ONE who claims, I have riches of the world can be forgiven - he is a fool but he can be forgiven. But the person who claims spiritual riches, he cannot be forgiven. This is the height of folly; you are still carrying the same categories of the world, you are still bragging about yourself. The really spiritual person simply becomes anonymous. A strange story is told of a Zen master that when he attained to samadhi, birds started coming to him - birds which never used to come to him before. They would sit on his shoulders, on his head, they would play in his lap, they would sit around him, as if he was also a bird. Great fame spread. His disciples started claiming, See, this is a real master. This is what a real master should be. There is no other master like our master; he has attained to such heights of samadhi that birds no longer fear him. He has attained to such love and compassion that even birds understand it. Then one day a very strange thing happened: the birds stopped coming, they disappeared. For days the disciples waited, but the birds were not coming anymore. They were puzzled. They asked the master and he said, Now something really has happened. The birds were coming because there was some claim inside me that I have attained. Now even that claim has disappeared, so the birds also have forgotten all about me. Now I am anonymous. Now even the birds know that I am anonymous, I am a nobody. they used to come because I was still somebody. Now they dont come, now the ultimate has happened. Now they dont come because they dont see anybody here - it is just absence. This is FANA. This is what Sufis call dissolution. In this state you cannot CLAIM - spiritual excellence or anything. Remember always, any spiritual claim becomes a barrier. (Unio Mystica, 1, 7)
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 10:54:37 +0000
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