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And one more for the road: Referring to [[From Bhagwan to Osho: The story|the period of Osho's frequent name changes]] (Dec 88 to Feb 89) Devageet writes: "The name game, played with such evident gusto by Osho, illustrated not only his sense of humour, it is also an example of how he created outrageous devices to challenge his sannyasins' egos. Osho created a koan from the ancient question, "[[From Bhagwan to Osho: What's in a name?|What's in a name?]]"  
And one more for the road: Referring to [[From Bhagwan to Osho: The story|the period of Osho's frequent name changes]] ([[Osho's names|Dec 88 to Feb 89]]) Devageet writes: "The name game, played with such evident gusto by Osho, illustrated not only his sense of humour, it is also an example of how he created outrageous devices to challenge his sannyasins' egos. Osho created a koan from the ancient question, "What's in a name?"  


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Amusing Anecdotes By His Personal Dentist

This book provides insider stories of Osho, written firsthand by his personal dentist, living in his house in Poona, India and Rajneeshpuram, USA. It is a unique document; funny, profound, giving an exquisite authentic glimpse of an enlightened Master working on his disciples. "You, Devageet, will be my note-taker. I will speak from the dental chair. No Buddha has ever done such a thing … but you know me; I am a little crazy. One day these notes that you take from your dental chair will become a beautiful book. It will not be like my other books."
~ Osho, in the context of commencing the incomparable series of books he dictated under the influence of nitrous oxide.
author
Sw Devageet
language
English
notes

editions

Osho: The First Buddha in the Dental Chair

Amusing Anecdotes By His Personal Dentist

Year of publication : 2013
Publisher : Sammasati Publishing
ISBN
Number of pages : 273
Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H / E
Edition notes : Size: 14.5 x 22 x 2.5 cm
See also
Review in Osho News, with links to excerpts

remarks

As the book's blurb says, this is a unique book. No book has ever been written like it. The normal "power" relationship between a dentist and hir patient is completely reversed, and Devageet is comfortable with that reversal (except when he's not) and is comfortable writing about it, with plenty of wondrous tales and embarrassing episodes recounted. More than once, Osho tells him, "I am in your dental chair but you are on my operating table". A few snippets:

When he was first brought in by Vivek to see Osho to talk about becoming his dentist, she impressed on him numerous times that this meeting with Osho must remain a secret. He writes: "Her words were still echoing around my brain as the Lao Tzu gate guard slid the iron bolt to let me out. I was back in the ashram world.

"Vasumati, one of the ashram therapists, was passing. She looked at me, gasped, flushed red and then screamed, 'Devageet, you've just seen Osho!'

"I was shocked. My befuddled brain took valuable microseconds to overcome the blast of disbelief and alarm at her words. 'Shhhh!' I whispered in horror. 'Be quiet! It's a secret. Nobody must know. And ... How did you know?' I said in her ear.

"'It's obvious. It's written all over your face.'

"Only later did I realize that sharing a secret with Vasumati had the same effect as putting it on national television".


When the Ranch dental sessions started, Osho instructed his doctor Amrito (then called Devaraj) to edit the notes that Devageet would be taking of his nitrous-influenced ramblings, and he told Ashu, Devageet's dental nurse, to "be a referree for Devageet and Devaraj". Geet writes: "I was puzzled when I heard those words: Devaraj and I were friends. We had never quarrelled, let alone fought. It was only three years later, when we collaborated in editing and preparing the three books that finally resulted from the dental chairside notes, that I realized how complete Osho's vision had been. He had seen clearly, three years before it happened, how Devaraj and I would argue and squabble over the placing of each punctuation mark and paragraph. He had known, and he had chuckled".


Devageet shares deeply his experience of the master-disciple process. About Osho's daily belittling remarks and accusations to provoke him, he writes: "I trusted, without clearly understanding, that his drip-drip torturous 'surgery' was exposing and peeling away unseen layers from my ego citadel fortifications. In principle I knew that this was the fundamental work of an enlightened Master on his disciple, but in practice I found the process excruciating. [...] My self-image as a pragmatic earthy person, not taken to bothering overmuch about unjust criticism, crumbled".


Truly harrowing are the occasions when Osho plays inconceivable kinds of hardball with him: starting to speak while the high-speed drill is whirring away, putting his tongue, gums and teeth at risk for Devageet's benefit. And near the end, not far from his time of leaving the body, he asks Devageet to remove many teeth, "unnecessarily" according to all "standard" dental wisdom, and so Devageet inevitably though painfully declines. With an "Are you my dentist or my disciple?", Osho masterfully puts Devageet's feet to the fire and holds them there, while calling in another dentist who is also reluctant but eventually complies while Devageet watches. Amazing! Osho makes it clear, as he has from the beginning: "Devageet, I will not stop until I crack your concrete skull".


And one more for the road: Referring to the period of Osho's frequent name changes (Dec 88 to Feb 89) Devageet writes: "The name game, played with such evident gusto by Osho, illustrated not only his sense of humour, it is also an example of how he created outrageous devices to challenge his sannyasins' egos. Osho created a koan from the ancient question, "What's in a name?"