Zen: The Mystery and the Poetry of the Beyond

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Imagine a place where the barriers that usually divide people-the barriers of race, of language, of nation, of political and religious ideology- no longer exist. A place where laughter is the most commonly heard sound when a group of people gather. A place devoted to helping each individual discover and express his or her own uniqueness and creativity. A place where washing the floor is an activity just as honored and valued as making a painting, of organizing a staff of a hundred people.

Paradise? No, Poona. Osho Commune International, It's called, and it is flourishing despite the opposition of governments and organized religions all over the world to what it represents.

Osho, the man at the center of this extraordinary place is an unstoppable hurricane of transforming energy, a one-man rebellion against the whole past, an irresistible call to wake up before it's so late there won't be any future.

It is our habit to look at the world through the eyes of our past experience and knowledge. Religion, therefore, is a Sunday affair, or a life of renunciation, or the promise of a paradise after death. It depends on our conditioning.

Osho's work is to dismantle that conditioning, to turn our attention towards "the mystery and the poetry of the beyond." It has made Him very unpopular with those who prefer people to be conditioned and therefore obedient, faithful and otherwise supportive of those who have got us in the mess we are in.

Osho is redefining religion, breathing life back into the spirit of man. And as you will see on the pages which follow, he does it as it has never been done before.

It is time to become a flower, He says.

I have come to you as a spring.

Ma Deva Sarito
Poona 1990