Testimonial letter from Heinz Schulz-Naue

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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 Heinz Schulz-Naue. It is "Exhibit A-1171" 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 image on the right in the text box links to a pdf file of the original letter, it has 2 pages.

Heinz Schulz-Naue
Richter am Amtsgericht Hamburg
Abteilung 270, Postfach 30 01 21
2000 Hamburg 36 W.G.
Hamburg, 18.7.1983

To whom it may concern ...

I am a judge at the Family-Court in Hamburg, West-Germany. I am very much concerned about the decision that will be made by the INS about the staying of Baghwan Shree Rajneesh in America.

My life, watched from the outside was absolutely successfull. I gained everything I could imagine in the outside world: Money, prestige, power, a beautyfull family. And still there was something missing, which I did not know. In 1981 I met Baghwan Shree Rajneesh and became His disciple. He showed me what was missing: A dimension of inside, religiousness, love. He gave me and He still is giving me more and more of an understanding of what life is all about.

I was born in 1942, went to school, took all degrees, went to university and studied law. I finished with a good examen. I started as public prosecuter, hold this profession for six years ans I am now since six years a judge at the Family-Court in Hamburg. I was married with two children had a house and garden.

The first time I reallized, that I was only living in the outside world and this was based on sand was, when I became aware, that my marriage was finished. I was in a mess. But at the same time I became open to that, what Baghwan offers to every human being who has the guts of really listening to an enlightened master.

Baghwan Shree Rajneesh is known all over the world as a man of extraordinary abilities. He spoke to people for more than twenty years, sharing His inside and wisdom on religion, relationship, politics, money, everything that matters today and gave and is still giving great inside of what life is all about. His words are published and spread all over the world. Many people are still coming to become His disciples. There are now more than 250 ooo sanyasins all over the world.

Since I became a sannyasin my life changed completely. I am still a judge. But the quality af my doings change. I am becoming more loving, more understanding, more compassionate. I gaine more and more currage to understand and accept the people who come to me with their problemes. Everybody who has to make decisions on peoples problemes knows, how difficult it is to really listen to people and not only deal with a case on a formally correct level. It needs currage and love.

America has the great chance to help this beautiful man to stay in the country and do His work. Everybody is talking about humanitarian work which today is more needed in this world than ever. Baghwan is not only talking about it. He does it. Please help Him to stay.

Love
[signed]
Schulz-Naue
Richter am Amtsgericht


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