S.N. Goenka--People in Osho's Talks

In a newspaper Goenka has given an interview in which
he talks about me, and says that I had gone to him to
learn Vipassana. I have not even seen his picture – and
he says in the interview that he has taught me Vipassana!

He must have thought that now that I have gone out of
India, this small third-class weekly in which he is giving his
interview is not going to reach me. Everything that is
concerned with me is bound to reach me from all the
countries, because everywhere my people are there, alert.

Now I feel sad that I allowed my sannyasins to go to this
man. Perhaps he knows the method; he has been in
Burma as a businessman, and in Burma Vipassana is
practiced just as in other religions people do prayer. It is a
common thing, and the method is very simple. You need
not do it, but you can be acquainted with the method.

Now it is absolutely clear that this man has never done
what he has been teaching. A man who knows meditation
will not lie so blatantly. I have never met him! In fact,
before he came to India I was teaching meditation to
people. My first book was published in 1960 when he was
still in Burma, and nobody knew about him. And my first
book is about Vipassana...!

--Osho
From Death to Deathlessness, ch. 21

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