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It is a boat.
Buddha calls his system a raft: that's exactly what Sufism is. Use it to go to the other shore, to the further shore, then forget all about it. The truth believed is a lie, the truth borrowed is a lie. My truth cannot be your truth; the moment my truth reaches you, it is no more the same thing. With me, in me, it had the meaning of my experience. When it goes to you, only words reach you -- empty, hollow. You can cling to those words, you can believe too much in those words, and you will be lost.
This is something very basic to be remembered, that Sufism is a practical science, it is pragmatic. It does not depend on philosophizing, speculating and guesswork; it points directly to existential experience.
You can know much about love. You can go and look in the libraries, you can look in the Encyclopedia Britannica, and you will know much about love. But it will be ABOUT love -- it will not be love. To know love, you will have to fall in love; there is no other way, there is no shortcut.
Two Italians in Rome were talking when an airplane flew overhead and one said to the other, "The pope is aboard that plane."
"No," said the other, "he is in southern Italy at the summer Vatican."
"No, he is aboard that plane," said the other.
One word led to another, and before long, several thousand liras were bet on whether or not the pope was aboard that plane. The two men rushed to the airport in time to observe the pope emerging from the plane.
The one who lost the bet turned to his friend and said, "Tell me, Tony, how could you tell, twenty thousand feet in the air, that the pope was aboard that plane?"
"Easy," he said. "It says so right on the outside of the airplane: TWA."
"What does that mean?"
"Top Wop Aboard."
Sometimes your guess may even work, but still it is never the truth. Truth has to be experienced.
You are guessing about God, you are arguing about God, speculating about God, fighting about God. And no time is left for experiencing him.
Being here with me, remember it always: we are not interested in any guesswork, we are interested in going to the real
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