The Perfect Master, Vol 2

CHAPTER 1

Once Upon a Time
1 July 1978 am in Buddha Hall

ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A COW. IN ALL THE WORLD THERE WAS NO ANIMAL
WHICH SO REGULARLY GAVE SO MUCH MILK OF SUCH HIGH QUALITY.
PEOPLE CAME FROM FAR AND WIDE TO SEE THIS WONDER. THE COW WAS EXTOLLED
BY ALL. FATHERS TOLD THEIR CHILDREN OF ITS DEDICATION TO ITS APPOINTED TALKS.
MINISTERS OF RELIGION ADJURED THEIR FLOCKS TO EMULATE IT IN THEIR OWN WAY.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS REFERRED TO IT AS A PARAGON WHICH RIGHT BEHAVIOUR,
PLANNING AND THINKING COULD DUPLICATE IN THE HUMAN COMMUNITY. EVERYONE
WAS, IN SHORT, ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM THE EXISTENCE OF THIS WONDERFUL ANIMAL.
THEREWAS, HOWEVER, ONE FEATURE WHICH MOST PEOPLE, ABSORBED AS THEY WERE
BY THE OBVIOUS ADVANTAGES OF THE COW, FAILED TO OBSERVE. IT HAS A LITTLE HABIT,
YOU SEE. AND THIS HABIT WAS THAT AS SOON AS A PAIL HAD BEEN FILLED WITH ITS
ADMITTEDLY UNPARALLELED MILK – IT KICKED IT OVER.

Sufism is not speculation – it is utterly practical. It is not a philosophy – it is very down-to-earth. Its
roots are in the earth. It is not abstract, wholly thinking – it means business. It wants to transform
people, not just to stuff their minds with futile, impotent ideas. And all ideas as such are impotent.
They pretend much, but when you go deep into them, you will always find them empty of all reality.
They promise, but they never deliver the goods. They cheat.

Philosophers have been the greatest cheats in the world. They create beautiful mansions in the air.
They are artists in creating dreams. And those who become enchanted with those dreams are veryunfortunate, because their lives will be wasted. And by the time they become aware that they have been chasing dreams, it will be too late.

And there are a few people who never become aware of it. Their whole lives they remain engrossed
in ideas, and they die engrossed in the ideas. They never come face to face with reality. And it is
only reality that liberates.

Truth liberates, not ideas. And truth is not an idea: truth is a experience.
Sufism is not an ’I’m’ as such. It is a practical methodology It is alchemy. If you understand its ways,
it is going to transmute you from lower metal to higher metal. It can take you to another reality. It can
open doors to the ultimate. It is not interested in giving you great ideas. Its basic emphasis is how to
give you a little more awareness. Even an ounce of awareness is far more valuable than the whole
Himalayas of philosophy. An inch of becoming more conscious is far better than traveling thousands
of miles in your dreams.

Philosophy is a very articulate dream – non-pictorial, conceptual, but still it is a dream, a very
sophisticated dream. Unsophisticated people dream in pictures; sophisticated people dream in
concepts – but the quality remains the same.

The dream is that which prevents you from knowing the reality. All dreaming has to stop, has to
cease. When your eyes are no more full of dreams, you will be able to see that which is. And that
liberates, that uplifts, that transmutes!

A few things about the Sufi approach:

First, that it is more scientific than philosophic – scientific in the sense that the criterion of truth has
to be a practical result. If your religion is true, it will nourish you, it will strengthen you, it will expand

you. The truth is not in the proofs – only you can be the proof

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