Testimonial letter from Franco Tarchini
This letter is one of a remarkable series of over 2650 letters amassed in 1983 to support Osho's attempt to get permanent resident status in the US at the time of the Oregon ranch. The image is reproduced here with the kind permission of The Oregon Historical Society. Information about their collection of these letters and other supporting material -- the "Jeffrey Noles Rajneesh Collection", named for Osho's immigration lawyer Jeffrey Noles, who compiled them in 1983 and donated them to the OHS -- can be found at this page. The wiki is grateful to the OHS for making access available for these documents. For more information and links to all the letters, see Testimonial letters.
This letter is from Dr. Franco Tarchini. It is "Exhibit A-1246" in the Noles collection.
The text version below has been created by optical character recognition (OCR), from the images supplied by OHS. It has not been checked for errors but this process usually results in over 99% correct transcription. Most apparent "errors" are correct transcriptions of typos already in the original.
The original letter, written in Italian, appears first, followed by its English translation. The image on the right in the text box links to a pdf file with the whole original letter, the translation and a notary statement attesting to the validity of the translation. It has 4 pages.
 Dott. A chi può essere interessato: Io sottoscritto Tarchini Franco, Dottore in Economia e Commercio, già insegnante di Tecnica Commerciale ed Amministrativa presso l’istituto Tecnico Commerciale ed il Liceo Sperimentale di Mantova, attualmente consulente di Management a Lugano. dopo aver conosciuto Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh attraverso la lettura di alcuni suoi libri, ho iniziato a praticare le tecniche di meditazione da lui indicate. Questo fatto ha profondamente modificato in meglio, sotto ogni punto di vista, le mie relazioni nell'ambito del lavoro, sia con gli studenti che con i colleghi professori. Anche nel lavoro attuale, l'atteggiamento di apertura e positività suscitato dagli insegnamenti di questo Maestro Spirituale favorisce un rapporto di grande chiarezza con la problematica aziendale compresi gli aspetti più specificamente tecnologici e scientifici. Le grandi conoscenze in vasti campi del sapere sia scientifico che religioso e la complessiva visione del mondo che ne scaturisce, fanno dei libri e dell'insegnamento di questo moderno Maestro un grande patrimonio al quale ciascuno può attingere sia per trarre elementi di chiarezza sulle grandi questioni esistenziali sia per i problemi del lavoro o della vita di tutti i giorni. In fed. translationDr. Franco Tarchini TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN I undersigned, Franco Tarchini, Doctor of Economics and Commerce, previously teacher of commercial and administrative technology at the Institute of Commercial Technology and at the Experimental Lyceum at Mantova, presently management consultant at Lugano, after having heard about Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh by reading some of his books, started to do some of the meditation techniques devised by him. In my work they have deeply and in every way improved my relationships with my students and colleague professors. Even in my present work, the open and positive attitude brought about by the teachings of this Spiritual Master has helped me to act with great clarity in my business decisions, including in its most specifically scientific and technological aspects. The enormous knowledge he has in both religious and scientific fields - and the comprehensive vision of the world that springs from it - makes the books of this modern Master a great heritage. From this heritage each and every one of us can draw elements of clarity on the deep existential questions concerning the problems arising in our work or in our everyday life. (signed) Dr. Franco Tarchini |
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