Sponsor |  rumisong | Jun 20, 10:12am | " There is a beautiful Sufi story in which one of the Sufis cried out in public "I am God!" and he was stoned to death by the pious crowd.
That night, one of the persons who had stoned him had a dream. In that dream he saw God welcoming the dead Sufi with open arms.
so the stone thrower asks God, "You sent the Pharaoh into hell because he said "I am God". The Sufi said the same thing but you're welcoming him to heaven."
God replied, "When the Pharaoh said "I am God" he was thinking of himself. When the Sufi said "I am God" he was thinking of Me.""
-Ramesh Balsekar
it occurs to me, when one looks outward to the world, to find the source of ones troubles - that may be called innocence, but it is never innocent of thinking of "me" ... when one sees that the world is innocent of itself and its doings - that is the looking inward, that is innocence itself - it has nowhere outward it needs to go - that is the love in which "god" works ... there is no need to ever argue, or label or name it, or anything that is born of it ... it is just so ... |
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