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CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF EVENING MEETINGS FROM THE MANTRA SALUTE ON MARCH 18, 1988 ONWARDS

The following is a step-by-step chronological account of how the Evening Meetings in Buddha Hall evolved under Osho’s guidance, to become the Meeting of the Osho White Robe Brotherhood. It consists of announcements Osho asked to be made before some of the meetings, as well as pieces taken from discourses, and comments He made in private.

March 18, 1988 First Salute

The first prototype of the Mantra Salute, “Yaa-Hoo!” Osho later says this is the new greeting between sannyasins all over the world.
“The significance of this Mantra Salute is the raising of the hands to the stars, indicating the longing for higher consciousness. Shouting the mantra “Yaa-Hoo!” is also a very healthy thing. It has very good vibrations. You can do it when you wake up in the morning, in the bathroom, anywhere.”

April 1, 1988 A Spontaneous Let-Go

As Osho begins to rise from His chair at the end of discourse, He suddenly raises one arm in the Yaa-Hoo! salute. He then says “Niskriya!” and slowly drops His arm and as He drops His arm everyone falls back in a spontaneous let-go. During the let-go, there is much giggling and an occasional “Yaa-Hoo!” heard amongst us.

April 2, 1988 Let-Go Directions

Osho: “Yesterday your let-go was not perfect. You enjoyed it too much. You have to be silent. Let-go means, for one minute at least you are dead. But I saw you were enjoying being dead! This is not right. You have to correct it; otherwise you will have to do it every day! I saw a few people even holding up their legs. This is not let-go! Let-go is impossible - how did those legs reach up? And you were still laughing and enjoying. You destroyed the whole...so this time, unless I call you back you have to be utterly dead, no sign of life.”

April 3, 1988 Understanding the Let-Go Experience

Osho: “Now, before we do our let-go, two things have to be understood. To make the let-go really a deep and meaningful experience we will remain for two minutes completely frozen, as if dead - as you are sitting. You don’t have to fall, you don’t have to do anything. When, after two minutes, absolutely frozen - nobody is wanted or welcome to laugh; that will destroy the whole thing. You have to remain frozen and then I will tell you, “Let go”.
These two minutes will be gathering of the energy. These two minutes you will be almost dead. And after these two minutes, when I say, “Let go” then you can relax and then there is no limitation for you. Then you can laugh, you can enjoy; just don’t harm anybody and just don’t do anything to anybody. Whatever you want to do, do to yourself. If you want to tickle, tickle yourself, but not anybody else.”

May 26, 1988 First Gibberish in Gautama the Buddha Auditorium

Tonight Osho’s establishes a new format for the nightly meditations at the end of each discourse. He appears after an illness of many days - one of several periods of weakness and ill-health He has suffered since His incarceration by the American government in 1985. He says:
“My Beloved Ones,
I am introducing you to a new meditation. It is divided in three parts. The first part is gibberish. The word ‘gibberish’ comes from a Sufi mystic, Jabbar. Jabbar never spoke any language, he just uttered nonsense. Still he had thousands of disciples because what he was saying was, ‘Your mind is nothing but gibberish. Put it aside and you will have a taste of your own being.’
To use gibberish, don’t say things which are meaningful, don’t use the language that you know. Use Chinese, if you don’t know Chinese. Use Japanese if you don’t know Japanese. Don’t use German if you know German. For the first time have a freedom - the same as all the birds have. Simply allow whatever comes to your mind without bothering about its rationality, reasonability, meaning, significance - just the way the birds are doing.
For the first part, leave language and mind aside. Out of this will arise the second part, a great silence in which you have to close your eyes and freeze your body, all its movements, gather your energy within yourself. Remain here and now.
Zen cannot be understood in any other way. This is the last part of the series Live Zen.
In the third part I will say, let go. Then you relax your body and let it fall without any effort, without your mind controlling. Just fall like a bag of rice.
Each segment will begin with the drum of Nivedano. Before Nivedano gives the drum, there are a few more things I have to say to you...
I am extremely sorry that I have not been physically here for many days, but I am also extremely happy that you never missed my presence.
I was in your heart and I was in the wind and in the rain and the thunder of clouds.
I was in your tears, in your nonsense utterances...
I was absolutely present here with you - and those who are present know it perfectly.
I was absent only for those who themselves are absent. At least today, don’t go anywhere...”
Osho: Live Zen, A New Therapy is Born - Therapy through Gibberish

September 15, 1988 Spiritual Capital of the World

In the discourse series The Buddha, The Emptiness of the Heart, Osho says:
“...Every night, these few moments are the most valuable moments in your life. And every evening, when so many living buddhas gather here, this place becomes the most important in the whole world - the spiritual capital of the world. Because nowhere are so many people meditating together. Nowhere are so many people digging so deep that they can find the very life source, the eternity, the deathlessness.”

April 10, 1989 Osho’s last discourse

This was not planned to be the last discourse. It was in fact the first in a new series Osho had planned.

May 23, 1989 Silence

On the new meetings of silence, Osho sent this message before He came to Buddha Hall:
“The Buddhafield is at a new and higher level. Osho is not speaking any more so that you can understand the silence, the world of no-words. It is part of the whole scheme to bring people to their peaks. Simply feel the silence in the commune.
Every tree will say something about Him. Every swan will say something about Him - if you just want His words then it is enough to read the books and watch the videos.”

June 17, 1989 His Presence - His Absence

Amrito speaks about Osho’s presence in the commune to those gathered for the evening’s video discourse:
“He asked us to remember that His presence is here, and that we should not take His absence for granted. His energy is here and He would like us to learn to feel His presence here all the time.”

July 14 and 18, 1989 Osho Full Moon Celebration

After an absence of many months, Osho comes again to Gautama the Buddha Auditorium for two evening meetings of silence and music during this Osho Full Moon Celebration. We are gathered together for the first time in white robes.

July 26, 1989

Anando delivers the following message from Osho to Buddha Hall:
Osho has said that He will be coming out for the three days of the next meditation camp on August 11, 12, and 13th. He may only be with us for ten or fifteen minutes on each night , but as of now, He will definitely be there!
And He would like us to wear white only for the video/discourse whether or not He is present--and for meditating alone.

August 18, 1989 Communion of Silence

Tonight, the first evening of three meetings with Osho in Gautama the Buddha Auditorium, Anando brings the following message from Osho:
“Osho has been speaking for thirty years but very few people have got the message - they simply cling to the words. Now He wants to drop all words. What happens here in these communions in the real message - no words can convey it. So He will not be using words but sharing His being with you. So then it is up to you how deep you can go. After the whole day of meditations, groups and working, these ten minutes will be the climax.
What words cannot express, silence can. So this is a greater opportunity than hearing Him, it is a melting. These ten minutes of silence and deeply going into yourself is equal to eternity.”
The video which follows is June 7, 1988, from the series This. This. A Thousand Times This - and it echoes it all:
“I have been speaking for thirty-five years continuously, searching for those who will understand. It has been a long search, but I have found all of you - and more around the earth - who have started to understand a little bit. But just a little bit is more than enough. Just a cup of tea, a little taste and then you can go on your own. You know the way, you have felt it. Even the bamboo’s are no longer commenting. When you are feeling it so solidly, there is no need for any comment. You are the very human beings on the earth today who are, at this moment, so much blessed, so much in tune with existence. This silence is just a simple proof.”

August 22, 1989 Highest Peak

Before evening darshan Anando relays the following message from Osho:
“The poisoning of Osho’s body has weakened Him tremendously - you may not see it, because it is the source energy He is using, it has nothing to do with His body. And He is coming every evening just to give a rounded shape to your whole day’s activities - your groups, meditations, cleaning, working, being creative. If He does not come He feels that the finishing touch to your whole day’s work will be missed.
So use those few minutes that He is with you with as much energy and delight as possible. He feels nourished by it. It is with you He forgets completely all the pains and trouble of the body. Every day you should come to the highest peak possible.”

