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Issue 3
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SPEAKING TREE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2003 12:00:18 AMM
Silvery Magic of The Full Moon
Swami Chaitanya Keerti
A full moon night is the best time for meditation, when the noises of the day give way to the silence of the night. Open your heart and let your eyes be filled with the moon's nectar. Absorb this nectar into your whole being. Feel the coolness and the tenderness in the atmosphere.
Let this atmosphere be metamorphosed into an atma-sphere, the soul space. Let your body sway or dance gently, and bring yourself into the realm of grace. The more you can melt the more you can move upward into the vast sky of consciousness.
We carry within us both the mountains and valleys. We can get high and feel on top of the world, reaching the Everest of our consciousness. We could also feel down in the dumps as if we are in a Black Hole. Human consciousness can throw us into the dark dismal ditches, or it can help us open our wings, soaring high into the sky.
Consciousness is a liquid phenomenon, so is moon energy. Its powerful pre-sence in the sky resonates in our inner sky of consciousness. It affects our psyche.
In his discourse ''Cele-brate Myself: God Is No Where, Life Is Now Here'', Osho says: The full moon night has a specialness that is now being recognised by science.
But scientists approach it from the wrong side, because they are living on the wrong side of the earth, in the West. They became aware that more murders are committed on full moon nights, more suicides happen, more people go insane... The full moon night affects the ocean — waves become very tidal — as if the ocean is trying to reach out to the moon.
Man consists of 80 per cent water, so something in him also starts feeling a subtle vibration. Scientists say man is the other end of evolutionary progress — in the beginning was the fish. So we have a deep connection.
Osho says: We are carrying great potential of which we are utterly unaware. It is painful to break that hard shell (of ignorance), but once you are ready to go through the pain, and once the shell is broken, life takes a quantum leap. You become immortal. You are no more darkness; you become a full moon night. And you know misery no more. Bliss simply becomes your nature, your very existence.
Osho adds: The moon represents the most blissful and beautiful phenomenon. One can become that beauty, that splendour. It is within our reach. For we can hold the moon in our hearts. Going to the moon is useless. Far more significant is the process of bringing the moon in.
Osho explains: The moon creates magic every night. It simply reflects the sun's rays, functioning only as a mirror. The master, too, is a mirror, and meditation makes you a mirror — clean and pure, so everything is reflected in you as it is, devoid of judgment.
The moon, just by reflecting them, transforms the hot rays of the sun into cool energy. As a master, he absorbs the same energy that you absorb, he eats the same food as you eat, he drinks the same water, he breathes the same air, but some alchemical change is constantly going on in him.
On the full moon night of every month, Zen practitioners watch the moon all night. And as they go on witnessing the moon, a deep tranquillity and silence descends over them, particularly on the night when Gautam Buddha was born, became enlightened, and died. So this is a special night for Zen Buddhists.
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