Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Beautiful excerpt from "Osho on Sufism" :)

God has infinite patience. He works with care, and in very indirect ways. He creates a baby, and takes nine months. This has been going on for million of years, and he has not learnt anything; otherwise he could have managed to create better instruments so that a baby could be created within nine minutes. Why nine months ? And from the very beginning he has been doing the same thing; he has not learned anything. He should ask the experts, particularly the efficiency experts. They will show him how to produce, how to produce on a mass scale , and not waste so much time- nine months per baby!
But its not only with babies - with flowers also he takes infinite care; with birds, even with a blade of grass he takes infinite care and time. He is not in hurry. In fact, it seems he is not aware of time at all.
If you want to be with him, don't be in hurry; otherwise you will bypass him. He will always be loitering here and now, and you will always be going there and then. You will always be like an arrow, and he is not like an arrow.


And to be with God is to be happy, to be with God is to be alive, to be with God is to be in meditation.


But the whole training of man is how to do things fast. Speed in itself seems to be a value. Its it not. In itself it can create only madness. It has created MADNESS.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Story of the Centipede !!

You must have heard the story of the centipede !!


A centipede walks with a hundred legs. A frog, who was a philosopher, saw the centipede; he looked at and watched him and became very troubled. It is s difficult to walk even with four legs, but this centipede was walking with one hundred legs - this was a miracle ! How did the centipede decide which leg to move first, and then which one next and then which one after that ?  An one hundred legs! So the frog stopped the centipede and asked him a  question; " I am a philosopher and I am puzzled by you. A problem has arisen which I can't solve. How do you walk ? How do you manage it at all ? It seems impossible !


The centipede said " I have been walking all my life, but I have not thought about i. Now that you ask, I will think about it and then I will tell you "


Fr the first time thought entered the centipede's consciousness. Really , the frog was right - which leg should be moved first ?  The centipede stood there fora a few minutes, couldn't move, wobbled, and fell down. And he said to the frog " Please don't ask another centipede this question. I have been walking my whole life and it was never a  problem , and now you have killed me completely ! I cannot move. And a hundred legs to move ! How can I manage? "

Friday, April 09, 2010