laughing praying leaving

final guru night
lots of people
lots of good stuff
talk of heaven n hell
(it's us you know - and a fair bit of metaphysics...)
da journey
of being spiritual in different contexts
of men n women n words
of knowing
of not knowing
of knowing you don't know
and of knowing that you know that you don't know...
you get the picture

we had some lovely silence
ended by a dicky little bell
a time for interaction with the balded one
and then

oh, yes

you know its coming

the song
the swaying
the holding hands

oh god

IT WAS AWFUL

i thought the old ladies in the front were going to sway over
they were so into it
we tried to get away
we really did
but the baby boomer swayers
closed in like a rugby pack
we couldn't escape
hands reached out for us
we were trapped
trapped at a freeing spiritual nondualistic event
my two young companions got the giggles
so i did too
we couldn't look at each other
we couldn't look up
we couldn't look ahead
we looked down
and tried to breathe

this was real non dualisitc moment freends
don't judge anything
especially spiritual people
don't call 'em good or bad
just try to see em
cos they may not be praying or some such thing

they're probably laughing!

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