According to Osho, yes—he has entered a totally new phase. After a three-year silence used to sift casual followers, he will no longer speak through Jesus, Buddha, or any tradition as devices. Having found his own people, he will speak directly and uncompromisingly, revealing his full vision—the "Last Testament"—with nothing left hidden.
He first used famous teachers to gather listeners; now, after a pause, he’ll speak only his own truth, openly and without compromise.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Beloved Osho, since you have been speaking again this time, many of us feel that you are taking us into another phase of your work. Is this true?
Absolutely true. I had to give a three year gap and remain silent for so many reasons. One of the reasons relevant to your question is that I had been speaking on Jesus, on Krishna, on Buddha, on Mahavira. I was speaking on all other traditions of religion: Hassidism, Zen, Sufism. I had spoken on almost all important people who had contributed something to human consciousness: Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Bodhidharma, Bokuju, Socrates, Pythagoras, Zarathustra, Kabir, Shankara, Dadu, Milarepa, Marpa Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu. I covered almost the whole world. Wherever I found a man who has contributed to human consciousness, whether it was Greece -- Heraclitus, Diogenes, Dionysius -- or it was Tibet, or it was China, or it was Arabia, it did not matter to me. I was speaking on these people for a certain reason, a simple device. I had no people of my own. I had…
Beloved Osho,
AT THE START OF THE CAMP YOU SAID YOU WERE MOVING INTO A NEW PHASE OF YOUR WORK. WE'VE FELT IT IN MEDITATION, BUT MOST IMPORTANT, YOU'VE CHANGED THE WAY YOU SPEAK TO US. AT ONE TIME, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU NEVER ADMITTED TO BEING AN ENLIGHTENED MASTER, AND NOW YOU DO. COULD YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT THIS NEW PHASE OF YOUR WORK? I can only say things which you have become capable of hearing. It depends on you. If you have become a disciple, then I can easily say that I am a master; but if you are not a disciple it will be just meaningless saying to you that I am a master. If somebody comes who is just curious about me, I will not say this to him; it would be pointless. He will not understand; rather, he will misunderstand. When you are ready to receive, only…
Beloved Osho, what did you do in those years immediately after your enlightenment?
It is a difficult question. The first thing was that a great silence, almost unbreakable, followed the experience, as if the mind had stopped functioning. There was nothing to do about it -- except to watch. It was difficult for my family, my friends. Obviously, they thought I had gone mad. My family has always been worried about me, concerned that I'm not following the well-trodden path and I am moving into dangerous experiments; the danger of going mad was easily conceivable. And when I stopped speaking -- it would be better to say that the speaking stopped itself, I was not a partner to it -- people would ask questions and I would not even be able to give answers to simple things. For almost two years, inside it was a tremendous rejoicing. Outside, it became a trouble. The people who thought they were trying to help me were…
Beloved Osho never have you seemed so human, dancing, laughing and celebrating with us. But never have you told it to us quite so straight, without catering to our unenlightened mortal stupidities. Is this the twenty-first century vibe?
In my silence this woman was happy. She said, "While you were silent, I loved you. Since you have started speaking again you have destroyed my love." So those who were here for their own ego fulfillment.... And the ego cannot be fulfilled by my silence; the ego need words, theologies, philosophy. She wants me to become silent again. She is furious. She wants me to be dead, but to be silent. So in these three years I have sorted out my people, who can be with my silence. That means it does not matter to them whether I speak or not. It does not matter to them whether I say something which is against their conditioning or favoring their conditioning. They love me, not my words. Their communion is heart to heart. And when I saw all the camels have moved towards Santa Fe -- Santa Fe has become…
I had dropped the idea that we are a new religion. Out of compassion, I have dropped the whole idea. We are only a meditation movement. Anybody can participate. And the beauty is that if somebody meditates, sooner or later his Mohammedanism will disappear, his Hinduism will disappear. They cannot remain with meditation. So why bother about their Hinduism and Mohammedanism when we have a secret which will automatically disperse all darkness in their minds. And I want meditation to become almost universal. And it can become universal only if it is not attached to any religion, to any politics, to any ideology -- and it is not. It is a simple method. Even an atheist can do it -- there is no problem. We don't ask him to believe in God, we don't ask him to believe in anything.