Short story: The Sufi master stumped the Zen master cold in his feet that day
@innertalks (21916)
Australia
July 30, 2020 11:26pm CST
The Sufi master, Tabia Elawiha, was a lady of great renowned.
Her wisdom was great, but she was always being challenged to a debate with other male masters in her area, even masters who were not Sufi masters, come to check her out for themselves.
One such Zen master brought her a koan to solve in order to test her degree of enlightenment.
He said to her:
"The emptiness of God can only be filled with yourself."
"Explain that!"
What was her reply to him here then?
She simply looked at him, and she spat down on the ground, saying,
"Is that spittle God, or me?"
and then she turned her back on him, and walked away to enjoy the rest of her day on her own, contemplating and meditating quietly.
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The Sufi Master who stumped the Zen master with her own koan.
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
1 Aug 20
Or is it both, this one presents many different faces. There is an element of human exhaustion here as well (was she tired of being questioned over and over. Male "dominance" wears on people.
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@innertalks (21916)
• Australia
2 Aug 20
She does look tired in my photo....I like to leave it mostly up to the reader to see the face that they want to see. That's the beauty of writing a short story, or a poem. Nothing has to be spelled out, and we can even use our own type of spelling, if we want too, and paint the face, how we want to paint it, so it's more like a drawing, than an authoritative article.
It's open to interpretative opinions still, more than in a straight article.
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@innertalks (21916)
• Australia
2 Aug 20
@DocAndersen Yes, then most people feel the new door, and are curious to look behind it too. In this way, artists, provide insights for us all, that otherwise would stay behind closed doors.
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
2 Aug 20
@innertalks i love your posts because they make me think!!! The beauty sometimes of creation is that when we create we open the door!
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@piyushbhatia1 (11695)
• India
31 Jul 20
We have a different meaning for Sufi here.
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@innertalks (21916)
• Australia
31 Jul 20
This is the mystical branch of the Muslim religion, that I am talking about here
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@piyushbhatia1 (11695)
• India
31 Jul 20
@innertalks Yes. Here they are associated with music.
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@innertalks (21916)
• Australia
31 Jul 20
@piyushbhatia1 The spiritual giant, Hazrat Inayat Khan, was an Indian, however, and a Sufi too. He was in his early years an accomplished musician too, though.
@innertalks (21916)
• Australia
31 Jul 20
Yes, God fills up our own emptiness with himself, and then we see God in our self, is our self.
We are human, with our feet on the ground, but it is possible also to walk with our hearts, and head too, in Heaven already, when we see God, walking with us, beside us, in us, and everywhere else besides too.
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@innertalks (21916)
• Australia
1 Aug 20
@Shiva49 Yes, a father always looks after his children, we would hope always too.
And so, all of our wants are provided by God, and even the wants that will come in the future are all going to be catered for, so we should not worry, but be happy now, as they say, and stop wanting more than which God provides for us right now.
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@Shiva49 (26684)
• Singapore
31 Jul 20
@innertalks Yes, our creation goes back to him - we are ultimately his children.
He has given us immense variety to keep us company and remain entertained.
So his presence is all over the place and in us too.
What more do we want then? siva
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@innertalks (21916)
• Australia
1 Aug 20
Thanks. I like to write this type of story.
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