I
remember coming out of satori just feeling at home with myself .
The process itself had without a doubt given me a direct experience with
myself,
and had brought me to a space in which I felt comfortable watching whatever
was happening through me. I experienced many moments of understanding,
and touched a quality of love, awareness and silence within that I had only
experienced as glimpses before. It is aprocess of breaking through illusions,
and yet despite my experiences, I still held on to the idea that I had something
to do / somewhere to go to reach my awakening ...
I guess I was not ready to accept the ease of being at home ... in other
words,
in satori, you are, nothing else is happening but your absolute awareness
of what is going on every second of every moment of the day.
The truth is that this is all there is: the awareness of life happening
through being.
The obviousness of it is clear to me now, and looking back on the quality
of the process
of satori, and in fact my entire life, I wonder how I could have missed
it!!
Kaveesha,
Quebec, Canada
People
keep asking me why I participate in every satori group that happens
After all it is "hard" work, you get up very early in the morning,
you sit
all day, even have to do Mandala meditation, have no free time whatsoever
and most of all , no free will to do what you like to do.
Well, no "free will" is the blessing.
Because what else is our "free will" than the ego, the manipulating
mind.
How free is the dewdrop when it can say: "I am a dewdrop and I am
not the
ocean" How free are we when we say" I want to be free"
As long as the "I' is there, all there is is ego, (mind , personality
, inner child or whatever you want to call it)
I love the satori process simply because in satori seekers who really
want
to find, find. It is as simple as that. If you are ready to die and seek
with all the intensity that you can possibly gather, you find.
And it is not a question of old seekers or young ones. Of course it helps
if you have been peeling the onion for many years , but in every Satori
group I see new people , young people, with a real thirst for truth ,
with
a burning question of "Who am I?" ,finding that "I"
For a moment may be, but finding it. And once found, you can never again
say that you do not know who you are, you may be able to forget, you may
want to run away from it again because it means death to the ego. but
you
can no longer say that you are looking for the house of God because you
know that you are god and that your body is it's temporary house.
Rani Willems, Holland
For
me Satori is the ultimate expression of Osho's vision of therapy
being a bridge to meditation. Satori with it's structure and
process goes beyond therapy and reveals the essence of meditation, of
being in the moment - of no-mind.
No group has ever made such a lasting impression on my being as Satori.
Through Satori I have had glimpses of "who I am", and through
this
understanding, my understanding, trust and love for Osho has deepened
immensely.
Yogi Moeller, Norway
7
days of laundry
It all began in the feeling that laundry is needed.
The first step was collecting the items to wash; they were all over especially
in the corners of the house.
Some stinky stuff was there I can assure you.
Then putting the soap called meditation, recommended by a good friend
of mine.
I had no machine so I had to struggle the stains by hand,
One by one I washed them.
It took a long time and the stains were so stubborn.
As time past they started being washed one by the other
Letting the sparkle of love to grow bigger.
The celebration of the foam, of the clean took over.
And then suddenly the realization of stainless appeared.
Something so familiar and yet so forgotten.
I gazed at the stinky water that held all the stains as I flushed it in
the toilet.
This soap is amazing I tell you, try it my friend and allow yourself shine.
It will take time thats for sure
But with love and intention youll be shiny and clean.
And dont forget the soap
good luck
Vimal, Israel
Being
frustration, agony, anger, pain, joy,
in wonder, ecstasy, no past, no future,
the explosion of the moment!
Gandheri, Switzerland
Satori...
first i did not get what i was doing there-
I just went on looking and digging and sharing
and struggling-
and than suddenly I was right there-in a total moment-
unexpected and that's why it was like a storm inside.
So vast and so silent at the same time.
Just this experience
of me
of my nature
of being.
Going through all this different facets
and layers and believes of who i thought i am
or should be-and recognizing that it is actually
so beautifully simple!
Love to this process which in a way opened me up to life!!
Premal, Germany
"I found a reference point inside which I'd never had
before; a place of home , of knowing in the middle of
disaster that there is something else. A gratefulness
that, after all these 20 years, I now know what the
Himalayan Peaks are that the mystics speak about. The
light went on and never really went off again -
something I was waiting for after years working in
therapy and with the personality. A feeling that IT IS
POSSIBLE!
Halima, Germany
"The most important for me is the rememberance of the
space of satori that happened 3-4 times, of
disappearing inside, of unconditional love, of
expansion into everything. The process reinforces the
certainty that enlightenment is possible. I would do
it again.
Niket, England
I used to think I knew what love or trust is, but in
the process of the group I experienced directly what
love and trust is; and is hasn't stopped since. There
is a huge difference between ideas and the real
experience!
Priyatama, Italy
Exploring new landscapes of the inner. Loving the
support of the structure. I can recommend it to
everybody.
Chandradeva
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