August 24, 1989 Four Layers

Before evening darshan Anando relays the following message from Osho:
“At present there are three stages of the evening meetings. The first is a wild celebration of energy mounting up to the moment Osho enters the hall and rising even higher when He is in the Hall until He sits down. As Osho sits, the music continues but everybody closes their eyes and sits in meditation and communes with Him. After ten or more minutes, three explosive drumbeats are played and celebration begins again until the music reaches its final crescendo after Osho has left.”
In an additional message, Anando relays Osho’s explanation of the energy process He is initiating in the darshans:
“No whistling - it is not a football match. It lowers and makes the meditation like a circus. First He thought you will understand, but it seems to be an impossible thing. But with silence you don’t have to understand, just see and feel. Before (when He was speaking) programmed minds were coming in. Now there is no question of the mind. He is simply showering flowers.
He has said that we are just at the beginning. We have really to reach heights. So put your totality into it. And don’t be too serious - it should be a delight. It is really going higher. You will start feeling the changes in the ashram and seeing them in the faces. And more heights are there.”
Anando continues, saying:
“Osho has passed on this message elucidating the energy process He is initiating”:
Osho: “Commonly people think there is only one energy in man. In fact there are four layers. The first layer is for mundane affairs - service and market, and it is enough for that, It revives every morning if you have slept well. The second layer is a far deeper layer and it is not physical. Only a few poets and painters have come across it. But they misunderstood because they had no idea what it is, so they thought god was working through them. The third layer is very rarely used because people don’t go that deep into themselves to go into the third layer. You have to exhaust the first and second, and it starts giving you new insights.
The fourth layer is your very source of life. Mind knows nothing about it.
So when you say that ‘we are feeling that flowers are showering’ - that is the fourth layer. And once the passage becomes more and more to the fourth layer, this is the state of a Gautama the Buddha. It is inexhaustible and eternal. In death the body and first three layers will die. Only the fourth is transferred to a new womb or an absolute merger with the universe.
Gurdjieff is the first man who tried to force people towards the fourth layer. But he could not succeed. I am trying a totally different method. You are not to do anything but just be receptive. All that is done is done by me.”
Anando’s message continues:
“Gurdjieff’s method was very primitive, so people felt he was forcing them unnecessarily in futile, hard work. With Osho you never know at what point you have passed the three layers and reached the fourth.
Whatever Osho is doing is to penetrate in a beautiful silent way, to reach the fourth layer. Once you have reached you know, and then you will understand what He is saying.”

August 25, 1989 The Osho White Robe Brotherhood

Anando brings the announcement that,
“Osho has given a new name to the evening darshans with Him in Gautama the Buddha Auditorium: The “Osho White Robe Brotherhood.
This brotherhood gathers together in silence, in music, sharing Osho’s energy. Not a single word is uttered.”
Osho says: “That which cannot be said has to be experienced. This is a great experience of getting into the inner space. Something is experienced in this gathering which no one has been able to define.”
“This,” He said, “is the highest peak of the whole day’s working, meditating, or doing groups in the commune.”
The white robes of the Brotherhood will be adorned with swan cloth emblems - the emblems are designed by Osho. Osho wears the prototype model this evening, slightly larger and more colourful than the ones we will be wearing.
Osho also says:
“The white robe should not be used in any activities of ordinary life. There is a mystical gathering of energy into the robe. Day by day, as it becomes older, it gathers more potential. Just putting on the robe you will find yourself moving into the same space each time.”

September 12, 1989 OSHO

Osho announces that He will be coming out again in the next few days. He says:
“You will be facing a new man who will no longer be known as Rajneesh but simply as Osho.”

October 89 Stop Exercises to Create Silence

Osho tells Anando that the title for the videos of the Evening Meetings should be:
“Osho White Robe Brotherhood: Stop Exercises to Create Silence”. His message regarding the videos (reprinted on each video) is:
“This videotape should not be used simply to look at, but to participate in the meditation. Watch the first few minutes, how Osho directs the energy and the Osho White Robe Brotherhood respond, then start doing it on your own. This will give you a taste of what is happening during these meetings, and will deepen your silence, enabling you to understand the discourse which follows more thoroughly. However, there is only one place to experience the real thing - Pune!”

October 15, 1989 “Yaa-Hoo!” Out, “OSHO” In

Amrito makes the announcement that one evening a few days previously Osho had observed: “It is very difficult because everybody wants me to dance with them.”
He told Amrito that His arms were so sore that He started to do only the Yaa-Hoo’s instead of dancing so strongly. Then Osho added:
“Tell them Yaa-Hoo! was good for training but now it should be OSHO! - and tell them to practice a few times before I arrive.”
Osho had asked Amrito if it was okay with sannyasins that the celebration period be shorter, and Amrito told Him he was sure it was fine with everybody.

October 21, 1989: “He is still with us”

Amrito brings the following message from Osho:
“He wants us all not to forget what a miracle it is that He is still with us and how close we have come to not having Him with us at all. First they gave Him thallium to poison Him, and then just to be sure they have also given Him some kind of radiation - and to be completely certain they placed a bomb in the Portland jail to kill Him. Only because He arrived too early did it fail. He says that the fact that He survived all this is a far greater miracle than the resurrection of Jesus.
He says some people there must be really surprised that He has survived these three attempts, despite all their technology.
His body is now free of pain except that His right arm is hurting again. We should make it a point not to put any undue strain on His body, so He is asking that we do the ‘OSHO’S’ without His having to raise His arms. He said that when He stops His hands, then Milarepa will take us into the ‘OSHO’S’.
Perhaps we should also make it so we don’t leave it to Him to have to do all the work for the dancing. What happens is that we don’t really let go until He starts dancing. In a way that is natural, but the less He has to do the better.
He says that He is only staying here for us, for those people here and around the world who love Him, just so we can experience the same consciousness that He has. He has already enjoyed all that life can give - He is conserving what energy He has left, just for us.”
Next night Amrito reported that Osho has said to leave the "Oshos" to Milarepa, so just follow him and the music.

October 22, 1989 OSHO Mantra

Amrito comes with another message:
“He said that the ‘OSHO’ creates a good silence in us. It is a good sound, not just an address for our Beloved Master. In fact, when you go to bed at night, just repeating ‘OSHO’ to yourself will deepen your relaxation and your sleep. It is a mantra.”

November 1989 Celebration Robes

Osho says to Shunyo: “Bring out my celebration robes (for the evening meeting), because every day is a celebration.”

November 9, 1989 Silence

Osho comments:
“My silence is a protest against all the hypocrisy in the world in the name of democracy. My silence is not religious, it is a protest - a protest against the hypocrites and also against those that hear but don’t listen. I am no longer concerned about the world, I am only interested in my own people and I can communicate with them through my silence.”

December 2, 1989 Solid Silence

Tonight, on the way back from the Evening Meeting Osho says to Anando:
“The silence is becoming so solid you can almost touch it.”

December 3, 1989

Osho says to Anando ”Something so strong is happening in Buddha Hall. It has not happened even in Buddha’s presence because of His fear of women.

December 12, 1989 Celebration

Osho says to Anando:
“The celebration went really well. It was the best celebration ever.”

January 17, 1990 Watching the Video

In response to a question that people have already seen the videos before, Osho says:
“That does not matter, there are many layers and each time you will find a new layer. The discourses are not novels to read once and throw away.”

