Osho Om Bodhisattva Commune/Osho the Alpha and the Omega 4

	In the East for thousands of years this special phenomenon has been in existence: the disciple sits by the side of the Master, just imbibing. Just being with him is enough -- just to pulsate with him, vibrate with him, sway with him, just to have a dance with his being. This is not communication; this is communion. Sometimes silences may be used; they are also devices. But that which is important is something so mysterious that no word can contain it. The very look of the Master's eyes in 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 awakes you. His only message-- conveyed through words, through silences, through love-- is simple and single: Wake up!









	Silence is the explosion of intelligence. Silence means: inside you, you are just spaciousness, uncluttered spaciousness. Silence means you have put aside the whole furniture of the mind-- the thoughts, the desires, the memories, the fantasies, the dreams-- all you have pushed aside. You are just looking into existence directly, immediately. You are in contact with existence without anything in between you and existence. That is silence...









	These three are the most important things for a seeker: the Master, the commune, and the dhamma-- Tao, logos, the ultimate law. Unless you are in contact with one who has already realized, it is almost impossible for you to grow. The hindrances are millions, the pitfalls many, the false doors many. There is every possibility of going astray, the temptations are many. Unless you are in the company of someone who knows the way, who has traveled the way, who has arrived, it is almost impossible for you to reach.









	Silence has three gates to passed ...the outer part of the mind-- talking; the inner part of the mind-- thinking; and the innermost part of the mind-- feeling. And when you have passed all these three then there is silence. And that silence is the door to the divine...









	Buddha gave his flower and said, "I am giving to you that which I could not give to others. I am giving you that which can only be given in silence." I would like thousands to receive that flower. One is not enough....









	I have traveled all the paths and have looked at truth from all the windows. What I am saying is going to last forever because nothing more could be added to it... I am talking about the whole truth so the future of my religion is infinite. All others religions will disappear into it as all the rivers disappear into the ocean.









	My whole emphasis is in finding the center of the cyclone-- the emptiness that is between you and existence and the eternal nothingness. In this nothingness the flower of enlightenment blooms.









	The Master cannot react. He responds, but he never reacts. Reactions come from the past, response is spontaneous; it is in the present. The slave reacts, the Master responds. The unconscious mind reacts, the conscious man responds. He has no ready-made answers. He encounters the situation, he reflects the situation. He accepts the challenge of the situation-- and he acts accordingly. His action is born out of the present. And remember one fundamental secret of life: if the action is born out of the present it is never binding; if it comes out of past it is binding, it is karma.

SILENT SATSANGS AND COMMENTARIES ON BUDDHA'S DHAMMAPADA

In June 1979, Osho conducts a ten-day experiment in silent communion, or satsang, He appears in Buddha Hall and sits with the assembly for an hour of music and silent meditation in place of discourse.

On June 21, Osho introduces his twelve-part series of commentaries on Gautam Buddha's Dhammapada.

My talking on Buddha is not just a commentary: it is creating a bridge. Buddha is one of the most important Master who has ever existed on the earth -- incomparable, unique. And if you can have a taste of his being, you will be infinitely benefited, blessed.

I am immensely glad, because after these ten days of silence I can say to you that many of you are now ready to commune with me in silence. That is the ultimate in communication. Words are inadequate, words say but only partially. Silence communes totally.

ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

On May 22, 1980, Vilas Tupe, a member of a fundamentalist Hindu group, throws a knife at Osho during his morning discourse. The local police have been tipped off and are present in hall when the incident occurs. After the police remove Tupe and take him into custody, Osho continues his talk. Because of subsequent manipulations of the legal proceedings by police officials and members of Vilas Tupe's group the case is dropped and Tupe is released without being convicted of any crime. A few weeks later, Osho explains what has happened.

WORLDWIDE EXPANSION

In late 1980 and early 1981, a center is set up in the United States to distribute Osho's books, audio tapes, and videotapes. Sannyasins overseas are encouraged to support their local meditation centers and communes. There are programs to train new group leaders. In London in the spring of 1981, a two-day sampling of Osho's meditation and group workshops called "The March Event" is organized and draws about five hundred participants through advertising that includes signs on London buses and underground trains. This is followed by similar events in the world.

My effort is not only to create a Buddhafield here, but to create small oasis all over the world. I would not like to confine this tremendous possibility only to this small commune. This commune will be source, but it will have branches all over the world. It will be the root, but it is going to become a big tree. It is going to reach every country, it is going to reach every potential person. We will create small communes, centers, all over the world.

