Osho Om Bodhisattva Commune/Osho the alpha and the Omega3

	Come close... And the work of the devotee is to be drowned... the very look of the Master's eyes into your eyes, the very touch of his being, the very touch of his presence is enough to stir something that is fast asleep in you. The Master awakens you. His only message, conveyed through words, through silences, through love, is simple and single: Wake up!








	THE GROUPS BEGIN: Rolfing: Rolfing or structural integration is to break down fixed patterns and structures within body. Massage: Touch is one of the most forgotten language. Primal: Bring the roots up. Encounter: Nowhere else is such absolute freedom allowed. Intensive Enlightenment Group: A virgin point within your being which has never been traveled before. Arica : It is love that works, not the technique. Tathata: Unconditional Acceptance. Nadam Music Group and African Dancing... Create a pinnacle energy, a tower of music, singing, ecstasy. Divine Healing: The healer is just a function Theater Group: The no-mind follies. Aum Marathon : Awareness, understanding and meditation. Tao Group: The less you know the better. And other groups: Who Am I Samarpan Moon Tantra Prema Urja Relaxation Gestalt Couples Let Go Zazen Kyo All these groups will disappear once the real psychology starts taking place.








	You cannot reach to the truth through a Master; you can reach only to the inner master through a Master-- and then this inner master will lead you to the truth. The outer Master is just a representative, a substitute. He has his inner guide and he can feel your inner guide also, because they both exist on the same wavelength-- they both exist in the same tuning and the same dimension. If I have found my inner guide, I can look into you and feel your inner guide. And if I am really a guide to you, all my guidance will be to lead you to your inner guide... Once you are in contact with the inner guide, I am no longer needed. Now you can move alone. So all that a guru can do is to push you down from your head to your navel, from your reasoning to your intuitive force, from your argumentative mind to your trusting guide...








	Wisdom comes from the heart, it is not of the intellect. Wisdom comes from the innermost depth of your being, it is not of the head. Cut your head off, be headless--and follow the being, whatsoever, wheresoever it leads. Even if it leads into danger, go into danger, because that will be the path for you and your growth. Through that danger you will grow and become mature.








	When a disciple with total trust bows down at the feet of his Master, something is happening which is not visible to the eyes. An energy is falling from the Master, entering the disciple. Something invisible to the eyes is happening there. If you become aware you can see it also, the aura of the Master, his rainbow, pouring himself down into the disciple; you will in fact see it happening.








	A great, unheard- of experiment has to be done, on such a large scale that at least the most substantial part of humanity is touched by it -- at least the soul of humanity, the center of humanity, can be awakened by it. On the periphery, the mediocre minds will go on sleeping -- let them sleep -- but at the center where intelligence exists a light can be kindled. The time is ripe, the time has come for it. My whole work here consists in creating a Buddhafield, an energy field where these eternal truths can be uttered again. It is a rare opportunity. Only once in a while, after centuries, does such an opportunity exist ... don't miss it.








	The Master is heavy with divine energy. And he has infinite energy now, he can pour it down to infinite disciples. He can work alone with millions of disciples. He is never exhausted because now he is connected with the whole, he has found the source of all. Through him you can also take the jump into that abyss.

DARSHAN

Osho meets with groups of seekers in a small auditorium adjoining his residence at seven P.M. each evening for one or two hours. In these darshans he initiates new sannyasins from all over the world, greets people who are arriving or leaving, answers questions, and advises on problems. Groups of ashram workers and participants in ashram programs attend the meetings on a rotating schedule. Recordings are made of these intimate, face-to-face meetings between Osho and his guests and are published as "Darshan Diaries."

SHARING THE VISION

Many Western sannyasins spend a few months in Pune and then return to their native countries. During their "leaving darshan" they often ask how they can continue their meditations at home and what they can do to share Osho's vision and unique meditation techniques with their friends and families. Although he often suggests that people can start meditation centers in the West, Osho repeatedly emphasizes that he is not interested in proselytizing or converting people to sannyas, but only that his work be made available to those who are interested.

THERAPY AS A PREPARATION FOR MEDITATION

Throughout 1975, Osho guides an expansion of programs and workshops that revolutionize Western methods of therapy with Eastern techniques of meditation. In August 1975, the first therapy groups begin. Included in all group processes are daily Dynamic and Kundalini Meditations, Osho's morning discourse and participation in a ten-day meditation camp before or after the group. In darshan, Osho suggests groups to new arrivals, advises group leaders, and meets with group participants. By the end of 1977, there are fifty different group offerings, and the ashram is known as the largest and most innovative growth center in the world.

...My therapists are the best in world, for the simple reason that other therapists are only therapists, they are not meditators. My therapists are meditators too.

PUSHING THE ENVELOPE, ENCOUNTER AND PRIMAL THERAPY

Although only a small percentage of therapy groups in the Pune ashram during the 1970s involve cathartic processes or nudity, it is these groups that attract the most media attention. A German film company is allowed to film a (staged) encounter group session, and their resulting documentary, Ashram, provokes worldwide controversy and outrage. The movie continues to be shown well into the 1980s and is used by anti cult groups to support their claim that Osho's work is dangerous and should be opposed.

