Osho
quotes on Sufi
- The word 'sufi' comes from an Arabic word 'safa'. Safa
means purity. Sufi means one who is pure in the heart.
- Sufi is the Bhakta on the Mohammedan path; Bhakta is
the Sufi on the Hindu path. There is no difference between a Bhakta and a
Sufi.
- Curiosity is not enough. You have to be ready. Sufis
say that a master accepts you not because of your inquiry, he accepts you
because of your preparation -- and that is a totally different thing.
- Sufis are very careful. It is not easy to find a Sufi
master; he may take months or sometimes years to find -- and perhaps the
master is just living in front of your house. The Sufis wait for the right
moment.
- Nobody can come to the Sufi master unless somebody from
his company introduces him, unless somebody takes the responsibility that
the person is ready, somebody brings him, introduces him: "He is
ready. He needs your grace."
- The Sufi is rebellious because the Sufi has seen it. And naturally he will always find it difficult to explain it to people. That's why Sufis don't believe in explanations. If you go to a Sufi he starts giving you methods, not doctrines. That's why they are called the people of the path. They give you a method. They say, heart, opens your being, you will know. ' They will not give you a single doctrine, a single principle -- they have none. They have only methodology. It is very scientific. They give you the taste. It is hard, arduous work.
- The Sufis were the true Mohammedans -- but Al-Hillaj
Mansoor was murdered, and Sarmad was killed. Then Sufis had to go
underground; there was no other way.
- A Sufi Master has no teaching, he is his teaching. A
Sufi Master does not philosophise about reality, he exposes his heart to
the disciple. Even if he sometimes uses words, those words are only
indicators -- just like arrows being used on milestones -- just indicators
that you have to go on and on. As the disciple becomes more and more
attuned with the Master then less and less words are needed. Then the
presence of the master is enough.
- A real Sufi has such presence that he does not ask for
attention. The unreal Sufi can be immediately judged if he asks for
attention.
- Sufis say that your prayers should be in the middle of
the night, when even your household people are fast asleep. Nobody should
know that you pray. Your prayer will be just a whisper between you and the
unknown; you should not be an exhibitionist.
- A Sufi is just the opposite of a philosopher. A Sufi is
one who is not concerned with words at all. A Sufi is one who is not
interested in scriptures at all. A Sufi is one who is interested in going
into existence itself. He does not want to bother about the word
"beauty", he wants to experience beauty itself. He is not
concerned about the word "water", he is thirsty and he wants to
drink water. His interest is in drinking, his interest is existential.
- Sufis talk about love, of paradise, of the garden of
paradise. They think of God as the Beloved. They talk about wine; wine is
their symbol. They talk about drunkenness; they are drunkards, drunkards
of the divine. They abandon themselves in dance and song. They feast, they
celebrate. That seems absolutely logical. Enough of the desert -- they
have to balance it by an inner garden.
- On the surface, from the outside, the Sufi seems to be
dancing. But he is not dancing, because there is no dancer. It is pure
dance. God has taken possession of him. The Sufi is drunk, intoxicated.
His state is that of non-being. He is anchorless. The waves of the ocean
toss and turn. First his inner being is stirred, great joy arises there;
and then it starts spreading towards his body.
- Once you understand the art of nonidentification, you
have learned all that Sufis can teach you. Gurdjieff introduced Sufi
essentials into the West. He was the man who brought to the West the
secrets of the Sufis. His whole teaching depends on one word, and that is
nonidentification. Don't get identified with anything because
consciousness is always transcendental. It cannot be reduced to anything.
- Sufis work with their hands -- carpetmaking,
shoemaking, carpentry, or anything whatsoever, but with their hands. Hand
and head are the two poles, and if your energy is moving through the
hands, the head by and by subsides. And if for years, twelve years -- such
a long time! -- you are simply working with the hands, you completely
forget the head. There is no need of it. The head becomes nonfunctioning,
and that is what is needed for a disciple: the head must be in a
nonfunctioning state. Thinking should stop. The mind should become like a
no-mind. Not filled with thoughts, dreams, ideas. Completely empty.
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