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LOOKING FOR CAUSES?
THE SUN OF TRUTH RISES UNBIDDEN,
AND WITH IT SETS THE MOON OF LEARNING.
God is without cause: why are you looking for causes? And people go on asking, "HOW can I attain to God? How can I cause God to happen to me?" God has no cause. He is already here: he does not have to be caused, he does not even have to be called forth. He was here before you ever existed and he will be here long after you are gone forever.
God IS. No asceticism is needed. He makes no conditions on you: "First you must fast, then I will come." That will be a wrong kind of God who wants you to suffer hunger for many many days, only then will he come. That will be a sadistic God who wants to torture people: "First stand naked in the hot sun for years and years, only then will I come."
No mother behaves like that with her child. No mother asks the child to remain hungry for many days, only then will she give her love to me child.
God is the matrix, the mater, the mother. God is the mother out of which we all arise and into which we all disappear. God is love! How can he ask for the stupid things that ascetics have been doing down the ages!
Sufism is not ascetic. God wants you to celebrate. Look at these trees, how green they are and how juicy. Look at his roses, how red they are an dhow alive. Look at his birds on the wing, look at his stars -- the whole existence is a dance, the whole existence is a constant celebration. Why should he ask you to become long faces, sad, shrunken? Do you think he wants you to become ugly -- to torture yourself, to be violent with yourself, then you will be able to cause him, then you will be able to provoke him? He makes no conditions, remember. His love is unconditional. He has loved you already, that's why he has created you. Now it is not a question of causing him; he has caused you. Then what has to be done?
THE SUN OF TRUTH RISES UNBIDDEN...
You need not call him, you need not provoke him, you need not even prepare for him. All that is needed is that you become disidentified from something that you are not. Whenever you are your reality, your natural reality, God is -- because
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