SamadhiMuse

               I screwed up my courage
               to take the jump
               sanyas…
               I’ve been doing the ground work
               for a year
               fighting, doubting
               deciding, finally, that it was
               a reductionist philosophy
               but knowing that if I came
               Bhagwan and Rajneeshpuram
               might wash my decision away
               But, in the end, it was his people
               that made me see that
               this is what I want
               what I think life should be
               and that the reason I hesitated
               was because I doubted it could be so
               but it is, here and now
               and though these moments may endure
               or wash away
               they are right, now … and I am here
               looking into a possible future
               So I finally came to a decision
               grabbed my heart and went to apply
               … and found out I must wait
                  eeeyyyyiiiii….!
                                 gallagher
                                 03 july 83 – Rajneeshpuram, Oregon

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

            I can let go sometimes
               with the wind and the trees
            but, as yet, with people
               I fall into and out of being one with them
            a moment of communion
               and a moment with the stranger
            a moment of openness
               and a moment of fear
            we are the same
               they are different
            I think I will die many times
               before I and the pattern are no more.
                           gallagher
                           04 july 83 – Rajneeshpuram
                           – on the mountain above Rajneeshpuram
                             just after talking to a sanyasin

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

            Sometimes I can’t decide if this
               is fragile or enduring.
            Tonight, at the Rajneesh beer garden
               I saw a senior sanyasin
            escorting a couple of reporters
            and she looked so worried…
            I wonder if Bhagwan is the glue or his ideas
               and as I write this, I know
            its him; the living master
               with him the forms could change
                  but not the essence
            without him no form will be more
               than a casting of how it was last
            and each change or embellishment
               will dilute those last echos
            until finally the living word
               will have been erased
            and we will have only another name
               to add to the list…
                  Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed….
                           gallagher
                           04 july 83 – Rajneeshpuram

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —