Parábola Sufí

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:09:41 -0700

When the great Sufi mystic, Hasan, was dying, somebody asked "Hasan, who was your master?" He said, "I had thousands of masters. If I just relate their names it will take months, years and it is too late. But three masters I will certainly tell you about.
One was a thief. Once I got lost in the desert, and when I reached a village it was very late, everything was closed. But at last I found one man who was trying to make a hole in the 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 each night he would say to me, 'Now I am going to my 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, God willing.' He was never in a state of hopelessness, he was always happy.
When I was meditating and meditating for years on end and nothing was happening, 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 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 from God: 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 will tell me!'

My ego was shattered, my whole knowledge was shattered. And that moment I felt my own stupidity. Since then I dropped all my knowledgeability.

It is true that I had no master. That does not mean that I was not a disciple -- I accepted the whole existence as my master. My Disciplehood was a greater involvement than yours is. I trusted the clouds, the trees. I trusted existence as such. I had no master because I had millions of masters I learned from every possible source. To be a disciple is a must on the path. What does it mean to be a disciple? It means to be able to learn. to be available to learn to be vulnerable to existence. With a master you start learning to learn.

The master is a swimming pool where you can learn how to swim. Once you have learned, all the oceans are yours."

RR
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"And if I claim to be a wise man, well, it surely means that I don't know." - Kansas

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Comunicado sobre concurso de afiche

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:04:17 -0700

From: Dirección de Comunicaciones y Publicaciones UCA <ofi-com@buho.uca.edu.sv>

Date: 2009/6/24
Subject: Comunicado sobre concurso de afiche
To: Dirección de Comunicaciones y Publicaciones UCA <ofi-com@buho.uca.edu.sv>

Estimados compañeros, amigos y estudiantes:

Como ustedes ya saben, ayer por la mañana se abrió el proceso de votación electrónica para escoger, de entre tres finalistas, el que sería el ganador del concurso de afiche del XX aniversario de los mártires de la UCA.

El proceso inició bien y con mucho entusiasmo por parte de la comunidad universitaria; sin embargo, a finales de la tarde, se detectaron varias anomalías en el proceso de votación que indicaban que un grupo de personas, haciendo uso de tretas técnicas que permitían superar las medidas de seguridad, repetían muchas veces su voto para alterar los resultados.

Ante ello, y dado que el proceso de votación electrónica ha perdido su confiabilidad y que no disponemos de un sistema técnico que evite la posibilidad de repetir la votación desde la misma máquina cuando esta utiliza medios inalámbricos o hace uso de un router para conectarse a Internet, las autoridades de la UCA han decidido clausurar el proceso de votación electrónica.

Para definir al ganador del concurso se convocará a un jurado compuesto por diez miembros de la Universidad, quienes, en base a los méritos artísticos y conceptuales de los finalistas, emitirán el fallo definitivo.

Lamentamos este penoso incidente y expresamos públicamente nuestras disculpas a ustedes, la gran mayoría, que participaron de buena fe en el proceso de votación, y les agradecemos por su entusiasmo e identificación con la celebración de la memoria de nuestros mártires.

Tal como estaba programado, el lunes 29 de junio se hará público en nuestros espacios informativos el nombre del ganador del concurso.

Saludos,

Dirección de Comunicaciones y Publicaciones

Marzo 2009 – marzo 2010, año de todos los mártires de El Salvador
“Ningún límite histórico cierra el futuro esperanzado del seguidor de Jesús” (I. Ellacuría)

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