January 17, 1990 (2) Announcement on the Evening Meetings

These are some excerpts from an announcement Amrito made in Buddha Hall before the Evening Meeting:
“From today Osho is not going to be sitting with us. He will, however, come and namaste us as usual but will then leave immediately. He said to tell you that He will be continuing to meditate with us after He has left the hall, and is safely back in His room.
So this is the arrangement, He will enter as usual. The music and the celebration will continue while He namastes us just as it has been in the past days.
However, after He has namasted us all He will leave. Avirbhava will open the car door for Him, and Anando, Amrito and Avesh will leave to take Him home.
We will all be here with eyes open as He namastes us, and as He leaves the podium, we will close our eyes and the first part of the music will start as usual. The musicians have been told to continue the music meditation as before.
We will keep our eyes closed throughout the music and silence, as usual.
At the three drum beats a few people right here at the front who have to move their cushions for the video will move, everybody else will stay where they are, in silence while the music continues. Then almost immediately, the lights will dim, the music will fade and the video will begin.
Osho has said that anybody who is not going to stay for the whole evening, the namaste, the music and silence, and the video, can leave now. Their names are to be taken and they will not be allowed back in. So there will be no need for anybody to move after the three drum beats. You can just stay where you are right now, except for those who are right in front of the screen, who have been given places for the video.
He has said that from tomorrow, anybody who does not want to stay for the whole meditation, His namaste, the music and silence, and the video should not come. Without exception, He said, everybody who comes must stay until the end. Amrito, Anando, and Avesh will return to their seats as soon as they have finished their work.
About the video He has said:
“It doesn’t matter if you have seen it before, there are many layers and each time you will find a new layer.”
So, as those who normally leave to serve in the kitchens will be staying till the end of the video, you may have to wait a little longer for dinner. So you can relax, and take your time after the video.
Finally, He said:
“Emphasize the point, that now your meditation is going to go deeper than ever.”

ADDITIONAL NOTES FROM THE AKASHICS

June 23, 1989

Re: Festival of the Full Moon
Osho yesterday said that He planned to come out to see His sannyasin for all five days of the upcoming festival which starts on July 14th. He said that He hoped that He would be strong enough to talk and give His discourse, but if not he would still come and sit in silence with His people. He knew that it had been so long since the sannyasins had seen Him and that He understood that they must be missing Him.
This festival has always been known as Gurupurnima Festival. However, He said that the word "guru" had ugly connotations and that He was not at all in favor of the idea of gurus. So rather than calling this festival gurupurnima, He has renamed this festival, The Festival of the Full Moon.

July 26, 1989 (2)

Re: Robes
Osho tells Anando his latest suggestions for the new color arrangement for robes:
He would like us to wear white only for the video/discourse whether or not He is present--and for meditating alone.
For all the groups, not including the original whirling, Vipassana, Zen color arrangements, all participants are to wear maroon. The group leader is to wear black with maroon sash.
The camp participants are to wear maroon too.
The colored robes are not for general use, but are for the particular events concerned.
Similarly the mala is not for use everywhere. It is a special thing and can be kept for meditating.

August 7, 1989

Re: Coming back from meditative experiences to work
Anando told Osho someone was saying they had problems to come back from meditation and go to work.
Osho: When you have had a deep meditative experience, a bridge is needed from the taste of nothingness to go back to work. It is a vast distance to go back and it will be different with different people. Some people can bring the experience of depth to the work and are able to work without it disturbing their silence. They should be happy, their bridge is very small, but many other people find this transition difficult.
After such an experience, do some soft, simple work such as cleaning, washing dishes, gardening and so on, keeping the silence. That will make the bridge. Or, after a single experience, such as during video or darshan, you can go to your room, listen to music or play music, or just sleep for an hour or so. Also a cold shower would help.
The experience of nothingness is the ultimate experience but it brings its own troubles; coming back from it you should come back slowly, not jump immediately into complicated work or interactions. So find some simple occupation to do, like cleaning, which will cool you down.

September 3, 1989

Re: Screaming in Buddha Hall
Anando tells Osho someone is asking whether he should control his desire to scream in Buddha Hall or just let go.
Osho: "It is not a question about others. You are wasting your energy in screaming. Divert it into higher going-energy. Do dynamic for the cathartic energy. Don’t scream--be joyous and allow the energy to move in a blissful way, so nobody is disturbed but helped."

November 13, 1989

Re: Having too much energy after the evening meetings
In reply to someone who was not going to the evening meetings because it created so much energy in her that she could not even sleep, Osho said:
You can explain to her that if she doesn't come to the evening meetings because of too much energy then she may never be able to come. After the meeting she should just take a hot shower--she must be having a Jacuzzi or something--and this will allow her to sleep. Just 10 minutes or so in the hot water and this will settle.

Date ?? (between Nov 13 - 18, 1989)

Re: White Robe Brotherhood/Music
Osho: The music leading up to the silent meditation should allow people to be total in their energy, and to reach a peak. He said that the more total people are beforehand, the deeper will be their silence in the ten minutes.
He also said there should be three or four 'Osho's before He arrived. He said 'Osho' was a very strong mantra that would help raise the energy.
For the 10 minute period, He suggested Indian music, veena or sitar or flute. He did not like the bells and gongs. He said they were not for making music, but for summoning people from the fields to come to the temple.

November 18, 1989 a.m.

Re: Samadhi/Osho leaving His body
This morning Osho told Anando that After He leaves His body, His room should be made completely beautiful like a temple. It should be remarbled, preferably white marble with green stripes. His ashes should be put under His bed and the bed remarbled also so that it becomes His samadhi. On the wall above the bed should go the following inscription:
OSHO
NEVER BORN
NEVER DIED
ONLY VISITED THIS PLANET EARTH BETWEEN DEC. 11, 1931 -
His picture or a statue should go beneath the inscription.
His room should then be open for visitors who can enter from the art porch. Remove the unnecessary things from His room (small fridge, bedside lamps, etc.). And keep other things in His room in locked glass cases so they cannot be stolen.
He also said that we were never to refer to Him in the past tense after He is gone.
(Some of these instructions were subsequently changed - see Buddha Hall announcements, January 19/20.)

December 1, 1989, pm

Re: Video screen
Anando asked Osho about having an overhead screen for Buddha Hall so that people at the back could see Him live on video when they cannot see Him on the podium.
Osho: No, it would be a distraction, particularly for the people sitting in front.

January 13, 1990

Osho to Amrito: Tell the musicians to include more Indian music. There are so many instruments and they are all meditative, they will help with the silence; they will merge with the silence.
He asked if Sadhana played the sitar. If she did she should be asked to play. Perhaps she plays the veena, He said. She has played for Him once in Poona before the ashram was here. The veena is more in the direction of silence than the sitar.
Later on 13 January, 1990:
The music was going perfectly well but now it is disturbing. Before the drums were too much and now the gongs are doing the same and disturbing the silence. They have wasted 3 lakhs for this. I asked for more Indian music but there is none. The Indian music is perfect for the silence, it has been refined over centuries for meditation. These gongs were to tell the people that it is time for prayer, it is not music.
You can use the gong instead of the drum at the end.

January 13, 1990 (2)

Re: Noises in Buddha Hall
Geet sent a message to Osho via Amrito saying that there was an Israeli here who had studied with the advanced Hassids including some Kabala techniques. Geet was wondering if this could be the basis for the noises in Buddha Hall. Osho said to talk to the man and ask him to run a group on these techniques.

January 17, 1990 (3)

Re: Watching the video discourses
Anando told Osho that some people said that they have already seen the videos before, and read the books.
Osho: “That does not matter, there are many layers and each time you will find new layer. He also said the discourses are not novels to read once and throw away. Tonight then, anybody who is not staying for the whole evening should leave now. Tomorrow, if you are not prepared to stay for the whole evening, He has said then please don’t come at all. He said, in future if people do leave, then the guards will simply take the name and that person will not be allowed in again.
If tomorrow you want to sit in a place where you can see the video better, then do so tomorrow so there is no movement after the gongs. For tonight just stay where you are now, so there is no disturbance between the drumbeats and the video.”
About the video He has said: “It doesn’t matter if you have seen it before, there are many layers and each time you will find a new layer.
So as those who normally leave to serve in the kitchens will be staying till the end of the video, you may have to wait a little longer for dinner. So you can relax, and take your time after the video.”
Finally, He said: “Emphasize the point, that now your meditation is going to go deeper than ever.”

