Adventures at Rasa Ranch #18

July 20, 2002

7/19/02 "Laughing Under the Sky"

Last night at around 11:30 or so I found myself in bed with Ananda

fast asleep on one side of me, Jim asleep on the other, and Bodhi

snoring at our feet. I was wide awake. I got up, dressed, grabbed a

snack and a bottle of water and drove up to my favorite place, the

sunset spot. The sun, of course, had been down for hours but the

moon, the sky and the stars were beckoning me.

As I turned the key in the ignition, a memory occurred to me: usually

we stop for gas (if we really need it) at the local pump on our way to

town but today Jim had spontaneously driven down there to fill up

"just in case" and came right back. We both had shrugged our

shoulders at each other about that in the way that says, "Who knows

why?" and here I was, unexpectedly using the truck, and I was

thankful he'd filled the tank. I was also very intrigued about what

was awaiting me that night because of how strong the call was to go.

I was psyched!

After climbing the hill, I backed the pickup right to the edge of the

huge expanse before me of meadow and mountains and sky, unzipped the

sleeping bag and laid it down in the bed of the truck, making myself

right at home with a contented sigh.

It wasn't very long before I heard the sound of approaching footsteps.

They belonged to a man that I had met there a couple of times before

when I'd gone to watch the sunset. He said he didn't know why he was

there so late; after all, he had a wife and child sleeping at home and

he had to work the next day.

He joined me in the pick-up and we hung out quietly together for a

while and then started to converse, but what happened over and over

again was that we kept bursting into laughter! We had tears running

down, we were laughing so hard. It was real, thorough, deep,

whole-body laughing, with spaces of silence in between the bursts.

Here were two folks, only moderately acquainted, meeting unexpectedly

in the night and filling up the vastness of the sky above us with

seemingly endless giggles!

When we finally called it quits, the clock on the dash told me that

we'd been at it for an hour and a half and I truly had no idea what

got us started. I remembered that when I had left the house I was

eagerly curious about what would take place and it turned out that

absolutely nothing did! But I came home yawning, crawling back into

the nest and sleeping like a baby 'til the morning.

July 23, 2002

I love your stories Kheyala.. You reminded me of something that

happened at Rajneesh Puram. I was taking part in a group process and

we were instructed to meet and say hello to as many of the other

participants as possible. I stood across from a curly headed blond

woman about my height. We looked at each other and burst out

laughing. We said almost nothing but just laughed and laughed, I

don't know for how long, at most ten minutes.A voice inside me said:

"I know this being. We were soldiers together in ancient Greece." I

told this to no one. The next day I heard via via that she had been

talking to someone and had told them that she 'knew' me from the time

that were soldiers together in Greece. I'm not very martially minded

in this life. I don't think I saw her again, there were so many

people there at the time. There's more to life Horatio...Cheers/Sam

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Kheyala

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