The Hell (group)

"The Hell" was a Pune One group of unknown duration, at least four days. It appears in the groups timeline chart in The Sound of Running Water, which shows that it was offered from Nov 1976 to Mar 1977. In the timeline chart it was called Boredom/Hell, but in The Buddha Disease, Osho refers to it as "the hell", so the wiki is going with that. We will feature the entire segment about this group, which includes a lengthy description of its creation.

This account is written by Maneesha as a background to the occasion of the first "the hell" group's darshan, on Jan 31 1977:

One evening in darshan two months ago, (see blessed are the ignorant december 4th) bhagwan suggested to prasad, the leader of the tathata group that he put together ideas for a "boredom group".

Bhagwan talked about boredom as a device to help the mind drop, and said to prasad that boredom should be the central core of the group.

Over the next few days prasad was inundated with voluntary help from sannyasins -- all with their own particular ideas for creating a really boring situation.

Prasad compiled a list of rules and regulations for "the hell", as bhagwan named it, which included the following:

You must eat as much as possible at mealtimes.

To be continued . . .

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