So,
one more hour, one more day, one more meditation weekend in Osho style has
passed…
This
time it was a workshop centered on sufi methods, namely zikrs (”God
remembrance” – saying mantras or expressions of higher truths), whirling like a
whirligig and exercises for centering in one’s heart and hara.
There
were three and a half days, plus an extra evening with Devo Minas, an Osho
disciple from Greece, who came to Romania invited by the Osho Joy Meditation
Center :).
The
group was less big than other times, around 10 people. The good part in this
was that we had more space for whirling…
So,
we chanted La Ilaha Ilalah (There Is No God But God), Ishk Allah Mabood
Alllah (God is the Love, the Lover and the Beloved), we spined like big
children and we laughed, and what a laugh….
For
me, the most deep experience was on Saturday evening, when after we chanted and
chanted some sufi mantra, we laid down on our backs and we started
laughing:))). The thing was that, almost on every chanting we did, we would
start laughing from time to time, because the mind interfered, saying: “What
the fuck are you doing here? Did you converted yourself to mahommedanism? You
are not in your senses!” And after two days and a half of this kind of things, the
laughter came naturally…
But
for me, who I’m pretty good in controlling things and to keep my serious
appearance, this moment was really sensational…It was an incredible release of
energy there! Think of 5 or 10 people who are laughing till they die…:))) I
really felt myself that at some point I will crack from so much energy. And
the sensation was that, for a few moments, there remained only the laughter…just
like a waterfall which flows with tremendous power…Yes.
And
Devo has such a comforting presence…with a huge smile, a big child simle and a
warm look which you cannot fight with.
But
still, there is something that I didn’t like in the way he facilitated
meditations. The fact that he was not careful enough with the silent moments
after the whirling. For me, it is very important in these moments, not to hear
a pin falling in the room, because in this way I can dive freely in that silent
space inside. And, unfortunately, in our group, that silence was not respected
as it should have been…
One remembering moment I had also on
Monday evening, after de workshop, when we did Atisha’s Heart meditation, a technique
in which you imagine that you take in all the negativity from outside and you
give all the possible blessings from your heart, to the world and to the
people.
I felt so touched at some point by
the suffering of the beings I love, that I started crying…
What can I say, than:
Namaste, dear Devo!
