Possess Nothing To Become Fearless
The great Sufi mystic, Abraham Adam, was once the emperor of Bokhara. He gave it all up to become a Sufi beggar. A Sufi mystic who was staying with him would constantly complain of his poverty. Abraham Adam said to him, "The way you abuse it, it may be that you have bought your poverty cheaply". "How stupid you must be!" the man retorted... Abraham replied: "I paid with my kingdom for it. I would even give away a hundred worlds for a single moment of it, for every day its value becomes more and more to me. No wonder then that i give thanks for it while you lament it". The purity of the spirit is the real poverty. The word 'sufi' comes from the Arabic word 'safa'. Safa means purity. Sufi means one who is pure of heart. Purity has nothing to do with puritans. Purity simply means an uncontaminated state of mind, where only your consciousness is and nothing else. Nothing else really enters 'into your consciousness, but if you hanker to possess, that hankering contaminates you. If you don't want to possess anything, you become fearless. Then even death is a beautiful experience. A man who is spiritual hạs tremendous experiences but he never accumulates them. Once they have happened he forgets about them. He is finished with them and he moves away from them. He is always available for the new, he never carries the old. If you don't carry the old you will find life absolutely new at each step. Life is new, only the mind is old; and if you look through the mind, life also looks like a repetition, a bore. Mind means your past, accumulated experiences, knowledge and everything. Mind means that through which you have passed, but which. you are still hanging on to. Mind is a hangover, dust from the past covering your mirror-like consciousness. Then when you look through it everything becomes distorted. Mind is the faculty of distortion. If you don't look through the mind you will know that life is eternal. Only mind dies - without mind you are deathless. Without mind nothing has ever died; life goes on and on forever. It has no beginning and no end. When i say prepare for death', i don't mean preparing for the death that will come in the end; that is far away. If you prepare for it you will be preparing for the future and again the mind will come in. Prepare for the death that visits you every moment with each exhalation. Accept this death each moment and you will be ready for the final death when it comes. Start dying each moment to the past. Clean yourself of the past each moment. Die to the known so that you become available to the unknown. With dying and being reborn each moment you will be able to live life and you will be able to live death also. Spirituality is to live death intensely, and live life intensely so that nothing is left behind unlived, not even death. If you live life and death totally, you transcend. In that tremendous passion and intensity of life and death, you transcend duality, you transcend the dichotomy, you come to the One. That One is really the truth.
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Possess Nothing To Become Fearless
The great Sufi mystic, Abraham Adam, was once the emperor of Bokhara. He gave it all up to become a Sufi beggar. A Sufi mystic who was staying with him would constantly complain of his poverty. Abraham Adam said to him, "The way you abuse it, it may be that you have bought your poverty cheaply". "How stupid you must be!" the man retorted... Abraham replied: "I paid with my kingdom for it. I would even give away a hundred worlds for a single moment of it, for every day its value becomes more and more to me. No wonder then that i give thanks for it while you lament it". The purity of the spirit is the real poverty. The word 'sufi' comes from the Arabic word 'safa'. Safa means purity. Sufi means one who is pure of heart. Purity has nothing to do with puritans. Purity simply means an uncontaminated state of mind, where only your consciousness is and nothing else. Nothing else really enters 'into your consciousness, but if you hanker to possess, that hankering contaminates you. If you don't want to possess anything, you become fearless. Then even death is a beautiful experience. A man who is spiritual hạs tremendous experiences but he never accumulates them. Once they have happened he forgets about them. He is finished with them and he moves away from them. He is always available for the new, he never carries the old. If you don't carry the old you will find life absolutely new at each step. Life is new, only the mind is old; and if you look through the mind, life also looks like a repetition, a bore. Mind means your past, accumulated experiences, knowledge and everything. Mind means that through which you have passed, but which. you are still hanging on to. Mind is a hangover, dust from the past covering your mirror-like consciousness. Then when you look through it everything becomes distorted. Mind is the faculty of distortion. If you don't look through the mind you will know that life is eternal. Only mind dies - without mind you are deathless. Without mind nothing has ever died; life goes on and on forever. It has no beginning and no end. When i say prepare for death', i don't mean preparing for the death that will come in the end; that is far away. If you prepare for it you will be preparing for the future and again the mind will come in. Prepare for the death that visits you every moment with each exhalation. Accept this death each moment and you will be ready for the final death when it comes. Start dying each moment to the past. Clean yourself of the past each moment. Die to the known so that you become available to the unknown. With dying and being reborn each moment you will be able to live life and you will be able to live death also. Spirituality is to live death intensely, and live life intensely so that nothing is left behind unlived, not even death. If you live life and death totally, you transcend. In that tremendous passion and intensity of life and death, you transcend duality, you transcend the dichotomy, you come to the One. That One is really the truth.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Osho views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Osho and Speaking Tree,Times of India