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Part X : 1987-1990 Poona-Two : Positive
response to Osho around the world
An Australian film crew visit, who are among the very few journalists
ever to participate in meditations and programs in the ashram,
which they enjoy very much. The resulting film The Spiritual Terrorist
is very positive, and well received in Australia, and networked
around the world.
Friends, First, I am going to answer a few questions from the
Australian TV crew. They have been here for almost one month.
When they had come, they were very serious people, as Australians
are supposed to be. But this morning they filmed me, and they
have completely changed. They were smiling and laughing and enjoying.
Ecstasy is contagious. It is dangerous to enter this gateless
gate! But they are very nice people and very perfectionist. They
have been doing a film on the commune, its lifestyle, its philosophical
approach to existence. And of course, on me, the spiritual terrorist
behind the commune!—or in other words, the center of this
cyclone which is going to grow every day bigger and bigger and
is going to envelop the whole earth.
When they go back to their homes, their wives will be absolutely
surprised—whatever happened to these guys? The very air
of the commune changes personalities. Your joy, your laughter,
your blissfulness, your silence, touches the very heart of anyone
who is alive.
This morning I saw, these people are not dead. They are really
alive! So now I can trust that their film and their program for
television is going to be a real shock to the whole of Australia.
If they can create the shock, I am coming! fire05
One of the most famous spiritualists of Europe, Francis Israel
Regardie, a famous occult magician who was regarded as a great
magus and scholar of the Golden Dawn Society, stated just prior
to his death: "If I were to choose in what form I would come
back in terms of reincarnation, I would like to continue the great
work until I become a Rajneesh."
Just today I received his book, and I could not believe what
kind of spiritualist this fellow Francis Israel Regardie was….
This man Francis Israel Regardie knows nothing of spirituality.
But in the West it is very easy to befool people, because the
West has no understanding of the inner world. So any idiot can
manage to deceive them—occultism, esotericism, spiritualism,
just big words without any experience supporting them.
Because if this man was really spiritual, he would not…at
the point of death he wants a reincarnation! But he has a condition
also: "I would like to continue the work until I become a
Rajneesh." I was alive, he was alive, he could have come
here. Rather than having the courage and guts to come here, he
is thinking of becoming a Rajneesh after death—if there
is a reincarnation. That is a big if!
He could have come here. Thousands of people come and go every
day, and ten thousand people remain around me continuously. And
I am not a leader, and I am not a priest, and I am not teaching
any philosophy or any doctrine. I am simply helping them to enter
inwards—how to turn your eyes inwards so you can see yourself.
Once you have seen it, you are the buddha.
Then there is no birth, no death. You have gone beyond the circle
of birth and death….
This man Regardie must have been a hocus-pocus. At least I hope
that he does not become a Rajneesh! He can have reincarnation
as whatever he wants. He can become a buffalo, he can become a
donkey, there are so many species available—just please
don't think about me! If you had courage, then…at the moment
of death you talked about me; in your whole life you never talked
about me. Such chickens! Talking about occultism, spiritualism…I
have been here, he could have come. I could have turned him into
a meditator.
And if your meditation starts blossoming you will not have any
other birth in the body. You will simply disappear, like incense
disappearing into the blue sky, or fragrance of roses disappearing
into the blue sky. You will become part of the cosmos. fire01
Just a few days ago, one of the most intellectual and experienced
journalists of India, M.V.Kamath, wrote a review of my two books,
The Rebellious Spirit and The New Man. In his review he said a
few things that perhaps he himself was not aware of…the
unconscious is very deep, and nine times bigger than your conscious.
He said that I am the greatest intellectual giant of the second
part of the twentieth century. And at the same time, in the next
sentence he said that if I were not always surrounded by controversy
I would have more admirers in the world than I have today.
My secretary has written to him saying, "Can you give a
single name of any intellectual giant in the whole history of
man who was not surrounded by all kinds of controversies while
he was alive?" A little part he sees—that which comes
to his conscious mind—but something unconscious erupts.
