

irreverence (an irreverent mental attitude)

reverence (a reverent mental attitude)

disrespect (a disrespectful mental attitude)

esteem; regard; respect (an attitude of admiration or esteem)

intolerance (unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs)

tolerance (willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others)

disposition; inclination; tendency (an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others)

position; posture; stance (a rationalized mental attitude)

paternalism (the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good)

mentality; mind-set; mindset; outlook (a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations)

southernism (an attitude characteristic of Southerners (especially in the US))

high horse (an attitude of arrogant superiority)

hardball (a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics)

defensive; defensive attitude (an attitude of defensiveness (especially in the phrase 'on the defensive'))

culture (the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization)

orientation (an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs)

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Your goal in life should be to feel good. And having a positive mental attitude (PMA) is the only way to meet this goal. Napoleon Hill stated that "The only thing that you have control over is your mind."

So if you want to change the circumstances of your life you need not worry about what's going on in the world or what other people are doing. The only thing that you need to worry about is tending to your own mind and thoughts.

If you feel that you are in a dead end job or would like to do something different with your life. You should plan exactly how you would like to succeed. Set a goal. Decide what you would like to do or the position or title that you would like to hold and the money that you would like to make.

Give your wants and desires a time limit for example two years, five years etc.

Paint a picture of what you desire in your mind and hold that thought there for as long as you can. Visualize it often and your life in regards to that particularly experience will change.

Training yourself to have a positive mental attitude is not as hard as you think. We all know right from wrong and you can tell by the way your words or your actions makes you feel.

We are all meant to be successful and to receive all that we want and desire and thinking negatively will hold you back from obtaining what you want.

The way you've been thinking is a reflection of everything that you have attracted into your life thus far.

Remember your thoughts are the only thing that you can control, and by practicing a positive mental attitude is the first step in changing your life for the better.

Some ways to maintaining a positive mental attitude is

1. Making yourself friendly and approachable - If own your business or if you are an employee of a business. You must make your self friendly and approachable to your clients or coworkers if you expect the same in return. You are where you are because of your personality and your attitude and how well you relate to others.

2. Helping other people - In life you have to help other people in order to succeed. In business you can help people in several ways, if you are in sales, you are helping by selling a product or providing a service. Or you can help someone by simply providing good information.

3. Appreciation - Express your appreciation for where you are in life right now, even if feel like you still have a long way to go. Just the feeling of appreciation will allow the Universe to move you towards the goals that you are trying to reach.

4. Compliments - Everyone loves to be complimented. Don't concentrate on a person faults. Find something that they are doing well and compliment them and they will in return find something that they appreciate about you.

5. Change your negative attitude - If you find yourself becoming angry about something, focus on something that you love such as your wants or desires, your family pet or reaching or maintaining your goals. Give yourself time to change your negative attitude to one that is more positive.

6. Beliefs - In order to succeed you must believe that you can do anything that you put your mind too. Set your goals and maintain a positive attitude and you will be successful at whatever it is that you desire.

Remember life is what you make it and we are all learning new things everyday. Learn from every lesson, the good and the bad and strive to make your life better.

When you think good thoughts, you will attract good things into your life and maintaining a positive mental attitude will help you to stay on your path to achieving all that you want and desire.

Sending Love and Happiness,

Shontel

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