OTHER BUDDHA HALL ANNOUNCEMENTS IN THIS PERIOD

May 19, 1989 Re: Osho’s health/Restructuring and expansion

Meeting in Buddha Hall with Anando, Amrito and Neelam
AMRITO:
So, good evening everybody. First let me tell you about Osho. I'm sure that's what you mostly want to hear.
Since that last episode when He left the podium He has had many weeks of severe pains and been extremely weak, and I'm glad to be able to say those pains are now easing and He is considerably better.
However, at the end of this period it's clear that His strength is not back, and He now feels that He is not going to be able to speak to us regularly, as He has done in the past. He said that He will be able to come out from time to time, talk to us sometimes, sit and listen to our music at other times, and just sit in silence with us on yet other occasions. But He is clear that He is not going to be able to talk regularly in the way that He has been able to in the past.
He is very emphatic that we all understand that His presence and His absence is part of His work. And He specifically mentioned that He heard that somebody went off to the Taj Mahal because He wasn't talking. And He said, "This is a waste of their time. They need to be here." This Buddhafield depends on His presence – not on His speaking.
So what's really important is that we all understand that, and don't think that we're just sort of hanging around waiting for Him to start speaking. We need to set about making this Buddhafield the kind of beautiful and aesthetically fabulous place that He would like it to be: to realize that it's His presence which is critical to the Buddhafield. That's what makes it a Buddhafield, not because He's talking, but because He's still here.
And He said:
“If people want to find out what I have said, it's all in the books.” (laughter...and more laughter)
So He is not expecting you to be here just to hear His words. It's His presence which is all-important. And clearly, the longer we can manage without Him, as it were, the longer He is going to be with us, and the more He has to come out and speak, the shorter time He is going to be with us.
So in a way we are preserving Him for as long as we can, by allowing Him just to be in peace in His room. And He really wants to know that we are – how did He put it? – “blissful and alone”, and not in need of Him to come out every night to hold our hand, that we actually can be mature enough to build this ashram in the way that He would like it.
Now that raised all kinds of questions about what kind of ashram is it: what are we doing here, how do we organize it, how do we arrange it, who is doing what to whom? Every sort of question started to come up.
And it's clear that in the last two or three years we've really come back incredibly since the buffeting we took at the hands of the United States. We are sitting here with smiles on our faces...Meese and Reagan are in bad shape back there. And the press is now beginning to understand who Osho is. Someone the other day said, "The press is so good, I think we could have written some of that!" (Laughter)
The press is really lovely and is beginning to see exactly who He is, and at the same time the outside world is beginning to realize that they are running out of cul-de-sacs, and He is preparing here a place for literally hundreds of thousands of people to be able to come through and share this Buddhafield.
Let me ask Anando to come and talk to you about the basic plans to make us a self-sufficient, celebratory and highly successful place.
ANANDO:
Actually, He has been talking a lot lately about what Amrito just said about presence. And He doesn't mean His presence here in Buddha Hall; He means His presence here in the Buddhafield. He says that anybody who feels that because He is not coming out and speaking, there is no need for them to be here, is missing the point. His presence is here in the Buddhafield. And He has also been talking a lot lately about His vision for what He calls the expansion of the ashram. What He sees is that we create here the biggest and the most beautiful spiritual health club in the world. (Laughter) A kind of Club Med., spiritual Club Med., as in 'meditation.' (More laughter)
So this is what we have been planning, and Indian friends have started purchasing properties around here, and getting building permission for new buildings. You can see in the book-shop window across the street: some of the first plans have gone up. There are four new buildings going up in Mirdad. Other friends are developing two new buildings in number 4; there are nine units being built at the end of the road, number 22, and some other friends have received permission to develop the land at the back of Mirdad, from the Indian village right to the river, alongside the creek. It's twelve acres of land, which will be developed as an international meditation park.
So slowly you will see the plans going up in the window. Basically what He wants us to end up with is an Olympic size swimming pool, tennis courts, (laughter) a dojo for martial arts, a whole house for creative arts. He wants every kind of creative art here: painting, sculpture, dance, music, theater – every possible kind of creative art. He wants the Center of Transformation to have every possible kind of therapy. The Mystery School will have a complete smorgasbord of every kind of esoterica. There is going to be a health club, beauty club, a spa, gymnasium, Medical center, discos, restaurants.
And also there will be all kinds of trainings coming soon, being made available to people to learn new skills: languages, computers, video, commercial arts, commercial writing, sales and marketing. Many people are coming along offering to share their experience and skills with other sannyasins, so we can all start developing skills.
And just this morning He said:
“We are expanding. We are not just a religious center. Religiousness will be our very atmosphere, but we are now going to make a greater expansion. We will have a complete colony built with aesthetic sense, surrounded with big trees and gardens and pools of water with swans and other birds, and simple and aesthetic buildings.”
Actually He has designed the buildings as black pyramids. (Laughter) So all the buildings in the new ashram now will be black pyramids (roaring laughter) with blue glass windows – really dramatic.
And at the end this morning He said something very beautiful: “We are going to create this as the Garden of the Beloved One, with every kind of dimension.”
And then He said:
“That will be the name of the ashram: The Garden of the Beloved One.”
AMRITO:
The next point which came up was exactly how do we all fit into this vision and how does it actually relate to us? And one thing which was clear is that we are not setting up a commune. So then the whole question of whether we come here as self-sufficient individuals or whether we come here to be taken care of came up. At what point do you or do you not take care of people? All those issues – which I know are very dear to your souls and your pockets – all became an issue.
I just brought along these two books from His talks in Uruguay. I think you saw a video two nights ago from that time. The Path of the Mystic and Light on the Path – they are both books where He talks about just these issues.
As always He talks well in advance about what is going to happen, and none of us take any notice. Then we find several years later that He has been saying it all along.
He describes the world He'd like to see around Him, and it is not a commune. So it is not going to be a commune.
And again, Anando has got some guidance where He specifically talked about self-sufficiency as a community.
ANANDO:
I asked Him whether this meant we are setting up a commune again, and He said:
“No, the ashram is not an institution.”
I talked to Him about taking care of people, as it has always been in the past with the commune, and He said:
“It is not an institution. It is a meeting place for friends. It is nobody's monopoly.”
We are all creating it; it is our common project. And in every possible way everyone should contribute to it. We are the ashram, and it can function only if we all help it. The ashram does not want to be begging for money from outside, so we should all be supporting the ashram rather than asking the ashram to support us.
AMRITO:
As someone said the other day, we're riding on a bicycle built by other people fifteen years ago. What we've done is set up a system, either consciously or unconsciously, whereby there's always an unconscious hope that if one keeps playing the game of spiritual snakes and ladders, you'll end up as part of some permanent pension scheme. (laughter in the audience) Like a sort of Distressed Spiritual Folks Fund. (more laughter)
And it has all happened with the best of intentions. But actually large numbers of people end up fighting for their last rupee in order to stay on as long as possible, because that may just allow them to get their foot in some door which leads to some further something or other.
But there is nothing. We have to stop playing this game. And that's why I would really like you to read those accounts of Osho from Uruguay because there He describes that.
Neelam has some very specific comments that Osho made about what it does to us when we're getting into this kind of survival mode, and we're actually not here for Him, we're here for the next chappati. (laughter) Suddenly we've just lost something. And it's difficult, it easily happens. Let me ask Neelam to tell you.
NEELAM:
Actually, it is almost the same thing which in the morning He said to Anando. From time to time I have been asking Him His guidance how He would like this ashram to function. And He said that sannyasins should not be economically dependent on the ashram, because economic dependence takes out some dignity and grace from the man. Then He said that in the commune in Rajneeshpuram we gave all our possessions and money to raise the commune, but it was very sad to see it, because there was fear and insecurity in the eyes of the sannyasins and it made Him sad to see that. And that came out of economic dependence on the commune.
Dignity and grace comes when we are not dependent on anybody, and we are working out of our joy, out of our abundance, out of our love for Osho. And that gives a very different quality which He would like to have here in this ashram – not a fear and insecurity that we are working because we would like to have food and accommodation. No, He would like us to work here out of our abundance and joy and out of our love for Him.
And He would like that people come and go. They stay here as long as their visas and finance allow them. And one more beautiful thing He also said, that when people arrive after a gap of time they are full of joy: they are full of receptive and celebrative energy, and it is very beautiful to see them here. There is no chance of taking Him for granted, which usually mind does when there is a long period of time that we know we are going to live here. When we are about to leave then – we all know from our own experience – when only few weeks are left then our intensity and our totality comes to the peak and we start drinking Him at the optimum.
And He has always said that when our finances and visas are not allowing us to stay, it will be better to go, because it also helps the ashram financially, and it helps attracting more people to the ashram. When we go back to our country we meet so many people; our joy, our feeling when we come from here, it affects the other people, and it helps them to come here. (Loud applause)
AMRITO:
So, let me just come to the actual implementation of what we are talking about – what we'd like to do particularly about the food passes, which is the most obvious treadmill that we have created for ourselves. Everybody who is a worker will pay for their own food pass if they can afford it. Now that is, everybody – no distinction in any way or form. If you have money and you can afford your food, then you should pay for your food.
There are people who may be here, who budgeted on the understanding that they would get a food pass for the next period while they'll be here, and people who are just in the middle of arriving or have just applied...those situations will be dealt with as if this meeting hadn't happened. Nobody is going to have the rug pulled from under them.
But as your time here ends and your visa ends and you go back, next time when you come back, you need to come back with enough money so that you are not half expecting the ashram to be able to look after you. (Applause)
I come from an old socialist background and it was a bit hard for me... (laughter) But I finally got convinced!
And one of the things that actually convinced me was that somebody walked in here, someone who for as long as I've been a sannyasin has been in his shorts, has had a hammer in his hand – and has been building and building and building. It must be fourteen years now; he is still building, he has never stopped – twelve hours a day.
He reminds me of that story of Osho's about the man who is dancing under the tree and is told he has only got as many lives as there are leaves on the one tree. And he is delighted because there is a whole forest of leaves....
He just never stops working. And when he turned up here – of course everybody knew he is a great worker – so someone rushed up to him and said, "Oh look, do you need a food pass, accommodation? Can you fix this?" And he said, "No. I've done that. I don't want to do that anymore. But I'll come when I'm ready."
And off he went and the coordinator suddenly felt that he was a very mature individual. Suddenly it's not this game of buying people's loyalty and having to laugh at your boss's jokes in order to get a food pass and all that rubbish. (laughter)
Basically this guy just left, and two weeks later he comes back ready to work. And of course he is still working twelve hours a day like he always has done, but this time it is out of his love and his gratitude and it's coming from him; it's got nothing to do with buying and selling and wages and having his soul purchased. I was really taken by that, and I suddenly realized that that's clearly what Osho has been trying to tell us.
There are going to be people here who are not sure that they can earn money out in the West. One of the things which Anando alluded to earlier, is to make use of your time here maybe to find a skill, get yourself organized. Subhan is now running the Red Pages, a sort of sannyasins' business directory.
Worldwide, we need to stop thinking of survival, but to think of affluence; to really come here with enough money so you can have a great time, whether you're doing groups here, whether you're working here, whatever you're doing – it's all part of His work. We need to just see the critical moment we're in, the beautiful opportunity in front of us and just go with it and make this place what it can be. Already there is nowhere comparable, and when all of you put all this energy into it, it'll be something totally totally magnificent.
Thank you. Good night.

