SamadhiMuse

                        What to do?
         I believe in this.
         No waiting through thousands of people
         and months of time
         for someone real to come by.
         Here, every other person
         is a wonder of openness and courage.
         From all over the world
         people who believe like I do have come together.
         The languages, the faces, the beauty
         – it’s astonishing.
         It’s not power they respect,
         nor possessions or title
         but rather, just that same thing
         that I went seeking so long ago
         in such a stumbling way.
                        gallagher
                        03 july 83 – Rajneeshpuram, Oregon

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

               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 —