"Yes, that's exactly my idea. This loving commune should become a prototype, because in the vast world even though you are in the crowd, you are alone. Here, even if you are alone, you know and you feel the warmth of people all around you.

"Love is something which is nobody's monopoly. A loving person is simply a love-radiating energy. And when there are thousands of people radiating love, there is a certain energy field. I called it the buddhafield. Anybody who comes will receive the love, the friendship, the hospitality. But people are afraid to come."

Why?

"For the simple reason that we are strangers. This is animal instinct: animals are afraid of strangers, every animal has its own territorial prerogative. If you keep out of the territory he will not get disturbed or upset, but if you enter into his territory then immediately he is hostile. That instinct is still alive in man.

"We are outsiders, in many ways our ways of thinking are different, our values are different, our priorities are different. We are for a better man and for a better humanity, and their fear and hostility is natural."

Osho,
Are the hostilities created or perpetrated by the lack of understanding and the absence – as it would appear to the outside world – of a willingness for the Rajneeshees to go out, rather than accept in; so people can learn more about them?

"No, this is my basic standpoint: not to go out, because that is interfering in somebody's world. I am not a missionary – and I hate the word. I don't want anybody to be converted, and I don't want anybody to be convinced that we are right. In fact the people who try to convince others that they are right are basically, deep down in themselves, not convinced that they are right. Convincing others, they are making an effort to convince themselves.

"When they see they have a crowd convinced, then they feel at ease. Then they know, 'I cannot be wrong. If so many people are converted by me, then I cannot be wrong.'

"This outgoing is impossible for me or my people. We are here, we do no harm to anybody, and we don't want to interfere in anybody's thinking, way of life, his style, his religion, his politics."