What message do you have for the sannyasins living at the ranch?

Almost two years ago sheela told us you wanted your sannyasins to leave california and close the centers there. But now that the ranch is ending, thousands of sannyasins have gone there to live. Would you like to say something to them? 3

It was simply a device to call people to the commune in Oregon. Now that the commune exists no more, the sannyasins in California should start their centers -- if possible, communes. But remember that Oregon's commune was the model, and in California no compromise should be made. California is in a strange kind of mind -- everything there is fashion. So within four, five years, it dies; a newer fashion takes place. Within the last thirty years many things have happened in California with a predictably great future, but they all died within two, three years. So make centers and communes in California, but avoid the Californian tendency of taking everything as a fashion. Sannyas is not a fashion -- it is one of the most eternal things in existence. It will be there always, it has been there always -- because it is the search for the truth,…

Beloved Osho, why are there so few american sannyasins? I recall you saying that america would be a very spiritual country because they had already mastered material abundance and found it did not satisfy. Why are they so sleepy? Please comment.

America has no roots. It is just a three-hundred-year-old country; it is passing through its childhood. Compared to a country like India which has been there for at least ninety thousand years, America is a just-born baby. So wait a little; babies don't tend to be spiritual. Secondly, America has promoted itself as being really rich. That is not true. Thirty million Americans are in utter poverty; millions of black people are not first-class citizens, and the people to whom the country belongs, the Red Indians, are kept in reservations. Those reservations are not very much different to the concentration camps in Germany -- in fact, they are more dangerous. In Germany, the concentration camps were made of barbed wire; you could not escape. The American reservations are open. If you want to go out, nobody is preventing you. They have created some psychological barbed wire -- invisible. The Red…

Question: BELOVED OSHO, AM I MOVING RIGHTLY OR AM I JUST A HOPELESS NUTCASE? They are missing now because that small commune in Oregon had become suddenly more important than Washington itself. All the eyes from all over the world were concentrated on the commune: "What is happening there? Why are people so happy? Why are people so loving? Why is there no fighting? Why is there no murder? Why is there no suicide? What has happened to those people? Their jealousies, their conflicts seem to have disappeared, they have entered, it seems, into a new state of consciousness." But as far as I am concerned I have no complaint against anybody. My own feeling is it was good that they destroyed the commune. It helped my people to spread all over the world. And wherever my one sannyasin is, he will create the right atmosphere.

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…

Are you intending to make another community, similar to rajneeshpuram in america?

Somebody was there in the jail for six months, somebody was there for nine months, just waiting to go to the court to say to the court that he has not done anything and he has been unnecessarily forced into jail. He has been already punished without being proved guilty. All these blacks were young people, and I could see the reason... These black young people will prove sooner or later a danger to America. Their parents or their forefathers were enslaved, and the young people are carrying the resentment. And now they are in the majority in many states. They are going to fight sooner or later for a separate country or a separate state, and they don't want to live with the white people. So all the young people who were suspected of being rebellious were forced into jail, without any reason, without any cause. They have not…