Secondly, he has said in his statement that I do not have to be
heard or seen: I am a master of words; just reading me is enough.
He was thinking that he was praising me, calling me a master of
words, telling his readers that "there are so many statements
in his writings which are quotable and I feel a little jealous
and think I would like to have written them."
My secretary wrote to him, "You have never seen Osho, you
have never heard him. You seem to be an intelligent person; on
what grounds are you saying that just reading him is enough? I
have listened to him, I have listened to him speaking, and I can
assure you that the spoken word has a life of its own, it is still
warm. The printed word is dead. If you are so much influenced
by the printed word, come at least once, on our invitation—Bombay
is not far away from here, just a fifteen minute flight—and
see the difference between the spoken word and the printed word."
You can also hear the spoken word on the radio or from the tape
recorder, but if you see me speaking then something more is added
to it. Then your two senses are working, your ears and your eyes.
Ears are not that sensitive; eyes have eighty percent of the sensitivity,
and the remaining four senses have only twenty percent. To see
is a totally different thing.
Seeing a master means feeling his presence, looking into his
eyes, watching his grace. That is not possible from the written
word. And if you are influenced so much by the written word that
you declare the man as the greatest intellectual giant, it seems
to be absolutely necessary that you should listen to him, you
should at least see him once. satyam27
Osho's books have sold over a half million, and are on the bestseller
nonfiction lists of Italy, Japan, and South Korea.
You can see me: I live in such a calculated way that all that
I do is speak to you. I have saved all my breath just to give
you a sense of the eternal and an experience of the ultimate.
And mostly I am asleep. You cannot find a more lazy man in the
world.
Just today my secretary, Hasya, was saying, "I am sending
the information to The Guinness Book of Records that my master
has four hundred books to his name." And she was asking me
other things also. I wanted to tell her, but I thought it was
better not to say, that the miracle is that this man sleeps almost
twenty hours a day and has managed four hundred books…And
he is the laziest man in the world—about that you can be
certain; nobody can compete with me. You can send a challenge,
to see if there is anybody. hari16
You will be surprised to know that my books are being taught
in the Zen monasteries. Zen masters have written letters to me:
"Perhaps now Zen will exist in India, in its original place.
It is disappearing from Japan because people are more interested
in technology, in science." zenman11
Just today, Hasya was telling me about some Korean master, Su.
He is going to come soon. He has disciples. Lani has just come
from Korea. In the Korean language they have published more than
thirty-five books of mine. Hundreds of people are interested in
coming. They were not even aware where I am, and whether I am
still alive or some past master. chit20
One Japanese newspaper just wrote an article about me and wondered
what is the matter: why are Indians coming to Japan to learn technology,
particularly the latest discoveries in electronics? Japan has
become now the most sophisticated technological country, the richest
country in the world; even America is poorer now. Japan is four
times richer than America, and it is four times smaller than America.
So what Japan has done is a miracle. After the destruction of
the second world war, suddenly a tremendous outburst of energy.
So Indians are going to Tokyo, and the article mentions that
the Japanese are going to Poona. You are all coming from Western
countries or from Eastern countries which have become rich enough.
From Japan, Taiwan…soon people from Korea will be here.
zenman02
There was an article a few months ago in a German magazine, asking,
"What is happening? German young people simply go to Poona
and then they are never seen again." It is only because of
the difficulties created by the barriers of nations that you cannot
stay more than three months, more than six months at the most,
so you have to go and come back again. If these barriers disappear,
Poona is going to become a country in itself. But it will be a
foreign country to India; it will in itself be one of the most
cosmopolitan worlds. zenman02
The intelligent young people have understood. My sannyasins…the
greatest number are Germans, the second Japanese, the third Italians.
These were the three countries together with Adolf Hitler. It
is not a coincidence, it is simply intelligence. They have understood
that they are living in a mad society; it is better to get out
of it, find some place where no such stupid ideas are maintained.
Their coming to me is coming to a saner place, where no distinctions
are maintained. Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior. yaku03
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