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Be Indifferent
- There is no Goal
- Charity is Sharing
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Path towards God
- Rabia al-Adawiyya
- Sufi Mystic Bayazid
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Osho on Judgement
- Osho on Laila Majnu
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Osho on Attachment
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Sufi Rabia on
Miracles
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Sufi Moinuddin
Chishti
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Identification is Misery
- How to Stop Mad
Mind
- Sufi Rabiya and Hassan
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Master is Always There
-
Mulla Nasruddin wisdom
- This World is only a caravanserai
- Rabiya and Hassan Story
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Osho - Master is Always There
Osho :
A Sufi story.... A man went in search of truth. The first religious man he
met was sitting under a tree, just outside his own village. He asked, ”I am
searching for a true master. Please tell me the characteristics of a true
master.” The fakir told him the characteristics. His description was very
simple. He said, ”You’ll find him sitting under such and such a tree,
sitting in such and such posture, his hands making such and such gestures –
that is enough to know he is the true master.”
The seeker started searching. It is said that thirty years passed while he
wandered the whole earth. He visited many places, but never met the master.
He met many masters, but none were true masters. He returned to his own
village completely exhausted. As he was returning he was surprised, he
couldn’t believe it: that old man was seated under the same tree, and now he
could see that this was the very tree that the old man had spoken of ”... he
will be sitting under such and such a tree.....” And his posture was exactly
as he had described. ”It was the same posture he was sitting in thirty years
ago – was I blind? The exact expression on his face, the exact
gestures....!”
He fell at his feet saying, ”Why didn’t you tell me in the first place? Why
did you misdirect me for these thirty years? Why didn’t you tell me that you
are the true master?”
The old man said, ”I told you, but you were not ready to listen. You were
not able to come home without wandering away. You had to knock on the doors
of a thousand houses to come to your own home, only then could you return. I
said it, I said everything – beneath such and such a tree. I was describing
this very tree, the posture I was sitting in, but you were too fast, you
couldn’t hear correctly, you were in a hurry. You were going somewhere to
search. Searching was very important for you, the truth was not so
important.
”But you have come! I was feeling tired, sitting continuously in this
posture for you. You were wandering for thirty years, but think of me
sitting under this tree! I knew some day you would come, but what if I had
already passed away? I waited for you – you have come! You had to wander for
thirty years, but that’s your own fault. The master was always here.” It
happens many times in our life that we cannot see what is near, and what is
far attracts us. The distant drum sounds sweeter, we are pulled by distant
dreams.
Source: “The Mahageeta, Volume 1” - Osho
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