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Part IX : World Tour - Osho announces his World Tour
On 21 January, Osho announces he is going on a world tour
I am going on a world tour….
I am aware of my people who have already taken the first step;
they have already separated themselves from the crowd. They are
no longer Christians, no longer Jews, no longer Hindus. They have
done a great job, something rare, something unique—never
done by such a vast number of people before.
There are only two ways: either they should come to me…which
the vested interests are going to make more and more difficult.
They would like to isolate me from my people—they have already
started doing that.
I have my own way to respond to their fascist strategy. Rather
than calling people to myself, I will be going to my people.
Yes, it is true, the thirsty have always come to the well; but
it is an old proverb, it is not contemporary. Now you can have
water coming to your home, wherever you are. Of course in ancient
days the well could not go to the people, but now tap water can
reach everywhere, anywhere. And I am absolutely contemporary,
so I say, for the first time the well will go to the thirsty.
This is the only possible way to prevent governments, religions,
the political parties from preventing my people reaching me; I
will be moving around the world. This way I can reach more people,
new people also who may not have come to me, who may not have
ever thought to come to me.
There are millions of people who love me, who are in deep sympathy
with me, who would like to be with me but circumstances prevent
them. Their commitments to their families, to their countries,
to their professions prevent them. And there is also something
more fundamental than all these things.
That is, the negative person is always very active, articulate.
Just a single negative person will make so much noise and so much
fuss that he may create the illusion that many people are negative….
The positive person who loves me, who is sympathetic, who dreams
one day to be with me, remains silent because love is something
which one wants to keep in the secretmost part of one's heart.
Love is something that one does not want to shout about. In shouting
it will die. In making a fuss about it, he will kill it. It has
to be protected; it is a very delicate phenomenon. It has to be
kept silently within, so that nobody knows about it.
So there are millions of people who love me but have never said
it to anybody. It is just their own private secret. And love grows
in this way; the deeper you hide it, the faster it grows. Lovers
know it—not very clearly because their love is not of a
conscious state, but they have a certain glimpse of it….
This is a tragedy in a way: that love cannot be said but hate
is very articulate; that the best has to remain unexpressed and
the worst is loudly expressed; that the best has no logic to support
it and the worst has all the logic to support it—it can
argue, it can protest.
I am going around the world for all those people who are already
with me; also for those people who would like to be with me, but
their love is silent. I will also be going for those who have
been sympathetic. Sympathy is not enough, but it is an indication
that they can take a few steps and become part of my lovers. Sympathy
in itself is not enough, but it is a good indication of where
the wind is blowing, the direction.
There are people who are just indecisive. They have not yet
decided for or against. If I don't reach them soon there is a
possibility they may decide against, because those negative loudspeakers
are continuously bombarding their ears. All the yellow newspapers,
magazines; the governments, the religious leaders—they are
all trying hard to convince them to be on their side. I don't
need to convince them. I have just to be close to them, and that
will do it.
They don't know me, yet without knowing me they have not decided
against me. The moment they know me, there is no question of their
deciding against me—because they have been continuously
fed arguments against me, and still they have remained undecided,
open.
All these categories together can make millions of people….
And the strangest thing of all is that the people who think they
are enemies of mine have no argument against me. They are fighting
a losing battle. They know it. I have touched precisely their
life nerve….
My moving around the world will help tremendously to bring together
these different categories of people who are somehow interested
in me. It may also create new troubles for me from the vested
interests; but I never think of them as troubles. The more they
become afraid of me, the more they are losing ground.
And it is better to fight all over the world simultaneously
than to fight in different countries at different times, because
the fight is the same; why not make it a concentrated effort all
over the world?…
We have to fight now worldwide.
We have to make the movement a household name around the world.
It is already a household name, but we have to get sannyasins,
lovers, sympathizers from every house, so the fight can be from
the basic unit of society, the family.
The world is not ready, but a part of the world—the cream,
the young and the intelligent—is absolutely ready. The moment
they heard that I am going for a world tour…immediately
I received invitations from Greece, from Italy, from Spain, from
Portugal, from Switzerland, from New Zealand, from Austria, from
Australia, from Costa Rica, from Paraguay, and from many more
other countries.
Even three governments have invited me, knowing perfectly well
that America is against me and is pressuring governments that
I should not be allowed there. Three governments have been courageous
enough…. And those countries are not rich—poor countries,
South American countries. But they want to show to America, "You
don't have the monopoly over the world."
So going around the world will help us to find who is our friend
and who is not. And my own experience is that one of our friends
is equal to one hundred enemies…because they don't have
anything, just old, rotten ideas which are out of date. Just a
little push and they will fall apart.