May 20, 1989

The next day, again in Buddha Hall, Anando and Neelam provided more guidance given to them by Osho, which further covers the issues raised at the community meeting:
ANANDO:
Osho recently spoke to me about the issues discussed in the meeting. He said:
”People who have money, even if they are working, should pay for their food. And if you have no money, or your money has run out, don't ask the ashram to look after you. It is your responsibility, not the ashram's. The ashram depends on you to support it. So go back and earn the money, and then come back again. You are not being rejected. You are part of the ashram, but the ashram can survive only if you help it.
So if your money is finished, go, and spread the news about what is happening here. Create centers there, and send others here. Earn money for yourself and create in others the desire to come. Then you will be helping the ashram from there, and the others who come through you will also help.
And remember – some people will have to stay here to run the place according to our standards. But those people are not higher than you. It is just a question of economics. It is just for the necessary function – for continuity, that the core group is necessary, otherwise it is not. So your work when you are here should not be used as an excuse to be looked after. It is your contribution. It is your training.”
NEELAM:
People sometimes want to run meditation groups or trainings outside the ashram, or do sessions outside, or start some businesses outside. Once I was asking Osho about this and He said that this has two effects. One is that people are diverting their energy away from the ashram, and in this way their energy is so scattered that they are not totally here for the purpose for which they have come all the way from their countries. They come from their countries to be in His presence, to meditate, to do self-growth programs here, to grow up. But in order to try and stay a little bit longer, this question comes up: how to make money?
Osho also pointed out that there is a very fine line between need and greed – which the human mind tends to forget about. And then people become so involved in making money that they forget why they came here in the first place. They come very infrequently to the ashram because they are involved in their other activities. They come so little, and that is why they were making money – to be here.
And the second thing is that somehow they are exploiting the situation. All the people, all the sannyasins are here because of Osho. By setting up businesses to make money out of these visitors, they are exploiting that situation. They distract the visitors from being inside the ashram. They are diverting their energy and others' energy away from the ashram.
And of course, we should also realize that for foreigners, for visitors, it is not legal to do any kind of these activities. They are on a visitors visa, they cannot do anything here to make money. And, as always, any illegalities that sannyasins are involved in are always laid at the feet of our Master.
Once Osho said that when a person is thinking and worrying about financing his extension and his stay here and putting his energy into thinking "Oh, I can do this thing there and then I can get a little bit more money so I can stay longer," his energy is so scattered that when He is in Buddha Hall He is not there. And we all know from our own experience that Buddha Hall is the time when we sit relaxed and our bodies are relaxed. We are watching our thoughts and the best ideas come at that time.
So for Osho it's an hilarious scene to see us sitting very calmly, but thinking of so many mundane things for which we have not come all the way here. In that way, you can say our meditation is also disturbed. Our being in His presence is also disturbed when we are thinking about so many survival issues.

May 21, 1989 - Re: Osho not coming out to speak

Amrito delivers this message to Buddha Hall:
Today Osho said that it had been a burden on Him, that so many people might have been just waiting for Him to come out and speak. Since hearing about the meeting on May 19, that people were happy to continue their work here without His having to come out and talk regularly, He said He felt a weight lifted from Him, and that His body was already feeling better as a result of this.

June 12, 1989 - Re: Commune restructuring

A note from Amrito to put on bulletin boards:
Since the public meeting on May 19th, there has been one particular misunderstanding. It is that "Osho is saying there is no need to be here – so that means that it is time for me to work on my suntan in Bali." That is not the case.
Osho wants everyone to be here as much as they can. Moreover, He would like Rajneeshdham to become the world's most beautiful spiritual health spa. This is what is going to allow our transformation.
All this is going to take an enormous amount of time, energy, and money from all of us. He cannot do it. If it is to happen it will be up to us, His sannyasins. Now that He is not coming out regularly, the responsibility for this is all the greater – a responsibility that we are all blessed to share.
In short, the message is that when our money runs out, we shouldn't remain here in a survival mode. If we wish to be here, we go back and earn whatever will be needed to stay here again, and return when we can. If we are fortunate enough to have money, then there is no need for us not to be here. Time is running out and only our total effort will do the trick.
If we have jobs and careers that allow us only to be here a short time of the year, that too is all part of our valuable contribution. While we are working there, there are many many ways in which we can be of immense help. The international secretariat at Rajneeshdham will happily help with suggestions. Osho particularly said that while we are there, we will be sharing Him with more and more people, and that will help them also to visit Rajneeshdham and experience meditation.
No matter in what way we are able to be a part of this mysterious adventure, it is all part of His work. Just as He has always told us that our personal growth is going to require our total energy, the same is true of the growth of Rajneeshdham.
He also wants everyone to know that He is not sick, this is not a disease; He is simply extremely weak from the poisoning. Our ability to create this garden of the beloved will allow Him to rest. He said this would be a weight off Him. If He has to speak, He feels this will only weaken Him further and shorten the precious time He has with us.
We want to make this garden flower, now, while He is still with us. He has made it very clear that He will not be able to help us build yet another garden. This is His last garden.
If we can understand that it is His presence in the Buddhafield that is what matters – not whether we are able to physically see Him or hear Him – then we will be able to turn Rajneeshdham truly into the Garden of the Beloved One.
Swami Vimal is now the Director of Buddha Hall for evening events. Live plays, shows, music of all different kinds, different kinds of dancing groups (...there is rumor that Mukta is going to be performing Greek dance!) This is all a development from the School of Creative Arts. We will be building a stage in Buddha Hall that can be dismantled in a flash if 'you know what' happens.
A small movie house, run on an arts lab basis, will be opening soon. Movie buffs are welcome to send the very best of any TV programs from the West, plus suggestions or tapes of the best movies. Just note – no violent films.
Sarjano is now the Director of the Italian restaurant, which will open soon in Bodhidharma in the evenings. It seems he won't be serving Italian food, however! We will keep you posted. Japanese sushi seems to in favor – and in flavor too we hope.
Love, Amrito

