In this interview Veeresh talks about why the Humaniversity has been successful for over 30 years, and the significance of friendship within the staff.
I choose to come from a position of love and create relationships the way I would like to be treated. If the other doesn't respond, I don't get caught up with trying to get them to accept my love. My need is to love.
For me the Osho Humaniversity is an extension of Osho's dream, an opportunity to be myself, to share who I am and express my love.
A commune that is based on awareness and love gives a real sense of identity and belonging, which helps everyone to find out who they are. People start to look inside and understand that "I am lovable, I am a good person.
The Tourist Program has been run at the Humaniversity for over 30 years. It has helped thousands of people to overcome personal crises and direct their lives in a more happy and cheerful direction.
People reaching midlife often start questioning their purpose in life, their motives, their relationships, everything they have created so far, and sometimes even the meaning of life in general.
We only have this much time to live. Within this time include everything: I messed it up, ALSO, I feel great ALSO, I had the greatest orgasm ALSO, I blew it ALSO. When you allow that, it is beautiful.
If the word, Wow! is a positive affirmation, or yes! for life, a crisis can be defined as a big Boo! - a no! in life. In this interview Veeresh shares from his many deep and touching life experiences.
Earlier this year, Swami Anand Veeresh visited the Rainbow Festival in Baden-Baden. In this interview, conducted before he went, he talks about Social Meditation, peace, Osho and what he was looking forward to at the Festival.
We only have this much time to live. Within that time include everything: I messed it up, ALSO, I feel great ALSO, I had the greatest orgasm ALSO, I blew it ALSO. When you allow that, it is beautiful.
Veeresh was a teenage drug-addict in New York. After his rehabilitation in the first ever Phoenix House program, he started Phoenix House in England and is now the founder and president of the Osho Humaniversity in Holland.
"Yes, you are perfect just the way you are. But if you want to develop and reach your full potential, which is your responsibility in this life, you have to do some things to change your life, to improve yourself, to be more aware, to learn more."
Social interaction is the basis of Humaniversity Therapy - using the other person like a mirror. If you look at the AUM meditation, it's interpersonal communication all the time. Then you can say, "Oh, I understand who I am inside."
I think what makes the Humaniversity very exciting is that there's always some change going on. We are involved with each other. We are connected, honest, sharing, loving, and friends...that's the main thing.
"Anybody who has ever worked with me knows that I care about and love myself and I want to project that onto everyone I work with. I don't care because I have to, it's because I want to. It makes me feel good when I feel I reached somebody." Veeresh
Veeresh is the founder of Osho Humaniversity, a personal growth center in Holland. He has helped many people to overcome their fears, expand their life experiences and find the courage to liberate...
I had role models while growing up from whom I would get a sense of identity as a man, like what it meant to be male. I grew up knowing that boys are stronger than girls, and boys don't cry and girls cry...
Osho once told a very beautiful story. There was a special temple in India, on top of a mountain. The only way to get to the temple was to walk, and that was part of the trip of reaching this temple: you had to struggle. Everybody would go there once a year.
