A fully equipped dental room is prepared in Osho’s house, and for several months, Osho undergoes extensive dental work.
Naturally, if my body is sick, then my doctor knows more than I know. I don’t interfere with my doctor. I am really a good patient; you can ask Devaraj, you can ask Shunyo. When something is wrong with my teeth–you can ask my dental surgeon–I am quite patient.
In fact he must be wondering…because nobody loves the dentist’s chair, but I love it. I really enjoy it. I find a small excuse and I immediately tell my dentist to make arrangements, I am coming. Just a slight excuse, it does not need any dentistry–but I love the chair. And I never interfere in whatever they are doing; messing with my teeth or whatever they are doing I allow them to do. That is their work and their responsibility, and I don’t know anything about it so I simply keep out of it. last218
This very morning, Devageet was working on my teeth. For the first time in years, when I left his dentist’s chair, I asked him, “Are you satisfied?” Because I could see his dissatisfaction–that he has not been able to do the work that he wanted to on my teeth.
In the evening, I told him to finish it, because who knows about tomorrow? I may not be here, then fixing my teeth will be absolutely absurd. He did try his best but I am a master who is teaching everybody to be present at every moment….
Shunyo works hard continuously, taking every care for my well-being, but she still goes on asking, “Do you love me?” I am in the dentist’s chair under maximum gas and she is asking, “Do you love me?” And because I had promised my dentist that, “I will not talk”…but it is impossible.
Because I did not say, “I love you,” she must have become so disturbed that she forgot to put the towel in my bathroom. I had to take a bath without a towel. Later on, when I asked her, she said, “I am sorry.”
But it is not only her situation. It is almost everybody’s situation. And my whole teaching is that you have to be respectful to yourself. It is falling from dignity to ask this–and particularly from a master whose love is already being given to you. Why be a beggar? My effort here is to make emperors of you.
The day, the moment you understand the tremendous glory of being present, nothing else is needed. You are enough. Out of that arises the great joy, “Aha! My God! I have been here and was looking everywhere else.” this07
The other night, I went to my dentistry–it is just by the side of my library–and Shunyo was with me. New shelves are being created with mirrored glass, so she showed me and said, “Osho, it is not right that only women stand before mirrors for hours. I have been watching: everybody who passes here stands before the mirror, puts his collar right, smiles a little, looks all around whether anybody is watching or not.”
You are so afraid. Even to look in a mirror, you are worried somebody may be looking. Enjoy looking, there is no problem. If one side of your mustache is going this way and the other side is going the other way…put it right! There is nothing wrong in it, no sin. yaahoo24
Work begins to convert Chuang Tzu Auditorium into a new bedroom for Osho, with marble floors and walls, enclosed by ground to ceiling windows overlooking the gardens where a waterfall feature is being created. Osho’s library will expand throughout the ground floor of his house.