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at all, for the first time you become capable, capable of living the mystery that is life, capable of living God, capable of being gods.
A great Sufi -- you must have heard his name, Al Hillaj Mansoor -- was killed by Mohammedans, because he said, `ANAL HAK, I am the God.' When you penetrate into the mystery of life, it is not that you are an observer, because an observer is always an outsider -- you become one with it. It is not that you swim in the river, it is not that you float in the river, it is not that you struggle into the river. No -- you become the river. Suddenly you realize the wave is part of the river. And the contrary is also true: that the river is part of the wave. It is not only that we are parts of God -- God is also part of us.
When Al Hillaj Mansoor asserted, `I am God,' Mohammedans killed him. Sufism is always killed by religious people, so-called religious people -- because they cannot tolerate it; they cannot tolerate a man asserting that he is God! Their egos feel offended. How can a man be a God? But when Al Hillaj says, `I am God,' he is not saying, `I am God and you are not'; he is not saying, `I am God and these trees are not'; he is not saying, `I am God and these stones, rocks are not.' Asserting that `I am God' he is asserting that the whole is divine, sacred. Everything is divine.
So these people, fanatics, believers in dogmas -- they said that God created man, so man can only be a creature, not a creator; and this is profanity, the very apex of profanity to assert that `I am God' -- they killed him. And what was Mansoor saying when they killed him? He said loudly to the sky, `You cannot deceive me! Even in these murderers I see you -- you cannot deceive me. You are here in these murderers! And in whatsoever form you come, my God, I will know you, because I have known you.'
Sufism is not thinking about existence, it is being existence. It is not thinking, it is not doing something about existence. It is neither thought nor action. It is being.
And right now, without any effort, you can be a Sufi. If you stop thinking, and if you drop the idea of doing something, if you drop the idea of being a
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