They are fighting for the dead.
We are fighting for the unborn.
And the decision of existence is always for life. light20
How is it possible for you to be available to your sannyasins
without the commune?
Now it will be easier. Now I will be more available to individuals,
and they will be able to be in direct contact with me more easily.
And the communes will come together again, but on a higher level,
on a higher plane. The centers will come to function again. It
is good for the time being just to have a discontinuity, so everything
that comes has not even a shadow of the past over it.
I don't want very organized communes, for the simple reason that
whenever you become very organized you start losing something
for which you had started to organize in the first place. Other
things become more important….
Big communes won't function—decentralize! The small centers,
the old way, was far better; people enjoyed it because somebody's
house became a center, and the person loved it, that his house
was being used for my work. It becomes something integrated, that
people come there to meditate—it is not something impersonal….
It is better to decentralize the communes. There is no need…just
individual homes, individual sannyasins who have small farms or
some holiday place in the hills can easily manage weekends or
a full week. And now all my therapists are free, so they will
be moving all around the world. Wherever they are, use them. Because
the place I am going to find is going to be totally different.
There will not be therapy groups: there will be meditation groups,
there will be music groups, there will be sculpture groups, there
will be poetry groups. How long are we going to do just therapy?
People have done therapy; now they need something creative to
do. They are in a position now to do something creative. There
should be painting groups…So it will be a school of a different
kind. You learn painting, you learn to play the guitar, you learn
some other instrument, you learn dancing. So we will have these
kinds of teachers—dancers, musicians, painters, sculptors,
poets—and that will be sheer joy. It will be up to you to
join any, or as many as you like. And there will be meditation
groups; these will continue.
And I will be available to you in a totally different format—in
this format, that you can sit by my side and ask questions. Anybody
who has a question can ask a question, because now you are mature
enough: there is no need to think that you will ask some stupid
question. And even if you do, there is no harm because I never
remember what you have asked! I simply answer what I have to answer.
Whatever the question, my answer is going to be certainly significant
and meaningful to you.
So I would like now that two hundred people will be there at a
time. They can sit just by my side and have a more close, more
intimate contact. When there are ten thousand or twenty thousand
people I cannot see even your faces, you cannot see my face. You
are present, but what kind of presence is that?
So my new idea is that there is going to be my residence only,
with a facility for two hundred people who can sit around me on
the lawn, anywhere. There is no need for any formal setup; informally
we can talk. Or if there is no question, we can just sit in silence.
Or if somebody wants to dance, he can dance; if somebody wants
to play the flute, we can listen to the flute. So it will be more
of a communion.
It will be a totally different way….
I am trying to find the right place; soon I will have the right
place, and they will have more opportunity to come close to me.
And this will be better—smaller groups all the year round.
I am going to drop all the festivals so there is no need for twenty
thousand, thirty thousand people together, because then there
is no intimacy. So the festival will be every day. And why have
only one festival when you can have three hundred and sixty-five!
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The commune is no more; or, every sannyasin is the commune. But
what about such institutions as the Academy, or Friends, which
takes care of the publication and distribution of your words?
Do they still have a function, and how can they function?
They still have a function—and they will continue to function—but
their function is not dictatorial. Their function is to serve
the whole world of sannyasins and the people who love me.
So their function is not to govern you, their function is to serve
you.
And they are not organizations, they are simply institutes. And
their function has become more important now, because for all
the languages that books are being translated into, it has to
be seen to it that they are not mistranslated—that the translation
is right, that it does not harm the spirit of the message.
So it is a great work to take care of all the languages—we
need the publication institute to check all the language publications
before they are published.
Now there are many countries…. Just yesterday, a Korean
woman was here, and she informed us that more than thirty of my
books are translated into Korean, and thousands of copies are
available in all the bookstalls all over the country. We have
to take care of things. There are countries which are not members
of the Bern Convention: they do not believe in copyright. Korea
is one of those that do not believe in copyright, so they can
translate any book, publish any book.
But we can at least keep an eye that the translation is done rightly,
that the person who is doing the translation understands me. It
is not only a question of copyright, it is a question that I should
not be presented in a wrong way—which is possible. Because
if they are just earning money, who cares whether the translation
is right or wrong?
I informed the woman, "You send…" Because we don't
even know: it may be happening in other countries. There are many
countries which are not under the copyright convention. But we
can help them, we can suggest to them, "We don't want any
money from you, any royalty from you, but we would like you to
represent every book exactly, without any distortion." And
in many countries we will have to take publication into our own
hands.
