From what and from whom do you learn?
 
  Nigel Buxton Update
From what and from whom do you learn? June 2006
 
  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."

 		 
 
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.
 
 


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?

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