Testimonial letter from Masanori Oe

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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 Masanori Oe. It is "Exhibit A-52" 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 will link to a pdf file of the original letter when the pdf is created. It has one page.

Mr Masanori Oe
10060 Kobuchisawa-cho
Kitakomagun
Yamanashi-ken
Japan,
July 21st, 1983.

To Whom it May Concern,

I have a deep interest in Tibetan Buddism. I have translated many of the treasure books about Tibetan Buddhism, for example Bardo Thodol’s ’’Tibets Great Yogi Milarepa’’ and "The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa”,

Through my field of work I became acquainted with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh from His discourse on Mahamudra and His book about the core of Tibetan Buddhism, ’’Tantra : The Supreme Understanding", This book is a great invitation for people to explore the depths of human existance.

I think that we cannot over come the extremely hard social situations of today with out a comprehensive and fundamental insight into human existance. Mr Jeremy Rifkin, economic consultant to President Carter, quoted from a lecture presented by Mr E. J. Schumacher on his book "Entropy-A Kev/ World View", The message was stated as follows ’’ In the present and future it is a most important question, that needs an actual answer through a fundamental insight into the problem of what is man, where did he come from and what is the purpose of life," ( Re-translated from Japanese back into English. )

The wisdom and teachings of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh have a profound insight into human existance and make a great contribution to the needs of our society. Much more so then Schumacher’s book "Entropy : A New World View.",'

In praise of His deep wisdom, I ask you to give Him the opportunity to make His creative contribution to society.

Mr Masanori Oe

[signed]


(Please note: We assume that the above letter is still copyrighted, but we regard its historical interest to constitute a Fair Use exception for publication in this wiki.)