Be in the world, but don't be of it. Live in the world, but don't allow the world to live in you. That's my message.

...That's the way of a true sannyasin: being in the world but remaining untouched, unaffected by it

IN SILENCE

On April 10, 1981, Osho send a message that he is entering ultimate stage of his work, and that from this date he will speak only through silence. He continues to meet with his secretary but does not appear until three weeks later when the satsangs are resumed and Osho appears in the meditation hall to sit silently with his disciples and visitors. An ancient Buddhist chant is sung at the beginning of the meetings, and they end with music, singing, and dancing.

Meanwhile, Osho's health has become more and more fragile, In addition to his allergies, he now has severe back pains, and doctors are concerned that he might need sugary at some point. There concern is heightened when a dangerous crises arises related to a prolapse disk and the potential for nerve damage if it is aggravated. The assistant to Osho's personal secretary. Ma Anand Sheela, arranges for him to go the United States where he can be treated before another crisis arise. On June 1, 1981, he flies from Bombay to New York with his household and medical staff

A NEW PHASE -- RAJNEESHPURAM, USA

1981: On May 1st Bhagwan stop speaking and entered a phase of "silent heart-to- heart communion" while His body, now seriously ill from a back condition, was resting. He was taken to the USA by His doctors and caretakers in view of possible emergency surgery. His American disciples purchased a 64,000 acre ranch in the Central Oregon desert. They invited Bhagwan there -- where He recovered rapidly. A model agricultural commune evolved around Him with breathtaking speed and impressive results, reclaiming overgrazed and depleted land from the desert and turning it into a green oasis feeding a city of 5,000. At yearly summer festivals held for Bhagwan's friends from all over the world, up to 20,000 visitors were housed and fed at this new city of Rajneeshpuram.

Parallel to the rapid growth of the commune in Oregon, large communes sprang up in all major Western countries, and Japan, supported by their own independent businesses.

Bhagwan had by then applied for permanent residence in the U.S.A. as a religious leader, but was refused by the American government; one of the reasons given was His vow of public silence. At the same time the new city was under increasing legal attack from the Oregon government and the Christian majority in the state. Oregon's land use laws, meant to protect the environment, became a major weapon in the fight against a city that had put enormous effort into reclaiming barren land and enhancing the environment -- in fact a city which had become an ecological model for the world.

After 1315 days of silence, on 30th. October 1984, Bhagwan started speaking to small groups in his residence, and in July 1985 He started giving public discourses every morning to thousands of seekers in Rajneesh Mandir.

1985: On September 14, Bhagwan's personal secretary and several members of the commune's management suddenly left, and a whole pattern of illegal acts committed by them came to light. Bhagwan invited the American authorities to the city to fully investigate the matter. The authorities used this opportunity to accelerate their fight against the commune.

On October 29, the bail hearings. He was put in chains. The trip back to Oregon where He was to appear in court -- normally a five hour flight -- took four days. For two of those days there was no trace of Bhagwan. Later He revealed that in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary He was signed in under the name of "David Washington" and put into an isolation cell with prisoner suffering from infectious proven fatal for Bhagwan.

Just an hour before being finally released, after a 12-day ordeal in prisons and chains, a bomb was discovered at the Portland, Oregon jail in which Bhagwan was kept. Everybody was evacuated except Bhagwan, who was kept inside for an hour. In mid-November His lawyers urged Him to plead guilty to two of thirty-four minor "immigration violations" with which he had been charged, so as to avoid further risks to His life in the hands of the American judicial system. Bhagwan acquiesced and entered and "Al ford plea," a plea peculiar to the U.S. judicial system, whereby He could accept the contention of guilt while at the same time maintain His innocence. He was fined four hundred thousand dollars and ordered to leave the USA, not to return for five years. He left by private jet the same day and flew to India, where He rested in the Himalayas.

A week later, the Oregon commune decided to disperse.

In a press conference, U.S. attorney Charles Turner made three points in answering the questions:Why weren't the charges brought against His secretary also brought against Bhagwan? Turner said that the government's first priority was to destroy the commune and that the authorities knew that the removal of Bhagwan would precipitate this. Second, they did not want to make Bhagwan a martyr. Third, there was no evidence whatsoever implicating Him in any of the crimes.