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here just remain absolutely available to me, that's all -- no argument with me, no resistance towards me. Trust is the key for you. And once you have experienced a few moments of trust, it will be yours forever. The problem is just the first experience of trust. The next becomes easier and it goes on becoming easier and easier: the more you experience, the more you know that trust is the door. The first experience of trust is very difficult because a thousand and one doubts arise.
But you are in a good energy. If you miss, you will be responsible, your energy will not be responsible!
The 99 Names of Nothingness
Chapter #5
Chapter title: None
9 May 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7805095
ShortTitle: NAMES05
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Shahido. It is a sufi name for God and means: one who witnesses all, the great witness.... ]
Nothing is hidden from God because God is the inside of everything. And the inside knows all. You can hide something from others but you cannot hide it from yourself, and it is there that God is hiding. It is not in the object, it is in the subject itself.
There is a sufi story....
Two disciples came to a master; they wanted to attain to truth. The master gave each of them a dove and told them 'Go to a place where nobody is witnessing you and kill the dove.'
The first one went just outside the house. There was nobody -- it was a hot afternoon and nobody was on the road. He killed the dove, came back. The other disciple never turned up for three years. The master waited and waited and after three years the disciple came with the dove and said 'I could not find a place where He was not the witness. I have tried all kinds of places, places where there was nobody watching. I had gone into deep dark caves where even if somebody was there he could not have seen it. But everywhere He was watching from inside me. So I closed my eyes but then He was watching from inside the door. In these three years I have tried all that was humanly possible. I am sorry -- I cannot fulfill the mission.'
The master was very happy and he said 'You
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