Beloved Swaha
Life is a mystery.
In the last question tonight in Satsang, when the disciple asked to touch your feet, and you said yes, when he came to you and you made ready to receive him, time stopped.
The door to the timeless opened, and it seemed that all the past masters who’ve worked for the enlightenment of mankind were standing there blessing that disciple and you and all of us.
The perfume from ten thousand rose petals filled the temple while the humility and sincerity of that disciple continued to rain down blessings.
Then he returned to his seat and you left, and it became a memory laced with longing, and beauty and the essence of the path and the Master/disciple relationship.
Some things are better left unsaid…
but can you say what really happened?
– Jamie
Indeed, some things are better left unsaid, but it is so mysterious and so beautiful, so let’s try.
The beauty of really being with a Master is the beauty of bowing down. It is a way to lose your ego, to let go. And the Master is simply there, he allows it. He doesn’t ask for it, but he is available. The Master just wants to help everybody to wake up. To lose themselves. And that is what is happening when you really bow down. You disappear as a somebody. You give up. And then the miracle of miracles happens: you are in the Master’s realm; there is no separation, there is oneness. You lose the false – your so-called identity – and the doors of the divine open.
It is so beautiful; you cannot touch it. But you can feel it. You can smell it. It is in the air.
– Vasant Swaha
Zen is not a teaching, because it knows you are asleep. The primary thing is not to teach you. The primary thing is to wake you up. Zen is an alarm.
A real Master is an awakener. His function is totally different from a teacher. His function is far more difficult. And only very few people can stay with a Master because to wake up after millions of lives is not an ordinary feat. It is a miracle.
– Osho
