Tao (group)

Tao was a five-day Pune One therapy group held in the Chaitanya Therapy Chambers. It appears to have started as a seven-day group in late Dec 1975. In Hammer on the Rock (6 Jan 1976), Maneesha writes:

The Tao group were present at darshan this evening. It was the first group to pass through this particular process and the feeling was one of a very positive experience.

The groupleader [(unnamed)] described the format, or nonformat, as: "The substance, purpose, and process of the Tao group is committed to nothingness, no pre-planned structure or method. The creation and evolution of the group emanate from each moment to be discovered. Whatever happens will happen".

The Tao group meets for seven consecutive days, and is available twice a month.

Later, in Nothing to Lose but Your Head (Feb 28 1976), we learn that Amitabh is the leader.

According to the groups timeline chart in The Sound of Running Water, it was offered continuously from Jan 1976 until Mar 1978, TSORW's cut-off date for group info. In fact, it was likely offered all the way through to Jun 1981, when Osho left for the States. It is not known when it transitioned to a five-day group, but it was by about Apr 1978, when Siddha took over.

The Community to Provoke God brochure said of it:

The unstructured nature of this group provides a space where participants can flow unhindered with whatever is happening moment to moment. Individuals are thrown into spontaneous situations which reveal their own behaviour patterns and encouraged to allow freer and freer expression of emotions, fears, expectations, disappointments, love and laughter, and to stay with the flow of events that follows as a consequence of this expression.

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