Wednesday, December 14, 2011

A Sufi Story

I once heard a sufi story about a man riding his donkey rapidly through a crowded city.  The man did not stop to greet any passerby and his face held an air of intense determination as he galloped through the city.  One man, a beggar, was fed up with seeing this strange man every few hours and resolved to figure out what the man was after.  The next time the man passed by the beggar jumped out in front of his donkey and yelled, "Stop!" The man stopped immediately.  The beggar asked, "What makes you gallop around this city everyday in such a hurry?"  The man with the donkey replied, "I'm looking for my donkey."

Often we are like the man and his donkey as we continue to seek that which is right underneath us.  Our experience.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Translator for Experience

Many people live as if their personal train of thought acts as the engine for experience when its operation is more akin to that of a translator.  If thinking stops experience doesn't stop.  One's thoughts are brought forth from what one perceives, yet, thoughts try to describe experience even though, because of their very essence, thoughts cannot encapsulate  true and full experience.  When one thinks endlessly it is as if one thinks in an attempt to explain and unravel the secret of existence.  The secret is that there is no secret to find, only more and more experience to be had.  The function of the mind is to translate this experience into a communicable form so it can be understood by other experience engines.(people)