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1983-07-03

Sunday, July 3rd, 1983

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 —

1983-07-04

Monday, July 4th, 1983

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 —

1983-07-04

Monday, July 4th, 1983

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 —