Friday, June 26, 2009

The farm in Oregon - it reacted, reflected and resounded

There was an Osho film festival.
It was explained that Osho was three years in silence. Before that he spoke twice a day, the great books of him are the result of that.
At the farm people focused on work, what seemed logical. If we free the energy, nothing obstructed it.
One person said if he was in love it was his problem. If he got jealous also. In the end he had no more relationship but only free sex a few times a week, so he never got in troubles with feelings, and the rest of time they danced and worked. It seemed Osho wanted not to have only people who came to hear his lectures, but people who could work, that sounds like a selection.

I would have gone there to hear the lectures as I was looking for answers. Work we have enough in our society, but it was another kind of work, work transcending the mind like dance going beyond the mind, going beyond disturbance, just work, and they worked a lot. But it felt also like a selection, and he mentioned it was a fault to go to Oregon. And a selection has a result, whatever that result will be.
Consciousness reflects. The master is reflecting his time. It was time dictating the issue; he made it a living reality.
To live free, in general, not only on sexuality and relationship level, was all over an issue. Not that free, but our society was in sexual revolution, and they made at the farm a big thing out of it, because there the mirror was clear, the refelction of it. It was possible to get aware of it. But it is the wrong conclusion making Osho responsible for it, what was present in our time.
After three years he came out of silence and began to question and the farm dissolved.
The reflection has to do with the American dream, the ninety-nine Rolls, going for more and more on the outer level and 99 is also symbolic for dynamic meditation to go beyond the mind. Water evaporates only in the last percent to become steam. To go beyond the mind it had to go over the ninety-nine percent to transcend and to get to a level of freedom beyond conditioning of the mind.

And the American dream didn't end with one success, but went on and on, a working society going for more success. There seemed no time to reflect, to get back to the self, to go inside, outside success seemed all there is.
But I met a master later in US who said it differently, he made people aware that real success is to get free, to attain Moksha, to not have to come back and repeat the same thing over and over again.

Wherease, the farm land in Oregon was zoned for about six people, they had thousands of people coming there.
Therefore, the conflict was there from the beginning on.
Whereas, they tried to hide the houses, not possible with that amount of people, they began to influence the environment, tried to get into politics.
Therefore, the result was the opposite. They got the attention they didn't want, and everybody got aware of how many people they really were, and what human power was behind like overflowing the area by that influence and getting more power, even in trying to get homeless to vote. It feels stupid to see that movie, on one hand side, they want to hide and then they go fully in the open and even try to get homeless people to vote...
Therefore, the real reason was, the country was not zoned for that many people. They tried to to establish themselves. What was the use of hiding the houses, if they went afterwards like that in the open?
It could not work out, not as we thought it should. But what I missed is the right insight.
The Sannyasins tried to get more influence on social and political level to get established for good in that area, but it is not the tendency of them to do that normally, it was born out of the wrong zoning being in conflict with law.
Osho gave them all freedom, he didn't mix on the level of action.
It was a kind of compensation to get power to change the law. That feels like a sickness and doing everything to be able to live with it, compensation.
That may seem possible for a worldly mind, but not if we go into spirituality and reality, because truth brought that up, that is not failure but the success of the mirror.
Atman reacts, reflects and resounds... out of that sight I could not work out, as they had to change the law, instead of taking care since the beginning that it was taken care of and in harmony with the law, not outlaw...
From the beginning on the land was intended for farming and only zoned for a few people, in conflict with American law, that was not a good start.
All those people working nonstop with human power, giving money, time and effort for a project, which had no real foundation, it was like building on sand.
If it would have been okay, there would not have been the need to go into politics and protect with arms the farm of the danger from outside.
It feels like a construction idea in the air, a dream.
More they tried to take influence on the public and political level, worse it got. In the end the neighborhood farmers were just afraid to be invaded by Sannyasins, and they were afraid of the upset neighborhood.

The farm grew fast and the farmers were afraid the Sannyasins wanted to take over, it felt like that.
And the conflict grew, more it got public, more it got in the open that something was not okay, they were from the beginning on in conflict with the American law, a stupid thing to do. But what I missed is the insight.
The films coming out show that there is no real insight till today.
It was work, altogether working, it was powerful as group of people, the influence felt dangerous for others.
Out of the sight of the higher self, who reacts, reflects and resounds, it is not possible that the reaction and reflection could be in harmony with the surroundings, if such means were used to get more power to be able to just be established in that region of the world.
It was from the beginning on in question and it started on the wrong food, what I miss is the insight that 'Atman reacts, reflects and resounds'.

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