June 17, 1989 - Re: Osho's health/Creation of School for Centering

Amrito delivers the following message to Buddha Hall:
I just wanted to take this opportunity to let you know that Osho is comfortable, but still very weak. He wanted you to know that He is not sick, this is not a disease – He is simply suffering from the effects of the poisoning. By resting in His room He remains comfortable, He has very little pain at present. He is just too weak.
He asked that we should all be reminded that it is His presence that is here, and that we should not take His absence for granted. His energy is here and He would like us to learn to feel His presence here all the time.
Osho suggests that we add a new practical side to the work here, as part of the Multiversity. He has suggested that we start a School for Centering. This will involve working with all kinds of ancient techniques and traditions, like Gurdjieff exercises, Sufi whirling, Zen rituals. It will involve robes of the right color: green for whirling, orange for vipassana, etc. We will have rituals with candles, incense, and live music, like Dervish music. This will allow us to actually experience the effects of these methods, firsthand.
There will be groups beginning in these areas soon as well as ongoing practice groups for those who really want to master the techniques.
Prasad, who will be coordinating these events, asks that if you have had practical experiences of, for example, Sufi, Zen, Tao, Jaina, or Buddhist methods, many of which are now forgotten, you should let him know. He would also like to know if you know how to play Dervish music.
So if you have any experience with these ancient methods, write a short note to Adina at the Center for Transformation. You should put your name clearly, with a brief account of your skills. There is no need for details, just outline the area where you have some experience. Next week there will be a meeting for everybody who wants to contribute, for all those who have put their names to Adina, to discuss the whole project.
Prasad has worked with these techniques before and says it will be a blast, like nothing we have ever done before. Osho has suggested a wonderful menu of events, including esoteric dances, costumes, Gurdjieffian exercises, rituals, and a revival of ancient traditions. Eventually there will be public performances of these ancient rituals, the sacred dances, and the Dervish dances, with all the dancers in beautiful flowing robes of the ancient colors.

August 22, 1989 - Re: Poisoning of Osho’s body

Announcement made in Gautama the Buddha Auditorium:
The poisoning of Osho's body has weakened Him tremendously -- you may not see it because it is the source energy He is using -- it has nothing to do with His body. And He is coming every evening just to give a rounded shape to your whole day's activities, your groups, meditations, cleaning, working, being creative. If He does not come He feels that the finishing touch to your whole day's work will be missed. So use those few minutes that He is with you with as much energy and delight as possible. He feels nourished by it. Just as you will feel nourished by it. It is with you he forgets completely all the pains and trouble of the body. Your every day should come to the highest peak possible. He has no complaint or grudge against the poisoners, but only compassion.

August 25, 1989 - Re: White Robe Brotherhood/Robes

After explaining to everyone in Buddha Hall what Osho has says about the white robes for the Evening Meeting (see above), Anando continues with his message:
And now also for all daytime activities in the commune grounds, (whether meditations, groups or working) maroon robes are to be worn. These robes have nothing to do with sannyas; it is to do with the energy of the buddhafield. The robes should not be worn outside the ashram.
Osho said: “It is strictly to be understood that these robes should not be used anywhere else, or for any other purpose--that will disturb the collecting energy.”
The wearing of the maroon robes is called the “Osho Maroon Rose Brotherhood." We will be making maroon rose cloth emblems to be worn on the shoulder of those robes.

August 26, 1989 - Re: Robes

Anando delivers this message from Osho to Buddha Hall:
A few people objected to the maroon robes, saying it was "going back to the past":
Osho’s response is: “It is not going back; this is something completely new. It has nothing to do with sannyas; it is to do with the energy inside the buddhafield. The robes are only to be worn inside the campus.
There is a special purpose which you might not be aware of, but it will become apparent as soon as everyone is in maroon.
The maroon color joins people's energies. People will feel it and see the difference within a few days of the whole campus wearing the robes. The robes create an energy. If 99 people are wearing the robes and one person is not, that person will suck the energy of the others.”
Osho has suggested that when sitting with Him in Buddha Hall and when meditating, we wear white meditation robes, which we wear only at that time. He said that when people are dressed all in one color, it creates a certain atmosphere which intensifies the energy.
He made it clear that He wants us to wear plain white robes, not cream, not patterned, not trimmed or embellished in any way. He wants us to wear robes and not just something white. A robe is a robe is a robe, and white is white. It's something very simple and yet something very special to be worn only when sitting with Him, meditating alone and watching videos.
Osho has said that the white robe should not be used an any activities of ordinary life. There is a mystical gathering of energy into the robe. Day by day, as it becomes older, it gathers more potential. Just putting on the robe you will find yourself moving into the same space each time.
For daytime activities in the commune grounds, whether meditation, groups or working--maroon robes are to be worn.

October 22, 1989 - Re: "Osho" as a mantra

Amrito announced: Osho said that the "Osho" creates a good silence in us. It is a good sound, not just the address for Him as our Master, but when we go to bed at night, just repeating "Osho" to ourselves will deepen our relaxation and our sleep; it is a mantra.

28 November 1989 - Re: Osho's Books

Osho told Anando to tell Amrito to announce that because Osho is no longer speaking, people should buy and read His books to understand His philosophy.

November 29, 1989 - Re: Japanese seeress

Before Osho arrives, Anando reads the following announcement in Buddha Hall from Osho to the Japanese priestess:
“Rev. Ryoju Kikuchi,
I, Osho Rajneesh, as a buddha in my own right, recognize and rejoice in your enlightenment. I know, and you must be knowing, that there is one step more--going beyond enlightenment, and being nothing.
Announced in Gautama the Buddha Auditorium to the assembly of 10,000 bodhisattvas from 45 countries, November 29, 1989.”

January 15, 1990 - Re: Noises in Buddha Hall

Amrito announces:
Osho has asked me to pass on the following to you. He says that He is still being badly affected by the people here who are using esoteric techniques to attack His body. He says that He is already so weakened by the poisoning in the U.S. that He is completely vulnerable. Otherwise these things would not be able to affect Him.
He says that He can return these damaging effects back to the people involved, but that would hurt them very much, and would be totally against His philosophy. His reverence for life it total, even for those who are trying to harm him. He says to just be a little human and stop it.
Tonight the side of the auditorium is completely empty. If it continues then He may only come out and namaste us and then go back. There is a sense that just because He is on the other side of the mosquito netting, He has "gone." Remember He celebrates directly with us all the way out of the compound. When He finally leaves the roadway around the hall, we have the final "Osho." After that, begins the seven o'clock meditation with live music and silences, just as if He were here, followed by the video, which He has said is an intrinsic part of the evening for everybody.

