Testimonial letter from Takufumi Fujita

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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 Dr. Takufumi Fujita. It is "Exhibit A-210" 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.

Dr Takufumi Fujita
2 Bekimachi, Nerima-ku,
Tokyo, Japan.
July 14th, 1983.

To Whom it May Concern,

I met Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in the winter of 1981 through His book entitled " The Heart Sutra ". This meeting with Bhagwan was a great shock to me. Because in those days I nad already deceided to become a psychiatrist and was considering many things about therapy, relationships, love, myself etc.

I obtained my license to practise as a doctor and acquired a position at the Musashi National Mental Hospital. I practised Bhagwan's meditations daily and joined many therapy groups while working as a psychiatrist. Bhagwan taught me how to be a therapist as opposed to practising therapy methods. I have discovered through His teachings that, only when a therapist-patient relationship disappears and love is born can healing happen. Also to help people to stop the strugle of changing their personality and to accept themselves and for them to not be serious about their problems because their is no problem at all.

Still now Bhagwan is teaching me from Rajneeshpuram and helping me to work with people.

Sincerely
[signed]
Dr Takufumi Fujita.
[notary stuff]


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