Don't forget that we will soon
be meditating together on the golden beaches of Maui, be absorbed.
Be proud that you are taking a stand against the Negative Forces,
be absorbed. Don't be so hard on yourselves--give yourselves a break--
be absorbed. Learn humility and you will learn the secret to happiness,
be absorbed. A desert trip is coming up soon, be absorbed.
Forget not that our mission is to spread light in the world,
be absorbed. Our friends from past lives will soon be joining us,
be absorbed."
Rama asked that we sit up straight. He put on electronic music,
slowly scanned the audience, and raised his hands above his head.
Many of us gazed at him intensely. It didn't matter that
those occupying the same room as him were, during meditation,
supposed to evolve hundreds, even thousands of lifetimes.
We still tried to absorb as much spiritual light as we could.
Then, he might end with a quote from the teachings of Lao Tzu,
Castaneda's Don Juan, or Christ.
At the next Centre meeting, Rama might announce that everything had
changed and that we were in an extremely poor state of consciousness.
"At the weekly Centre meetings," I told Donald Kohl's father,
"Rama teaches us to realize our full potential.
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