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CHAPTER 20. SURRENDER: THE EGO UPSIDE DOWN Then the commune will have a separate body of its own. Now there are almost one dozen communes around the earth. And all the communes are patterned exactly alike. And they are coming up to the standards here. Europe is almost there. In Europe there are ten communes now. Small centers have dissolved into bigger communes because small centers can be crushed very easily; only communes can live. So now the Zurich commune has hundreds of people; Medina, in London, has hundreds of people; Berlin has hundreds of people. So now these people can stand up for themselves and will not be easily persecuted. Each commune is autonomous. Still they are all alike, exactly patterned like the commune here. Their clothes are of the same quality, their food is of the same quality – because I was shocked when I heard that a few communes were so poor that they were only eating bread and soup. So I am now sending Sheela, every month, for three days to each commune, to see that the religious work is carried out according to my vision; so no sannyasin living in any commune feels that he’s deprived of any facility. All the facilities should be absolutely similar and each commune is autonomous. Our sannyasins in many ways are very innocent people. They may be very educated but they are innocent people – and after becoming sannyasins they have become more innocent. And therefore there is no problem; it needs a simple common sense. Organization cannot be avoided. We just have to be a little more sophisticated and more scientific and more mathematical about it. We have to use it rather than being used by it. So I am not against organization, but we can learn from the past. Whatsoever has happened in the past we can avoid. And we can do something totally new which has never been done. And if you can see all the possibilities which destroy religion... and before they get hold of my religion I am going to finish all those possibilities. Sannyasins can have a totally different organization. That promise you can always remember: I will not leave you in a state of chaos. In the past what has happened? These people made their organizations at the very last moment when they were dying; or mostly the organizations were created after the founders were dead, because when the founder was there things were going perfectly well, so who bothered about it. But when the founder was dead, immediately the need... his absence was there. And it was such a big emptiness that it was impossible for people to connect. They had connected with the founder, but they had no interconnection amongst themselves. And that’s really what organization is. The word is very meaningful; it comes from organ. Your hand is your organ, your leg is your organ; your nose, your eyes – these are your organs. And your whole body is the organization. And they’re all functioning in immense harmony. From Ignorance to Innocence 288 Osho
CHAPTER 20. SURRENDER: THE EGO UPSIDE DOWN How many parts you have – and they’re all functioning in harmony; you are not even aware of it. Everything is going on so silently that scientists say that if we were to make such a mechanism that works so silently and does all the work that the body does, we would need at least a one square mile area to make it in the factory. Even today it is not possible to turn bread into blood – how your body does it is an everyday miracle. Millions of living cells are within you; you are almost a city. There are seven million living cells, perhaps having a certain small brain of their own, because their work is so intelligent you cannot say they don’t have any brain. Everything is being shifted, is being supplied to the place where it is needed. Care is even being taken by those small cells inside you so that the nourishment should reach first to the parts which are most essential. Your brain gets the nourishment first, the legs can wait a little. But if just for few minutes – I think six minutes – your brain does not get oxygen, it starts disintegrating. So the first thing – and how these small cells are doing and deciding it is a mystery – oxygen should reach to the brain. When the brain’s need is fulfilled, then second-grade organs, third-grade organs, fourth-grade organs.... That way it should move. You are a city of seven million living beings. This is an organization, and this is what it should be. All our separate organs should be connected, helping each other, remembering where help is needed more, and first; and remembering that your whole function is to be enlightened, so the torch of enlightenment remains burning. There is no gap. And I’m taking every care that there will be no gap. Bodhidharma will feel jealous of me! From Ignorance to Innocence 289 Osho
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CHAPTER 20. SURRENDER: THE EGO UPSIDE DOWN<br />
Then the <strong>com</strong>mune will have a separate body of its own. Now there are almost one dozen<br />
<strong>com</strong>munes around the earth. And all the <strong>com</strong>munes are patterned exactly alike. And they are<br />
<strong>com</strong>ing up <strong>to</strong> the standards here. Europe is almost there. In Europe there are ten <strong>com</strong>munes now.<br />
Small centers have dissolved in<strong>to</strong> bigger <strong>com</strong>munes because small centers can be crushed very<br />
easily; only <strong>com</strong>munes can live. So now the Zurich <strong>com</strong>mune has hundreds of people; Medina, in<br />
London, has hundreds of people; Berlin has hundreds of people. So now these people can stand<br />
up for themselves and will not be easily persecuted.<br />
Each <strong>com</strong>mune is au<strong>to</strong>nomous.<br />
Still they are all alike, exactly patterned like the <strong>com</strong>mune here. Their clothes are of the same quality,<br />
their food is of the same quality – because I was shocked when I heard that a few <strong>com</strong>munes were<br />
so poor that they were only eating bread and soup.<br />
So I am now sending Sheela, every month, for three days <strong>to</strong> each <strong>com</strong>mune, <strong>to</strong> see that the<br />
religious work is carried out according <strong>to</strong> my vision; so no sannyasin living in any <strong>com</strong>mune feels<br />
that he’s deprived of any facility. All the facilities should be absolutely similar and each <strong>com</strong>mune is<br />
au<strong>to</strong>nomous.<br />
Our sannyasins in many ways are very innocent people. They may be very educated but they are<br />
innocent people – and after be<strong>com</strong>ing sannyasins they have be<strong>com</strong>e more innocent. And therefore<br />
there is no problem; it needs a simple <strong>com</strong>mon sense.<br />
Organization cannot be avoided.<br />
We just have <strong>to</strong> be a little more sophisticated and more scientific and more mathematical about it.<br />
We have <strong>to</strong> use it rather than being used by it.<br />
So I am not against organization, but we can learn from the past. Whatsoever has happened in the<br />
past we can avoid. And we can do something <strong>to</strong>tally new which has never been done.<br />
And if you can see all the possibilities which destroy religion... and before they get hold of my religion<br />
I am going <strong>to</strong> finish all those possibilities. Sannyasins can have a <strong>to</strong>tally different organization. That<br />
promise you can always remember: I will not leave you in a state of chaos.<br />
In the past what has happened? These people made their organizations at the very last moment<br />
when they were dying; or mostly the organizations were created after the founders were dead,<br />
because when the founder was there things were going perfectly well, so who bothered about it. But<br />
when the founder was dead, immediately the need... his absence was there. And it was such a big<br />
emptiness that it was impossible for people <strong>to</strong> connect. They had connected with the founder, but<br />
they had no interconnection amongst themselves.<br />
And that’s really what organization is. The word is very meaningful; it <strong>com</strong>es from organ. Your hand<br />
is your organ, your leg is your organ; your nose, your eyes – these are your organs. And your whole<br />
body is the organization. And they’re all functioning in immense harmony.<br />
<strong>From</strong> <strong>Ignorance</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Innocence</strong> 288 <strong>Osho</strong>