{"id":701,"date":"2018-02-13T16:23:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T16:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guruquote.net\/?p=701"},"modified":"2018-02-15T15:26:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T15:26:03","slug":"there-is-no-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guruquote.net\/index.php\/2018\/02\/13\/there-is-no-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"There is no Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp-row-fluid motopress-row mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-clmn mp-span12  mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-text-obj\">\n<p>Osho : Just explaining this to you: that there is no goal, that there is nothing to achieve, that everything is good as it is.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8212; assembly place &#8212; of the illuminated ones, to sit at their feet. They were all over ninety years old.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly one of them whispered, &#8220;Here comes the great Master!&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How old is he, and what does he eat?&#8221; asked the enraptured visitor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is one hundred and fifty years old, and I don&#8217;t suppose any of us will reach that venerable age and station,&#8221; wheezed one of the ancients. &#8220;But, of course, he is allowed twenty cigars and three steaks a day, since he is now beyond being affected by frivolities and temptations!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is a beautiful story. There comes a moment when a man goes beyond all duality &#8212; then he is allowed everything. I can talk about the future because I live in the present &#8212; it is allowed! And I can talk about saving the world from the third world war because I have no desires left &#8212; it is allowed. I can go on teaching you day in, day out, year in, year out, saying continuously, hammering continuously: &#8220;There is no goal, no purpose, nothing to achieve.&#8221; Still it is allowed to me to teach you.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it allowed to me to teach you? &#8212; because I am not a teacher any more. And I am not giving you a doctrine, and I am not giving you a character, and I am not giving you a discipline. I am simply imparting my joy that has happened to me.<\/p>\n<p>Source &#8211; Osho Book &#8220;Be Still and Know&#8221;<\/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":[67,141,165,166,50],"tags":[143,2,51],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discourses","category-master","category-osho","category-stories","category-sufis","tag-master","tag-osho","tag-sufi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>There is no Goal - Guru Quote<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There is no goal, no purpose, nothing to achieve. 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