For example, it happened in England that one of the presses had
published eight or ten books. We came to know later on that it
was a Christian press, but to us it was not a problem. To them
it became a problem, because when I spoke against Christianity,
they simply pulled out all those books that they had published
before—books which have nothing to do with Christianity—and
informed us that they could not publish our books anymore.
The same has happened in Holland—another publisher, and
for the same reason. When I was speaking on Christ, they had published
twelve or fifteen books, and now because I have criticized him,
they have simply stopped selling the books. They have informed
us, "We will not sell them, and we will not publish any more
books because ours is a Christian organization."
So it is going to happen everywhere sooner or later. Somebody
will be a Mohammedan publisher, somebody will be a Hindu publisher,
somebody will be a Christian publisher. So sooner or later we
will have to take all our publication into our own hands. We will
not be able to give it to others—they will not be ready.
So the Academy, and Friends International, they will still have
their functions: publication, keeping contact with all the sannyasins
of the world—not control but contact; otherwise all contact
will be lost.
There is a need for an institute that keeps all the contacts,
all the addresses, all the names of sannyasins; where they are,
what they are doing. If we need them in some other place….
For example, if we want to keep an eye on all the languages, then
we will need people with different languages to be in one place,
at the headquarters.
So Friends International will be the headquarters for communication
for all the sannyasins. If I am traveling around the world, then
somebody, some agency, is needed to inform you where I am; otherwise
I may pass through your country and you may not even know.
This is possible, because just now the pope has informed all the
Christian publications in Italy, as he heard that I am coming
to Italy, that they are not to give me any publicity—neither
positive nor negative. They are not to even mention my name. Now,
in Italy the pope has great powers—political powers—over
the government and over the media.
We will need our own media, our own agencies, our own publications
to inform you. And for any information that you want, you need
headquarters from where you can get that information; otherwise
it will become impossible even for you to find out where I am.
But their function is not to govern you; their function is to
serve you, just to make me available to you as accurately as possible.
We may need our own radio station somewhere, we may need our own
television stations, because these people are going to be cutting
off all sources, so that I cannot reach the public.
Now there are countries like Germany who have already made laws
that I cannot enter their country. Others may follow in the same
way if they see that I am traveling around the world. Then they
simply won't let me in.
And there are political pressures, religious pressures. So we
need our own independent media which can continue to inform you
and other people—so these people cannot do any harm.
Now their only fear is that my words will reach people. This is
a great victory for us. That means they have an absolute certainty
that they cannot argue: they have no valid arguments against me.
Such steps are only taken when you cannot argue; otherwise, what
is the need?
So this is the world we are in—which is dominated everywhere
by rotten ideologies that have no logical support. And they will
be trying to prevent us everywhere. And it is so easy.
So before they start preventing us, we have to have our own arrangements.
So rather than making a commune, my effort is now just to have
a perfect publication department for all the languages possible,
a satellite somewhere so we can manage radio stations all over
the world without any difficulty, and headquarters from where
you can get all the information—and through which people
can be made aware of where sannyasins are.
I will be living at the headquarters, and we will make arrangements
for people so that they can come and be with me. If countries
stop me from entering, then the only way is that I should be in
some place where my sannyasins are close by, and they can come
and be with me.
So we have to have these small groups which are not a centralization
of power, but are only functionally serving the whole sannyas
commune around the world.
And now every sannyasin is a small commune. light28
I am thankful and grateful that you are with us. But how can
I be thankful to those who speak against you and try to destroy
your work?
Existence is very compassionate. It is not indifferent, it is
not just a spectator. But you have to perceive the depth of everything.
For example, you love me, and you love me because I am not a savior
or a prophet or a god but just a human being like you. You are
worried because there are people who oppose me—don't be
worried. This is the way existence functions.
The way of existence is always to create antithesis to every
thesis. Only then does something become important. If nobody opposes
me, then what I am saying will not have any effect. I would like
that the people who love me and the people who oppose me are equally
divided—and that's what existence does—that they are
equally powerful, equally divided, and there is not a single human
being who remains indifferent: either he is my friend or he is
my enemy.
And I am grateful to both, because both work for me. The friend
works in a way; the enemy works in another way. You have just
to see the depth—that opposites are complementary. The enemies
also work—in fact, more than the friends. The friends may
remain silent in their love, in their peace, in their silence,
in their meditation, but the enemies cannot sit silently. They
have to talk about me day and night; they have to dream about
me day and night; they have to oppose me whether anybody listens
to them or not. They are my advertising agency. sword22
I am the most controversial man in the world, and it is one of
the controversies that nobody knows what is the controversy. I
myself don't know. last518
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