Testimonial letter from Raôul Duguay
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 Raôul Duguay. It is "Exhibit A-1236" 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 one page.
 RINZAI,Hôtel RAJNEESH To the proper person, Having heard that the Master Bhagwan Rajneesh is to be driven out of the United States for some reasons that are not respectable of his work on Earth, I am concerned. I, Raôul Duguay, live in KEBEK, Canada, where liberty of thinking, saying, writing, teaching and moving is one of the greatest in the world. Well known and loved by my fellow citizens, I think, say, write, sing, teach and move. As an artist, I engraved ten records, wrote nine books, and five pieces of theater,animated at CBC Radio-Canada, hours of broadcasting on philosophy and science of life.I sang love and consciousness thousands of times on stage and television, in KEBEK, in Canada, in France, in Belgium, in England, in Germany and in United States and never have I been told not to do so. Since I had the opportunity to meet the deep and expanded spirit of BHAGWAN RAJNEESH, my life has been moved to a higher step. The intensity and the density of the teachings of BHAGWAN based essentially on positive thinking and acting, on awareness and on love, help me every day in my thoughts and in my works. That is why I believe that BHAGWAN RAJNEESH is one of the most outstanding spiritual leader living and teah ching life bn this planet. His teaching concern the whole Earth as it gives solutions to many of our planetary problems. If you and I are still breathing, it is because some accomplished man like BHAGWAN RAJNEESH, are spreading thoughts of peace, love and consciousness all over the world. If you meet one of his disciples, look into his eyes slight will enlove you. And if you ever see the eyes of BHAGWAN RAJNEESH, you will see the nothingness of everything, stop doing things and sit- there, finding your real YOU. Be good to yourself and to all others. Take care of the evolution of men, take care of BHAGWAN RAJNEESH. Have a sunny day inside. Be and radiate... [signed] |
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