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teach people small things: to be respectful, prayerful, worshipful. And tell them, at least when the group is going on, that they should put their egos, their individualities, outside the house. Exactly where they take their shoes off, they should put off their egos also. Make it a meditation. People who don't know how to live without the ego go on being miserable. They think that this is all there is to life.
So, good.... These people will by and by become part of the community that is growing here. Sooner or later we have to create a communal being. Many communes come into existence and disappear. This has been the history of all the communes, beautiful utopias, ideas, ideologies -- and many people have put their whole life into them. But all communes sooner or later disappear. What goes wrong?
If you cannot create a communal soul, the community is going to die sooner or later. Once you create a communal soul, then individuals may go on changing... they will have to change: somebody will die, somebody else will come; old people will disappear, new, young people will enter the commune... but the commune will go on living. It will have a soul of its own.
So this is good, mm? Very good.
[A group member says: I've been in silence for a couple of days and I liked it a lot. Should I keep it up?]
You can -- but don't force it. Whenever you feel like coming out of it, come out immediately; don't make it an enforced thing. Many things lose their beauty the moment you enforce them. They are beautiful if they are just happening, but if you enforce them, the beauty is lost.
Many people have come across this fact -- that silence is beautiful. Once they know that silence is beautiful, they try to force it, and then by and by it becomes ugly.
So simply keep it because you enjoy it. The moment you feel that there is something which wants to come out of it, come immediately -- don't wait for a single moment. This is not a vow... it is sheer enjoyment. You follow me?
Religion has missed many things, many beautiful things, because they made disciplines out of them. Even if you make a discipline of being happy, you will destroy
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