Whatever you have done, whatever you are doing,whatever you will do, is not separate and apart from you. It is your own game. If you are suffering, it is your own choice. If you are blissful, it is your own choice. No one else is responsible. I was a newly appointed professor in a college. […]
I have heard about one teacher, a woman teacher in a primary school. And she asked the children that, “Have you got any questions?” One small boy stood and he said, “I have one question and I have been waiting — whenever you ask I will ask: what is the weight of the whole earth?” […]
Gibran has a story. He says, one night one mother and daughter were awakened suddenly because of a noise. They both were sleepwalkers, and the time the sudden noise happened in the neighborhood they were both walking in the garden, asleep. They were sleep-walkers.It must have been a shock, because in sleep the old woman, […]
A king dreamt. In the night in his dream, he saw Death. He became afraid. He asked, “What is the matter? Why are you making me so frightened?”Death said, “I have come to tell you that tomorrow by sunset I am coming, so get ready. It is just out of compassion so that you can […]
There is an ancient Sufi story: A man was very much burdened by his suffering. He used to pray every day to God, “Why me? Everybody seems to be so happy, why am only I in such suffering?” One day, out of great desperation, he prayed to God, “You can give me anybody else’s suffering […]
There is a story, a Sufi story. It must be a story, it cannot be true, but it has some truth in it. A Sufi mystic, who was known to be a little bit eccentric, a little crazy, was staying in a disciple’s house. And they thought, “This man is known to do things which […]
There was a Sufi saint, Farid. Once the villagers asked him, “Farid, the great king, Akbar, comes to you so many times — why don’t you ask him to open a school for poor people in our village? We don’t have a school.”Farid said, “Good, so why should I wait for him to come? I […]
The master represents only your real self; he speaks to you only to provoke the sleeping center of your being. Once the center is awake the master becomes silent with the disciple. There is a Sufi story about Bahauddin, one of the great Sufi mystics.He was living with his disciples, a few hundred disciples, in […]
A famous Sufi story:Mulla Nasruddin and two other saints went for a pilgrimage to Mecca. They were passing through a village, it was the last phase of their journey. Their money was almost finished; just a little bit was left. They purchased a certain sweet called halva, but it was not enough for all the […]
There is a famous sufi story about Jesus. Jesus comes to a town and he sees a man drunk, shouting, lying down on the street. He comes close to him, shakes the man and says, ‘What are you doing? Why are you wasting your life in such a way?’The man opens his eyes and says, […]
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