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Osho : This is a Sufi story: An old man and a young man are traveling with a donkey. They have reached near a town; they both are walking with their donkey. School children passed them and they giggled and they laughed and they said, \u201dLook at these fools: they have a healthy donkey with them and they are walking. At least the old man can sit on the donkey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Listening to those children the old man and the young man decided, \u201dWhat to do? \u2013 because people are laughing and soon we will be entering the town, so it is better to follow what they are saying.\u201d So the old man sat on the donkey and the young man followed.<\/p>\n

Then they came near another group of people and they looked at them and said, \u201dLook! \u2013 the old man is sitting on the donkey and the poor boy is walking. This is absurd! The old man can walk, but the boy should be allowed to sit on the donkey.\u201d So they changed: the old man started walking and the boy was allowed to sit.<\/p>\n

Then another group came and said, \u201dLook at these fools. And this boy seems to be too arrogant. Maybe the old man is his father or his teacher and he is walking, and he is sitting on the donkey \u2013 this is against all rules!\u201d<\/p>\n

So what to do? They both decided that now there is only one possibility: that they both should sit on the donkey; so they both sat on the donkey.<\/p>\n

Then other groups came and they said, \u201dLook at these people, so violent! The poor donkey is almost dying \u2013 two persons on one donkey. It would have been better if they carried the donkey on their shoulders.\u201d<\/p>\n

So they again discussed, and then there was the river and the bridge. They had now almost reached the boundary of the town, so they thought: \u201dIt is better to behave as people think in this town, otherwise they will think we are fools.\u201d So they found a bamboo; on their shoulders they put the bamboo and hung the donkey by his legs, tied it in the bamboo and carried him. The donkey tried to rebel, as donkeys are they cannot be forced very easily. He tried to escape because he is not a believer in society and what others are saying. But the two men were too much and they forced him, so the donkey had to yield.<\/p>\n

Just on the bridge in the middle a crowd passed and they all gathered and they said, \u201dLook, these fools! We have never seen such idiots \u2013 a donkey is to ride upon, not to carry on your shoulders. Have you gone mad?\u201d<\/p>\n

Listening to them \u2013 and a great crowd gathered \u2013 the donkey became restless, so restless that he jumped and fell from the bridge down into the river \u2013 died. Both men came down \u2013 the donkey was\u00a0 dead. They sat by the side and the old man said, \u201dNow listen….\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not an ordinary story \u2013 the old man was a Sufi master, an enlightened person, and the young man was a disciple and the old master was trying to give him a lesson, because Sufis always create situations; they say unless the situation is there you cannot learn deeply. So this was just a situation for the young man.<\/p>\n

Now the old man said, \u201dLook: just like this donkey you will be dead if you listen to people too much. Don\u2019t bother what others say, because there are millions of others and they have their own minds and everybody will say something; everybody has his opinions and if you listen to opinions this will be your end.\u201d Don\u2019t listen to anybody, you remain yourself. Just bypass them, be indifferent. If you go on listening to everybody, everybody will be prodding you to this way or that. You will never be able to reach your innermost center.<\/p>\n

Source: \u201cTantra: The Supreme Understanding\u201c – Osho<\/p>\n

Note: Osho further says in the same book using this story \u201cAll meditation is to become centered, not to be eccentric, to come to your own center. Listen to your inner voice, feel it, and move with that feeling. By and by, you can laugh at others\u2019 opinions, or you can be simply indifferent. And once you become centered you become a powerful being; then nobody can prod you, then nobody can push you anywhere \u2013 simply, nobody dares. You are such a power, centered in yourself, that anybody who comes with an opinion simply forgets his opinion near you; anybody who comes to push you somewhere simply forgets that he had come to push. Rather, just coming near you he starts feeling overpowered by you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[67,165,166,50],"tags":[241,2,240],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discourses","category-osho","category-stories","category-sufis","tag-indifferent","tag-osho","tag-sufis"],"yoast_head":"\nBe Indifferent - Guru Quote<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Don\u2019t listen to anybody, you remain yourself. 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