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Part VII : Silent Satsangs
On 1st May, Satsangs, heart to heart silent communion with Osho
begin. At the beginning and end the gauchchamis are chanted; there
is a period of silent meditation; the satsang ends with music
singing and dancing; Osho makes a namaste on arriving and leaving.
In the tradition of Buddha there are three famous shelters: Buddham
sharanam gachchhami: I go to the feet of the buddha, I surrender
myself to the buddha. Sangham sharanam gachchhami: I go to the
feet of the commune, I surrender myself to the buddhafield. Dhammam
sharanam gachchhami: I surrender myself to the ultimate law which
is personified by the buddha and is searched for by the commune,
which has become actual in the buddha and is an inquiry in the
commune. These three are the most important things for a seeker:
the master, the commune, and the dhamma, Tao, logos, the ultimate
law.
Unless you are in contact with one who has already realized,
it is almost impossible for you to grow. The hindrances are millions,
the pitfalls many, the false doors many, the temptations are many;
there is every possibility of going astray. Unless you are in
the company of someone who knows the way, who has traveled the
way, who has arrived, it is almost impossible for you to reach.
Unless your hands are in the hands of someone whom you can trust
and to whom you can surrender, you are bound to go astray. The
mind creates so many temptations—so alluring they are, so
magnetic is their power—that unless you are in the power-field
of someone whose magnetism is far more powerful than any other
kind of temptation, it is impossible to reach. That is the meaning
of disciplehood.
Buddham sharanam gachchhami: I surrender to the master.
The master is such a magnetic force that your surrender to the
master becomes your protection; hence it is called the shelter.
Then you are secure, then you are guarded, then you are protected.
Then your hand is in those hands which know where to take you,
what direction to give to you.
The second thing is the commune. Each buddha creates a commune,
because without a commune a buddha cannot function. A commune
means his energy field, a commune means the people who have become
joined with him, a commune means an alternate society to the ordinary
mundane society which goes after spurious comforts—it is
there available to everybody.
A small oasis in the desert of the world is what is meant by
a commune created by a buddha—a small oasis in which life
is lived with a totally different gestalt, with a totally different
vision, with a totally different goal; where life is lived with
purpose, meaning, where life is lived with method—even though
to the outsiders it may look like madness, but that madness has
a method in it—where life is lived prayerfully, alert, aware,
awake; where life is not just accidental, where life starts becoming
more and more a growth in a certain direction, towards a certain
destination; where life is no more like driftwood.
And the third is the dhamma. Dhamma means truth. Buddha represents
the dhamma in two ways: one, through his communication, verbal,
and second, through his presence, through his silence, through
his communion: nonverbal. The verbal communication is only an
introduction for the nonverbal. The nonverbal is an energy communication.
The verbal is only preparatory; it simply prepares you so you
can allow the master to communicate with you energywise, because
energywise it is really moving into the unknown. Energywise it
needs great trust, because you will be completely unaware where
you are going—aware that you are going somewhere, aware
that you are being led somewhere, aware that something is happening
of tremendous import; but what exactly it is you don't yet have
the language for, you don't have any experience to recognize.
You will be moving into the uncharted.
The buddha represents dhamma, truth, in two ways. Verbally he
communicates with the students; nonverbally, through silence,
through energy, he communicates with the disciples. And then there
comes the ultimate unity where neither communication nor communion
is needed, but oneness has been achieved—where the master
and the disciple become one, when the disciple is just a shadow,
when there is no separation. These are the three stages of growth:
student, disciple, devotee. wisdom17.
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