... In the encounter group-- that is the meaning of the word encounter-- you have to encounter yourself in your totality. You have to bring out all that is repressed-- you have to bring out all, without any evaluation about what is good, what is bad. And suddenly you see great animals roaring inside you. They are violent, and you have been taught to be nonviolent. Your nonviolence has repressed your violence. Great rage, for no reason at all, will arise. You will start beating the wall; you may start beating yourself. And you will say, "What am I doing? I have never done it before. From where is it coming?" But it is coming in great surges, in great waves. And the whole process is to let it be.

When all the parts have been expressed-- your sex, your anger, your greed, your jealousy, your rage-- when all parts have been expressed, a great calmness arises, the silence that follows the storm.

This cannot be understood by the masses, In fact they are very much on their guard. They don't want to understand either, because to understand means they will have to look within, and they will find the same things inside themselves.

REMEMBER, THESE GROUPS ARE NOT THE END, THEY ONLY PREPARE YOU FOR MEDIATION

They are not the goal; they are just simple means to undo the wrong of the past. Once you have thrown out of your system all that you have been repressing all along, I have to lead you into watchfulness. Now it will be easier to watch.

THE WORLD ACADEMY OF CREATIVE SCIENCE, ARTS & CONSCIOUSNESS

I want this place to grow and I am making arrangements for a world academy of sciences and arts, totally devoted to life-affirmative goals.

The science that can create Hiroshima and Nagasaki and destroy thousands and thousands of people, birds, trees without any reason -- just because the politicians wanted to see whether atomic energy works or not -- that same science can create more food, more life, better health, more intelligence in all fields of life.

There is an immense vacuum which I want to fill by creating a "World Academy of Creative Science , Art and Consciousness", absolutely devoted to life, love, laughter -- absolutely devoted to creating a humanity, a better and more pure, healthy atmosphere, to restore the disturbed ecology.

And once we make the whole of humanity aware of the dangers of our past ways of life and where the whole past is leading us -- to a global suicide -- it will not be difficult to convince the intelligent, the young, to drop the past and accept the greatest challenge of creating a golden future.

I want our place to be the first synthesis between religiousness and a scientific approach to life.

The scientists should recognize their dignity, they should recognize their individuality. They should recognize that they have been exploited down the ages by the priests and the politicians.

Now it is time to declare that science is going to stand on its own feet. Scientists have to be courageous enough and declare that they don't belong to any nation, to any religion, and that whatsoever they will be doing will be for the whole humanity. This will be a great freedom -- and I don't see that there is anything impossible in it.

ASHRAM EXPANSION

In March 1976, renovation and remodeling of many newly acquired buildings have been completed. Osho names the buildings after enlightened mystics: Francis, Jesus, Eckhart and Krishna . For his daily morning talks he appears in Chuang Tzu Auditorium, where mosquito netting encloses a large circular veranda adjoining his residence. By March 1977, construction of Buddha Hall is completed, where Osho's English-language discourses can accommodate more people. Ashram work, departments include publishing, a press office, crafts, a music department, silk screen facilities, a clothing boutique, and a carpentry shop that also makes musical instruments. And by August 1977, there is a bakery and studios for the creation of jewelry, pottery, and weaving.

... What am I doing? I want it to be absolutely a part of the marketplace because I want my sannyasins not to move into the monasteries. They have to remain in the world. Their meditation should grow in the world, their meditation should not become escapist. So whatsoever peace you are finding here, you will be able to retain any where you go.

And that's what is going to happen in the new phase of my work. My commune will become hidden, underground. It will have a facade on the outside: the weavers and the carpenters and the potters. . . that will be the facade. People who will come as visitors, we will have a beautiful showroom for them; they can purchase things. They can see the creativity of the sannyasins-- paintings, books, woodworking. They can be shown around-- a beautiful lake, swimming pools, a five-star hotel for them-- but they will not know what is really happening. That which will be happening will be almost all underground. It has to be underground, otherwise it cannot happen.

Vision is not your dream. Vision is when all dreams have disappeared and you don't have a dreaming mind; then what happens is a vision. But for that, insight is needed. You have to learn how to see, and you have to learn how to be, and you have to learn how to hear, and you have to learn how to touch. You have to learn how to smell, how to taste. And then you will be surprised -- God comes through all the senses.

Be more sensitive -- less of belief, less of head, and more of sensitivity. Be more sensuous, alive in your senses, and then suddenly one day you will see: it is not simply the light that is coming to you, it is God in the form of light; and it is not the trees that is standing there in front of you, but God; not the rock, but God; not the woman that you have fallen in love with, but a God; not the man, but God. When the insight becomes clear, unclouded, suddenly you start seeing that everywhere God is, because all is God.

The higher your consciousness, the greater your vision; the lower your consciousness, the smaller your vision.