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is on the disciple, and if the disciple is ready, the master appears.
And what is disciplehood? It is openness. It is receptivity. It is a welcoming attitude. It is trust.
Have you ever watched a roseflower? In the evening when the sun is setting and the day is over and the roseflower has had its day and now it is time to dissolve, the petals of the roseflower start falling, slowly, towards the ground, with no hesitation. A rosepetal, so delicate, but so strong, doesn't hesitate about where it is falling, where it is going, whether there is any earth to find, to rest, to go to sleep, to die -- or is it falling in a bottomless abyss? Who knows? But no hesitation. So soft, so delicate, but so strong, not any uncertainty, not any clinging to the flower anymore. The time has come. It simply leaves the flower and falls to the ground.
A Sufi master used to say to his disciples: Simply trust. Do not the petals flutter down just like that?
When you come to a master be like a rosepetal. Fall into the master, fall unto the master just like that -- as a rosepetal falls towards the earth unhesitating, absolutely in trust that the earth must be there -- to rest, to die, with no effort of its own. The very gravitation of the earth does the work -- it has just to trust. If it trusts, it doesn't cling to the plant, it just trusts and flutters down.
Simply trust! That is what disciplehood is. Do not the petals flutter down just like that?
Enough for today.
Just Like That
Chapter #2
Chapter title: Why have you come?
2 May 1975 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 7505020
ShortTitle: JUSTLT02
Audio: Yes
Video: No
Length: 101 mins
BAHAUDDIN EL-SHAH WAS SITTING WITH A NUMBER OF DISCIPLES WHEN A NUMBER OF FOLLOWERS CAME INTO THE MEETING HALL. EL-SHAH ASKED EACH OF THEM, ONE BY ONE, TO SAY WHY HE WAS THERE.
THE FIRST SAID: YOU ARE THE GREATEST MAN ON EARTH.
I GAVE HIM A POTION WHEN HE WAS ILL, SO HE THINKS I AM THE GREATEST MAN ON EARTH, SAID EL-SHAH.
THE SECOND SAID: MY SPIRITUAL LIFE HAS OPENED UP SINCE I HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO VISIT YOU.
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