Christian Sidel,

Sonntagsblick, Zurich, Switzerland

Glad to meet you.

You can start asking your questions.

Osho,
I want to ask some questions about Switzerland. You love the Swiss people?

I hate all divisions in humanity – Swiss, Italian, German, Indian. Mankind is one; the whole earth is one. People everywhere are all lovable, there is no need to discriminate. Of course I love the people who live in Switzerland, but I will not call them Swiss people.

The Swiss people are famous because of their clean country, and they call themselves a commune too. Do you think there is a similarity between your commune and Switzerland, because you are keeping your commune very clean and so…

I know Swiss people are clean, but there is nothing in it to brag about. One should be clean; it is not something special, it should be natural. When somebody is unclean, then he is a special case.

Switzerland is clean, a beautiful country…

Is it possible that you will go to Switzerland at any time?

There is every possibility, I keep everything open.

What would you do if you were in Switzerland?

That would depend what people there do with me. They will be as hostile to me as any other people, because the mind of man is just the same all over the world: conditioned by the past. Anything new creates fear, paranoia. And I am totally new, discontinuous with the past.

I want humanity to burn the whole history of man and just to start from scratch, because what we have done in the past is not worth remembering. The sooner we forget it the better.