To the leader of the Tathata group (Unconditional Acceptance Seminar)
It has to be remembered that the leader is not, in fact, a manipulator. He should not be. If you manipulate, then it is something from the mind, and that which comes from the mind cannot go deeper than the mind.
So the leader has to be open to the beyond.
In the beginning the mind will be there. By and by lose it so you are possessed. That's the right word — you are possessed. Then you are no longer there. Something greater than you, something bigger than you, has taken possession.
Then you do something, but you are not the doer; then something happens, but you are simply a witness to it. Then the leader is lost, and once the leader is lost, the real leader enters in. When the leader is no longer there then you become part of the group.
Then those who are being led by you are not separate; no duality exists. Once the leader is possessed, the duality disappears. Then the teacher and the taught are one. The physician and the patient are one. Only then, and only then, healing is possible. And it is not only that you are healing them; you are also being healed through the process.
Until a group becomes an enrichment to the leader also, how can it be enriching to those who are being led? Unless you grow through it, how can you help others to grow? So be possessed. And that is one of the most difficult things, mm?
The mind wants to manipulate, control, move on a fixed pattern. You can move on a fixed pattern, but then nothing special will ever happen. People may be helped, they may attain something through it, but the whole thing will remain on the surface, and technological. Love will be missing. And God will not be there. So allow yourself to be possessed.
You can do this: whenever you start the group, close your eyes and allow your whole group to surround you. Let them hold hands and start by a prayer.
The prayer should be silent, just an opening — that God should possess you and you should not in any way be manipulating or controlling others. And you withdraw, and immediately you will see an energy entering, and there will be a tremendous change, an infinite power, inexhaustible. Allow it.
Then each group will be a new opening, a new door, a new experience. You have never been there before, it is a new space — not only for those you are leading, but for you also. There will be many surprises. And unless it happens, sooner or later the leader is bound to become dull and bored — because it is a repetition.
The members will be changing; they will be new again and again. For them it may be new, but for you it becomes just the old pattern. Never make it that way. This is possible only if you become possessed and you allow the infinite energy to move. It needs trust, it needs dying of the ego.
So remember me. Each time you start the group, remember me — and leave it to me.
You simply become a vehicle and the possibility is tremendous. Then you will be more able to help people because you are not there, so nobody hinders. When the leader is there, the led also feels a resistance — the ego fight enters. When you are not there, things become very simple and easy. So this has been good. But always remember — by and by you remove yourself.
And then you become a worthy vessel of many many things.
OSHO
From Darshan diary : Hammer on the Rock ch.1
