According to Osho, his world tour has no fixed plan; it exposes how fearful governments and churches restrict even basic free movement. After Greece welcomed him, a dozen countries kept postponing simple tourist visas, revealing nations as “big prisons.” Thus where he goes next (Italy, Switzerland, France) isn’t in his hands—the tour’s meaning is to unveil this global unfreedom.
His tour is uncertain because many governments fear him and delay visas, showing how borders can act like prisons.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
I understand that there is no firm itinerary as yet, but could you talk in any detail about the world tour?
It is difficult to talk about the world tour, for the simple reason that all governments are so afraid of me. I have applied to all the countries, I am waiting for their visas, and they go on postponing. It is almost two months... and they don't even have the guts to say no, because they know perfectly well that if they say no I am going to expose them publicly. So neither do they say no, nor can they say yes, because they are afraid of their church, of their mob. So for two months continuously, at least twelve countries have been postponing my visa. Greece was most courageous to accept and welcome me immediately. So I cannot say where I will be going next -- most probably Italy. The next possibility is Switzerland, and the third possibility is France -- but these are only possibilities, because it is…
Beloved Osho, these questions are from the dutch rajneesh times. The first question is: now you are making a world tour, for the first time the well is going to the thirsty. Is the world ready to receive the well?
The positive person who loves me, who is sympathetic, who dreams one day to be with me, remains silent because love is something which one wants to keep in the secretmost part of one's heart. Love is something that one does not want to shout about. In shouting it will die. In making a fuss about it, he will kill it. It has to be protected; it is a very delicate phenomenon. It has to be kept silently within, so that nobody knows about it. So there are millions of people who love me but have never said it to anybody. It is just their own private secret. And love grows in this way; the deeper you hide it, the faster it grows. Lovers know it -- not very clearly because their love is not of a conscious state, but they have a certain glimpse of it. When you really…
Beloved Osho, gurdjieff said, "blessed are those who remain where they are. Blessed are those who walk on the way, and go to the end -- but woe to them who stop in between." Osho, your world tour, especially to europe, is a turning point for many of us. It seems that without you we've stopped in between.
If it can be fulfilled in a commune, the commune is good. If it can be fulfilled only in smaller groups, then smaller groups are good. If it can be fulfilled better when you live individually, alone -- so that then you have to work only six hours a day, five days a week, and the remaining time is totally free for you.... And to make it feasible I have allowed that you can now use any color of clothes; you can use the mala or you may not use the mala, as the situation permits.... Because if it comes against your job, if just because of your orange clothes you are thrown out from a school where you had a good job -- where almost six months were holidays, and each year you have longer two-month holidays, when you could have always come to me.... And that was happening…
Osho, what will your journey toward the Unknowable be like? Would you like to establish some new schools, communes?
No. The communes and schools I had established were only experiments—to see whether what I am saying can become a reality or not, whether dreams can be fulfilled or not. I have seen those dreams come true. Now I would like this whole world to become my commune. I want the entire world to enter that realm of mystery, of wonder, for which we are born, which is our destiny. So now, separate communes and schools... They were preliminary experiments, and they have succeeded. From them I have found the formulas for how the whole world can be transformed. If I go on building communes and schools, it would be a very small thing. Why not make this entire world a university where each person journeys into mystery and moves toward the unknown? Now I want the whole world to be my commune. I now have precise formulas, tested on…
You are traveling like the pope. Do you want everybody to become a sannyasin?
Just think: if humanity disappears from the earth, the whole existence will be dead. Not only this earth, all those millions of solar systems and millions of planets and stars will be simply dead. It is through thousands of years of tremendous effort that nature has brought matter to a point where it becomes conscious, alive. Now all the religions are preventing consciousness from growing. They are all against existence, they are all against nature, they are all against you. My trip is to make people aware of their imprisonment, to make them aware of their potential -- what they are and what they can become -- to make them aware that existence is waiting for something tremendously ecstatic to happen in them and nobody has the right to prevent it. You owe it to existence. It has given you birth; it has given you everything. Just in gratitude, can't…