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day after tomorrow, or who knows -- even today you may become enlightened.
The potential is there. From the side of the seed, the flower is far away. But the flower knows that the seed contains flowers, infinite flowers. From the side of the flower, the seed is a friend.
And if you find a master who does not think in those terms, then remember, know well, he is not a master yet. If he thinks that you are sinners, if he thinks that you are fallen souls, then he is not a master yet; he has not come to realize his own reality.
Buddha is reported to have said, "The day I became enlightened, the whole existence became enlightened for me -- even trees, even rocks."
Hakim Sanai says:
MY FRIEND, EVERYTHING EXISTING
EXISTS THROUGH HIM...
God is the only reality -- or call it truth, or nature, or Tao, or whatsoever you will. Names don't matter. Don't go on fighting about names; X-Y-Z, anything will do. Just remember one thing, that something is there, miraculously present, which surrounds all, which permeates all.
Sufis say: As the absolute maximum, God contains all things. In fact that is the definition of God: one who contains all. He is their enfolding and their unfolding. God is in the seed, God is in the flower -- in the seed hidden, in the flower manifest. God is in the sinner and is in the saint -- in the sinner asleep, in the saint awake. But all is God: God is equivalent to existence.
Christian mystics use two words: one is COMPLICATIO, it means enfolding. God is COMPLICATIO, enfolding, and EXPLICATIO, unfolding. These are the two movements of God: enfolding and manifesting. Each seed becomes the flower, and then in its own turn the flower becomes the seed, and the circle is complete.
Just as every night you fall asleep, and in the morning you are awake again, so is God -- in nature asleep, in Buddhas awake. Just to understand it is a great liberation. Suddenly you have self-worth; suddenly you are no more a condemned being. Suddenly you are an essential part of existence; you are not accidental, you participate in God's work in your own way. You need God, God needs you; you are not unneeded.
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