Abandon All Hope
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" is the inscription at the entrance to Hell in the "Inferno" portion of Dante's epic poem "Divine Comedy". Visitors who came by road via Antelope to Rajneeshpuram (which is to say nearly everyone) were greeted by a full-size billboard by the side of the road bearing this message, put up and maintained by Xian fundamentalists, "hoping" both to warn people off and brand sannyasins and Osho as instruments of evil.
Osho has always encouraged his people not to live in the future, so hope comes in for special attention, since it is not only thinking about the future but investing emotional energy in it. So when his people would drive by this sign, they could take it as a message from the master and thus a joke at the expense of those who erected it. Many a heart was warmed by this sign.
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