January 17, 1990 (4) - Re: Black magic/White Robe Brotherhood

Amrito announces:
Osho has said that He feels sure that these attacks on His body are being done by some CIA type organization from the U.S. or Germany. He says there are clearly several people in this group. They are using black magic. He said that He knows something about black magic and it is always destructive, never creative.
He repeated that He could return these effects, and this would certainly harm those who are doing this. But, He said:
“My reverence for life is total, even towards those who want to harm me.”
The effect of all this on His body has been immense. He has been very badly affected. However, once He is no longer exposed to this, we are hoping He will rapidly feel better. He said as He goes deep into the silence, to help push us deeper into meditation, the more vulnerable He is. So His work has been double - to protect Himself and to help us go deeper into meditation.
From today He is not going to be sitting with us. He will however, come and namaste us as usual but will then leave immediately. He said to tell you that He will be continuing to meditate with us after He has left the hall, and is safely back in His room. He has said that in this way, no longer affected by these attacks, He will be able to help us more, and the silence will go even deeper.
So this is the arrangement. He will enter as usual. The music and the celebration will continue while He namastes us just as it has been in the past days.
However, after He has namasted us all He will leave. Avirbhava will open the car door for Him and Anando, Amrito and Avesh will leave to take Him home.
We will all be here with eyes open as He namastes us, and as He leaves the podium, we will close our eyes and the first part of the music will start as usual. The musicians have been told to continue the music meditation as before.
We will keep our eyes closed throughout the music and silence, as usual.
At the three drum beats a few people right here at the front who have to move their cushions for the video will move, everybody else will stay where they are, in silence, while the music continues. Then almost immediately, the lights will dim, the music will fade and the video will begin.
Osho has said that anybody who is not going to stay for the whole evening, the namaste, the music and silence, and the video can leave now. Their names are to be taken and they will not be allowed back in. So there will be no need for anybody to move after the three drum beats. You can just stay where you are right now, except for those who are right in front of the screen, who have been given places for the video.
He has said that from tomorrow, anybody who does not want to stay for the whole meditation, His namaste, the music and silence, and the video should not come. Without exception, He said, everybody who comes must stay till the end. Amrito, Anando and Avesh will return to their seats as soon as they have finished their work.

January 18, 1990 - Re: Osho not coming out

Amrito announces:
Osho has asked me to pass on this message to you:
He says that the severe pains that have affecting His right side have now completely gone. However, now His left side has been affected, this time in the leg. There is so much pain that He can barely walk. So tonight He will not be coming to namaste us all.
He said to tell everybody that at 7 o'clock the music and silence should begin and that from the safety of His room He will be meditating with us. Freed from these assaults on His body, He will be able to help us to go much deeper into the silence.
It is clear that the deeper we go into meditation with Him, the greater defeat it is for those who wanted to harm Him and His work.
He said to emphasize again, that nobody should leave till the video was finished and anyone who did would not be allowed here again.

January 19, 1990 - Re: Osho leaving His body celebration

Amrito announces:
Osho left the body this evening at 5 o’clock. Before He died He said to tell you that we should have our celebration this night. He specifically said that His body should be brought to the podium for ten minutes and then taken to the ghats.
The celebration will begin now and the body will be arriving here at 8 o’clock.
After Osho’s ten minute visit with us here in the hall, His body will be carried to the front gate where it will wait. So there is no need to rush. Please stay in the hall until His body has passed.
The order of procession will be first His immediate family, then the Inner Circle, then the musicians, and then all of us in celebration. Let us make this celebration in keeping with the grace and beauty that always surrounds Him. He is with us watching.

January 19, 1990 (2) - Re: Osho leaving His body

Amrito’s second announcement:
Osho asked that I make this announcement:
He said to tell you all that since His days in the Marshal’s cell in Charlotte, in America, His body has been gradually deteriorating. He said that He has kept His pain to Himself but living in this body had become a hell.
He also said: “Never speak of me in the past tense, my presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body. Remind my people that they will feel much more, they will know immediately.”
He looked into Jayesh’s eyes and said: “I leave you my dream.”
As He was dying I asked Him how we should celebrate His death. He said: “You take me to the Buddha Hall for ten minutes and then take me off to the burning ghats.”
He said that His samadhi will be Chuang Tzu.
There are other things that He said, that we will let you know tomorrow, but for now, let me just say that in death He was just as you would have expected. When I held His hand and started crying, He just looked at me and said: “No, no, that is not the way.” I immediately stopped. He just replied with a beautiful smile.
We are with the most beautiful being. We are all blessed. He is here with us now, and as always He will be delighted to join in our celebration. So let us give our Beloved Osho a send-off in death that is appropriate for someone who has lived His life as fully as any man who has ever lived.

January 20, 1990 - Re: Osho leaving His body

Amrito’s third announcement:
As you know, over these last few days, Osho's body has been becoming noticeably weaker. What you may not know is that He has also been in considerable pain. By the night of 18th, the pain in His legs was so severe that He was not able even to come and stand on the podium with us.
Over that night He became weaker and weaker. Every movement of the body was obviously agonizing. Yesterday morning I noticed that His pulse was also weak and slightly irregular. I said I thought He was dying. He nodded. I asked Him if we could call in the cardiologists and prepare for cardiac resuscitation. He said, “No, just let me go. Existence decides its timing.”
I was helping him to the bathroom when He said: “And you put wall-to-wall carpet in here, just like this bath mat.”
Then He insisted on walking over to His chair. He sat down and made arrangements for the few items that He has in His room. “Who should this go to?” He said, pointing to His small stereo. “It is audio? Nirupa would like it?”, He asked. Nirupa has cleaned His room for so many years.
And then He went carefully around the room and left instructions for every item. “Those you take out,” He said, pointing to the dehumidifiers which He had found too noisy recently. “And always make sure one air conditioner is on,” He continued.
It was incredible. Very simply, in a very matter-of-fact and precise way, He looked at everything. He was so relaxed, as if He were going for the weekend.
He sat on the bed and I asked what we should do for His samadhi. “You just put my ashes in Chuang Tzu, under the bed. And then people can come in and meditate there,” He said.
“And what about this room?”, I asked. “This would be good for the samadhi?” He asked. “No,” I said, “Chuang Tzu will be beautiful.” I said we would like to keep His present bedroom as it is. “So you make it nice,” He said. And then He said He would like it marbled.
“And what about the celebration?” I asked. “Just take me to Buddha Hall for ten minutes,” He said, “and then take me to the burning ghats and put my hat and socks on me before you take my body.”
I asked Him what I should say to you all. He said to tell you that since His days in the marshal's cell in Charlotte, North Carolina, in America, His body has been deteriorating. He said that in Oklahoma jail they poisoned him with thallium and exposed Him to radiation, which we only came to know when the medical experts were consulted. He said they had poisoned Him “in such a way that would leave no proof. My crippled body is the work of the Christian fundamentalists in the United States government,” He said. He said that He had kept His pain to Himself, but living in this body has become a hell.
He lay down and rested again. I went and told Jayesh what was happening and that He was obviously leaving His body. When He called again, I told Him Jayesh was here and He said for Jayesh to come in. We sat on the bed and He gave us His final words.
“Never speak of me in the past tense,” He said. “My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body. Remind my people that they will feel much more – they know immediately.”
At one point I was holding His hand and I started to cry. He looked at me, almost sternly. “No, no,” He said, “That is not the way.” I immediately stopped and He just smiled beautifully.
Osho then spoke to Jayesh and talked about how He wanted the expansion of the work to continue. He said that now that He was leaving His body, many more people would come; many more people's interest would show, and His work would expand incredibly beyond our ideas.
Then He said: “I leave you my dream.”
Then He whispered so quietly that Jayesh had to put His ear very close to Him, and Osho said: “And remember, Anando is my messenger.” Then He paused, and said: “No, Anando will be my medium.” At that point Jayesh moved to one side, and Osho said to me, “medium will be the right word?"
I hadn't heard what had preceded it, so I didn't understand. “Meeting?” I said. “No,” He replied: “For Anando, medium – she will be my medium.”
He lay back quietly and we sat with Him while I held His pulse. Slowly it faded. When I could hardly feel it, I said: “Osho, I think this is it.” He just nodded gently, and closed His eyes for the last time.
Osho has given some very specific guidance for His work:
About nine months ago, Osho formed “The Inner Circle”, a group of sannyasins now numbering twenty. Osho said He would have no successor, the Inner Circle would be His successor. The function of the Inner Circle is – in Osho's words – “to reach unanimous decisions about the continued functioning and expansion of the commune and Osho's work.” Anando is preparing a full account of Osho's guidance on the workings of this group and who is in it. It will be available for you all to read tomorrow.
We are preparing in the next Osho Times all that Osho has said about what will happen when He leaves His body. I have two of these beautiful pieces for you.
Ten years ago, in answer to the question: What happens when you leave your body? He replied:
“I will be dissolved in my people. Just as you can taste the sea from any place and it is salty, you will be able to taste any of my sannyasins and you will find the same taste: the taste of the Blessed One.
I am preparing my people to live joyously, ecstatically. So when I am not in my body, it won't make any difference to them. They will still live the same way – and maybe my death will bring them more intensity .”
About six months ago, He responded to a question from Italian TV about what would happen after His death, by saying:
“I believe and trust absolutely in existence. If there is any truth in what I am saying, it will survive. The people who remain interested in my work will be simply carrying the torch, but not imposing anything on anyone, either by sword or bread. I will remain a source of inspiration to my people, and that is what most sannyasins will feel. I want them to grow on their own. Qualities like love, around which no church can be created, like awareness, qualities which are nobody's monopoly, like celebration, rejoicing, and maintaining childlike, fresh eyes. I want people to know themselves, not be according to someone else, and the way is in.”
I hope I have conveyed to you what, throughout all these months of ill health and impending death, has been most striking about what Osho has been saying. And that is that when His work continues without His having to be in the body, then this is the flowering of His dream. Let me repeat His exact words in reference to His leaving the body:
“My presence here will be many times greater.... “Remind my people that they will feel much more, they will know immediately.”
He said: My work is going really well, the commune is running beautifully, and after my death, many many more people will be coming here.”
One of the things Osho always said is: “Always make room for sannyasins to contribute to my work.”
I think you can take it that there is going to be a lot for us all to do. In some inexplicable way it feels, not that His work is over, but that it has just begun.
It feels that His whole life has been a preparation for the moment when His people can sit in silence and feel His presence without His having to do the work of carrying His body. He always says He is a lazy man. Two nights ago, for the very first time, that happened. For the first time, we ALL sat together in silent communion without His physical presence.
It is already gone 7 o'clock. He will be waiting for us now, for that to happen again.

