Everything is allowed
Just
explaining this to you: that there is no goal, that there is nothing to
achieve, that everything is good as it is.
I
will tell you a Sufi story:
There
is a story told by Sufis about a man who read that certain dervishes, on the
orders of their Master, never touched meat and did not smoke. Since this tends
to fit in with certain well-established beliefs, especially in the West, this
man made his way to the ZAWIA — assembly place — of the illuminated ones, to
sit at their feet. They were all over ninety years old.
Sure
enough, there they were, not a spot of nicotine or shred of animal protein among
them, and our hero gasped with delight as he sat drinking in the unpolluted air
and tasting the bean-curd soup which they provided. He hoped that he would at
least live to a hundred.
Suddenly
one of them whispered, “Here comes the great Master!” And all stood up as the
venerable sage came in. He smiled benignly and went into the house, heading for
his quarters. He did not look a day over fifty.
“How
old is he, and what does he eat?” asked the enraptured visitor.
“He
is one hundred and fifty years old, and I don’t suppose any of us will reach
that venerable age and station,” wheezed one of the ancients. “But, of course,
he is allowed twenty cigars and three steaks a day, since he is now beyond
being affected by frivolities and temptations!”
It
is a beautiful story. There comes a moment when a man goes beyond all duality —
then he is allowed everything.
Osho
– “Be Still and Know”
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