Sangha is an independent intelligence 25 October, 2010
Understand, I ask you to volunteer in the sangha, not because I want you to work for me. When you volunteer, many of the sharp corners you have get softened. Many of the problems you have get sorted out.
Make a list of the major problems you have inside you. When you volunteer, you will see those same problems happen again and again, no matter which department you volunteer in. This is an energy field for enlightenment! So automatically, all the people, situations, even the plants and animals, are 'programmed' to hurt your ego exactly where it will hurt, just to make you understand where you are stuck, where you are standing, where you need to work on, where you need to polish, where you need to move.
If you are caught with the engram of laziness, you will see that exactly when you want to go lie down on your bed, you won't be able to! Exactly those engrams in which you are caught will be shaken at every step. Only they are hurt; only they are questioned.
If somebody is sleeping the whole day, but without laziness, he is never questioned! But if you rest for just half an hour in your chair out of laziness, you will see twenty people questioning you!
Understand, I have an automatic mechanism, an independent intelligent mechanism! Sangha is an independent intelligence. This throne is not made out of just wood, copper sheet and gold paint. I have added life to it. It is an independent intelligence. It talks, answers, responds, take actions and acts and reacts to everything. Sangha is an independent intelligence. That is why exactly the engrams which you are not able to overcome by yourself are worked on and cleared when you are in the sangha.
Life is always auspicious
21-22 February, 2011
Everything, whether manifest or unmanifest, goes on changing.
Understand, whatever you think as your life, is nothing but illusory sufferings and delusory joys. All your joys are created by delusion, and your fears are created by illusion. The incidents of your life can neither be changed by your illusion nor be changed by your delusion. Illusion and
delusion come up and go down. When you understand that, a deep restful awareness happens in your system which goes on inspiring you to exist, to be alive, to live, to share life.
Tomorrow's events cannot be changed by the person who is sitting and talking with you today, but if he is able to convince you logically, you will suddenly get out of the fear of tomorrow's events. For example, you are worrying about some problem which may happen after ten days. You are worrying, worrying, worrying, and somebody comes and adds more fear into it. Both the delusion which gives the fear, and the illusion which takes away the fear are in no way connected to the incident, which may or may not happen. In no way can it be changed by somebody sitting and talking with you for half an hour.
But you have the tremendous fear how is that future incident going to happen, how is it going to be, will it be frightening or joyful?
Understand the truth: it is going to be neither frightening nor joyful; it is going to be life. Auspicious! Life is auspicious! Life means adding, adding, adding. It is your delusory idea about joy, your delusory idea about fear, which is the salt of your life. It turns the fresh river water of life into salty ocean water. Otherwise, the incident itself adds, adds, adds, adds; that's all. Understand, any addition is auspicious. Because you always existed, are existing, and are going to exist, you can have only auspiciousness.
Drop your interpretation and understanding about auspiciousness. Relax from the delusory fears and illusory joys. Let the incident happen the way in which it is supposed to happen. Let the flow happen the way in which it is supposed to happen. The incident itself can be changed neither by your illusion nor by your delusion.