January 23, 1990 - Re: White Robe Brotherhood

Amrito announces:
I have been asked to give you a few messages from the Inner Circle. The first point, just in case you hadn't noticed, is that Osho's work is expanding, just as He said it would, “beyond our minds.”
Messages have been coming in from around the world with incredible accounts of rocketing book sales out of Cologne, of Chidvilas running out of stocks of what are now valuable first editions and so on. We are in the process of arranging a crash reprinting program here to keep up with the demand.
Centers around the world are flowering, with people wanting to take sannyas in ever increasing numbers.
We are all going to be very busy--and I thought I had lost my job and would be unemployed....
Secondly, there have been questions about all sorts of issues like should we keep on sniffing the meditators as they come into Buddha Hall, should we still frisk people, should we have His chair for the evening meditations, and so on and so forth.
As far we are concerned, Osho is still here. There maybe things that do need to change, but we have eternity in front of us. We see no hurry to rush in and change what Osho basically put together over thirty-five years. That does not mean we are into meaningless rituals, but for example, with the sniffing, if Osho liked us to come to the meeting clean, and certainly not smelling, that's fine with us.
Let's allow what He has set up to continue. If things need to be changed in the future, then fine, but there is no hurry.
The question of guarding during the evening meeting came up. We see the function of guarding as to protect the silence that He has created here for us every night, a silence that will allow us to feel Him. How to best do that is being looked at. Meanwhile, as always, we as a community are left with that choice of either taking responsibility for this ourselves or leaving it to others. During the course of an evening meeting between 7 and 9 o'clock, maybe twenty of the many thousands of us here, impose their coughs and sneezes on that silence.
In addition, if you have coughs and colds and you are sitting tightly packed in here, then you are in perfect position to pass the infection on to others. So, that guideline too should remain the same. None of us should come to the evening meeting if we have coughs and colds. Nor should we come if we cannot manage the two hours without coughing.
There is no way, nor would any one want, to police this silence. It would be a contradiction in itself. It is simply up to us all. If the person next to you disturbs the silence simply touch them on the arm, gently and lovingly, to make it clear that you do not want their disturbance. By doing nothing, you imply your approval. The right to silence in this Hall is absolute. No one has the right to disturb it.
Another question that has come up is what happens after the three drumbeats. I checked this with Osho on the night He said He would only come to namaste us, and He said that from the drumbeats we should move immediately into the video. I explained that the camera had to be dismantled and that some people had to move for the screen so He said that some gentle music could follow the drumbeats until the video began. Those few people who do have to move have been allotted spaces to move to, so there is no need for anyone else to move. It only creates unnecessary disturbance for others.
Finally, many of us like to namaste Osho at the end of the video, so could everyone just stay seated until the video is turned off, except for the four people who are taking Osho's chair back.

LATER NOTES

January 26, 1990

Re: Evening Video
Anando reminds the video department that Osho gave very specific instructions for the wording to inform people about videos which need to be shown in 2 parts. They have to be shown on consecutive nights. And He said to say: “This video is in two parts, we are showing the first part tonight and the second part will be shown tomorrow”
Then on the second night: “This is part two of the video that was shown last night.”

March 5 - 6, 1996

Re: WHITE ROBE BROTHERHOOD
Osho wants His people around the world to meditate at 7 p.m. (local time) each evening. He calls these music silence meditations “Meetings of the Osho White Robe Brotherhood.”
The meditation begins with about ten minutes of high-energy music, where everyone can dance or clap with great totality, punctuated with a few shouts of “Osho”. Osho says the more total we are before, the deeper the silence will go in the meditation. Then follows ten minutes of three sections of music and silence, ending with three drumbeats. Osho suggests we look at a video of the meditation once so we know what is happening and from then on at 7pm each evening. He wants people at all His centers and around the world to do this meditation. Here in Pune He is adamant that absolutely nobody leaves after the drumbeats and before the discourse. If at your center you are showing a discourse, we are sure He would say the same. Osho has given very specific guidance to the musicians here that we thought you would like to know:
OSHO’S GUIDANCE FOR THE MUSIC OF THE OSHO WHITE ROBE BROTHERHOOD MEETINGS:
The music leading up to the silent meditation should allow people to be total in their energy, and to reach a peak. Osho says that the more total people are beforehand, the deeper will be their silence in the ten minutes.
ON SCREAMING IN BUDDHA HALL:
In a response to a sannyasin’s question to Osho about whether he should control his desire to scream in Buddha Hall or just let go Osho says:
“It is not a question about others. You are wasting your energy in screaming. Divert it into higher going energy. Do dynamic for the cathartic energy. Don’t scream - be joyous and allow the energy to move in a blissful way, so nobody is disturbed but helped.”
Osho also said there should be three or four “OSHOS” before the first silent period. He has said “OSHO” is a very strong mantra that will help raise the energy.
For the ten-minute period, He suggest Indian music, veena or sitar or flute. He does not like bells and gongs. (He says these are not for making music, but for summoning people from the fields to come to the temple.)
The ten minutes consist of three sections of music and silence, i.e., music silence, music silence, music silence.
Osho has given the title for the videos from the period - “Evening Satsang with the Master” - and dictated the wording for the video jackets.
In a darshan He once said:
“Ultimately this commune is going to become a communion of silence. I am just preparing, and preparing fast, so that soon it can happen that you can just simply sit with me. There is no need to speak, there is no need to hear...just a meeting, a meeting beyond minds, a transmission beyond words. Something simply jumps like a flame from one lit candle to another unlit candle; the unlit candle is no more unlit. The lit candle has not lost anything and the unlit has gained a whole universe of new meaning, of new poetry, of new being.”