Sangha is an independent intelligence
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25 October, 2010
Understand, I ask you to volunteer in the sangha, not because I want you to work for me. When you volunteer, many of the sharp corners you have get softened. Many of the problems you have get sorted out.
Make a list of the major problems you have inside you. When you volunteer, you will see those same problems happen again and again, no matter which department you volunteer in. This is an energy field for enlightenment! So automatically, all the people, situations, even the plants and animals, are ‘programmed’ to hurt your ego exactly where it will hurt, just to make you understand where you are stuck, where you are standing, where you need to work on, where you need to polish, where you need to move.
If you are caught with the engram of laziness, you will see that exactly when you want to go lie down on your bed, you won’t be able to! Exactly those engrams in which you are caught will be shaken at every step. Only they are hurt; only they are questioned.
If somebody is sleeping the whole day, but without laziness, he is never questioned! But if you rest for just half an hour in your chair out of laziness, you will see twenty people questioning you! Understand, I have an automatic mechanism, an independent intelligent mechanism! Sangha is an independent intelligence. This throne is not made out of just wood, copper sheet and gold paint. I have added life to it. It is an independent intelligence. It talks, answers, responds, take actions and acts and reacts to everything. Sangha is an independent intelligence. That is why exactly the engrams which you are not able to overcome by yourself are worked on and cleared when you are in the sangha.