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he said, "Why shouldn't I? You have beaten me so much!"
And the disciple said, "What are you talking about? I, and I can beat you? And you never came and you had promised!"
And the Master said, "I came -- and not only once. At least twelve times!"
Then the disciple remembered the dog -- exactly twelve times the dog had tried to enter.
And the Master said, "You have to be capable of seeing the formless now. Don't be too much attached to the form. Why should I be thought of only in this form, in this body? Why can't you find me in other forms?"
So I say maybe this great seeker had come across God... in fact how can you avoid God? Whomsoever you come across, you always come across God. But he had great ideas, and even God could not fulfill those ideas. He remained empty, doubtful, untrusting, and the search continued.
And one day when he comes to a man who fulfills his ideas, he creates another problem. Then the Master says:
"THAT I CANNOT DO -- I cannot accept you as a disciple -- FOR WHILE YOU MAY DESIRE THE PERFECT MASTER, HE, IN TURN, REQUIRES ONLY THE PERFECT PUPIL."
The Master is saying, "Had you prepared yourself these twenty years to be a disciple, you would have found me much earlier. You cam across me many times, but you missed. And this time also you have to miss."
This is the Sufi approach for having contact and communion with a Master: become a disciple. Don't search for the Master: search for disciple hood. And let me repeat: the Master appears when the disciple is ready.
The Perfect Master, Vol 1
Chapter #2
Chapter title: There is Communion
22 June 1978 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 7806220
ShortTitle: PERF102
Audio: Yes
Video: No
Length: 96 mins
The first question:
Question 1
OSHO, YESTERDAY YOU MENTIONED THAT TO BE A DISCIPLE ONE NEEDS TO BE IN PRAYER -- BUT WHAT EXACTLY IS PRAYER?
PRAYER IS AN EXPERIENCE OF RESURRECTION, A REBIRTH, the birth of a new vision, a new dimension, a new way of looking at things, and a new way of being. Prayer is not something that you do: prayer is
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