| |
IS THIS STORY TOLD ABOUT YOU?
A: Right.
Q: DO YOU KNOW HOW THAT GOT STARTED?
A: I have told it.
Q: HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TREATED FOR ANY MENTAL DISORDER?
A: No, I have been treating people for mental disorders.
Q: HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TREATED FOR ANY DRUG ADDICTION?
A: I don't even take coffee or tea...
Quoted in Max Brecher's A Passage to America, page 177:
The Rajneesh Times printed Hunter-Rajneesh interview at the Portland INS, what was left out, as far as Sheela was concerned, was more important:
From The Oregonian, "For Love and Money", July 1985
"I am not making anybody head of my religion because I don't want any books to be followed. I don't want people exploiting others in my name. I am not going to be succeeded by anybody. The day I am dead, I am dead. There is no question of my successor."
Silent Period
Chapter #3
Chapter title: None
1983 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA
Archive code: 8300000
ShortTitle: SILENT03
Audio: No
Video: No
[NOTE: This was published in THE RAJNEESH TIMES, 19th August 1983 while Osho was in silence.]
INTERVIEW WITH KIRK BRAUN
Q: WHAT IS YOUR VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF RAJNEESHISM?
Osho: Rajneeshism is not a religion like Christianity, Hinduism, Mohammedanism, Buddhism, etc. The name should not be misunderstood. It simply shows a poverty of language -- to be exactly true, Rajneeshism is a religionless religion.
In other words it is a kind of religiousness, not a dogma, cult or creed but only a quality of love, silence, meditation and prayerfulness. Hence it can never end.
It is not beginning with me. It has always existed and it will always exist. It is the very essence of human evolution, of culture consciousness.
Buddha, Jesus or Krishna are nothing but expressions of this spirit, but it was not possible in those days for religion to be manifested as well as it can be now. Because Jesus did not know about Buddha, Buddha did not know about Lao Tzu, and Krishna was also unaware of Lao Tzu, etc.
I have traveled all the paths and
|
|
|