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Nigel Buxton Update
From what and from whom do you learn? |
June 2006 |
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Dear Nigel,
This week I would like to share this old story my
spiritual master told me:
"When a great sufi master, Hasan, was dying
somebody asked him,
"Hasan, who was your master? "
He said, "I have had thousands of masters. But I will
tell you about three of them.
One was a thief. Once I got lost in the desert, and
when I reached the village it was very late,
everything was closed.
But at last I found a man who was trying to make a
hole in a wall of a house.
I asked him where I could stay and he said, "At this
time of night it will be difficult, but you can stay with
me – if you can stay with a thief."
And the man was so beautiful – I stayed for a month!
And each night he would say to me, "Now I am going
to work. You rest, you pray."
When he came back I would ask, "Could you get
anything?" He would say, "Not tonight. But tomorrow
I will try again!"
He was never in a state of hopelessness, he was
always happy.
When nothing was happening for me, many times the
moment came when I was so desperate, so hopeless
that I thought to stop all this nonsense. And
suddenly I would remember the thief who would say
every night,
"God willing, tomorrow it is going to happen."
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And my second master was a dog.
I was going to the river, thirsty, and a dog came.
He was also thirsty. He looked into the river, he saw
another dog there – his own image – and he became
afraid.
He would bark and run away, but his thirst was so
much that he would come back.
Finally, despite his fear, he just jumped into the
water, and the image disappeared.
And I knew that a message had come to me: one has
to jump in spite of all fears.
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And the third master was a small child.
I entered a town and a child was carrying a lit
candle. He was going to the mosque to put the
candle there.
Just joking I asked the boy, "Have you lit the candle
yourself?"
He said, "Yes sir".
And I asked, "There was a moment when the candle
was unlit, then there was a moment when the candle
was lit – can you show me the source from which the
light came?"
And the boy laughed, blew out the candle, and
said, "Now you have seen the light going. Where has
it gone? You tell me! "
My ego was shattered, my whole knowledge was
shattered. And from that moment I felt my own
stupidity. Since then I dropped all my
knowledgeability."
And from what and from whom do you learn?
Nigel coaches people like you to freedom - freedom
from limitations, freedom to be/do more, financial
freddom, emotional freedom, freedom to be
yourself.
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nigel
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