Testimonial letter from Sw Anand Asimo
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 Sw Anand Asimo (Calio Roberto). It is "Exhibit A-2630" 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.
 Milano 21.7.83 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN I am a sannyasin since 1980 and even if I'm not phisically next to BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH I can enjoy a deep connection with him through a Buddhafield. Rajneeshpuram is a Buddhafield. Buddhafield means for me " the school of a Buddha" a place and a space where a living Master can transfere his experience to all the people who are available to receive it. I have been in Rajnneshpuram three months long this year, prayng, meditating and learning about me. All these things were made possible by the worship, the main religious activity of RAJNEESHISM. Glad to let you know who we are and sure you will understand I greet you in the Rajneeshi way: BUDDHAM SHARANAM GACHCHHAMI SHANGAM SHARANAM GACHCHHAMI DHAMMAM SHARANAM GACHCHHAMI Swami Anand Asimo |
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