In December 1979, for the first time, a Rolls Royce conveys Osho to Buddha Hall for his discourse.
You ask: What is so funny about Your driving to discourse in a Rolls Royce?
There is a long story behind it! I was driving…I was coming in an Impala, and people like you started writing letters to me saying that, “This is a plumber’s car!”
I told Laxmi, “Change it!” So she bought a Buick–and people started writing to me that “This is a pimp’s car!”
So I told Laxmi, “Change it!” So she was bargaining for a Lincoln Continental. And people wrote to me, “This is good–this is a president’s car!”
I said, “That is worse–worse than being driven in a plumber’s or a pimp’s car!” So I told Laxmi, “Now, for a poor man like me, only a Rolls Royce will do!”
Now, please don’t make any objection to it…because coming from Lao Tzu to Buddha Hall, a helicopter won’t do. Don’t create troubles for me! dh0702
I have been suffering because my sickness is not something that I can say I am cured of. It is allergy, so it can erupt any moment…. Dust can create it, perfume–most dangerous. And there are a few things which I should not eat–any things which have acids. So if I just avoid them…. And in the commune everybody is aware of my trouble, so nobody will use perfume, nobody will come close to me if he has been smoking. Nobody will come to me if he has been perspiring, because any smell is enough to provoke it. And what it does is it starts breathing trouble; my breathing becomes abnormal, difficult.
And then coughing starts. Then the coughing will continue at least for two hours to six hours. It is a problem in the night; then I cannot sleep. So this disease is such that I can never say I am cured. And I can never say that I am sick; only once in a while when something happens I am sick for a few hours. Otherwise I am perfectly okay.
The second problem I had was my back. So my people have arranged for that too, because no medical treatment was helping. In India we had called experts from England who had worked their whole life only on backs, but they also said that, “This is strange.”
I knew that they would not help and I told them that, “The problem is, it is not a sudden thing–somebody slips and falls down and the back comes out. Then you can fix it. My problem is that I have been sitting in this kind of chair for almost thirty years. The chair changes but the shape remains exactly the same. So the back has got a certain curve, and if that curve is disturbed, then I am in trouble.”
I cannot sit on your chair. It is more comfortable, but my back will not fit with it. I can use only one car. I have used all the cars, the best in the world; the seat of just one car, one of the models of Rolls Royce, the Silver Spur, fits with me perfectly. It is not their costliest car; their costliest is the Corniche, then the Carmargue. And then the third is the Silver Spur. So I tried a Corniche–they didn’t work, my trouble started. But with the Silver Spur it has settled completely. last224
