Leela (aka Waduda)

October 2, 2017, 12:52 am

Leela Lovegarden cr Miasto aka Waduda

Ma Prem Leela Lovegarden (formerly Deva Waduda) had been a disciple of Osho since 1977. She was co-director of the Osho School of Mysticism in Pune and of the Osho Institute of Esoteric Science in Sedona, Arizona, USA. With over 20 years experience as a therapist and meditator, she created the Osho tarots and invented the method of experiential astrology. She is co-author, together with Prasad, of the book The Alchemy of Transformation and of The life you love (ebook), together with Alvina and Prasad (translated into Italian, La vita che vuoi: Le leggi interiori dell’attrazione (Pb).

Text based on the bio on her website – photo credit Osho Miasto – alert thanks to Mega – more info thanks to Marga, Premo, Osho Miasto

Yesterday, Sunday afternoon 1st October, Osho Miasto organised a celebration for her, where friends came together to meditate.

A tribute by Subhuti:
My wonderfully weird psychic moment with Leela (Waduda)

A tribute from the Miasto community:

For thirty years Leela has been coming to Miasto, together with Prasad and Alvina, in spring to lead groups and trainings (like Healing Esoteric Bodies, Essential Life Consulting, The Inner Laws of Attraction, Essence of You, Women Liberation, Law of Synchronicity).

During her stay at Miasto she also had a deep relationship with every single resident individually, always available to listen, and ready to give precious and loving advice. The generosity with which he shared her experience was immeasurable. Leela could see and teach us to accept things as they were, not with resignation but with gratitude.

Leela was a graduate of emotions! She could read every emotion we felt, even seeing hidden ones that were perhaps not even evident to us. She could explain things in a clear and simple way: her adult audience became a first elementary class. She could reach the hearts, even the most forgotten. She had endless patience and did not let go until she was certain that her words had really reached us.

When she was in Miasto, Leela loved to take care of our garden, especially the flowers at our Kabir compound. Leela knew how to speak to flowers.

This year in May, she wanted to come with us to choose and buy the flowers. A minute after we had entered the nursery, with her overwhelming enthusiasm, even the worker who was in the field turned to look at her. She said to us, “Come! Run! Look at how beautiful these pink flowers are … and this yellow one? It has just asked me to be put at Kabir.” A second later she squatted to caress a cat and asked us to translate to its master to confirm that the cat was pregnant. The nursery owner told us, “This foreign lady you brought is very special. My flowers straightened up in chorus to look at her when she came in.”

Leela was like this, a rare woman who walked across this planet giving us a garden of love.

Thanks Leela!

Your beloved “Miastini”

Tributes

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Leela !!!!
Such a joy to have been your friend for so many years ….
Now – you leave me with a new challenge – to find that connection inside of me…
Loving you forever,
Kunji

Your all-encompassing heart embrace will stay and support me to walk on this path!
Deep gratitude and love, dear Leela!
Anurag

Amata Leela, nel cuore, profondamente unite. Amore e Luce,
Arshia

I am glad I saw you in May, 2017, in Miasto. You have been a light in so many dark moments in my life. I felt your healing love wherever I was. You will be missed. Now your energy has expanded. Your energy will be felt even more. Your hugs were always so healing. “Opening of the heart” …!! It happened Leela.
Rakasa

Beloved Leela, how can I say in words what you have meant to me and what you have given to me? Your immense Love and presence and warmth and support and seeing and much more – there is a pain in my heart to hear this right now and at the same time the Love is overflowing for you. You will always have a space in my heart forever – wherever you are – will never ever forget you and somewhere we will meet again …..
Rajo

So there you are!
Lost and gone…
I knew you from somewhere
and now you are alone…

Your death means nothing
to me, your aliveness
on the contrary everything
to me, your aliveness…

You led a group: Energy
in Rajneeshpuram and
I was there and you see
my aura and I understand…

Some spiritual thing
about myself; an initiation
a mysterious happening
into myself; just nothing…

Special…ordinary mysticism
from a modern mystic wise lady.

Vedant Sajjad

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Anand Hasyo

October 29, 2017, 10:20 am

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Ma Anand Pujo (Hasyo’s daughter) writes from Byron Bay, Australia:

Swami Anand Hasyo was born on a Full Moon and Total Lunar Eclipse (of course!). He left his body rapidly and gracefully in his own bed, at home in Pagosa Springs, Colorado… as was his wont. Lovingly cared for by Nicole, Hasyo’s partner of 22 years.

Lover of his beloved Nicole, nature, the Rocky Mountains, his garden and growing dome, travel to exotic and historical places, crystals, gemstones, huge plates of food and salad, and a little bit of bread on his butter!

Drafted by the US Army at age 19 for the Korean War, Hasyo played down a significant birth defect, but fortunately, for the Army, the Army doctor didn’t, which saw him discharged immediately! Hasyo’s back would have endured anything the Army threw at him, but, being fiercely independent and unruly as a child / teenager / adult, Hasyo would never have willingly participated in ‘left, right’, as Osho called it. With regards to the birth defect, you’d never know that his spine was significantly twisted, because he wrestled with his kids and was able to work and play hard physically for most of his life.

Pre-sannyas, he once drove himself to the hospital while having a ‘heart attack’. When he arrived, he collapsed onto a hospital gurney / trolley, and as he fell, his hair piece / toupee flew off. Naturally, the attending nurse screamed! Of course, after he took sannyas in Poona in 1977, at age 46, the toupee was discarded forever. Not a good look in the Encounter group!

When giving him his name, Osho explained that ‘blissful laughter’ was required because Osho could see “seriousness around his heart, and that it would kill him.” Meeting Osho and taking sannyas was the best event in Hasyo’s life, from my perspective, because it opened his heart to a myriad of potentialities, and he was much happier!

Hasyo lived in Poona for most of the late 70s, then lived in Rajneeshpuram from the early days, and later lived in Poona 2, until Osho left his body.

Using some of his skills and knowledge of land management from University days, Hasyo created the ‘check dams’ to slow the flow of water and repair the eroded creeks on the Ranch. You may remember the largest check dam, which was Basho’s Pond at Lieh Tzu crossing, near the Townhouses. If you don’t recall the dam, you may recall the swans and ducks swimming on it. Later, Hasyo drove buses and coaches on the Ranch, including a few Share-A-Home journeys across the USA…

Before sannyas, Hasyo had a wide variety of careers as a bookstore owner, stock broker, salesman, and real estate agent. After sannyas, Hasyo introduced many people to Osho and sannyas, including myself, at age 16.

A collector of Osho’s books, he had the entire library.

A few years ago, Hasyo did Maneesha’s Death and Dying group, which prepared him for the ‘let go’ last week. Right in character, Hasyo did well to choose a short illness to make his transition to the other shore. No messing around – just do it. Or, in this case, NOT doing, but releasing…

Fly high, Daddy Hasyo!