(Osho - The Secret #1)
There are religions and religions, but Sufism is THE religion - the very heart,
the innermost core, the very soul.
Sufism is not part of Islam; rather, on the contrary, Islam is part of Sufism.
Sufism existed before Mohammed ever was born, and Sufism will exist when
Mohammed is completely forgotten. Islams come and go; religions take form and
dissolve; Sufism abides, continues, because it is not a dogma. It is the very
heart of being religious.
You may not ever have heard of Sufism and you may be a Sufi - if you are
religious. Krishna is a Sufi, and Christ too; Mahavir is a Sufi, and Buddha too
- and they never heard about the word, and they never knew that anything like
Sufism exists.
Whenever a religion is alive, it is because Sufism is alive within it. Whenever
a religion is dead, it shows only that the spirit, the Sufi spirit, has left
it. Now there is only a corpse, howsoever decorated - in philosophy,
metaphysics, in dogmas, doctrines - but whenever Sufism has left, religion
stinks of death. This has happened many times. This is happening already almost
all over the world. One has to be aware of it, otherwise one can go on clinging
to a dead corpse.
gasho
zendervish
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